My ISP and email provider both allow me to use email aliases that send everything in front of the @subdoamin.domain.net part to one account. I can filter out a lot of shit on their server, and categorise the rest in my email program. If someone sends me spam, i can quickly trace the origin of the leak, as I routinely put their domainname in the username part.
99% of the spam I get comes from some porn sites I once bought something from. They overbilled and sold my addres, so now I put all the porn I downloaded from their site on ed2k.
probaly takes a lot of batteries then, if the pad is battery powered. (yes still have to rtfa, but it looks so much like old news that i'll skip this one) Inductive coupling works (electric toothbrushes are charged this way too), but it is not very efficient, esp if the mouse is not right above the coil. my current batteries now hold out a few days, but with such an inefficiency added to it it may be more like a few hours.
Though it is very nice to see that IBM ported linux this quickly, I think they cut some corners. The cell has a central powerpc core, and 8 (or more) accesory processing units. The processing power lies in these APU's, not in the central power core. The APU are also very specialised, so you will ot only have to allow acces to the cell from the OS(and manage those), but you also have to write the userland programs that take advantage of the APU's strong points. That applies to every program you want to use the apus, so the chance that this happens overnight/soon is pretty slim. Heck, they might even need to rewrite the benchmark programs for it.
Because they have not released any real benchmarks and only talk about theoretical numbers, i think they have not finished the porting fully (or have very disappointing benchmark numbers).
Giving early acces to LUGs would be nice for the street creds, but will not speed the code development of the mostly proprietary code that needs to run on it. Giving it to Gimp/Blender/other developers might work, if it comes with a crash course cell programming.
knowing The question and The answer are both mutually exclusive. If the two ever meet in the same person, their will anhilate eachother. The resulting energy will destroy the universe, but only to have it replaced by something more inexplicable. Others say this has already happened. (rough quote from the tertiary phase)
yet to rtfa, but is thie just a statement or is it a irrevocable licence? It would be a very smart move of nokia to support linux at first, but revoke their licence because it makes more business sense for them to do so (nokia for some reason going bust SCO-stylee).
I have the impression that they made the mistake to let the PR droids announce this without letting technical and/or legal people have the last word. Another thing is that they are silently pushing software patents, something that is still being debated in Europe (and it looks we might just not end up with some abomination like in the US). Without swpats, their move would have been without substance.
While your argument is true, you appear to overlook one factor: selection in the womb. A female embryo may have less chance to implant in a 'high' testosteron environment, or may be inhibited from fully developing. The ratio of conceptions and bringing a baby full term is quite high(a lot of ebryos and fetuses die), so you still have a big margin where selection can occur. But please don't make the mistake to try to find a 'reason' to it. Evolution is just some statistics at work, there is not somebody designing it (unless you believe in intelligent design, but that is religion in disguise).
Unless spoken in norwegian, that is. But you are right about the word similarities. This is where you can see some linguistic remnant of the language spoken by the saxons. The saxons came from borthern germany/soth denmark and migrated on a big scale to england.
As dutch speaker you see the same when traveling though scandinavia. The writing is rife with spelling errors, but you can quickly get the hang of it and read/guess newspaper headlines. That is untill you get to Finland, as finnish has a complete different ancestry.
What axe do you have to grind? calling predictions fraudulent, just because they are predictions. And well, what about the environmental impact of these things that lie at the bottom of the sea? Even if it were to have a negative impact, who are you to weigh that aaginst the positive impact from polluting energy that was replaced?
What people her (holland) think about windmills may have little to do with reality. Because windfarms have to be huge, they are visible. Most people perfer to think of the countryside as 'unspoilt nature' although there is no nartural piece of wilderness left in the netherlands. (don't point at all the little pieces of nature reserves here and there: if you need someone to maintain it, and it was created a few decades ago, it is a garden, not 'wilderness'). Everything else is manmade too, but windfarms stand out to much attracting the ire of the environmentalists.
I have a deep suspicion that most environmentalism is not based on reality or science, but that it is a belief-system, aka a religion. That makes arguing with these folks as hard and pointless as arguing with creationists.
As for why they chose portugal: that is probably because that is where the biggest waves are. Most of coastal europe is bordering the northsea, which is relatively small and shallow, and the shallowness prevents really big(long) waves from forming. The atlantic is deep enough for big long waves to form, transporting most of the windenergy to the shore.
There was some news recently about some reseach that managed to grow oocytes (eggcells) from a small section of ovarian tissue. Because you can increase the hormone concentrations much higher in vitro (no egg donor suffering from a total hormonal imbalance and risking breast cancer) they were able to grow hundreds of oocytes from it. While the tissue still needs to be cut from a donor, in theory this could be combined with this research to generate even easier stem cells. here is a link to the article
OK, now. Step back and look at the tone of your first comment.
Well yes, it is. Kinda balances the jubilant euphoria about two vague dots in a black picture. As for your prejudice against europeans or me: I don't care, please try to stay on topic.
If I made an incorrect association between that deliberate tone on your part, and the fact that you go out of your way, in your posts, to identify yourself as being from the Netherlands, well, then that was my mistake. I still like aged Gouda, though. Not so much tulips.
Apology accepted. Please remember that most people over here do not make cheese or grow tulips, just like you are probaly not herding your cattle from horseback while shooting indians...
well, if you can't understand something, that is your problem, and maybe mine. But it has nothing to do with nationality. Maybe you could interpret a statement of not being impressed as something different than an attack on the greatness of your country.
You'd see it better if you took your head out of your ass.
Oh really, you must be a master debater?
It's meaningful because it's a dramatic demonstration of precision control in the imaging systems, and an impressive show that what we know about the orbital mechanics involved is spot on.
Well, for what I've read, this was not the first close encounter by these two crafts. It was the first time this was captured on the camera. I'm not completely sure if they did this shot on purpose or not (the blackness suggests they did). But there is little or no scientific value in it.
Results from that marsis radar would be interesting, and be real science. A blurry picture with 64pixels representing another spacecraft is not.
Is there any chance that, being from.NL, you're just mad because nothing Euro pulled this trick off first?
None whatsoever. But likewise, is there any chance that, with you being from.US, you have this genic flaw which makes it impossible for you to make any argument without bringing nationality in?
One would expect something a bit smarter from a university. It is not without reason that fewer people are signing up, it might be related to a lack of prospects or something... If they really care about the sector as a whole, they should point at the cycles of supply and demand and how they cause the peaks in demand(high salaries, growing bubble) and supply(low salaries).
Hey wasn't that mars thing supposed to have deployed its ground penetrating radar (marsis?) by now? Does nasa need so much funding that they have to publicice every fart that their craft makes?
I guess that funding for them flows though the press. (Is it really that spectacular, som e white dots on a black background?)
It's all very nice an dandy that they want to collect exploits, but what will they do with it? It is not that MS is known for it's swift reaction to published exploits. Maybe they wish to start working bofore (if ever) the exploit is published?
Besides they are overlooking the biggest security flaw of every computer: the user. Somebody that has been promised pr0n for instance wil not hesitate to click yes when 'unpacking' his load of porn he just downloaded from bittorrent.
The trick might work when the next version of windos comes with a dedicated monkey built in. The monkey is subjected to every piece of software to install on the real system first. when the monkey dies or some tests detect malware the software is not installed, and the monkey resurrected to a previous state. (Or maybe it attempt to remove the malware first)
Hey, why am I dreaming up things for windows? I should be designning that for a Linux distro.
here is the correct one. Yes i should use that preview button and check those links...
How the LPI tests are made.
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Actually there is quite a lot of planning and design that goes into the tests. You can read all about that on the LPI site. Basically they started with a big pool of questions and let established target audience take it to verify each question (make sure that each question has the biggest possible chance to be answered correctly by an experienced person, and wrongly by and inexperienced person) this remove about 50% of the questions. They made two different tests with the remaining questions. Each test has its sequence randomised as well as the order of the answers (there is the explanation for your 'unstructured' comment), to make it harder to memorize the answers instead of the subjects. Recently LPI began adding new experimental questions to the exam that are not recognisable but do not count for the final score. The score for each experimental question is validated against the total score of the student. experimental questions that perform good (distinguise passers from failers) are added to the validated questions pool, so that it pays of even less to memorise answers from practice exams (from testking for example, search for testking lpi on edonkey...).
Hope that helps. You can try some non-lpi-verified tests here if you can wade through the dutch stuff (test are in english).
LPI(c) is indeed more versatile because it is vendor neutral. I don't agree tho your assertion that it is less recognized: The numbers are about equal, for people holdin LPIC or RHC. Unfortunately the distribution for basic and advanced levels is different. Because RedHat does not demand a proir exam for taking the advanced exam more people hold the advanced variety then the basic one (sorry forgot their terms for it). LPI demands level 1 for level 2, so the majority only has level 1 (which equals to 'poweruser' by their definition.
As for the testing method: As far as I know RH test the execturion of actual skills instead of asking multiple choice questions. with Redhat you get several broken systems that you have to fix, whit LPI you get a lot of questions (~90 for each level 1 exam) that you can guess prettty well without knowing the actual answer. This is clearly a less advanced method. On the other hand, you will have to study for both exams, and while studying you will pick up the rest of the skills you need, no matter what the testing method is.
If you feel like taking some LPI-like tests: you can have a go at my site(sorry mostly in dutch but the exam questions are english). There is also a lot of free LPI related content there, no need for expensive books IMHO.
As for me, I hold LPI level 2 certification. If you would like to help developing a training method a-la redhat (here's a broken system, fix it) based on UML, drop me a line. It would probably look a loot like this.
As it was, when the PHB in question later did a startup and found himself in need of my talents, I didn't even bother to reply to his offer. How can you trust someone like that? You can imagine how I advised anyone considering hiring him or going to work for him.
People learn from the feedback they get when they do something wrong (that is why people they react aggresively when rejected/denied learn a lot less: people just don't give feedback to them). You think it was something he really did wrong, yet when you had the chance to tell that to him, you did ignore him. Even if they are evil PHB types, they still need a way to learn. Would you feel any pity for the next people that get to work with him?
I agree though that treating you emplyees bad will surely backfire. It just depends how hard.
Did the De Beers cartel brainwash you so much that you think diamonds monoploised by de Beers are worth more than perfect lab grown ones? You must like MS a lot then, it has a lot of natural flaws in its products too.
For me, diamonds mean very lttle, but for the tech industry I suppose prefect grown crystals are very desirable. How long till we heve the first processor on a diamond chip?
So what exactly is the business model of OOo then? What customers are paying them money?
If they(FSF) don't like it, they can also fork it and make their own version, and that is what RMS intended to do. And the good thing is you are just allowed to do that and put your money (or labor) where your mouth is.
It is a good thing that they seem to be able to work out the differences: OO.o gets some more publicity, the distro's avoid a messy OOo install (most cannot install Sun Java by default) and the FSF removes another version of the 'java trap'. I can only see winners there.
you are probably right. My feet to metric conversion unit was not sure if 32.000 feet was in the jetstream already. Besides, the jetstream is a specific zone in moderat3e latitudes. You cannot assume that the jetstream is up everywhere if you just go high enough.
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My ISP and email provider both allow me to use email aliases that send everything in front of the @subdoamin.domain.net part to one account. I can filter out a lot of shit on their server, and categorise the rest in my email program. If someone sends me spam, i can quickly trace the origin of the leak, as I routinely put their domainname in the username part.
99% of the spam I get comes from some porn sites I once bought something from. They overbilled and sold my addres, so now I put all the porn I downloaded from their site on ed2k.
probaly takes a lot of batteries then, if the pad is battery powered. (yes still have to rtfa, but it looks so much like old news that i'll skip this one)
Inductive coupling works (electric toothbrushes are charged this way too), but it is not very efficient, esp if the mouse is not right above the coil. my current batteries now hold out a few days, but with such an inefficiency added to it it may be more like a few hours.
Though it is very nice to see that IBM ported linux this quickly, I think they cut some corners. The cell has a central powerpc core, and 8 (or more) accesory processing units. The processing power lies in these APU's, not in the central power core. The APU are also very specialised, so you will ot only have to allow acces to the cell from the OS(and manage those), but you also have to write the userland programs that take advantage of the APU's strong points.
That applies to every program you want to use the apus, so the chance that this happens overnight/soon is pretty slim. Heck, they might even need to rewrite the benchmark programs for it.
Because they have not released any real benchmarks and only talk about theoretical numbers, i think they have not finished the porting fully (or have very disappointing benchmark numbers).
Giving early acces to LUGs would be nice for the street creds, but will not speed the code development of the mostly proprietary code that needs to run on it. Giving it to Gimp/Blender/other developers might work, if it comes with a crash course cell programming.
knowing The question and The answer are both mutually exclusive. If the two ever meet in the same person, their will anhilate eachother. The resulting energy will destroy the universe, but only to have it replaced by something more inexplicable. Others say this has already happened.
(rough quote from the tertiary phase)
yet to rtfa, but is thie just a statement or is it a irrevocable licence? It would be a very smart move of nokia to support linux at first, but revoke their licence because it makes more business sense for them to do so (nokia for some reason going bust SCO-stylee).
I have the impression that they made the mistake to let the PR droids announce this without letting technical and/or legal people have the last word.
Another thing is that they are silently pushing software patents, something that is still being debated in Europe (and it looks we might just not end up with some abomination like in the US). Without swpats, their move would have been without substance.
While your argument is true, you appear to overlook one factor: selection in the womb. A female embryo may have less chance to implant in a 'high' testosteron environment, or may be inhibited from fully developing. The ratio of conceptions and bringing a baby full term is quite high(a lot of ebryos and fetuses die), so you still have a big margin where selection can occur.
But please don't make the mistake to try to find a 'reason' to it. Evolution is just some statistics at work, there is not somebody designing it (unless you believe in intelligent design, but that is religion in disguise).
Unless spoken in norwegian, that is.
But you are right about the word similarities. This is where you can see some linguistic remnant of the language spoken by the saxons. The saxons came from borthern germany/soth denmark and migrated on a big scale to england.
As dutch speaker you see the same when traveling though scandinavia. The writing is rife with spelling errors, but you can quickly get the hang of it and read/guess newspaper headlines. That is untill you get to Finland, as finnish has a complete different ancestry.
What axe do you have to grind? calling predictions fraudulent, just because they are predictions.
And well, what about the environmental impact of these things that lie at the bottom of the sea? Even if it were to have a negative impact, who are you to weigh that aaginst the positive impact from polluting energy that was replaced?
What people her (holland) think about windmills may have little to do with reality. Because windfarms have to be huge, they are visible. Most people perfer to think of the countryside as 'unspoilt nature' although there is no nartural piece of wilderness left in the netherlands. (don't point at all the little pieces of nature reserves here and there: if you need someone to maintain it, and it was created a few decades ago, it is a garden, not 'wilderness'). Everything else is manmade too, but windfarms stand out to much attracting the ire of the environmentalists.
I have a deep suspicion that most environmentalism is not based on reality or science, but that it is a belief-system, aka a religion. That makes arguing with these folks as hard and pointless as arguing with creationists.
As for why they chose portugal: that is probably because that is where the biggest waves are. Most of coastal europe is bordering the northsea, which is relatively small and shallow, and the shallowness prevents really big(long) waves from forming. The atlantic is deep enough for big long waves to form, transporting most of the windenergy to the shore.
Yeah someday I will learn never to pres submit without a preview...
anyways here is the link:
Oogenesis in cultures derived from adult human ovaries
There was some news recently about some reseach that managed to grow oocytes (eggcells) from a small section of ovarian tissue. Because you can increase the hormone concentrations much higher in vitro (no egg donor suffering from a total hormonal imbalance and risking breast cancer) they were able to grow hundreds of oocytes from it. While the tissue still needs to be cut from a donor, in theory this could be combined with this research to generate even easier stem cells.
here is a link to the article
As for your prejudice against europeans or me: I don't care, please try to stay on topic.
Apology accepted. Please remember that most people over here do not make cheese or grow tulips, just like you are probaly not herding your cattle from horseback while shooting indians...
well, if you can't understand something, that is your problem, and maybe mine. But it has nothing to do with nationality. Maybe you could interpret a statement of not being impressed as something different than an attack on the greatness of your country.
Oh really, you must be a master debater?
Well, for what I've read, this was not the first close encounter by these two crafts. It was the first time this was captured on the camera. I'm not completely sure if they did this shot on purpose or not (the blackness suggests they did). But there is little or no scientific value in it.
Results from that marsis radar would be interesting, and be real science. A blurry picture with 64pixels representing another spacecraft is not.
None whatsoever. But likewise, is there any chance that, with you being from
One would expect something a bit smarter from a university. It is not without reason that fewer people are signing up, it might be related to a lack of prospects or something...
If they really care about the sector as a whole, they should point at the cycles of supply and demand and how they cause the peaks in demand(high salaries, growing bubble) and supply(low salaries).
Hey wasn't that mars thing supposed to have deployed its ground penetrating radar (marsis?) by now? Does nasa need so much funding that they have to publicice every fart that their craft makes?
I guess that funding for them flows though the press.
(Is it really that spectacular, som e white dots on a black background?)
It's all very nice an dandy that they want to collect exploits, but what will they do with it? It is not that MS is known for it's swift reaction to published exploits. Maybe they wish to start working bofore (if ever) the exploit is published?
Besides they are overlooking the biggest security flaw of every computer: the user. Somebody that has been promised pr0n for instance wil not hesitate to click yes when 'unpacking' his load of porn he just downloaded from bittorrent.
The trick might work when the next version of windos comes with a dedicated monkey built in. The monkey is subjected to every piece of software to install on the real system first. when the monkey dies or some tests detect malware the software is not installed, and the monkey resurrected to a previous state. (Or maybe it attempt to remove the malware first)
Hey, why am I dreaming up things for windows? I should be designning that for a Linux distro.
here is the correct one. Yes i should use that preview button and check those links...
Actually there is quite a lot of planning and design that goes into the tests. You can read all about that on the LPI site. Basically they started with a big pool of questions and let established target audience take it to verify each question (make sure that each question has the biggest possible chance to be answered correctly by an experienced person, and wrongly by and inexperienced person) this remove about 50% of the questions.
They made two different tests with the remaining questions. Each test has its sequence randomised as well as the order of the answers (there is the explanation for your 'unstructured' comment), to make it harder to memorize the answers instead of the subjects.
Recently LPI began adding new experimental questions to the exam that are not recognisable but do not count for the final score. The score for each experimental question is validated against the total score of the student. experimental questions that perform good (distinguise passers from failers) are added to the validated questions pool, so that it pays of even less to memorise answers from practice exams (from testking for example, search for testking lpi on edonkey...).
Hope that helps.
You can try some non-lpi-verified tests here if you can wade through the dutch stuff (test are in english).
LPI(c) is indeed more versatile because it is vendor neutral. I don't agree tho your assertion that it is less recognized: The numbers are about equal, for people holdin LPIC or RHC. Unfortunately the distribution for basic and advanced levels is different. Because RedHat does not demand a proir exam for taking the advanced exam more people hold the advanced variety then the basic one (sorry forgot their terms for it). LPI demands level 1 for level 2, so the majority only has level 1 (which equals to 'poweruser' by their definition.
As for the testing method: As far as I know RH test the execturion of actual skills instead of asking multiple choice questions. with Redhat you get several broken systems that you have to fix, whit LPI you get a lot of questions (~90 for each level 1 exam) that you can guess prettty well without knowing the actual answer. This is clearly a less advanced method. On the other hand, you will have to study for both exams, and while studying you will pick up the rest of the skills you need, no matter what the testing method is.
If you feel like taking some LPI-like tests: you can have a go at my site(sorry mostly in dutch but the exam questions are english). There is also a lot of free LPI related content there, no need for expensive books IMHO.
As for me, I hold LPI level 2 certification. If you would like to help developing a training method a-la redhat (here's a broken system, fix it) based on UML, drop me a line. It would probably look a loot like this.
People learn from the feedback they get when they do something wrong (that is why people they react aggresively when rejected/denied learn a lot less: people just don't give feedback to them).
You think it was something he really did wrong, yet when you had the chance to tell that to him, you did ignore him. Even if they are evil PHB types, they still need a way to learn. Would you feel any pity for the next people that get to work with him?
I agree though that treating you emplyees bad will surely backfire. It just depends how hard.
Ha, I always wanted to post a discword quote on /.
What is the meaning of a fracas or a rumpus outside of a Pratchett novel?
Did the De Beers cartel brainwash you so much that you think diamonds monoploised by de Beers are worth more than perfect lab grown ones? You must like MS a lot then, it has a lot of natural flaws in its products too.
For me, diamonds mean very lttle, but for the tech industry I suppose prefect grown crystals are very desirable. How long till we heve the first processor on a diamond chip?
So what exactly is the business model of OOo then? What customers are paying them money?
If they(FSF) don't like it, they can also fork it and make their own version, and that is what RMS intended to do. And the good thing is you are just allowed to do that and put your money (or labor) where your mouth is.
It is a good thing that they seem to be able to work out the differences: OO.o gets some more publicity, the distro's avoid a messy OOo install (most cannot install Sun Java by default) and the FSF removes another version of the 'java trap'. I can only see winners there.
you are probably right. My feet to metric conversion unit was not sure if 32.000 feet was in the jetstream already. Besides, the jetstream is a specific zone in moderat3e latitudes. You cannot assume that the jetstream is up everywhere if you just go high enough.
But the figures you mention make sense yes.