They want you to get flamed to death as further punishment.
"Switch ISPs." So if a major residential cable modem ISP's mail server gets blacklisted, then how is anybody in any of the towns serviced by that cable company supposed to send e-mail to users of ISPs that use SPEWS?
The obvious way to do a GNOME foot with only text is to try to draw a G with an umlaut sign over it (U+0047 U+0308), but because character-cell terminals generally don't support many composed characters, the GNOME port will probably use alternate text like [GNOME].
for a long time music production has been available on a massively scalable level to the independent artist.
How can an independent artist sell an album if he can't either 1. afford to license songs or 2. afford to prove in court that his own songs are in fact original? Have you read my journal entry on the topic?
if a cd costs several times less to produce than a cassette, why does a recorded cd cost up to twice as much.
For one thing, there's just more demand for CDs. For another, a CD booklet is usually much bigger than the fold-out card included with a typical cassette, and somebody has to be paid to design the art. Plus some CDs have "bonus tracks" that do not appear on the cassette version, and it costs to license that extra song from the songwriter, record it, mix it, and master it.
Sure, an automated scanner (such as a mammalian immune system) trained on one virus won't necessarily find another. But the techniques learned by human minds that have studied one virus will apply to the next virus. For example, the way to prevent e-mail worms from spreading is to execute any attachments in a sandbox that cannot open a network socket, and that will apply to any worm that uses e-mail or Usenet attachments as a vector.
The companies researching synthetic gem-quality diamonds aren't spending all that time and money just so they can glut the market and watch their profits dwindle to practically nothing. The diamond market will remain tightly controlled
Last I read, Apollo Diamond's motives were purer than that. According to its public statements, the company merely wants to use revenue from synthetic gems to finance development of diamond semiconductors.
I think it is mainly a sign of the pride of modern societies that newlywed couples are expected to demonstrate that they can afford to feed an expensive meal to everyone they've ever met at once.
It's not as recent as you may think; it was true in the Middle East in the first century A.D.
Let me tell you a story about a young man named Joshua. He was at a wedding reception with his mother Maria when they were about to run out of wine. Back then, running out of wine was a bad omen, signifying that the family probably didn't have enough resources to feed a family. So Maria had Joshua place concentrated wine cooler mix in the water pots, and Joshua told the servants to fill the water pots with water, wait a couple minutes, and draw out the water. By then, it had soaked up the wine cooler mix and turned to wine.
Of course, because the Greeks and Romans had trouble pronouncing the name "Joshua", they called him "Jesus" instead.
These guys don't need discs at all. Each module has 500megs of DRAM, they boot Live-CD distros off a USB DVD-R. If one goes down, you just reload off the DVD and you don't need a DVD for each room.
Then how do you store your accounting information without either rotating media or flash memory? What if the power goes out?
Why hasn't this technology been adopted by general CPU designers?
Probably because Nintendo may have an exclusive license to sell products containing 1T-SRAM, and it may last anywhere between the lifetime of the GameCube and the lifetime of the patent. Be glad there's no Cher Patent Term Harmonization Act.
there is a corporation in Boston which is developing ultra-pure diamonds using a vapor disposition techinque
You're thinking of Apollo Diamond, which plans to use revenues from selling vapor deposition gemstones to fund research into diamond semiconductors. There's a nice writeup about synthetic diamonds at E2.
However, in many markets, synthetic diamonds sold as gemstones have to be labeled as synthetic, giving De Beers an out: "A diamond isn't forever if it was grown in a lab five days ago."
Education. Everything else can be lost, stolen, taken by the government, etc.
What do you mean by the claim that education cannot be, in effect, taken by the government? It's common for a government to make a person's trade illegal, or at least prohibitively expensive. Look at the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and see software analysis educations taken away by the United States Congress.
Several other users have claimed that a search by file name in a default Windows shell does not need support for a generalized regular expression syntax. I'll grant this for purposes of this discussion.
The point remains, however, that the Windows 2000/ME Explorer search function has no easily discoverable support for ANDing the search terms (rather than ORing them), for searching on exact phrases, or even for searching on whole words (rather than parts of words, so that "MGM" doesn't find "winmgmt").
This contrasts completely with the pseudo-random nature of computers, in which a human with no higher-being knowledge can determine what a computer-generated random number will be.
You tacitly assume that the only common computerized random number generators are the ones that involve a seed and a pseudorandom iterator. But what if a computer generates entropy through any of several input devices? I've seen keyboards, mice, microphones, digital cameras, and even dedicated thermal noise sources on motherboards used as entropy sources. Can anybody but God predict the result of a hash function applied to thermal noise?
Humans can't be "seeded"
Other comments in this thread seem to state otherwise. Some people are seeded with a single number (e.g. "Pi", "forty-two", "thirty-seven", etc), but you are right that they don't follow the same sort of PRNG iteration that common C library implementations of rand() follow.
All analog to digital converters have a source of Real Noise used to add a dither to the input, a faint hiss that drowns out quantization noise. You can easily get 96 kbps of entropy by recording this noise and hashing the resulting digital audio.
I'd assume that any given desktop computer is "likely" to have a sound card that can record.
What made Mr. Adams think that some sort of god didn't put "42 will do" into his head at that time for at least one of the so-called "complete nonsense" reasons?
If Earl Grey is a "blend", then one of its components must taste even better.
What if the most desirable components of Earl Grey is actually formed from one of the components of merchandise A and one of the components of merchandise 7X?
Another h2g2.com entry, 42, explains that "forty-two" can be parsed "for-tea-two", tea for two, the answer to "What is a good attitude towards life?" which is purported to be the Ultimate Question.
[Microsoft Windows] XP... has an administrator account, and all other accounts can be made to run as guests.
Yes, but they can't run much. Many of the most popular Windows applications, especially games, are poorly coded such that they require Administrators group privileges to install or even to run. The publishers of these apps did not realize how poorly coded the apps were until Microsoft switched its consumer operating system from the Windows 9x codebase to the NT codebase.
Windows patches come in both a Windows Update version (downloaded through an ActiveX control through windowsupdate.microsoft.com) and a "redist" version (downloaded through any graphical web browser).
The long answer ultimately has to do with usability studies.
Then why, in Windows 2000 Explorer as configured by default, is there a 1-pixel gap between the corner of the screen and the Start menu? It would be nicer if I could slam the mouse pointer against the upper left and then click (Fitts's Law states that the corners are among the easiest screen pixels to hit), but no. Microsoft had to put in a gap between the screen edge and the Start button that does nothing but slow things down.
And why, in the taskbar, does a selected program lighten in Windows 2000 but darken in Windows XP? That difference confuses me every time I work at an XP machine.
The NT kernel and even the userspace system are designed for multiple users.
Yet they still have to deal with backward compatibility to a Windows API that evolved from CP/M's. The solution here is starting over, such as in the.NET framework.
OR is exactly the problem with Windows search. I want a switch for ANDing instead of ORing, or at least a switch to sort by relevance, putting ANDed results at the top.
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They want you to get flamed to death as further punishment.
"Switch ISPs." So if a major residential cable modem ISP's mail server gets blacklisted, then how is anybody in any of the towns serviced by that cable company supposed to send e-mail to users of ISPs that use SPEWS?
The obvious way to do a GNOME foot with only text is to try to draw a G with an umlaut sign over it (U+0047 U+0308), but because character-cell terminals generally don't support many composed characters, the GNOME port will probably use alternate text like [GNOME].
for a long time music production has been available on a massively scalable level to the independent artist.
How can an independent artist sell an album if he can't either 1. afford to license songs or 2. afford to prove in court that his own songs are in fact original? Have you read my journal entry on the topic?
if a cd costs several times less to produce than a cassette, why does a recorded cd cost up to twice as much.
For one thing, there's just more demand for CDs. For another, a CD booklet is usually much bigger than the fold-out card included with a typical cassette, and somebody has to be paid to design the art. Plus some CDs have "bonus tracks" that do not appear on the cassette version, and it costs to license that extra song from the songwriter, record it, mix it, and master it.
Sure, an automated scanner (such as a mammalian immune system) trained on one virus won't necessarily find another. But the techniques learned by human minds that have studied one virus will apply to the next virus. For example, the way to prevent e-mail worms from spreading is to execute any attachments in a sandbox that cannot open a network socket, and that will apply to any worm that uses e-mail or Usenet attachments as a vector.
We need to have viruses that just give our computers a cold, in order to build up defenses against the electronic equivalent of Ebola.
The companies researching synthetic gem-quality diamonds aren't spending all that time and money just so they can glut the market and watch their profits dwindle to practically nothing. The diamond market will remain tightly controlled
Last I read, Apollo Diamond's motives were purer than that. According to its public statements, the company merely wants to use revenue from synthetic gems to finance development of diamond semiconductors.
I think it is mainly a sign of the pride of modern societies that newlywed couples are expected to demonstrate that they can afford to feed an expensive meal to everyone they've ever met at once.
It's not as recent as you may think; it was true in the Middle East in the first century A.D.
Let me tell you a story about a young man named Joshua. He was at a wedding reception with his mother Maria when they were about to run out of wine. Back then, running out of wine was a bad omen, signifying that the family probably didn't have enough resources to feed a family. So Maria had Joshua place concentrated wine cooler mix in the water pots, and Joshua told the servants to fill the water pots with water, wait a couple minutes, and draw out the water. By then, it had soaked up the wine cooler mix and turned to wine.
Of course, because the Greeks and Romans had trouble pronouncing the name "Joshua", they called him "Jesus" instead.
So why do we still use DDR on the desktop?
Because a home DDR kit gives me an aerobic workout without having to leave my house during a thunderstorm.
These guys don't need discs at all. Each module has 500megs of DRAM, they boot Live-CD distros off a USB DVD-R. If one goes down, you just reload off the DVD and you don't need a DVD for each room.
Then how do you store your accounting information without either rotating media or flash memory? What if the power goes out?
Why hasn't this technology been adopted by general CPU designers?
Probably because Nintendo may have an exclusive license to sell products containing 1T-SRAM, and it may last anywhere between the lifetime of the GameCube and the lifetime of the patent. Be glad there's no Cher Patent Term Harmonization Act.
there is a corporation in Boston which is developing ultra-pure diamonds using a vapor disposition techinque
You're thinking of Apollo Diamond, which plans to use revenues from selling vapor deposition gemstones to fund research into diamond semiconductors. There's a nice writeup about synthetic diamonds at E2.
However, in many markets, synthetic diamonds sold as gemstones have to be labeled as synthetic, giving De Beers an out: "A diamond isn't forever if it was grown in a lab five days ago."
Education. Everything else can be lost, stolen, taken by the government, etc.
What do you mean by the claim that education cannot be, in effect, taken by the government? It's common for a government to make a person's trade illegal, or at least prohibitively expensive. Look at the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and see software analysis educations taken away by the United States Congress.
Several other users have claimed that a search by file name in a default Windows shell does not need support for a generalized regular expression syntax. I'll grant this for purposes of this discussion.
The point remains, however, that the Windows 2000/ME Explorer search function has no easily discoverable support for ANDing the search terms (rather than ORing them), for searching on exact phrases, or even for searching on whole words (rather than parts of words, so that "MGM" doesn't find "winmgmt").
This contrasts completely with the pseudo-random nature of computers, in which a human with no higher-being knowledge can determine what a computer-generated random number will be.
You tacitly assume that the only common computerized random number generators are the ones that involve a seed and a pseudorandom iterator. But what if a computer generates entropy through any of several input devices? I've seen keyboards, mice, microphones, digital cameras, and even dedicated thermal noise sources on motherboards used as entropy sources. Can anybody but God predict the result of a hash function applied to thermal noise?
Humans can't be "seeded"
Other comments in this thread seem to state otherwise. Some people are seeded with a single number (e.g. "Pi", "forty-two", "thirty-seven", etc), but you are right that they don't follow the same sort of PRNG iteration that common C library implementations of rand() follow.
All analog to digital converters have a source of Real Noise used to add a dither to the input, a faint hiss that drowns out quantization noise. You can easily get 96 kbps of entropy by recording this noise and hashing the resulting digital audio.
I'd assume that any given desktop computer is "likely" to have a sound card that can record.
What made Mr. Adams think that some sort of god didn't put "42 will do" into his head at that time for at least one of the so-called "complete nonsense" reasons?
They are so allowed, once they expatriate themselves.
K5 democrats write articles about coffee and about tea.
If Earl Grey is a "blend", then one of its components must taste even better.
What if the most desirable components of Earl Grey is actually formed from one of the components of merchandise A and one of the components of merchandise 7X?
Basic linear programming.
Is taste a linear function?
Another h2g2.com entry, 42, explains that "forty-two" can be parsed "for-tea-two", tea for two, the answer to "What is a good attitude towards life?" which is purported to be the Ultimate Question.
[Microsoft Windows] XP ... has an administrator account, and all other accounts can be made to run as guests.
Yes, but they can't run much. Many of the most popular Windows applications, especially games, are poorly coded such that they require Administrators group privileges to install or even to run. The publishers of these apps did not realize how poorly coded the apps were until Microsoft switched its consumer operating system from the Windows 9x codebase to the NT codebase.
Windows patches come in both a Windows Update version (downloaded through an ActiveX control through windowsupdate.microsoft.com) and a "redist" version (downloaded through any graphical web browser).
The long answer ultimately has to do with usability studies.
Then why, in Windows 2000 Explorer as configured by default, is there a 1-pixel gap between the corner of the screen and the Start menu? It would be nicer if I could slam the mouse pointer against the upper left and then click (Fitts's Law states that the corners are among the easiest screen pixels to hit), but no. Microsoft had to put in a gap between the screen edge and the Start button that does nothing but slow things down.
And why, in the taskbar, does a selected program lighten in Windows 2000 but darken in Windows XP? That difference confuses me every time I work at an XP machine.
The NT kernel and even the userspace system are designed for multiple users.
Yet they still have to deal with backward compatibility to a Windows API that evolved from CP/M's. The solution here is starting over, such as in the .NET framework.
OR is exactly the problem with Windows search. I want a switch for ANDing instead of ORing, or at least a switch to sort by relevance, putting ANDed results at the top.