But if we extend the "probability analysis" outside the RNG itself, we can ask the question, "Is it more likely that the 10 zeroes were randomly chosen, or that they were the result of a flaw in the RNG?". While it's a valid random number, the fact that it's a boundary value is cause for suspicion of the technology.
In other words, you're looking for typical sensational shlock journalism. Thank god you ignorant twits haven't completely overwhelmed the publishing industry yet, and there's still room for intelligent, insightful writing.
I can't see why you'd want one in a toaster, though...
Toaster is obvious. It sends out a broadcast packet when the toast pops up, and your home server plays a "Toast is ready" alert over the central sound system.
"Persistence for object-oriented systems is an incredibly cumbersome task to deal with when building many kinds of applications: mapping objects to tables, XML, flat files or use some other non-OO way to represent data destroys encapsulation completely,..."
Object prevalence does nothing to change that. You still have to deal with serialization of all of your business objects, unless you're planning on reloading and re-executing all transactions since the beginning of time every time you restart the server. You can do it less frequently at runtime, but that doesn't save you any development time.
If you're looking for a sweet little impractical car, consider a Caterham. Better looking than the above, only slightly more expensive, and instead of apologizing for their performamce, they're *rockets*.
Plus, you can save some money and buy it in kit form if you're feeling like a real geek.
but recognition as being the only independent online (original content) magazine that has survived.
Yes, they deserve such recognition for having investors willing to lose much more money than the other sites' investors were willing to lose. Let's send them a plaque!
One sequel, "Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure" was released several years ago. It was a standard platformer, with some very nice graphics for the time. It was notable for being one of the very first action games to run inside of Windows.
A new sequel, Pitfall 3D was released very recently. I don't know much about it.
It was mostly a joke, but I think that people capable of impementing their own serial interface would already be shopping for basic parts as you described. The rest would generally be happy to pay extra so they can concentrate on the software.
If you're good with electronics, don't get those LCD displays with built in serial port, they cost a LOT more.
If you're good with chemical engineering and microelectronic fabrication, don't get those prebuilt LCD displays, they cost a LOT more. The raw minerals shouldn't be much more than $0.25.
Tonight, for example, it's going down to -35C. That's damn near -35F for you yank types (ie: DAMN COLD). Cycling to work here is almost impossible, because in addition to the cold we have almost no bicycle lanes, and driving on the road is a joke - ice and snow cover the roads for 4-6 months a year.
The first one of those could be semi-easily defeted with a well written vision program.
Unsubstantiated bullshit. And for every advance in smart OCR you come up with, I can come up with 10 obscuring transformations that leave it readable to humans but garbage to a computer.
The second could be very easily defeated by a simple concept to image hash database.
Yeah, you only have to model the recognition and indexing abilities of a human brain.
The final test could simply be brute forced. Pick three buttons. Keep selecting those until they're right.
You're ignorantly assuming that an implementation detail like radio buttons is core to the system.
These proof of concepts show just the first step in writing a solid system.
An obvious extension that I can think of, would be to implement a whole slew of different types of these problems, and then an engine that outputs a given problem -- and the method for determining the solution -- all into a bitmap. Then you have to deal with not only whatever first-order recognition is specific to the problem, but also the higher-order job of interpreting the nature of the problem itself: e.g. A picture of a guy brushing his teeth, with accompanying text "what is this man doing" OR "what color is the mans shirt?". Good luck to your software.
Slashdot Mirror
How is it "cheaping out" giving them an inactive address, if the address isn't going to be used for spam?
How about a Caterham? Even crazier power:weight, and it has the added geek angle of building it yourself.
My dad did the same thing around 30 years ago. "Dune buggy" conversions were pretty popular at the time.
"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man."
But if we extend the "probability analysis" outside the RNG itself, we can ask the question, "Is it more likely that the 10 zeroes were randomly chosen, or that they were the result of a flaw in the RNG?". While it's a valid random number, the fact that it's a boundary value is cause for suspicion of the technology.
In other words, you're looking for typical sensational shlock journalism. Thank god you ignorant twits haven't completely overwhelmed the publishing industry yet, and there's still room for intelligent, insightful writing.
There's not a whole lot of point to liquid cooling the beast if you're just going to apply an insulating skin around the entire assembly.
Furthermore, it's not even a late-90s expression to start with. I remember using it long before the internet.
This says it's South African for "I'm bored".
Toaster is obvious. It sends out a broadcast packet when the toast pops up, and your home server plays a "Toast is ready" alert over the central sound system.
Object prevalence does nothing to change that. You still have to deal with serialization of all of your business objects, unless you're planning on reloading and re-executing all transactions since the beginning of time every time you restart the server. You can do it less frequently at runtime, but that doesn't save you any development time.
Plus, you can save some money and buy it in kit form if you're feeling like a real geek.
Yes, they deserve such recognition for having investors willing to lose much more money than the other sites' investors were willing to lose. Let's send them a plaque!
Because you can get a good analog TV now AND a good HDTV then, for much less than the price of an HDTV now.
Unmodified, non-VTEC sedan though. Probably not what you were thinking.
Yep, Gixxers rock. They're perfect Darwinian accelerators, killing stupid people at a fantastic rate.
A new sequel, Pitfall 3D was released very recently. I don't know much about it.
Yep, all of the bytes are either zero or MAXINT. You can't get more random than that, because they're as far apart as possible.
Yep. First 15 years of my life. Now in Oakville. Listening to people whinge about -20C weather, lately.
7-8 hours then, to the Hub of the North. You must've been way down there in The Pas or something....
It was mostly a joke, but I think that people capable of impementing their own serial interface would already be shopping for basic parts as you described. The rest would generally be happy to pay extra so they can concentrate on the software.
If you're good with chemical engineering and microelectronic fabrication, don't get those prebuilt LCD displays, they cost a LOT more. The raw minerals shouldn't be much more than $0.25.
You forgot to mention the incessant howling wind.
And I grew up 500 miles north of Winnipeg -- where it was the same temperature, but less windy.
Unsubstantiated bullshit. And for every advance in smart OCR you come up with, I can come up with 10 obscuring transformations that leave it readable to humans but garbage to a computer.
The second could be very easily defeated by a simple concept to image hash database.
Yeah, you only have to model the recognition and indexing abilities of a human brain.
The final test could simply be brute forced. Pick three buttons. Keep selecting those until they're right.
You're ignorantly assuming that an implementation detail like radio buttons is core to the system.
These proof of concepts show just the first step in writing a solid system.
An obvious extension that I can think of, would be to implement a whole slew of different types of these problems, and then an engine that outputs a given problem -- and the method for determining the solution -- all into a bitmap. Then you have to deal with not only whatever first-order recognition is specific to the problem, but also the higher-order job of interpreting the nature of the problem itself: e.g. A picture of a guy brushing his teeth, with accompanying text "what is this man doing" OR "what color is the mans shirt?". Good luck to your software.