No -- the satellites would probably have to be less than 1 degree apart. DirecTV does this, I believe, for normal operations, but IA7 is not a "managed" service like DirecTV. An earlier link mentions that the alternative satellite is about 25 degrees apart, so not only would you have to repoint your dish, you'd have to reset all the transponders/frequencies in your receiver, since those would have changed as well.
First of all, I paid $39 for my copy. Microcenter was having a hella sale:-)
No, that isn't the phrase they use, it was my interpretation. But I bought the game predominantly TO play the single-player version, and worried I'd be shut out of even that. That would be a legitimate thing to complain about!
I'd love to know how to solve this as well. I have a 3ghz, 800mhzFSB, 1gb ram, radeon 9800pro, and the intra-level lags are really weird. I'm running at 1024x1280, which seems "ok" in the level, so I'm going to try stepping back to 1024x768 (although I REALLY wanted x1280:-)
Have to say, I had all the delays that people had above, but I was delighted when I got a message saying "can't contact server, but we'll let you play single-player until then". Have other people not had that experience?
The point of quantum cryptography is not to make the crypto unbreakable, but to make attempts to eavesdrop on it detectable.
The network consists of fibre optic cables over which SINGLE PHOTONS are transmitted back and forth between "Alice" and "Bob". If anyone is trying to spy on you -- poof, your bits disappear, and you notice.
The actual crypto that's used on the network is fairly normal. The quantum part protects the key exchange.
I agree. I'm tired of all these people whining about privacy in this regard. Don't like it? DON'T FSCKING USE IT! What a sense of entitlement: "Amazon should provide us with all kinds of kewl free stuff AND they should protect our privacy". Sorry.
The same goes for gmail. What, you want a gig of email space for free with no strings attached? poor baby. Go to CompUSA, buy a *250 gb* drive for ~$200, and make your own damn free mail server.
Clearly not! It was obvious to the most seasoned ADVENTurer. Well, as obvious as scaring the bird away with the staff, anyway... Or figuring out what to do with your pocket lint.
I'd definitely agree with you on #1. A compelling argument can be made that the Internet is "powered by" IOS -- the Cisco internal operating system. (or whatever the name of the thing is--I think it's IOS!)
Despite the fact that the whole open/free source movement is arguably an American invention?
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Just because you have a PhD does not mean that innovation happens instantly. Research proceeds at its own pace, and you can only go so fast. There are very few problems out there that will actually buckle when you throw more talent at it.
You have exactly made my point. Research doesn't take people's liberties away, people do. John Ashcroft is top cop -- he will be the one breaking down your door, not any of the people the previous poster mentioned.
Don't be a fucking retard. You think picking a bunch of random email addresses like these are going to have any effect? These people are a bunch of researchers. Send your mail to John Ashcroft. Twit.
I'd mod this "funny" if I had the time. While not zero, the number of Republicans in the Mass State Govt. is... well.. the governor... and maybe one or two others. Other than that, it's predominantly (overwhelmingly?) Demo.
I'd be curious as to how they would know it was a mobile number, unless you told them. I'm also intrigued as to why they would care. Your landline phone is no more or less associated with you than your mobile phone.
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The site specifically says (somewhere) that Yahoo labs is the re-launch of Overture labs (Overture being a company they bought last year? the year before?
What people really need is to preview before submitting:-)! The last comment should have said "...to find information is <Year> and <GasPrices> and things like that".
Right, but on the great unwashed web, practice is all ya got. And the semantics of the tags (and their origins in document generation) is pretty darned impoverished. really doesn't tell you *anything* unless you are looking for tables -- what people REALLY need to find information is and and things like that.
As a point of order, it has only been since 1996 that raising $ for organizations on the FTO list has been illegal. And the "Real IRA" (the runt of the old IRA) is now on that list.
As to your axe-to-grind regarding the election: people seem to lose sight of the fact that Bush won the election because of our brain-dead electoral college system. The election was completely legal and by the book. The nation fell victim to the fact that one state (Florida) was able to fsck it up it for all of us. Reminding people that "Gore won the popular vote" does nothing to advance anyone's cause: winning the popular vote got nothing to do with it!
That's really funny that you mention "spam filters", since that is exactly the content categorization task that you are talking about.
Automatic categorization of overflowing data is exactly what you need to do when you have too much to think about -- it allows you to triage your attention span, which is the most limited resource you have.
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No -- the satellites would probably have to be less than 1 degree apart. DirecTV does this, I believe, for normal operations, but IA7 is not a "managed" service like DirecTV. An earlier link mentions that the alternative satellite is about 25 degrees apart, so not only would you have to repoint your dish, you'd have to reset all the transponders/frequencies in your receiver, since those would have changed as well.
First of all, I paid $39 for my copy. Microcenter was having a hella sale :-)
No, that isn't the phrase they use, it was my interpretation. But I bought the game predominantly TO play the single-player version, and worried I'd be shut out of even that. That would be a legitimate thing to complain about!
I'd love to know how to solve this as well. I have a 3ghz, 800mhzFSB, 1gb ram, radeon 9800pro, and the intra-level lags are really weird. I'm running at 1024x1280, which seems "ok" in the level, so I'm going to try stepping back to 1024x768 (although I REALLY wanted x1280 :-)
Have to say, I had all the delays that people had above, but I was delighted when I got a message saying "can't contact server, but we'll let you play single-player until then". Have other people not had that experience?
Decrypting was DEFINITELY a pain...
That would require the slashdot editorial staff to actually a) read the article they're posting about, and b) understand said article.
Makes quantum networking look easy, no?
I was actually going to suggest "Hank, the angry, drunken weasel"... :-)
Not to mention the ever-more-powerful SPCHD (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Hot Dogs)
If by "new" you mean "3 or 4 years ago"... This has shot around the internet for ever.
The point of quantum cryptography is not to make the crypto unbreakable, but to make attempts to eavesdrop on it detectable.
The network consists of fibre optic cables over which SINGLE PHOTONS are transmitted back and forth between "Alice" and "Bob". If anyone is trying to spy on you -- poof, your bits disappear, and you notice.
The actual crypto that's used on the network is fairly normal. The quantum part protects the key exchange.
I agree. I'm tired of all these people whining about privacy in this regard. Don't like it? DON'T FSCKING USE IT! What a sense of entitlement: "Amazon should provide us with all kinds of kewl free stuff AND they should protect our privacy". Sorry.
The same goes for gmail. What, you want a gig of email space for free with no strings attached? poor baby. Go to CompUSA, buy a *250 gb* drive for ~$200, and make your own damn free mail server.
Clearly not! It was obvious to the most seasoned ADVENTurer. Well, as obvious as scaring the bird away with the staff, anyway... Or figuring out what to do with your pocket lint.
I didn't use the word "antiamerican", Andreesen did. I totally agree with your point, I'm questioning Andreesen's statement and conclusion.
I'd definitely agree with you on #1. A compelling argument can be made that the Internet is "powered by" IOS -- the Cisco internal operating system. (or whatever the name of the thing is--I think it's IOS!)
Despite the fact that the whole open/free source movement is arguably an American invention?
Just because you have a PhD does not mean that innovation happens instantly. Research proceeds at its own pace, and you can only go so fast. There are very few problems out there that will actually buckle when you throw more talent at it.
You have exactly made my point. Research doesn't take people's liberties away, people do. John Ashcroft is top cop -- he will be the one breaking down your door, not any of the people the previous poster mentioned.
Don't be a fucking retard. You think picking a bunch of random email addresses like these are going to have any effect? These people are a bunch of researchers. Send your mail to John Ashcroft. Twit.
HFS, I hope he told the guy to go get bent and said "fork over the 15 large!". "Call it even" -- feh!
I'd mod this "funny" if I had the time. While not zero, the number of Republicans in the Mass State Govt. is... well.. the governor... and maybe one or two others. Other than that, it's predominantly (overwhelmingly?) Demo.
I'd be curious as to how they would know it was a mobile number, unless you told them. I'm also intrigued as to why they would care. Your landline phone is no more or less associated with you than your mobile phone.
The site specifically says (somewhere) that Yahoo labs is the re-launch of Overture labs (Overture being a company they bought last year? the year before?
What people really need is to preview before submitting :-)! The last comment should have said "...to find information is <Year> and <GasPrices> and things like that".
Right, but on the great unwashed web, practice is all ya got. And the semantics of the tags (and their origins in document generation) is pretty darned impoverished. really doesn't tell you *anything* unless you are looking for tables -- what people REALLY need to find information is and and things like that.
As a point of order, it has only been since 1996 that raising $ for organizations on the FTO list has been illegal. And the "Real IRA" (the runt of the old IRA) is now on that list.
As to your axe-to-grind regarding the election: people seem to lose sight of the fact that Bush won the election because of our brain-dead electoral college system. The election was completely legal and by the book. The nation fell victim to the fact that one state (Florida) was able to fsck it up it for all of us. Reminding people that "Gore won the popular vote" does nothing to advance anyone's cause: winning the popular vote got nothing to do with it!
More to the point, HTML tags for RENDERING, not semantics. To a first order, ALL HTML pages look alike.
That's really funny that you mention "spam filters", since that is exactly the content categorization task that you are talking about.
Automatic categorization of overflowing data is exactly what you need to do when you have too much to think about -- it allows you to triage your attention span, which is the most limited resource you have.