Don't most big email and social network sites use a secure login, so that it won't work for firesheep? Are there any examples of large ones that don't? Thanks.
They also just did this with Java. And they'll have an app store for Macintosh soon too. Who wants to bet that both Flash and Java will not get approved in the app-store, while at the same time the app-store will be made to look like the only way to install applications on the Macintosh of the future?
I loved Blizzard, loved StarCraft and Brood War, and wanted StarCraft II. I even had a StarCraft website they liked once, and received beta tester status and a free comic book for it. But now, so many years later, this is the final drop. No LAN and requiring internet connection to play the single player game, is not the kind of game I play. But a company I once loved turning evil, that's way too bad, now I'm not interested in them and the games they make any longer.
That's only in recent versions of Windows. More than 50% of Windows users still has Windows XP, which does not have the feature you mentioned. Also, unlike Windows, Linux is much better at the other kind of search: searching for occurances of plain text inside any file, without caring about extension (Windows supports something they claim to be similar to that, but it only works for files which happen to have a certain extension in their filename that is copied somewhere in the registry). And finally, desktops like KDE have had the ability to get a launch application utility that pops up your application while you type part of the name for ages already.
1) Fly 50 years to there at the speed of light 2) Mine the diamonds 3) Fly back 50 years 4) If you were able to get older than 100 years, you're now rich, enjoy!
Why do Slashdot articles sometimes use such weird terminology? Am I supposed to know what a "blanket software license" is? And a search on the internet has mainly articles with the title "Microsoft to Issue Blanket License" as result.
I have to put pieces of tape over the blue LEDs of PC speaker sets and such, to have it not shine in my eyes all the time. Fortunately the hype seems to be over already, because the latest logitech speaker set I got has a relaxing green indicator LED.
Why is it that Sony first allowed Linux on PS3 (and earlier PS's too), and there were even supercomputers built with PS3's, and that later Sony decides to disallow that support completely? Why the sudden change?
Silverlight doesn't work on Linux. Flash does. Flash owns. Newgrounds is based on Flash, and owns. So Flash owns. All this decision about movies in Flash vs HTML5 doesn't affect me, what I care about is the Flash games and the Flash cartoons. Fortunately people are still so good to make them in Flash so that I can enjoy them on my Linux machine. If Silverlight would really start to get used, it'd be a real problem for me for that reason, because there are then so many little internet games I can't play anymore. The day Newgrounds would start accepting Silverlight content is the day it would die a little to me.
Oh and Moonlight? Even if it'd support 99.9% of the latest Silverlight version, it'd still not be enough, because that 0.1% is probably exactly going to be the functionality required for just that little game or cartoon you wanted to play/watch. No, choose Flash please!
So was I thinking as well, and a lot of other geeks who like to philosophize about things probably too, and SF books & movies of course. So it's simply because this is Stephen Hawking thinking it that this is news?
Hmm, I can think of an interesting and useful use of it: doing various statistics and randomness tests on those digits, finding patterns in their order, and so on.
But I don't suppose that's what those contests to find the most PI digits are about.
1) A pixel isn't "invented" by anyone. A pixel is just a concept that is so straightforward, like the wheel, language and adding numbers. It's not a question of which single person "invented" it. It's just a question of, once the technology is there, it WILL be used, no matter what.
2) What kind of screen are you going to use for that? Each pixel can have different types of pixel sizes so no screen could fit that. A square grid is the most uniform division of 2D space into units.
3) If this would have been about hexagonal pixels, I'd have found this cool.
4) At best, this is a new compression scheme for storing pictures - but certainly not a way to display them (see 2))
5) Non square pixels are not a new idea, see for example sensors of cameras.
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More like Firewolf!
Don't most big email and social network sites use a secure login, so that it won't work for firesheep? Are there any examples of large ones that don't? Thanks.
It must be an amazing experience to fly this thing. I wonder how he landed, with a regular parachute or not.
"A person in the background holding what some say is a cell phone in this still from Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film The Circus. "
I hardly recognise a person in it, that's how bad the quality is. And then those two pixels would be a cellphone?
The advanced high res 3-D telescopes have discovered blue creatures wandering on this planet, in 3-D!
They also just did this with Java. And they'll have an app store for Macintosh soon too. Who wants to bet that both Flash and Java will not get approved in the app-store, while at the same time the app-store will be made to look like the only way to install applications on the Macintosh of the future?
I loved Blizzard, loved StarCraft and Brood War, and wanted StarCraft II. I even had a StarCraft website they liked once, and received beta tester status and a free comic book for it. But now, so many years later, this is the final drop. No LAN and requiring internet connection to play the single player game, is not the kind of game I play. But a company I once loved turning evil, that's way too bad, now I'm not interested in them and the games they make any longer.
Why oh why are they going for 3-D? I'd have more confidence in the movie if they'd gamble on its content instead of THREEDEE to make it successful.
Yay, happy birthday, my favorite language :)
It better be some good abbey beer from Belgium.
That's only in recent versions of Windows. More than 50% of Windows users still has Windows XP, which does not have the feature you mentioned. Also, unlike Windows, Linux is much better at the other kind of search: searching for occurances of plain text inside any file, without caring about extension (Windows supports something they claim to be similar to that, but it only works for files which happen to have a certain extension in their filename that is copied somewhere in the registry). And finally, desktops like KDE have had the ability to get a launch application utility that pops up your application while you type part of the name for ages already.
This allows a new get rich quick scheme:
1) Fly 50 years to there at the speed of light
2) Mine the diamonds
3) Fly back 50 years
4) If you were able to get older than 100 years, you're now rich, enjoy!
Why do Slashdot articles sometimes use such weird terminology? Am I supposed to know what a "blanket software license" is? And a search on the internet has mainly articles with the title "Microsoft to Issue Blanket License" as result.
I have to put pieces of tape over the blue LEDs of PC speaker sets and such, to have it not shine in my eyes all the time. Fortunately the hype seems to be over already, because the latest logitech speaker set I got has a relaxing green indicator LED.
Why is it that Sony first allowed Linux on PS3 (and earlier PS's too), and there were even supercomputers built with PS3's, and that later Sony decides to disallow that support completely? Why the sudden change?
Silverlight doesn't work on Linux. Flash does. Flash owns. Newgrounds is based on Flash, and owns. So Flash owns. All this decision about movies in Flash vs HTML5 doesn't affect me, what I care about is the Flash games and the Flash cartoons. Fortunately people are still so good to make them in Flash so that I can enjoy them on my Linux machine. If Silverlight would really start to get used, it'd be a real problem for me for that reason, because there are then so many little internet games I can't play anymore. The day Newgrounds would start accepting Silverlight content is the day it would die a little to me.
Oh and Moonlight? Even if it'd support 99.9% of the latest Silverlight version, it'd still not be enough, because that 0.1% is probably exactly going to be the functionality required for just that little game or cartoon you wanted to play/watch. No, choose Flash please!
So this news is 48 million years old? It must be slow news day.
So was I thinking as well, and a lot of other geeks who like to philosophize about things probably too, and SF books & movies of course. So it's simply because this is Stephen Hawking thinking it that this is news?
Hmm, I can think of an interesting and useful use of it: doing various statistics and randomness tests on those digits, finding patterns in their order, and so on.
But I don't suppose that's what those contests to find the most PI digits are about.
Trillion in which language? How many zeros does it have?
Uh I've seen a 3D movie not needing glasses in a cinema room in a museum once, in Berlin I think. I think it worked with lasers and rotating mirrors.
By the way, I forgot to mention the article is very interesting, thanks for the link!
Agreed, but the voronoi diagram of those sample points gives the squares.
Is that 200,000 years from now, or 200,000 years from 12 million years ago? (since it's that many lightyears away)
1) A pixel isn't "invented" by anyone. A pixel is just a concept that is so straightforward, like the wheel, language and adding numbers. It's not a question of which single person "invented" it. It's just a question of, once the technology is there, it WILL be used, no matter what.
2) What kind of screen are you going to use for that? Each pixel can have different types of pixel sizes so no screen could fit that. A square grid is the most uniform division of 2D space into units.
3) If this would have been about hexagonal pixels, I'd have found this cool.
4) At best, this is a new compression scheme for storing pictures - but certainly not a way to display them (see 2))
5) Non square pixels are not a new idea, see for example sensors of cameras.