He went on to talk about microprojectors, as well as glasses that give the illusion of sitting in front of a full-blown computer screen and keyboard.
For actual writing (whether code or prose) nothing beats a full-sized keyboard like the one I'm using in front of my keyboard.
However, there will doubtless exist objects roughly like the iPhone which project a full-size screen, and either use accelerometers to stabilize the image, or simply require you to mount it somewhere stationary. It would basically be like using a DS as a console controller, only with the console in the DS.
To be clear, my favorite games will always be those played in front of a monitor (possibly with some gesture interface) and a full-fledged keyboard.
Consider a Turing machine that creates a fractal in finite space. When it reaches the next iteration of the fractal, it begins to consume memory at the beginning. Even though you have finite memory, you cannot make any claims about what that fractal will do over the course of time. Throw in a check so that the machine halts when some substring matches a given search term. You cannot decide if that machine will ever match that search term. It is not possible.
The Halting problem means, in essence, that there exists no automated test for infinite loops. Obviously, there are trivial ones like "while $true;" However, you cannot build a machine that can tell the difference between an algorithm that is looping infinitely and an algorithm that has not finished. That is the halting problem, and it has nothing to do with infinite space.
I just realized you're a troll. Good work.
If not, this is essentially Cantor's diagonal argument for the uncountability of the reals, and people refused to believe that too. Doesn't make it less true.
How do you know you want Pepsi? Maybe you've just never tasted Coke before.
Sometimes, when I do a Google search, I'm looking for a website I've already visited. In that case, this advertising is pointless.
Most of the time, I'm doing a Google search to find a solution to a problem. I need a widget, and I go searching for ACME, since I know they're a fine provider of widgets. I do not, however, know a lot about widgets. So I would be quite pleased to see a variety of results about different widgets.
Furthermore, I don't usually read the supported ads except in the case where I might be looking for a few products to compare.
That's physically impossible, even given infinite time. Read up on the halting problem.
However, programming a framework in which we may rule out certain things, for example a process jumping over and altering the OS, is perfectly possible. It just has to be verified through reasoning, rather than testing. The unit testing methodology is really the problem here. You cannot unit test everything.
Don't get me wrong, testing is a good start, but it's no proof of security, and a proof of security, while very hard, is possible. Kudos to Microsoft.
And to expand on the GP for those that didn't RTFA, they replaced Memcpy with a memcpy that forced you to state the size of the destination buffer, which is a constant time operation, and a much needed one. So this only forces C coders to make their code a little more clear.
And when you're being intentionally unclear to the computer in addition to the reader, your code has no place in a secure production setting.
I'd view a few dozen as a very large number, given the yield. And in any case, nuclear strikes on that scale would negate any illusory evolutionary benefit from a state of perpetual war. Yes, the survivors would be hardier than those that did not, but they would be set back a century or so in terms of development.
Further, this would continue until someone could stop all violence on earth, or find a way to stop nuclear warheads from being so dangerous. I find the former more plausible than the latter is all.
Also, I think the human race ensuring maximum survivability (so long as the race can be well fed and educated) is far better off, due to the massively distributed computations it can perform, many millions of times faster than a few vestiges of humanity, even if they retain some advanced technology.
Because eventually nuclear weapons will become sufficiently cheap and readily available that a single person will kill us all.
The only way to stop it is to remove the possibility of a person considering that course of action.
That, or provide a robust means of safety against nuclear warheads. As improbable as the first proposition is, stopping a couple dozen nukes from destroying all human life on earth is about as physically sound as me rolling a hundred pound boulder up Mount Everest.
World peace is at least physically possible, if improbable given usual human attitudes. And in any case, world peace is imperative, since we have surpassed the point where superior physical force truly corresponds to an evolutionary advantage. It only increases the odds of mutually assured destruction, or perhaps worse still, reversion to our former primeval state.
It would be a lot more convenient to dislike them if they were under the same roof. I could just brush Twitter off in the same breath as brushing off OS X or the iPhone. The time I would save!
Why bother doing that when you can just tell someone to do it in a month, and them reassign that person to another project as soon as the code doesn't crash?
Quit trolling. This is a clear application of the good Samaritan laws. You can't be charged for trying to help someone.
The only way to find out who was in danger from the botnet, they had to take control of it. Once they did this, they ascertained who was affected, and notified the authorities.
To put it in an easily understood car analogy, if I see a guy steal some lady's purse, and then go around with the keys trying to figure out where her car is, then I knock the guy down, but all I manage to get is the keys, the only way I can restore the woman's property is to hand the keys over to the authorities and let them handle it.
I've committed a crime. I've assaulted and stolen from the thief. But I am in no way guilty of a crime.
The teacher was on medication that had an unforseen mind-altering effect. Not her fault, her doctor's fault. Unions or no, I imagine the principal understands, and is glad that the bad press can be pawned off on the unions.
The unions serve a very important purpose: keeping teachers free from knee-jerk public opinion.
Also keeping influential parents from influencing the removal of teachers that flunk their deadbeat children.
I don't know if you noticed, but Discovery and History stopped showing Discovery and History about 5 years ago. If there's a market for that sort of thing, no one is selling it.
(That said, I, like most of the reasonably affluent computer technicians in the room, would pay.)
KDE is hideously bloated, but that bloat does have a point. It has the nicest, most easily configurable desktop from hotkeys to anything else.
That said, I use Fluxbox, because KDE itself takes up around 300 mb, and then the only KDE app I used, Amarok, takes up 500 mb in its newest iteration. It's clear the developers don't test on anything with fewer than two cores.
Point is, there's a difference between being easily configurable because of really well thought out design (perhaps overly thought out), and being so minimal as to make anything configurable trivial to configure.
This is modded funny, and I suspect that it was intended to be sarcastic, but it's really quite accurate. John Philip Sousa campaigned extensively against the record when it began, for fear that it would destroy the market for live performance.
Of course, it didn't eliminate it, but it did remove live performance as a reasonable way to gain income, since restaurants could now get ambient music essentially for free.
And of course, removing copyright from the equation would restore the performance industry to its former glory.
The payoff is in those who don't read sites like Slashdot.
I've personally installed Firefox on 5 or 6 computers in the past year. Now, those people are going to go though the update process, and have IE set to default. Even if they eventually figure it out, there's a good chance they'll use IE8 without realizing it - and see what makes it different from Firefox. So it gets a chance to show that its UI is finally not 5 years out of date.
Yeah, I use Firefox for browsing, but I use a dedicated browser for banking (though epiphany is still Gecko, it's mostly so I can clear the cache of important stuff without clearing my Firefox cache.)
We got in touch with Tolkien Enterprises and reached an understanding with them that as long as we are completely non-profit then we're okay. We have to be careful not to disrespect their ownership of the intellectual property. They are supportive of the way fans wish to express their enthusiasm.
Looks like tim is trolling just a bit.
Though, in general, LotR should be public domain. It's a definite part of our cultural heritage, and these sort of copyright issues are about as insulting as someone claiming copyright on the Shakespeare Canon.
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The ghost process problem is almost always a result of Adobe's piss-poor Flash implementation. Flashblock ftw.
Firefox should be a little better at sandboxing plugins, but they can't be blamed for Adobe's crap.
He went on to talk about microprojectors, as well as glasses that give the illusion of sitting in front of a full-blown computer screen and keyboard.
For actual writing (whether code or prose) nothing beats a full-sized keyboard like the one I'm using in front of my keyboard.
However, there will doubtless exist objects roughly like the iPhone which project a full-size screen, and either use accelerometers to stabilize the image, or simply require you to mount it somewhere stationary. It would basically be like using a DS as a console controller, only with the console in the DS.
To be clear, my favorite games will always be those played in front of a monitor (possibly with some gesture interface) and a full-fledged keyboard.
No it didn't.
Consider a Turing machine that creates a fractal in finite space. When it reaches the next iteration of the fractal, it begins to consume memory at the beginning. Even though you have finite memory, you cannot make any claims about what that fractal will do over the course of time. Throw in a check so that the machine halts when some substring matches a given search term. You cannot decide if that machine will ever match that search term. It is not possible.
The Halting problem means, in essence, that there exists no automated test for infinite loops. Obviously, there are trivial ones like "while $true;" However, you cannot build a machine that can tell the difference between an algorithm that is looping infinitely and an algorithm that has not finished. That is the halting problem, and it has nothing to do with infinite space.
I just realized you're a troll. Good work.
If not, this is essentially Cantor's diagonal argument for the uncountability of the reals, and people refused to believe that too. Doesn't make it less true.
How do you know you want Pepsi? Maybe you've just never tasted Coke before.
Sometimes, when I do a Google search, I'm looking for a website I've already visited. In that case, this advertising is pointless.
Most of the time, I'm doing a Google search to find a solution to a problem. I need a widget, and I go searching for ACME, since I know they're a fine provider of widgets. I do not, however, know a lot about widgets. So I would be quite pleased to see a variety of results about different widgets.
Furthermore, I don't usually read the supported ads except in the case where I might be looking for a few products to compare.
That's physically impossible, even given infinite time. Read up on the halting problem.
However, programming a framework in which we may rule out certain things, for example a process jumping over and altering the OS, is perfectly possible. It just has to be verified through reasoning, rather than testing. The unit testing methodology is really the problem here. You cannot unit test everything.
Don't get me wrong, testing is a good start, but it's no proof of security, and a proof of security, while very hard, is possible. Kudos to Microsoft.
And to expand on the GP for those that didn't RTFA, they replaced Memcpy with a memcpy that forced you to state the size of the destination buffer, which is a constant time operation, and a much needed one. So this only forces C coders to make their code a little more clear.
And when you're being intentionally unclear to the computer in addition to the reader, your code has no place in a secure production setting.
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If you're looking for epic, multi-ship space battles, you won't find it here either. What there is is alright, but it's all one-on-one.
If you're just doing it for the space battles, the space battles had better be LotR in space.
The series finale of Battlestar Galactica was 4 times as large, easily. (And BSG has a better design team.) ILM is over the hill.
I'd view a few dozen as a very large number, given the yield. And in any case, nuclear strikes on that scale would negate any illusory evolutionary benefit from a state of perpetual war. Yes, the survivors would be hardier than those that did not, but they would be set back a century or so in terms of development.
Further, this would continue until someone could stop all violence on earth, or find a way to stop nuclear warheads from being so dangerous. I find the former more plausible than the latter is all.
Also, I think the human race ensuring maximum survivability (so long as the race can be well fed and educated) is far better off, due to the massively distributed computations it can perform, many millions of times faster than a few vestiges of humanity, even if they retain some advanced technology.
Because eventually nuclear weapons will become sufficiently cheap and readily available that a single person will kill us all.
The only way to stop it is to remove the possibility of a person considering that course of action.
That, or provide a robust means of safety against nuclear warheads. As improbable as the first proposition is, stopping a couple dozen nukes from destroying all human life on earth is about as physically sound as me rolling a hundred pound boulder up Mount Everest.
World peace is at least physically possible, if improbable given usual human attitudes. And in any case, world peace is imperative, since we have surpassed the point where superior physical force truly corresponds to an evolutionary advantage. It only increases the odds of mutually assured destruction, or perhaps worse still, reversion to our former primeval state.
Please read the summary.
The maintainer is hostile to ensuring compatibility on ARM.
It would be a lot more convenient to dislike them if they were under the same roof. I could just brush Twitter off in the same breath as brushing off OS X or the iPhone. The time I would save!
You hit it right on the head with "getting a PC without Windows."
The cost of most of what makes Windows legitimately complex is borne by the hardware manufacturers. Microsoft's job is mostly just to be glue.
Why bother doing that when you can just tell someone to do it in a month, and them reassign that person to another project as soon as the code doesn't crash?
Yes, and since KDE 4 isn't done yet, it makes much more sense to target 3.5 than 4.2. Because that's going to be better for everyone.
So long as the end result is not selling the servers for less than the production cost, it should be perfectly legal.
Quit trolling. This is a clear application of the good Samaritan laws. You can't be charged for trying to help someone.
The only way to find out who was in danger from the botnet, they had to take control of it. Once they did this, they ascertained who was affected, and notified the authorities.
To put it in an easily understood car analogy, if I see a guy steal some lady's purse, and then go around with the keys trying to figure out where her car is, then I knock the guy down, but all I manage to get is the keys, the only way I can restore the woman's property is to hand the keys over to the authorities and let them handle it.
I've committed a crime. I've assaulted and stolen from the thief. But I am in no way guilty of a crime.
The teacher was on medication that had an unforseen mind-altering effect. Not her fault, her doctor's fault. Unions or no, I imagine the principal understands, and is glad that the bad press can be pawned off on the unions.
The unions serve a very important purpose: keeping teachers free from knee-jerk public opinion.
Also keeping influential parents from influencing the removal of teachers that flunk their deadbeat children.
Pay attention now:
He will not pay $23.
He wants to pay $13.
He's willing to pay that much, so long as he knows he isn't subsidizing channels he won't watch.
Dish is not worthwhile.
I don't know if you noticed, but Discovery and History stopped showing Discovery and History about 5 years ago. If there's a market for that sort of thing, no one is selling it.
(That said, I, like most of the reasonably affluent computer technicians in the room, would pay.)
KDE is hideously bloated, but that bloat does have a point. It has the nicest, most easily configurable desktop from hotkeys to anything else.
That said, I use Fluxbox, because KDE itself takes up around 300 mb, and then the only KDE app I used, Amarok, takes up 500 mb in its newest iteration. It's clear the developers don't test on anything with fewer than two cores.
Point is, there's a difference between being easily configurable because of really well thought out design (perhaps overly thought out), and being so minimal as to make anything configurable trivial to configure.
But very few make a reasonable income from performance.
This is modded funny, and I suspect that it was intended to be sarcastic, but it's really quite accurate. John Philip Sousa campaigned extensively against the record when it began, for fear that it would destroy the market for live performance.
Of course, it didn't eliminate it, but it did remove live performance as a reasonable way to gain income, since restaurants could now get ambient music essentially for free.
And of course, removing copyright from the equation would restore the performance industry to its former glory.
The payoff is in those who don't read sites like Slashdot.
I've personally installed Firefox on 5 or 6 computers in the past year. Now, those people are going to go though the update process, and have IE set to default. Even if they eventually figure it out, there's a good chance they'll use IE8 without realizing it - and see what makes it different from Firefox. So it gets a chance to show that its UI is finally not 5 years out of date.
Yeah, I use Firefox for browsing, but I use a dedicated browser for banking (though epiphany is still Gecko, it's mostly so I can clear the cache of important stuff without clearing my Firefox cache.)
Looks like tim is trolling just a bit.
Though, in general, LotR should be public domain. It's a definite part of our cultural heritage, and these sort of copyright issues are about as insulting as someone claiming copyright on the Shakespeare Canon.
Sadly, Klingon is not an option on Google translate.