Me, one of the things I do is run my browser under a separate ID from my normal operations. Makes it a lot harder for someone to use the browser to access the rest of my files...
I suspect it's similar to the concept of fractional dimensions used in fractals. With a Sierpinski cube/Menger sponge, for example, if you triple its size in all three dimensions, you end up with 20 times the volume, rather than 27 times for a solid cube, or 9 times for a square. So it has an effective dimension of log 20/log 3, which is an irrational value between 2 and 3.
That's because there is no incentive for a company to provide an open standard unless absolutely necessary.
Well, there's the case of a startup with some backing attempting to break into a market already sewn up by a company with highly proprietary systems. In that case, having an open standard works in your favour to help encourage people away from the sealed system. It doesn't always work, of course, but it usually has a better chance of working than creating another locked-in system.
Of course, that probably falls under the 'unless absolutely necessary' of your comment.
Back in 1997, Microsoft did have Internet Explorer for UNIX versions, particularly Solaris on the SPARC processor, and HP-UX on the MIPS processor. It never went beyond IE5, and development pretty much ended in 2001. It's worth noting that there was never a Linux version, and there was never a Solaris/x86 version, either: Microsoft's entire reason for IE for Unix was to get a foothold in places where Netscape was the only option at the time, and they didn't want to support any systems that were actually directly competing with Windows. And, of course, it couldn't run ActiveX.
As a result, when Netscape finally fell over (due as much to their own mismanagement as anything Microsoft did), Microsoft dropped the whole idea.
But precisely because the rules of topology FORBID a torus to become a sphere, it would be impossible for a genuinely infinite-gravity singularity to evaporate completely.
Of course, the same rules would make it impossible for a genuinely infinite-gravity singularity to form where there wasn't one previously. Which leads into your later points of black holes never forming at all...
There have been many 3-sigma descrepancies in the past...
I have just three words on this:
"Alternating Neutral Currents".
(For those confused, Neutral Currents are interactions mediated by the Z boson. In the early 1970s, there was a race on to provide evidence for these, and there were press releases that had to be retracted because somebody jumped the gun and reported finding a Z before it was verified. This jokingly became called 'Alternating neutral currents', and several physicists had their credibility rather damaged in the process...)
Yes, well, there are reasons why the more recent Canadian aid shipments have gone in through Léogâne and Jacmel rather than through Port-au-Prince. Avoiding the logjam of bureaucrats has been the main one. (The fact that our Governor-General was born in that area doesn't hurt.)
You know, my purchased copies of the Loki ports of Civilization: Call to Power, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, and Heroes of Might and Magic 3 still run just fine, and that's been at least eight years.
So we have graphics and audio-based games which still work a lot longer than the 'two years' you're talking about. It's all based on writing your apps properly in the first place.
In one of the parking lots behind the Davis Centre at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, I often used to see a car with a licence plate reading XYZZY. I always wondered who had that one.
AT&T was a government-regulated monopoly. As part of the understanding under which the U.S. Government gave it that monopoly, AT&T was not allowed to use the base granted by their monopoly to expand into other fields.
Bell Labs was AT&T's R&D division. A lot of what they did went into AT&T's products, as you might expect. However, because of the agreement with the government against expanding into other fields, anything that Bell Labs did which wasn't directly for AT&T's own equipment was generally given out to others to use. From which we get Unix, which was developed as an experiment in a portable operating system that could be ported to any machine for which you had a compiler. Also from which we got other things like the transistor.
Bell Labs was one of those rare things that can happen when you give very smart people free rein, and it was an unfortunate casualty when the whole monopoly status of AT&T was changed.
I must admit I've heard lots of words associated with the Holy Roman Catholic Church (disclosure: raised Catholic, current status lapsed), but this is the first time for 'easygoing'.
Compared to some of the American Evangelists, the Catholics are easy-going. These guys are Dispensationalists. Have you ever seen the Jack Chick tract where he accuses the Pope of being in league with the Devil? There honestly are people who firmly believe that the Pope is a False Prophet sent to tempt people away from true Christianity.
True, there are several Christian churches more easy-going than the Catholics, but the Catholics aren't even close to being the most straight-laced of the lot...
I believe the answer to that one is that while it reduced accidents, it made what accidents that happened far more spectacular.
The fan creates a partial vacuum under the car to hold the car down to the road... which is fine until something overrides the 'seal' around the edges of the car. Say, a rock that only pushes up one of the four tires. Now the partial vacuum will suck air in under the car faster than the fan can get rid of it. The end result of this is that the car goes flying as the air rushes in underneath it and pops it off the road like a loose suction cup, and there were a number of really spectacular deaths.
Oh, I've seen them work. Granted, my father (who had the new chip card) had to tell the person at the hotel how to use the thing. So the readers are out there, but the training on how to work them is lacking.
My understanding of the reasoning behind the creation of the registry was that it was fairly simple.
As you said, every application would create its own.ini file. Remember, though, that FAT32 wasn't developed until after the original release of Windows 95. Under FAT16, the maximum size of any partition was 2GB (a drive size that was already becoming available), and the maximum number of files was 65520. With every application creating its own.ini file, which would take up 32KB on the disk no matter how small it was, huge amounts of space on a drive were being taken up by tiny.ini files. Microsoft created the registry largely so that they could clear out a lot of the small configuration data files, and put it all in one place so it wouldn't look like wasted space.
Yes; basically the issue is that Quebec uses a higher transmission voltage than most of the rest of Canada or the U.S. Under normal circumstances, this is actually a good thing; higher voltage means lower current to carry the same power, and lower current means lower transmission losses, since those are proportional to the square of the current.
However, this has the problems in that whenever there's serious ionization in the air, the power grid is less stable because you get corona effects around the wires.
That's what a friend of mine used to call it: The social black hole effect. Get enough people hanging out together regularly, and the group tends to stay together, and even starts to accumulate other people. Once you get enough people in a certain site (such as/.), people tend to stay there because everybody else is there. Meanwhile, other sites that don't quite hit that magic self-sustaining level fade away over time. Granted, the social 'black holes' can fall apart if the core people involved break up and go their separate ways.
(As a note: said friend coined this term after he started up his own meeting location to hang out with his friends, and it resulted in everybody wanting to meet there rather than the 'official' social hangout, which eventually fell into disuse.)
People tend to be pack-oriented. Sociologists have known this for years.
And yes, given that I've posted this a day after the story went up, it's unlikely too many people will see this.
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But we already had No-L four weeks ago...
Me, one of the things I do is run my browser under a separate ID from my normal operations. Makes it a lot harder for someone to use the browser to access the rest of my files...
I suspect it's similar to the concept of fractional dimensions used in fractals. With a Sierpinski cube/Menger sponge, for example, if you triple its size in all three dimensions, you end up with 20 times the volume, rather than 27 times for a solid cube, or 9 times for a square. So it has an effective dimension of log 20/log 3, which is an irrational value between 2 and 3.
Well, there's the case of a startup with some backing attempting to break into a market already sewn up by a company with highly proprietary systems. In that case, having an open standard works in your favour to help encourage people away from the sealed system. It doesn't always work, of course, but it usually has a better chance of working than creating another locked-in system.
Of course, that probably falls under the 'unless absolutely necessary' of your comment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_UNIX
Back in 1997, Microsoft did have Internet Explorer for UNIX versions, particularly Solaris on the SPARC processor, and HP-UX on the MIPS processor. It never went beyond IE5, and development pretty much ended in 2001. It's worth noting that there was never a Linux version, and there was never a Solaris/x86 version, either: Microsoft's entire reason for IE for Unix was to get a foothold in places where Netscape was the only option at the time, and they didn't want to support any systems that were actually directly competing with Windows. And, of course, it couldn't run ActiveX.
As a result, when Netscape finally fell over (due as much to their own mismanagement as anything Microsoft did), Microsoft dropped the whole idea.
It is however, a very stupid strategy to use when you're playing against IBM. IBM:
Of course, the same rules would make it impossible for a genuinely infinite-gravity singularity to form where there wasn't one previously. Which leads into your later points of black holes never forming at all...
Yeah, well, originally they bought Flash from Macromedia, remember...
I have just three words on this:
"Alternating Neutral Currents".
(For those confused, Neutral Currents are interactions mediated by the Z boson. In the early 1970s, there was a race on to provide evidence for these, and there were press releases that had to be retracted because somebody jumped the gun and reported finding a Z before it was verified. This jokingly became called 'Alternating neutral currents', and several physicists had their credibility rather damaged in the process...)
Yes, well, there are reasons why the more recent Canadian aid shipments have gone in through Léogâne and Jacmel rather than through Port-au-Prince. Avoiding the logjam of bureaucrats has been the main one. (The fact that our Governor-General was born in that area doesn't hurt.)
My guess would be Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
Sorry, already done.
Adobe Flash now widely available to Android device vendors
There's been a version of Flash available for ARM on Android since June.
That sort of thing was the whole reason for Flash Lite.
Ahh, so a follower of Slag-Blah, then?
You know, my purchased copies of the Loki ports of Civilization: Call to Power, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, and Heroes of Might and Magic 3 still run just fine, and that's been at least eight years.
So we have graphics and audio-based games which still work a lot longer than the 'two years' you're talking about. It's all based on writing your apps properly in the first place.
Yes, deliberate fraud like that is often used as reason to Pierce the corporate veil...
In one of the parking lots behind the Davis Centre at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, I often used to see a car with a licence plate reading XYZZY. I always wondered who had that one.
Pretty simple if you know the history.
AT&T was a government-regulated monopoly. As part of the understanding under which the U.S. Government gave it that monopoly, AT&T was not allowed to use the base granted by their monopoly to expand into other fields.
Bell Labs was AT&T's R&D division. A lot of what they did went into AT&T's products, as you might expect. However, because of the agreement with the government against expanding into other fields, anything that Bell Labs did which wasn't directly for AT&T's own equipment was generally given out to others to use. From which we get Unix, which was developed as an experiment in a portable operating system that could be ported to any machine for which you had a compiler. Also from which we got other things like the transistor.
Bell Labs was one of those rare things that can happen when you give very smart people free rein, and it was an unfortunate casualty when the whole monopoly status of AT&T was changed.
Compared to some of the American Evangelists, the Catholics are easy-going. These guys are Dispensationalists. Have you ever seen the Jack Chick tract where he accuses the Pope of being in league with the Devil? There honestly are people who firmly believe that the Pope is a False Prophet sent to tempt people away from true Christianity.
True, there are several Christian churches more easy-going than the Catholics, but the Catholics aren't even close to being the most straight-laced of the lot...
I believe the answer to that one is that while it reduced accidents, it made what accidents that happened far more spectacular.
The fan creates a partial vacuum under the car to hold the car down to the road... which is fine until something overrides the 'seal' around the edges of the car. Say, a rock that only pushes up one of the four tires. Now the partial vacuum will suck air in under the car faster than the fan can get rid of it. The end result of this is that the car goes flying as the air rushes in underneath it and pops it off the road like a loose suction cup, and there were a number of really spectacular deaths.
Oh, I've seen them work. Granted, my father (who had the new chip card) had to tell the person at the hotel how to use the thing. So the readers are out there, but the training on how to work them is lacking.
My understanding of the reasoning behind the creation of the registry was that it was fairly simple.
As you said, every application would create its own .ini file. Remember, though, that FAT32 wasn't developed until after the original release of Windows 95. Under FAT16, the maximum size of any partition was 2GB (a drive size that was already becoming available), and the maximum number of files was 65520. With every application creating its own .ini file, which would take up 32KB on the disk no matter how small it was, huge amounts of space on a drive were being taken up by tiny .ini files. Microsoft created the registry largely so that they could clear out a lot of the small configuration data files, and put it all in one place so it wouldn't look like wasted space.
Naah, it's in the deliverance.
Yes; basically the issue is that Quebec uses a higher transmission voltage than most of the rest of Canada or the U.S. Under normal circumstances, this is actually a good thing; higher voltage means lower current to carry the same power, and lower current means lower transmission losses, since those are proportional to the square of the current.
However, this has the problems in that whenever there's serious ionization in the air, the power grid is less stable because you get corona effects around the wires.
Not to mention s/Retric/Rhetoric/
That's what a friend of mine used to call it: The social black hole effect. Get enough people hanging out together regularly, and the group tends to stay together, and even starts to accumulate other people. Once you get enough people in a certain site (such as /.), people tend to stay there because everybody else is there. Meanwhile, other sites that don't quite hit that magic self-sustaining level fade away over time. Granted, the social 'black holes' can fall apart if the core people involved break up and go their separate ways.
(As a note: said friend coined this term after he started up his own meeting location to hang out with his friends, and it resulted in everybody wanting to meet there rather than the 'official' social hangout, which eventually fell into disuse.)
People tend to be pack-oriented. Sociologists have known this for years.
And yes, given that I've posted this a day after the story went up, it's unlikely too many people will see this.