Well, I'm a physics student, and so use SI units all the time, but I have no problem remembering the difference between SI and computer units and I use Imperial units for some things as well (and on rare occasions the Fortnight/Furlong/Firkin system or the attoparsec), all depending on the suitable unit for the job. (Of course, I only use the latter two on rare occasions.)
No, they are just as bad as the HDD manufacturers, it's just that since network speeds are theoretical values anyway, so no-one makes a fuss. Of course the use of bits/second is itself somewhat dishonest, but that is a fight for another day.
No, you use 1GB x 1GB = 1 152 921 504 606 846 976B, which is what you get either way. If it matter, use logical binary prefixes so that GB x TB = Yottabyte, not 1.xxxxYB and so on.
Once the storage gets big enough to care about your quibble, it might be worth worrying about it, but we aren't anywhere near there for most uses yet (for data centres etc. marketroids are the ones who choose the names, so they would use decimal prefixes)
Floppies are a straw man, 1.44MB is a piece of nonsense and those who still use them know it.
I'd love to know who moderated the GP informative. I can see where interesting might come from, but if anyone felt that to be informative they should probably either get out of their mum's basement or make a quick visit to here(NSFW)
In the ghetto you would pay the second hand ticket price, just no stamp duty, sales tax, and other government fees and charges. Of course, there may be some damage around the lock, but a respray should handle that OK. The dealers aren't stupid, they know what the going price is for cars. Just make sure that the police don't have to look too closely at the VID number.
I believe we have just seen a sign of the impending apocalypse. Ignoring the use of "[y]eah", which is acceptable to produce an appropriately sarcastic tone, there were no spelling or grammar errors in the parent. This would be a violation of the fundamental laws of nature, had john83 attempted to actually correct the errors, instead of merely pointing them out. As it is, this is still a sign that the end is near, if such posts can now be made.
Niels Bohr, quoted in Most Secret War (Ron V. Jones), once said something along those lines to Lord Cherwell after being interviewed by Winston Churchill about the possibility of an atomic bomb (this was shortly after he arrived in Britain). IIRC, what he said was roughly: "It is impossible to be both clear and precise, for to be precise, clarity must be sacrificed, whereas to be clear, some precision must be lost".
He had been trying to explain the bomb in detail, but naturally he completely lost Churchill and so was sent to Cherwell where he made the comment. Unfortunately, I do not own a copy of the book, and so cannot give the exact quote or page reference.
Note: Lord Cherwell was the scientific adviser to Cabinet, and had previously been employed as a physics professor at Oxford. Ron Jones was a former student of Cherwell's and was in charge of scientific intelligence at the Air Ministry, where, amongst other things he was instrumental in the introduction of chaff (or, as it was then known, Window), and discovering the specifications of the V2 rockets.
No, it's something you have. Didn't you see the Mythbusters episode where they were breaking into fingerprint locks, adn found that ballistics gel moistened with water worked fine, and for one lock, a simple photocopy of the fingerprint was enough. all you need is access to their fingerprint, which would be fairly easy.
It's silk, wool, and horsehair, anyway, not tweed, that British lawyers wear. And anyway, I think I have seen men wearing tailcoats for everyday wear (i.e. not a wedding or funeral, just an ordinary day, AFAICT) in 9 months in Adelaide, Australia, than in a few years in England.
The IRS, SEC, and any other auditors around should be thrown at these people (even if they just choose the one which gave the smallest bribe, it would be a start). If there was even a credible threat of punishment for these companies, they might do something about it.
If some cracker wanted to do some good, he should try to get some spyware onto a record company senior beancounter's computer and publish as much of their information as possible. Of course, if he were caught he would be in a lot of trouble, and it would almost certainly need social engineering to get the software installed, preventing anyone attacking from the safety of a foreign country. Note that I am not suggesting that this is a good idea, but they are a far more worthwhile target than most companies.
>They don't even call a large number of people. Usually it is less the a thousand or so. That seems a little low, since in Australia (population ~20M), 1700 people are called for the weekly NewsPoll (a 2-party-preferred opinion poll), with more close to elections and for special polls. (this was mentioned in passing in yesterday morning's The Australian, btw). The error margin is published as 3%, but I have no idea what the confidence level is.
If he really wanted to become president, he could probably get enough popular support to run as an independent. He doesn't, he just wants to make fun of the whole thing, and so the Democrats don't want him on their ticket.
One of my pet peeves is the use of tween to mean 8-12 y.o. children. Tolkien invented it, and clearly defined it to mean 18-33 years old. If they want a word for that age range, at least make up their own, rather than stealing one which has a perfectly good meaning.
/. is better than my city's newspaper, which has the dubious crown of being Rupert Murdoch's first newspaper, and is one of his worst. Articles are usually missing important information included in his other newspapers, and has a worse record of dupes and errors than/. does.
It gets easier than that, if you drive a black car: just put little Canadian flags on it and no-one will stop you.
An ID card with JOKE printed on it helps, too.
It's just an old boy's club, pure and simple. Because all the senior officers of most of the major corporations went to the same universities and are members of the same clubs and associations means that they know each other at least at second or third hand. It is of course only natural to look out for one's friends, and so their behaviour is hardly unsurprising.
Something more like how some University scores are given would be better: so that
<40 = useless, don't bother 40 - 50 = below average 50 - 65 = most games fit here, 65 - 75 = better than usual, probably some irritating or jarring features but otherwise OK. 75 - 85 = very good, no map glitches, annoying stupidity from AI, no major gameplay flaws 85 - 95 = excellent, rarely given, maybe 5 games tops get a score this high each year.
>95 only used for games like Deus Ex, or Wolfenstien 3D (when it was released).
95+ games either have some major new feature, or are an instant classic, with long lasting replay value.
Now the spammer just has to ask the server if the address is allowed. If it is not, then it almost certainly is real, and he can charge a premium for spamming it.
A simpler trick would be, on a Linux box, to log in a root and kill -9 the process, and remove the entry in the login script which runs it. A better trick would be to replace the spyware with a program which pretends to be it, but is uploading harmless information, whenever you order it to.
But the thermal dissipation will not be the same: given that as far better fan will be used, and possibly water cooling, more haet will be dissipated, so the temperature of the chipset itself will not rise by so much.
Or, since most shooters have an "punch" control, for NPCs whom you would expect to be uncooperative (enemy civilians, for example), it could allow you to knock them out with a single hit and keep going.
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Well, I'm a physics student, and so use SI units all the time, but I have no problem remembering the difference between SI and computer units and I use Imperial units for some things as well (and on rare occasions the Fortnight/Furlong/Firkin system or the attoparsec), all depending on the suitable unit for the job. (Of course, I only use the latter two on rare occasions.)
No, they are just as bad as the HDD manufacturers, it's just that since network speeds are theoretical values anyway, so no-one makes a fuss. Of course the use of bits/second is itself somewhat dishonest, but that is a fight for another day.
No, you use 1GB x 1GB = 1 152 921 504 606 846 976B, which is what you get either way. If it matter, use logical binary prefixes so that GB x TB = Yottabyte, not 1.xxxxYB and so on.
Once the storage gets big enough to care about your quibble, it might be worth worrying about it, but we aren't anywhere near there for most uses yet (for data centres etc. marketroids are the ones who choose the names, so they would use decimal prefixes)
Floppies are a straw man, 1.44MB is a piece of nonsense and those who still use them know it.
I'd love to know who moderated the GP informative. I can see where interesting might come from, but if anyone felt that to be informative they should probably either get out of their mum's basement or make a quick visit to here(NSFW)
In the ghetto you would pay the second hand ticket price, just no stamp duty, sales tax, and other government fees and charges. Of course, there may be some damage around the lock, but a respray should handle that OK. The dealers aren't stupid, they know what the going price is for cars. Just make sure that the police don't have to look too closely at the VID number.
I believe we have just seen a sign of the impending apocalypse. Ignoring the use of "[y]eah", which is acceptable to produce an appropriately sarcastic tone, there were no spelling or grammar errors in the parent. This would be a violation of the fundamental laws of nature, had john83 attempted to actually correct the errors, instead of merely pointing them out. As it is, this is still a sign that the end is near, if such posts can now be made.
Niels Bohr, quoted in Most Secret War (Ron V. Jones), once said something along those lines to Lord Cherwell after being interviewed by Winston Churchill about the possibility of an atomic bomb (this was shortly after he arrived in Britain). IIRC, what he said was roughly: "It is impossible to be both clear and precise, for to be precise, clarity must be sacrificed, whereas to be clear, some precision must be lost".
He had been trying to explain the bomb in detail, but naturally he completely lost Churchill and so was sent to Cherwell where he made the comment. Unfortunately, I do not own a copy of the book, and so cannot give the exact quote or page reference.
Note: Lord Cherwell was the scientific adviser to Cabinet, and had previously been employed as a physics professor at Oxford.
Ron Jones was a former student of Cherwell's and was in charge of scientific intelligence at the Air Ministry, where, amongst other things he was instrumental in the introduction of chaff (or, as it was then known, Window), and discovering the specifications of the V2 rockets.
No, it's something you have. Didn't you see the Mythbusters episode where they were breaking into fingerprint locks, adn found that ballistics gel moistened with water worked fine, and for one lock, a simple photocopy of the fingerprint was enough. all you need is access to their fingerprint, which would be fairly easy.
It's silk, wool, and horsehair, anyway, not tweed, that British lawyers wear. And anyway, I think I have seen men wearing tailcoats for everyday wear (i.e. not a wedding or funeral, just an ordinary day, AFAICT) in 9 months in Adelaide, Australia, than in a few years in England.
The IRS, SEC, and any other auditors around should be thrown at these people (even if they just choose the one which gave the smallest bribe, it would be a start). If there was even a credible threat of punishment for these companies, they might do something about it.
If some cracker wanted to do some good, he should try to get some spyware onto a record company senior beancounter's computer and publish as much of their information as possible. Of course, if he were caught he would be in a lot of trouble, and it would almost certainly need social engineering to get the software installed, preventing anyone attacking from the safety of a foreign country. Note that I am not suggesting that this is a good idea, but they are a far more worthwhile target than most companies.
>They don't even call a large number of people. Usually it is less the a thousand or so.
That seems a little low, since in Australia (population ~20M), 1700 people are called for the weekly NewsPoll (a 2-party-preferred opinion poll), with more close to elections and for special polls. (this was mentioned in passing in yesterday morning's The Australian, btw). The error margin is published as 3%, but I have no idea what the confidence level is.
I agree about the stupid answers, though.
If he really wanted to become president, he could probably get enough popular support to run as an independent. He doesn't, he just wants to make fun of the whole thing, and so the Democrats don't want him on their ticket.
TFA (and TF summary) both pointed that out. The judge noted that most blogs were editorials or commentaries, not journalism, but that that one was.
One of my pet peeves is the use of tween to mean 8-12 y.o. children. Tolkien invented it, and clearly defined it to mean 18-33 years old. If they want a word for that age range, at least make up their own, rather than stealing one which has a perfectly good meaning.
/. is better than my city's newspaper, which has the dubious crown of being Rupert Murdoch's first newspaper, and is one of his worst. Articles are usually missing important information included in his other newspapers, and has a worse record of dupes and errors than /. does.
It gets easier than that, if you drive a black car: just put little Canadian flags on it and no-one will stop you. An ID card with JOKE printed on it helps, too.
It's just an old boy's club, pure and simple. Because all the senior officers of most of the major corporations went to the same universities and are members of the same clubs and associations means that they know each other at least at second or third hand. It is of course only natural to look out for one's friends, and so their behaviour is hardly unsurprising.
Now the spammer just has to ask the server if the address is allowed. If it is not, then it almost certainly is real, and he can charge a premium for spamming it.
Even IE 6 had a cookie blocker, under privacy settings. IIRC, that slider also would block scripts as well, and then there was a whitelist.
A simpler trick would be, on a Linux box, to log in a root and kill -9 the process, and remove the entry in the login script which runs it. A better trick would be to replace the spyware with a program which pretends to be it, but is uploading harmless information, whenever you order it to.
But the thermal dissipation will not be the same: given that as far better fan will be used, and possibly water cooling, more haet will be dissipated, so the temperature of the chipset itself will not rise by so much.
Or, since most shooters have an "punch" control, for NPCs whom you would expect to be uncooperative (enemy civilians, for example), it could allow you to knock them out with a single hit and keep going.
This applies in most countries: hell, its how banknotes came about. All you would be doing is pre-printing cheques.
Ore likely the real pirate is the one on the satellite link (or a radio connection from a nearby boat)