Sounds useless, but to answer the question - using the power switch could cause file system corruption.
So if you could rig this up to the equivalent of "Alt-F4" then you can avoid that.
As for why it's useless, if your child is not ready to see "stuff", and they see "stuff", and then you press the panic button, they won't _unsee_ stuff. In fact, they would probably remember it for a very long time.
If your child is not ready, just don't let them play such games, and perhaps you should work harder at getting them ready.
You don't send soldiers to battle untrained and unarmed.
Brainwash/domesticate your kids before the world does it for you (they want your kids to buy/believe their stuff without thinking too much or even at all).
Yes you may think brainwashing is wrong. But it's usually better to train them "fire = bad", and hopefully they survive long enough to figure out the complexities and subtleties.
How about make the planes look like huge falcons- paint eyes on them, paint the undersides and wings so they look a bit like soaring raptors from below.
Or paint some falcon pics/silhouttes on various parts of the plane fuselage.
Uh his point was AMD cannot supply as many CPUs as Intel supplies, or as the world demands. A few years ago when AMD had better overall processors they had problems coping with demand.
Maybe if the global economy gets really bad then even in the absence of Intel, AMD can supply all the CPUs the world wants.
Thing is hard drive sequential transfer speeds have only grown by perhaps a factor of 5 in 20 years.
And the seek times have not gone down much at all. Maybe that will change when SSDs hit mainstream and you get affordable SSD that also has decent write speeds and latency.
But yeah computer stuff is one of the few things that has got cheaper over the years, and that's even before you factor in inflation.
I think it's not such a great idea to do a thread pool.
Just write the game or app to use multiple threads or processes and then let the OS take care of the CPU/resource/thread allocation.
The thread pool etc you suggest sounds a bit like doing user level threading.
And the thing is, both the Linux and FreeBSD projects tried user level threads (and kernel level threads), but in the end they both seem to find kernel level 1:1 threads are better. Seems Solaris has also shifted that way too.
But the truth is Open Source Software is not automagically secure. There can be safes which have open design specifications that aren't secure - just no safecrackers have bothered looking at them.
Some OSS is secure, some aren't. Same for closed source.
To me the track record of the programmers involved will give you a better idea of whether a particular program is secure or not.
Analogy: someone who hasn't learnt how to write properly after 5 years of writing (or bothered to), is unlikely to write properly tomorrow. Whereas someone who keeps writing well is likely to still do so.
OK from wikipedia[1] ( don't know how reliable it is ):
The 747-200B (1971):
Empty weight (EW) = 174 tons Max take off weight (MTOW) = 378 tons. MTOW - EW = 204 tons Max fuel = 199 kilolitres Max range at max take off weight = 12,700km. cruising = 893 kph
Comparison with 777-300ER (2004): Empty weight = 167 tons MTOW = 351 tons MTOW - EW = 184 tons Max fuel = 181 kilolitres Max range at MTOW = 14,685 km. cruising = 905 kph
Yes it's more efficent (15% further on 10% less fuel), but hey that's like 33 years difference... Are we that close to the theoretical max efficiencies already?
As for boring, yes I like uneventful when it comes to flying.
So hopefully the 777 will far surpass the 747's safety record ( 20+ fatal incidents in 40 years out of 1,400+ aircraft sold).
Well that's why the 747 has four engines. It's a 60s design.
AFAIK the whole idea of ETOPS was to allow twin engine planes that meet the spec to do transoceanic flights.
If the engines of the newer 747 models are about as reliable as those in twin engine planes, then the 747 is probably going to be safer wrt engine failures.
Four decades ago: 747 and concorde launched, first manned moon landing. 40 years later, NASA can barely keep the ISS running (or the shuttle from blowing up).
I'm curious - how much better are the new planes compared to the 60s version of the 747 in terms of range, payload and efficiency?
Netscape 3.0 was about even with IE3 in terms of crappiness.
But Netscape Navigator 4.x was worse than it's competitor. It was flaky and crashed a lot.
Then it took ages for the Netscape team to come up with something better - they threw out everything and tried to rewrite this Mozilla thing from scratch. Fine.
Trouble is there was a LONG gap between Navigator 4.x and something significantly less crap. It took them YEARS.
Netscape Navigator 4.08 => 1998, Navigator 4.8 => 2002. 4 years and that code branch did not really improve significantly.
As for the Mozilla branch? Netscape 6 and 7 aka Mozilla 0.6 to 1.0 were not worth using. Bloated and buggy.
Honestly, when did Mozilla actually start to be good enough for "Aunt May" to use? I'd say maybe sometime after 2005? 2006?
Firefox/Mozilla was leaking tons of memory for ages (still does sometimes). Even though IE also leaks memory in some cases, the thing is you can easily start multiple instances of IE whereas it's hard to do the same with FF/Mozilla. I remember Mozilla and Opera giving me memory consumption problems even in 2005.
They only started making significant inroads in fixing memory leaks and other problems _recently_.
So what was Joe Sixpack to use between 1998 and 2006? Mozilla was too crap. Opera? Opera used to either cost money, or be ad ridden (till 2005).
IE was crap, but it was the least crap choice for most people.
Yes bundling of IE hurt Netscape - especially in the dial up days - try downloading Netscape 6 over a 33.6 modem. But the main problem was the early "Mozilla" Netscapes weren't worth downloading even if they were quarter the size.
Or perhaps mysql_genuine_escape_string_really_no_kidding_this_time().
2) Just adding \ in front of ' doesn't help you if the attacker puts \ in the parameters.
Lastly, my suggestion is to avoid PHP if you can. Though you can quickly do half-baked stuff with PHP it's a real pain and more work to do things properly compared to better designed languages.
Well if the government buys stuff with currency it creates or "prints" (aka borrows with a low chance of paying back), it's basically taxing everyone who holds net positive amounts of that currency.
"Personally, I don't get the folks that think perfect technique has anything to do with musicality"
Perfect technique is great to have, but it better not be your only "selling/brag point" as a musician.
Especially so for recorded music. Computers can do "perfect technique" 24 hours a day, with > 99% uptime.
You want the perfect snare hit? OK record a "perfect technique" musician to hitting a few "perfect" snare hits, then you can play them back on demand _exactly_ when you want in the recording.
Go see what artists have done since cameras came about. Hardly any of them make much noise about having "perfect technique".
If all you have to offer is perfect technique, do not be surprised if one day you are more of a curiosity - like one of those savants who can pencil photorealistic images from memory - but cannot create a new and spectacularly moving scene from "nothing".
It all depends on how much they can get in the USA vs how much IBM is offering them at the proposed place.
It really is a lot more expensive in the USA.
There can be scenarios where IBM can pay you less USD overseas but after deducting your expenses and other costs you still end up with more (even in USD terms) than you would in the USA.
Of course, lifestyle, safety[1], health care would be different.
[1] In most places you just find out what to do and not to do and where to not to go, then you'd mostly be OK. After all the locals there aren't dying in that high rates (just avoid going to warzones and so on).
Lastly, the last I heard, 1) the average American doesn't have much in terms of savings anyway, and 2) the US Gov may try to inflate it's way out of this, so go figure what will happen to your savings.
The main problem I experience with these is after a while (usually years) the conductors in the wires break due to the stresses of repeated bending (especially near the point where the connectors actually end and the wires start). But that's not really a problem limited to these sort of connectors.
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Sounds useless, but to answer the question - using the power switch could cause file system corruption.
So if you could rig this up to the equivalent of "Alt-F4" then you can avoid that.
As for why it's useless, if your child is not ready to see "stuff", and they see "stuff", and then you press the panic button, they won't _unsee_ stuff. In fact, they would probably remember it for a very long time.
If your child is not ready, just don't let them play such games, and perhaps you should work harder at getting them ready.
You don't send soldiers to battle untrained and unarmed.
Brainwash/domesticate your kids before the world does it for you (they want your kids to buy/believe their stuff without thinking too much or even at all).
Yes you may think brainwashing is wrong. But it's usually better to train them "fire = bad", and hopefully they survive long enough to figure out the complexities and subtleties.
How often do they need to use the real falcons?
In many airports there are planes every few minutes.
A plane should be big enough to be spotted far away by birds. I think the problem is birds don't care about getting out of its way.
Just wonder whether the birds will be fooled and continue to be fooled.
Would it help if they made airplanes look like falcons? Or look like a bunch of falcons?
How about make the planes look like huge falcons- paint eyes on them, paint the undersides and wings so they look a bit like soaring raptors from below.
Or paint some falcon pics/silhouttes on various parts of the plane fuselage.
Uh his point was AMD cannot supply as many CPUs as Intel supplies, or as the world demands. A few years ago when AMD had better overall processors they had problems coping with demand.
Maybe if the global economy gets really bad then even in the absence of Intel, AMD can supply all the CPUs the world wants.
Thing is hard drive sequential transfer speeds have only grown by perhaps a factor of 5 in 20 years.
And the seek times have not gone down much at all. Maybe that will change when SSDs hit mainstream and you get affordable SSD that also has decent write speeds and latency.
But yeah computer stuff is one of the few things that has got cheaper over the years, and that's even before you factor in inflation.
I think it's not such a great idea to do a thread pool.
Just write the game or app to use multiple threads or processes and then let the OS take care of the CPU/resource/thread allocation.
The thread pool etc you suggest sounds a bit like doing user level threading.
And the thing is, both the Linux and FreeBSD projects tried user level threads (and kernel level threads), but in the end they both seem to find kernel level 1:1 threads are better. Seems Solaris has also shifted that way too.
Backward compatibility.
"If Microsoft is so good at documentation why haven't they documented "
Because it'll be counterproductive for them to do so?
But the truth is Open Source Software is not automagically secure. There can be safes which have open design specifications that aren't secure - just no safecrackers have bothered looking at them.
Some OSS is secure, some aren't. Same for closed source.
To me the track record of the programmers involved will give you a better idea of whether a particular program is secure or not.
Analogy: someone who hasn't learnt how to write properly after 5 years of writing (or bothered to), is unlikely to write properly tomorrow. Whereas someone who keeps writing well is likely to still do so.
OK from wikipedia[1] ( don't know how reliable it is ):
The 747-200B (1971):
Empty weight (EW) = 174 tons
Max take off weight (MTOW) = 378 tons.
MTOW - EW = 204 tons
Max fuel = 199 kilolitres
Max range at max take off weight = 12,700km.
cruising = 893 kph
Comparison with 777-300ER (2004):
Empty weight = 167 tons
MTOW = 351 tons
MTOW - EW = 184 tons
Max fuel = 181 kilolitres
Max range at MTOW = 14,685 km.
cruising = 905 kph
Yes it's more efficent (15% further on 10% less fuel), but hey that's like 33 years difference... Are we that close to the theoretical max efficiencies already?
As for boring, yes I like uneventful when it comes to flying.
So hopefully the 777 will far surpass the 747's safety record ( 20+ fatal incidents in 40 years out of 1,400+ aircraft sold).
The 777 is doing pretty good so far ( http://aviation-safety.net/database/dblist.php?Type=107 ).
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747#Specifications
Well that's why the 747 has four engines. It's a 60s design.
AFAIK the whole idea of ETOPS was to allow twin engine planes that meet the spec to do transoceanic flights.
If the engines of the newer 747 models are about as reliable as those in twin engine planes, then the 747 is probably going to be safer wrt engine failures.
Four decades ago:
747 and concorde launched, first manned moon landing. 40 years later, NASA can barely keep the ISS running (or the shuttle from blowing up).
I'm curious - how much better are the new planes compared to the 60s version of the 747 in terms of range, payload and efficiency?
core = core switch = a main switch that most of the edge switches/devices are plugged into.
reboot core = reboot a core switch.
Actually Netscape killed itself.
Netscape 3.0 was about even with IE3 in terms of crappiness.
But Netscape Navigator 4.x was worse than it's competitor. It was flaky and crashed a lot.
Then it took ages for the Netscape team to come up with something better - they threw out everything and tried to rewrite this Mozilla thing from scratch. Fine.
Trouble is there was a LONG gap between Navigator 4.x and something significantly less crap. It took them YEARS.
Netscape Navigator 4.08 => 1998, Navigator 4.8 => 2002. 4 years and that code branch did not really improve significantly.
As for the Mozilla branch? Netscape 6 and 7 aka Mozilla 0.6 to 1.0 were not worth using. Bloated and buggy.
Honestly, when did Mozilla actually start to be good enough for "Aunt May" to use? I'd say maybe sometime after 2005? 2006?
Firefox/Mozilla was leaking tons of memory for ages (still does sometimes). Even though IE also leaks memory in some cases, the thing is you can easily start multiple instances of IE whereas it's hard to do the same with FF/Mozilla. I remember Mozilla and Opera giving me memory consumption problems even in 2005.
They only started making significant inroads in fixing memory leaks and other problems _recently_.
So what was Joe Sixpack to use between 1998 and 2006? Mozilla was too crap. Opera? Opera used to either cost money, or be ad ridden (till 2005).
IE was crap, but it was the least crap choice for most people.
Yes bundling of IE hurt Netscape - especially in the dial up days - try downloading Netscape 6 over a 33.6 modem. But the main problem was the early "Mozilla" Netscapes weren't worth downloading even if they were quarter the size.
1) Maybe you meant mysql_real_escape_string()?
Or perhaps mysql_genuine_escape_string_really_no_kidding_this_time().
2) Just adding \ in front of ' doesn't help you if the attacker puts \ in the parameters.
Lastly, my suggestion is to avoid PHP if you can. Though you can quickly do half-baked stuff with PHP it's a real pain and more work to do things properly compared to better designed languages.
Could try UV cameras. But it's still going to be a fair bit of work.
I'm sure we can find a few investment bankers who can help spend 800 billion in no time at all.
Well if the government buys stuff with currency it creates or "prints" (aka borrows with a low chance of paying back), it's basically taxing everyone who holds net positive amounts of that currency.
Well this guy uses loops in live performances, but he just doesn't stand around waiting... :)
http://downloads.ableton.com/artists/kid_beyond/kid_beyond.mov
http://downloads.ableton.com/artists/kid_beyond/kid_beyond.wmv
There's a version on youtube if that's a less objectionable format ;).
Queen still used synths in the 80s though.
:).
Not sure if most people really cared whether they did or didn't. All I know is I like most of their stuff that I've heard so far
"Personally, I don't get the folks that think perfect technique has anything to do with musicality"
Perfect technique is great to have, but it better not be your only "selling/brag point" as a musician.
Especially so for recorded music. Computers can do "perfect technique" 24 hours a day, with > 99% uptime.
You want the perfect snare hit? OK record a "perfect technique" musician to hitting a few "perfect" snare hits, then you can play them back on demand _exactly_ when you want in the recording.
Go see what artists have done since cameras came about. Hardly any of them make much noise about having "perfect technique".
If all you have to offer is perfect technique, do not be surprised if one day you are more of a curiosity - like one of those savants who can pencil photorealistic images from memory - but cannot create a new and spectacularly moving scene from "nothing".
It all depends on how much they can get in the USA vs how much IBM is offering them at the proposed place.
It really is a lot more expensive in the USA.
There can be scenarios where IBM can pay you less USD overseas but after deducting your expenses and other costs you still end up with more (even in USD terms) than you would in the USA.
Of course, lifestyle, safety[1], health care would be different.
[1] In most places you just find out what to do and not to do and where to not to go, then you'd mostly be OK. After all the locals there aren't dying in that high rates (just avoid going to warzones and so on).
Lastly, the last I heard, 1) the average American doesn't have much in terms of savings anyway, and 2) the US Gov may try to inflate it's way out of this, so go figure what will happen to your savings.
Constantly break? I have yet to break one.
The main problem I experience with these is after a while (usually years) the conductors in the wires break due to the stresses of repeated bending (especially near the point where the connectors actually end and the wires start). But that's not really a problem limited to these sort of connectors.
Many programmers should be grateful to Microsoft for this!