If it was worthwhile forking it then we would have seen manufacturers attempt that already. Clearly Google is by far leading development and dealing with them is not too painful yet.
Get a powerful 8-core workstation with plenty of RAM. You can pick up a used one with warranty quite cheaply. Ditch Windows and run CentOS 6 on the bare metal and use KVM for virtualisation. The RedHat docs are a great read to get you started and as a bonus you'll pick up some very useful Linux administration skills and you will learn to think outside the box when it comes to virtualisation strategy.
Sigh... I thought being New for Nerds and all that someone would get the SGU reference.
While I'm at it though, bright-spark, how many of your American evangelical creationist nut-job friends (a) believe that there is a CMB, and (b) that it is evidence of a big bang?
If there is even a hint of order in the cosmic microwave background radiation then there is only one possible conclusion and that is that there was an intelligence at work in the creation of the universe. What other possible explanation could there be?
GPS accuracy is poor to non-existent within buildings and underground. Accurate sensor localisation is far from trivial in such environments. One hurdle is multi-path interference which renders the time-to-receive of a packet as near useless. AFAIK to achieve a high level of accuracy requires a mesh-like network and the use of multiple sensors including accelerometers with the accuracy increasing with the number of nodes in the mesh.
The CSIRO, Australia's peak science body is has been working on wireless tracking for a while. Don't know if they are involved with this new company Locata or not.
The following statement seems completely counter intuitive to me. Are you able to back up the claim with a citation or example?
Not all chemicals have a natural proginator. Doesn't matter how alien the world is, doesn't matter how strange or exotic, not everything can happen naturally. The reliance on a mysterous get-out-of-jail-free "unknown" simply doesn't cut it for some stuff. Chemistry is remarkably simple and the rules of what chemical reactions can and cannot happen are very well known. Those rules are as true in any solar system in Andromeda or on any planet that has no sun at all as they are here.
The web browser, whichever one it is, that the user has decided to use should make the decision about whether or not to ask the users permission to set a cookie. Website are not doing anything malicious by setting cookies, they are simply asking the client browser to keep a bit of information and return it on subsequent visits. The web browser can ignore the request, ask the user for permission first, or silently accept it.
Many browsers can be configured to operate in either of those three modes. Effort would be better spent educating users... or better yet... just let it go already it isn't a big deal.
I know iiNet in Australia do this by default even on "business" connections with static IP addresses. You can log on to their administration console and remove these blocks or even add your own on a per-port basis. This is in-bound port blocking BTW.
I think this is a very sound practice given the massive number of spam-bots. If you are trying to run a mail-server and you are competent, then you quickly figure out where the problem lies. Even a phone call to iiNet quickly reveals the problem if you don't figure it out for yourself.
To make the intellectual leap of considering information and ideas as property is your article of faith friend.
It sounds like you're trying to justify the banning of these websites on the grounds of protecting some sort of imagined property. That the situation is absurd given that the information is no longer secret seems to have passed you completely. What warped perception of reality could lead to this is beyond my imagining.
Terrible analogy. The material is still classified but there is no longer anything secret or confidential about that information.
To say it is like a thief selling physical property is a tenuous analogy. If a thief steals your property you can get it back, information and ideas are not like property in any way.
STOP. Don't bother reading the comments, 90% of them are about whether or not the headline is hyperbole and the other 10% is something to do with religion vs science, whatever the fuck that has to do with anything. Moderators are not doing their job either, all this crap is getting modded up.
If you're looking for some insightful and informative posts about what this may mean for our understanding of the universe then better look elsewhere.
From my professor of Managerial Economics: "The job of management is the LONG TERM maximization of shareholder wealth."
Only if that is the mission of the company. Shareholders can choose to set the mission of a company to be not-for-profit even if it doesn't have that legal status. The job of management is to help achieve the long term objectives as set forth by the shareholders in their election of a board and the passing of resolutions. Wealth maximisation within constraints is perfectly legitimate.
The article borders on the ridiculous. Colour coding blocks of code to mark them private? Yeah, that is much more readable than, say using a sequence of pre-historic ASCII characters like 'private'.
Nothing wrong with some food for thought and the article certainly gives some. I believe languages can be more verbose as typing is no longer a slow process over a TTY, and source code size is no longer an issue. This does not require new characters, just more actual words.
What limits the number of wavelengths in a single fiber is the bandwidth of the amplifiers
What about producing the light at the different wavelengths? Is it easy to get a laser to produce light at a specified wavelength? Also, what is the current state of optical mixing? Do they just use a single wavelength source laser and mix up and down to the desired wavelength?
I know I should go read, but, well, you seem knowledgeable and I sucked at photonics.
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If it was worthwhile forking it then we would have seen manufacturers attempt that already. Clearly Google is by far leading development and dealing with them is not too painful yet.
Get a powerful 8-core workstation with plenty of RAM. You can pick up a used one with warranty quite cheaply. Ditch Windows and run CentOS 6 on the bare metal and use KVM for virtualisation. The RedHat docs are a great read to get you started and as a bonus you'll pick up some very useful Linux administration skills and you will learn to think outside the box when it comes to virtualisation strategy.
He can't be that stupid. Maybe we've been trolled.
Or just plain old land based ones in the desert.
Coordination would be very poor without fast, nonvisual feedback.
Are you trolling? It's no longer hidden and you haven't explained how it's broken. Or is the comment too hard for you to read as well.
The workspace switcher in the overview remains expanded by keeping its full width displayed when you are using more than one workspace.
On one of my systems:
me@here$ uname -m
i686
me@here$ getconf LONG_BIT
32
me@here$ echo $(( 1 << 32 ))
4294967296
me@here$ echo $(( 1 << 64 ))
1
Your test would consider my ARCH as 64 when it is clearly not. But then why does left-shifting 64 times not overflow?
Sigh... I thought being New for Nerds and all that someone would get the SGU reference.
While I'm at it though, bright-spark, how many of your American evangelical creationist nut-job friends (a) believe that there is a CMB, and (b) that it is evidence of a big bang?
If there is even a hint of order in the cosmic microwave background radiation then there is only one possible conclusion and that is that there was an intelligence at work in the creation of the universe. What other possible explanation could there be?
GPS accuracy is poor to non-existent within buildings and underground. Accurate sensor localisation is far from trivial in such environments. One hurdle is multi-path interference which renders the time-to-receive of a packet as near useless. AFAIK to achieve a high level of accuracy requires a mesh-like network and the use of multiple sensors including accelerometers with the accuracy increasing with the number of nodes in the mesh.
The CSIRO, Australia's peak science body is has been working on wireless tracking for a while. Don't know if they are involved with this new company Locata or not.
And about 95% of comments too.
You don't need JS for that, HTML will do.
Wait... you meant BSoD right?
Not all chemicals have a natural proginator. Doesn't matter how alien the world is, doesn't matter how strange or exotic, not everything can happen naturally. The reliance on a mysterous get-out-of-jail-free "unknown" simply doesn't cut it for some stuff. Chemistry is remarkably simple and the rules of what chemical reactions can and cannot happen are very well known. Those rules are as true in any solar system in Andromeda or on any planet that has no sun at all as they are here.
I would second that and add that you should consider a refurbished laptop with a 1 year warranty.
The web browser, whichever one it is, that the user has decided to use should make the decision about whether or not to ask the users permission to set a cookie. Website are not doing anything malicious by setting cookies, they are simply asking the client browser to keep a bit of information and return it on subsequent visits. The web browser can ignore the request, ask the user for permission first, or silently accept it.
Many browsers can be configured to operate in either of those three modes. Effort would be better spent educating users... or better yet... just let it go already it isn't a big deal.
Why do you say that we should not respond and just add them to our ignore list?
I know iiNet in Australia do this by default even on "business" connections with static IP addresses. You can log on to their administration console and remove these blocks or even add your own on a per-port basis. This is in-bound port blocking BTW.
I think this is a very sound practice given the massive number of spam-bots. If you are trying to run a mail-server and you are competent, then you quickly figure out where the problem lies. Even a phone call to iiNet quickly reveals the problem if you don't figure it out for yourself.
To make the intellectual leap of considering information and ideas as property is your article of faith friend.
It sounds like you're trying to justify the banning of these websites on the grounds of protecting some sort of imagined property. That the situation is absurd given that the information is no longer secret seems to have passed you completely. What warped perception of reality could lead to this is beyond my imagining.
Terrible analogy. The material is still classified but there is no longer anything secret or confidential about that information.
To say it is like a thief selling physical property is a tenuous analogy. If a thief steals your property you can get it back, information and ideas are not like property in any way.
STOP. Don't bother reading the comments, 90% of them are about whether or not the headline is hyperbole and the other 10% is something to do with religion vs science, whatever the fuck that has to do with anything. Moderators are not doing their job either, all this crap is getting modded up.
If you're looking for some insightful and informative posts about what this may mean for our understanding of the universe then better look elsewhere.
From my professor of Managerial Economics: "The job of management is the LONG TERM maximization of shareholder wealth."
Only if that is the mission of the company. Shareholders can choose to set the mission of a company to be not-for-profit even if it doesn't have that legal status. The job of management is to help achieve the long term objectives as set forth by the shareholders in their election of a board and the passing of resolutions. Wealth maximisation within constraints is perfectly legitimate.
The article borders on the ridiculous. Colour coding blocks of code to mark them private? Yeah, that is much more readable than, say using a sequence of pre-historic ASCII characters like 'private'.
Nothing wrong with some food for thought and the article certainly gives some. I believe languages can be more verbose as typing is no longer a slow process over a TTY, and source code size is no longer an issue. This does not require new characters, just more actual words.
What limits the number of wavelengths in a single fiber is the bandwidth of the amplifiers
What about producing the light at the different wavelengths? Is it easy to get a laser to produce light at a specified wavelength? Also, what is the current state of optical mixing? Do they just use a single wavelength source laser and mix up and down to the desired wavelength?
I know I should go read, but, well, you seem knowledgeable and I sucked at photonics.
Not about that. It is about having a basic level of trust in the software they are using to be sure that nothing malicious is coded in there.