GitS2 ist a total exception amongst manga (and its story, such as there is, completely drowns in technobabble, by the way).
It's still true that about 95% of all mangas are black&white except for a few color pages here and there, and that only for the big hits in the biggest magazines.
Of course, that says nothing about the quality of the stories, or even the drawing.
Still, most mangas are junk, more so than most comics are. There are very few mangas that approach "The Sandman", visually or storywise.
I'd say that the very clear minimum requirement for something to be called "programming language" would be Turing-completeness, and HTML doesn't manage that (excluding embedded scripting languages, of course).
"nuclear power" != uranium or plutonium fission reactors, which are really dangerous, nasty beasts. Getting rid of them is a good idea, unfortunately using fossil fuel instead is also problematic (maybe even more so). The best alternative would be to employ the other way to generate power from nuclear reactions: fusion. Unlike fission, the fuel reserves are virtually inexhaustible, there is little (if any) radioactive waste, and the safety issues are much smaller (no chain reaction).
The problem is, of course, that we can't yet build working fusion reactors. But it doesn't appear to be an unsolvable problem. We could probably get there within 10 years if the money used for finding and exploiting new, less accessible fossil fuel deposits was instead invested in research towards working fusion reactors.
Talk about not knowing what you're talking about. Geostationary orbit is at 42,245km, can only be above the equator (so you wouldn't get a signal at the poles) and means (depending on how you define it) either one or no rotation per day. The GPS satellites are not in geostationary orbit.
I talked about chosen plaintext analysis, not known plaintext. And a random element outright prevents you to choose your plaintext. Furthermore, we're talking about a cryptographic hash, not encryption of the plaintext.
And if your worm roots my box, it doesn't necessarily mean you have control over the DNS server, which will in most cases be a different box. And what "new" and "old" emails are you talking about?
Could someone perhaps keep bouncing messages off the MTA and using the signed messages from that to try to decrypt the cipher and such?
A really good cipher is resistant even against such a "chosen plaintext attack"; furthermore, it's trivial to defeat such attacks completely by inserting a meaningless random element.
If a system is compromised (i/e: with a virus/worm) couldn't the technology be defeated via that as well?
Not nearly as easily as now, since it requires cooperation from the DNS server.
In theory this would be an ideal solution. It forces programmers to think about what they're doing. In practice, it doesn't. Coders are too busy thinking about the actual problem. Error checking gets in the way. They end up implementing the quickest way of ignoring the problem. The result is that we're no better off than if we just checked return values.
So what you're saying is that if the programmer is lazy, it's no better than return values? I'd say that it ends up better even then, most of the time (if the programmer wasn't downright incompetent and at least outputs the stack trace somewhere), but most importantly, it makes it much easier not to be lazy, and leads to cleaner code when you're not.
and without having to spend ~$40 or more on a hard disk for each console
...and instead having to spend rather more thant that on "a few hundred megs" of flash memory, the console will become more expensive and slower, while of the advantages you mention only the failure rate seems significant to me.
Exactly. The German Transrapid has run exclusively on a test course for about 20 years until they finally managed to get the Chinese to buy it for a prestige project (connecting Shanghai city with its airport, opened last year). But even the Chinese turned to regular high-speed railways for the planned Beijing-Shanghai connection.
The problem is that Maglev tracks are an order of magnitude more expensive to build than railways, which kinda dwarfs the potential benefits.
I'm German, and I've never heard of anything like that. Misdemeanor fines are fixed, only criminal fines vary with income because they are based on converting a (virtual, unless the fine is not paid) jail sentence into the amount of money the offender loses by not being able to work during that time.
But anyway, speaking of enlargements, I'm curious how do enlargements look w/ digital cameras?
I'm wondering because I want to take some cool scenery pics with my old film camera, using low-# ASA film, and blow up the shots. I hear all kinds of people clamoring how film is dead, but I really don't know how digital stacks up to this.
Enlargements will look bad with any but the most expensive high-resolution digital cameras. Of course the same goes for low- to average-range film cameras. Even if your film has a high resolution, the optics probably aren't good enough.
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GitS2 ist a total exception amongst manga (and its story, such as there is, completely drowns in technobabble, by the way).
It's still true that about 95% of all mangas are black&white except for a few color pages here and there, and that only for the big hits in the biggest magazines.
Of course, that says nothing about the quality of the stories, or even the drawing.
Still, most mangas are junk, more so than most comics are. There are very few mangas that approach "The Sandman", visually or storywise.
two years.
Nope, taxes are usually less than 30%, what brings it to 50% are the mandatory social security and health insurance fees.
Sure HTML is a language, just not a programming language.
That's what proper languages have exceptions for.
I'd say that the very clear minimum requirement for something to be called "programming language" would be Turing-completeness, and HTML doesn't manage that (excluding embedded scripting languages, of course).
Unlike fission, the fuel reserves are virtually inexhaustible, there is little (if any) radioactive waste, and the safety issues are much smaller (no chain reaction).
The problem is, of course, that we can't yet build working fusion reactors. But it doesn't appear to be an unsolvable problem. We could probably get there within 10 years if the money used for finding and exploiting new, less accessible fossil fuel deposits was instead invested in research towards working fusion reactors.
GPS and Galileo satellites, for example.
Are you kidding? It's US imperialism that's worrisome right now.
Talk about not knowing what you're talking about. Geostationary orbit is at 42,245km, can only be above the equator (so you wouldn't get a signal at the poles) and means (depending on how you define it) either one or no rotation per day. The GPS satellites are not in geostationary orbit.
And if your worm roots my box, it doesn't necessarily mean you have control over the DNS server, which will in most cases be a different box. And what "new" and "old" emails are you talking about?
A really good cipher is resistant even against such a "chosen plaintext attack"; furthermore, it's trivial to defeat such attacks completely by inserting a meaningless random element.
If a system is compromised (i/e: with a virus/worm) couldn't the technology be defeated via that as well?
Not nearly as easily as now, since it requires cooperation from the DNS server.
The more likely scenario is that they will be "bundled" into things it's inconvenient to do without.
Hasn't been for over 10 years.
But the movies are. Rare is the Japanese cinema that doesn't show mainly Hollywood blockbusters.
Usually the reverse, in fact. There's far more anime based on games than games based on anime.
RTFA, or even the friggin' heading of the Slashdot article! This is not about the search results, it's about the paid advertizing.
So what you're saying is that if the programmer is lazy, it's no better than return values? I'd say that it ends up better even then, most of the time (if the programmer wasn't downright incompetent and at least outputs the stack trace somewhere), but most importantly, it makes it much easier not to be lazy, and leads to cleaner code when you're not.
The exact opposite is the case: the companies get to choose which set of rules to operate under, for everything that can be moved around.
The problem is that Maglev tracks are an order of magnitude more expensive to build than railways, which kinda dwarfs the potential benefits.
I think a severe case of tailgating can be interpreted as coercion and therefore fall under criminal law, that would explain it.
Except that neither the conversion to metric nor making it a criminal offense not to comply were initiated or mandated by the EU.
I'm German, and I've never heard of anything like that. Misdemeanor fines are fixed, only criminal fines vary with income because they are based on converting a (virtual, unless the fine is not paid) jail sentence into the amount of money the offender loses by not being able to work during that time.
I'm wondering because I want to take some cool scenery pics with my old film camera, using low-# ASA film, and blow up the shots. I hear all kinds of people clamoring how film is dead, but I really don't know how digital stacks up to this.
Enlargements will look bad with any but the most expensive high-resolution digital cameras. Of course the same goes for low- to average-range film cameras. Even if your film has a high resolution, the optics probably aren't good enough.