The canonical PC monitor is supposed to have square pixels (unlike old TV sets which have pixels elongated vertically.) Unfortunately, some LCD's don't follow this standard. You could try a different monitor, maybe you have a different panel type lying around.
Rate of deflation would be a serious issue, with normal tire valves it takes a number of seconds to drop enough pressure to deform the tire shape significantly. Any time-critical response pattern isn't going to function well without a larger diameter valve.
But that's just a naive consideration of the system. If you could actually do this, you'd obviate the need for a cambered tire, as you would drive with a bulge on the bottom of your tire, with very little friction. Some people actually (in current RL) adjust their own tires low or high (in pressure) in order to increase their full efficiency or increase their turning control (you have to remember that friction also changes as a result of tire rotational speed, so some people swear that slight under-inflation increases the tire grip at higher speeds.)
However, your control system would also have to detect turns, and deflate the tire when going through a turn, perhaps by an apparatus connected to the steering system? Because turning ability is a direct function of available friction, akin to braking.
I'd take this whole thing with a grain of salt. It seems like a pipe dream to me. Maybe if the system had adjustable camber, this would be workable.
You'd do an assignment in an if statement or loop condition check if you may need to update variables at the start of each loop, but may terminate the loop at odd places (via next), and don't wish to write the assignment code multiple times. The if statement syntax is explicitly designed around this optimization (incrementing the conditional variable in the if statement, not in the loop body.)
Will slashdot's far reach cause more people to get stuck in caves? People are always diving in caves. People seeking new passages through small holes get stuck all the time.
Will the movie result in an uptick in caving deaths? 60 percent of cave deaths in Florida are related to cave diving. I've always wanted to go caving, except that everything I read about it, is about someone dying.
Push-Pull.
The actual article doesn't mention using a double-blind study. It mentions increasing the number of subjects. It doesn't directly mention bias.
If the caretaker does not give the exact same care to all of the plants because they feel more or less possessive towards one or more of the plants, this creates a bias. For example, if they water one plant more thoroughly, or selected a better spot for it. It is very easy to produce a bias in plant experiments.
The same applies for experiments on groups of plants.
"Kit, deactivate the burglar alarm for me". Hot chick blathers about microwave jammers and Michael picks the lock. Walks in and gets hit on the head with a 5 dollar crescent wrench.
Seriously, could you insert a memory wipe trojan in an embedded control computer for a radar guidance system, with this thing? Or are they thinking about emulating a flock of birds or something like that?
Lease agreements need to be registered? Those are private agreeements in the US, becoming a matter of public record only when there is a dispute. It isn't even customary to notarize them, which is also a private matter, except in the case of a dispute.
Perhaps the difference in the U.S. is that you don't have to register almost any personal documents or agreements, beyond those of birth, death, passport, license to drive and sell, and tax matters. And we argue about those.
At least in the U.S. Also, you can't fire or refuse to hire someone because they're homosexual, even if they are open about it.
And premarital sex, please, it is not illegal for a minor of age 20 to have sex with a 17 year old in Colorado, USA, regardless of the marital status of either partner. I don't know about India. Premarital sex in the form of pedophilia and prostitution is illegal in most of the U.S. though.
There. I've made a bunch of casual statements about privacy in the U.S. Someone else can logically tie them to your statements, as per their differences.
I wasn't trying to convey myself as a grammar nazi. And I assumed anyone who would reply to my post would be the author of the post I was replying to.
In any case, you still needed to be corrected, since you apparently didn't get that the statement, "proselyzation - what's that mean, proselytization?" is a kind correction of a mispelling. It is clueless of you to supply me with the definition, since my statement implies I'm aware of the definition.
I just didn't expect (or really care) that someone else besides the author of the post would reply in such a manner. I don't actually read the author "names" or id numbers. I suppose, in the future, I should be more careful in the future not to make that assumption.
Of course you could. The density of cosmic rays at the Earth's surface is already understood. The only thing in your way is proof of ionizing radiation causing a bit flip in the chips in question, and knowing the size of the particular bit in terms of silicone.
Of course, why don't all other car computers exhibit this kind of degradation over time? My car computer still reports the same errors, year after year. Usually within about 200 miles of the emissions station after I reset the computer.
proselyzation - what's that mean, proselytization? But I agree with your assessment. Although I've never actually seen the movie. I read the book, and was ok with it for a once-through.
Then I found out who Hubbard really was, and never sought out any of his books again. Of course, I'd already read Dianetics, so it was too late to scrub my brain completely.
How in the world did you get modded up? Especially for a non-sequitur.
Your original comment about exploits is non-sensical. Writing your own stub routine that doesn't include the c libraries doesn't create malformed code. It also has no relation to an exploit.
Your comments are a stream of out-and-out gibberish. Your response to my comment was non-sensical and a complete non-sequitur. If you'd actually read the article, instead of just saying you had, you would see that they replaced the assembly language gcc _start stub with a minimalist version of their own (i.e., there's no malformed code, there is no exploit, just a minimalist implementation of the compile-link cycle.)
In short, you're a dumbass, through-and-through. You must appeal to other dumbasses, and/or have another account and spend your time modding yourself up. That's the only explanation, unless your moniker, 'erroneous', means you are deliberately trolling?
(In which case, you're still a dumbass, but spend more time congratulating yourself.)
You obviously didn't understand it. The binary wasn't inappropriately formatted. It had a _start function and a main function, and used standard C calling conventions, because it was a C program compiled by gcc and linked by gcc.
That's just bunk. There's no inherent limit to 32 bit systems since the PPro: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAEdrv.mspx
Sucks that a microsoft document answers my questions when all this crap about 32-bit addressing floats around. http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/08/18/216492.aspx
There's another microsoft document that states the obvious.
The so-called 'limit' is a per-process limit, and is artificially imposed on the whole of non-enterprise versions of windows by microsoft. There's lots of issues with using more than 4GB, you can't really blame them. But you can blame the hardware vendors.
But even the idea of a large video card using memory address space is an artificial limit imposed by poor design of hardware, and dumbed-down versions of windows.
In most cases you're correct (and kudos for being more correct than those who are just plain wrong,) but the limit is, technically, a bug, and not inherent.
Actually, RAM Defragmentation, as it were, happens when the OS has the pages mapped to all sorts of different physical memory sections. The more small sections of memory mapped to process space there are, the more virtual-to-physical translations the computer has to do, because the paged areas are discontinuous.
This has to do with the CPU's translation lookaside buffers (TLB's - nothing to do with.net.) It does suck up some clock cycles. You can think of a TLB as cache memory on chip for the memory page to physical memory mapping.
The only way to 'Defrag' it, is to drop your memory usage temporarily. E.g., reduce the number of processes, which should drop the usage of physical memory.
As far as the windows swap files goes, I've seen systems with more than 1GB that end up needing swap because they use more than the available memory.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think it is a myth that windows can only use some 3.5 GB in XP, I think that is a process limit, not an OS limit. But I'm not sure of that. I only have 3GB so I can't test it:)
But the real problem with Windows is that it assumes that you will need swap at some point, and agressively spits your memory to disk on the assumption that you're about to need some physical memory. It also crosslinks the NTLDR file into the swap file too, funny.
The flea market is a great example of market failure. Few sellers gets a truly fair price because of unbalanced market forces. Specifically, information asymmetry. Sellers know more about the real quality of items than buyers do, therefore, buyers must systematically undervalue the merchandise to protect themselves from dishonest buyers, resulting in lower prices across the board, even for honest sellers.
That's an interesting statement. I notice this all the time when I go buy a lot of things (especially phones, games and technology.) I'm talking about bugs, and if a seller communicated that my phone will crash several times a month, and another seller gave me a warranty that mine wouldn't, guess who I'd buy from.
This information assymetry concept, it now gives voice to my thoughts on ebay, market scams, buggy software and phones, all the abuses that companies perpetrate on me. E.g., they're lying to me to get my money.
Check out your motherboard, and see all the holes surrounded with solder where it screws to the case? That's extra grounding, so voltage buildup discharges through the case.
Many PCI cards ground out through the case, also.
If you didn't ground the hard drive, and touched it, for example, with a static charge, it would have to ground through internal circuitry (arcing from metal-to-metal.
A computer connected to an electrical outlet where the ground pin is cut off, or faked, as in an old house without a ground wire, or without three-prong outlets, will eventually fail.
Then again, in some places the equipment will never fail. Got to love the unpredictability of static electricity. In the right season, you'll be buying a new hard drive.
I just had to answer this, in case some hapless individual came across this post five years from now, and figures there's no good reason to screw in a hard drive.
Slashdot Mirror
People are under the mistaken impression that would-be hackers waste their time trying to brute force passwords. They don't.
Then why are my logs full of brute force attempts on the ssh and mail servers every day of the week?
The canonical PC monitor is supposed to have square pixels (unlike old TV sets which have pixels elongated vertically.) Unfortunately, some LCD's don't follow this standard. You could try a different monitor, maybe you have a different panel type lying around.
Wouldn't that loosely describe any 911 system receiving location information from your cell phone? That's a hugely obvious chunk of prior art.
Use one of those new high-power blue lasers for it, and make sure to put someone you don't like in the holographic scanning space.
My first thought was that this might be tied in with the Pioneer Anomaly.
Rate of deflation would be a serious issue, with normal tire valves it takes a number of seconds to drop enough pressure to deform the tire shape significantly. Any time-critical response pattern isn't going to function well without a larger diameter valve.
But that's just a naive consideration of the system. If you could actually do this, you'd obviate the need for a cambered tire, as you would drive with a bulge on the bottom of your tire, with very little friction. Some people actually (in current RL) adjust their own tires low or high (in pressure) in order to increase their full efficiency or increase their turning control (you have to remember that friction also changes as a result of tire rotational speed, so some people swear that slight under-inflation increases the tire grip at higher speeds.)
However, your control system would also have to detect turns, and deflate the tire when going through a turn, perhaps by an apparatus connected to the steering system? Because turning ability is a direct function of available friction, akin to braking.
I'd take this whole thing with a grain of salt. It seems like a pipe dream to me. Maybe if the system had adjustable camber, this would be workable.
You'd do an assignment in an if statement or loop condition check if you may need to update variables at the start of each loop, but may terminate the loop at odd places (via next), and don't wish to write the assignment code multiple times. The if statement syntax is explicitly designed around this optimization (incrementing the conditional variable in the if statement, not in the loop body.)
Will slashdot's far reach cause more people to get stuck in caves? People are always diving in caves. People seeking new passages through small holes get stuck all the time.
Will the movie result in an uptick in caving deaths? 60 percent of cave deaths in Florida are related to cave diving. I've always wanted to go caving, except that everything I read about it, is about someone dying.
Push-Pull.
The actual article doesn't mention using a double-blind study. It mentions increasing the number of subjects. It doesn't directly mention bias.
If the caretaker does not give the exact same care to all of the plants because they feel more or less possessive towards one or more of the plants, this creates a bias. For example, if they water one plant more thoroughly, or selected a better spot for it. It is very easy to produce a bias in plant experiments.
The same applies for experiments on groups of plants.
"Kit, deactivate the burglar alarm for me". Hot chick blathers about microwave jammers and Michael picks the lock. Walks in and gets hit on the head with a 5 dollar crescent wrench.
Seriously, could you insert a memory wipe trojan in an embedded control computer for a radar guidance system, with this thing? Or are they thinking about emulating a flock of birds or something like that?
Interesting link.
Lease agreements need to be registered? Those are private agreeements in the US, becoming a matter of public record only when there is a dispute. It isn't even customary to notarize them, which is also a private matter, except in the case of a dispute.
Perhaps the difference in the U.S. is that you don't have to register almost any personal documents or agreements, beyond those of birth, death, passport, license to drive and sell, and tax matters. And we argue about those.
At least in the U.S. Also, you can't fire or refuse to hire someone because they're homosexual, even if they are open about it.
And premarital sex, please, it is not illegal for a minor of age 20 to have sex with a 17 year old in Colorado, USA, regardless of the marital status of either partner. I don't know about India. Premarital sex in the form of pedophilia and prostitution is illegal in most of the U.S. though.
There. I've made a bunch of casual statements about privacy in the U.S. Someone else can logically tie them to your statements, as per their differences.
Because I lost track.
You're not a very good troll. And you can't disguise the fact you can't read by calling me a poor communicator.
I wasn't trying to convey myself as a grammar nazi. And I assumed anyone who would reply to my post would be the author of the post I was replying to.
In any case, you still needed to be corrected, since you apparently didn't get that the statement, "proselyzation - what's that mean, proselytization?" is a kind correction of a mispelling. It is clueless of you to supply me with the definition, since my statement implies I'm aware of the definition.
I just didn't expect (or really care) that someone else besides the author of the post would reply in such a manner. I don't actually read the author "names" or id numbers. I suppose, in the future, I should be more careful in the future not to make that assumption.
But you're still clueless.
Yes, except it is spelled "proselytization". Apparently, I should have flagrantly corrected you, so I could be modded up.
Of course you could. The density of cosmic rays at the Earth's surface is already understood. The only thing in your way is proof of ionizing radiation causing a bit flip in the chips in question, and knowing the size of the particular bit in terms of silicone.
Of course, why don't all other car computers exhibit this kind of degradation over time? My car computer still reports the same errors, year after year. Usually within about 200 miles of the emissions station after I reset the computer.
proselyzation - what's that mean, proselytization? But I agree with your assessment. Although I've never actually seen the movie. I read the book, and was ok with it for a once-through.
Then I found out who Hubbard really was, and never sought out any of his books again. Of course, I'd already read Dianetics, so it was too late to scrub my brain completely.
How in the world did you get modded up? Especially for a non-sequitur.
Your original comment about exploits is non-sensical. Writing your own stub routine that doesn't include the c libraries doesn't create malformed code. It also has no relation to an exploit.
Your comments are a stream of out-and-out gibberish. Your response to my comment was non-sensical and a complete non-sequitur. If you'd actually read the article, instead of just saying you had, you would see that they replaced the assembly language gcc _start stub with a minimalist version of their own (i.e., there's no malformed code, there is no exploit, just a minimalist implementation of the compile-link cycle.)
In short, you're a dumbass, through-and-through. You must appeal to other dumbasses, and/or have another account and spend your time modding yourself up. That's the only explanation, unless your moniker, 'erroneous', means you are deliberately trolling?
(In which case, you're still a dumbass, but spend more time congratulating yourself.)
You obviously didn't understand it. The binary wasn't inappropriately formatted. It had a _start function and a main function, and used standard C calling conventions, because it was a C program compiled by gcc and linked by gcc.
E.g.:
gcc -nostdlib stubstart.S -o hello hello.c
But it is so ugly!
That's just bunk. There's no inherent limit to 32 bit systems since the PPro:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAEdrv.mspx
Sucks that a microsoft document answers my questions when all this crap about 32-bit addressing floats around.
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/08/18/216492.aspx
There's another microsoft document that states the obvious.
The so-called 'limit' is a per-process limit, and is artificially imposed on the whole of non-enterprise versions of windows by microsoft. There's lots of issues with using more than 4GB, you can't really blame them. But you can blame the hardware vendors.
But even the idea of a large video card using memory address space is an artificial limit imposed by poor design of hardware, and dumbed-down versions of windows.
In most cases you're correct (and kudos for being more correct than those who are just plain wrong,) but the limit is, technically, a bug, and not inherent.
Oh, yeah, how about if someone wants to listen to some copyrighted music without risk of being sued, they buy the CD?
Duh. I don't listen to pop music. Or anything else published by Warner or the like. Zilch.
Uh, "Ram Fragmentation", as it is, and should be.
Actually, RAM Defragmentation, as it were, happens when the OS has the pages mapped to all sorts of different physical memory sections. The more small sections of memory mapped to process space there are, the more virtual-to-physical translations the computer has to do, because the paged areas are discontinuous. .net.) It does suck up some clock cycles. You can think of a TLB as cache memory on chip for the memory page to physical memory mapping. :)
This has to do with the CPU's translation lookaside buffers (TLB's - nothing to do with
The only way to 'Defrag' it, is to drop your memory usage temporarily. E.g., reduce the number of processes, which should drop the usage of physical memory.
As far as the windows swap files goes, I've seen systems with more than 1GB that end up needing swap because they use more than the available memory.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think it is a myth that windows can only use some 3.5 GB in XP, I think that is a process limit, not an OS limit. But I'm not sure of that. I only have 3GB so I can't test it
But the real problem with Windows is that it assumes that you will need swap at some point, and agressively spits your memory to disk on the assumption that you're about to need some physical memory. It also crosslinks the NTLDR file into the swap file too, funny.
The flea market is a great example of market failure. Few sellers gets a truly fair price because of unbalanced market forces. Specifically, information asymmetry. Sellers know more about the real quality of items than buyers do, therefore, buyers must systematically undervalue the merchandise to protect themselves from dishonest buyers, resulting in lower prices across the board, even for honest sellers.
That's an interesting statement. I notice this all the time when I go buy a lot of things (especially phones, games and technology.) I'm talking about bugs, and if a seller communicated that my phone will crash several times a month, and another seller gave me a warranty that mine wouldn't, guess who I'd buy from. This information assymetry concept, it now gives voice to my thoughts on ebay, market scams, buggy software and phones, all the abuses that companies perpetrate on me. E.g., they're lying to me to get my money.
Check out your motherboard, and see all the holes surrounded with solder where it screws to the case? That's extra grounding, so voltage buildup discharges through the case.
Many PCI cards ground out through the case, also.
If you didn't ground the hard drive, and touched it, for example, with a static charge, it would have to ground through internal circuitry (arcing from metal-to-metal.
Here's some discussion on the topic:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=50006&view=next&sid=38e424eee093c9e1d8fdc168fa535d5f
Also, most designs for hard drive mounts include specific design around grounding:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5751551.html
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7221565.html
A computer connected to an electrical outlet where the ground pin is cut off, or faked, as in an old house without a ground wire, or without three-prong outlets, will eventually fail.
Then again, in some places the equipment will never fail. Got to love the unpredictability of static electricity. In the right season, you'll be buying a new hard drive.
I just had to answer this, in case some hapless individual came across this post five years from now, and figures there's no good reason to screw in a hard drive.