Ok,I'm no scientist either. But I remember reading that a black hole can have exactly three properties: mass, electric charge and spin. Since electric charge is caried by (virtual) photons, does that mean photons do escape a black hole?
"It's one thing to see death coming at the hands of your own creation. Oedipus and his father. Baron Frankenstein and his monster. William Henry Gates and Windows '09."
You could do that without a save button just as well. Instead of saving to a new location AFTER you made your changes, you could also enter a new filename BEFORE you make your changes if your 'Save As' were called 'Name and File'.
It is just a matter of what we are used to, I guess.
And a good undo/versioning function is about the only thing that would allow you to catch mistakes that can happen in either system (e.g. hitting "save" instead of "save as" with the current scheme or forgetting to rename the file before making the changes with the new one, either of which would destroy your draft)
On that note, why does every freaking office app ask me if I want to "save, discard, cancel" when I close the program or shut down the pc?
I want neither! I just want out of here! Maybe I am in a hurry. Maybe I already walked away after hitting "shutdown". So dont ask useless questions. Just keep everything as it is, save to some temporary location if you must, and the next time i boot the pc and open the app i want everything just as I left it.
the problem with most of these modern anti-spyware software is all of them want to stay in memory ALL THE TIME. Even worse are Anitvirus tools. I tried once to install several of them to have mre than one on-demand scanner at my disposal, and it was a mess.
Even IF they offer the option to NOT load themselves at each startup, many still do load something anyway. Most dont even ask so that you have to disable 3 different services and 2 startup programs with cryptical names.
Otherwise you end up with all of these tools concurently trying to scan each file access / internet request, registry change etc. You end up with all sort of interesting and unpredictable side effects, probably offering worse protection than each of them alone.
that seems to be as likely as if someone who does not speak your language could give you a speech that changes your beliefs
furthermore, if some cilivlisations are really capapble of such a feat, for each successfull virus there should be millions of tries that fail partially because of some odd incompatibility.
So, where are all the signals from outer space that *almost* managed to take over seti? Some should at least have crashed it.
I would be interested in performance for a single user, but accessing a very large table and/or very complicated queries.
Most benchmarks only deal with multi-user performance. Most problems I had to solve dealed with managing large datasets with complicated relationships, but only one user that has to access them.
Althought I highly suspect that mysql is not suited for that sort of usage anyway. But I am curious how postgresql would compare there with firebird.
On that note, is there a way to keep windows running smooth without rebooting it every two weeks?
I absolutely hate rebooting, but after a while of playing hibernate/standby/wake up with my laptop the system becomes more and more unresponsive, and some weird bug keeps cropping up that prevents the opening of new windows (even dialog boxes) until I close some of the old ones.
And how does linux handle this kind of thing for you? On my few tries I had even less luck with Linux and hibernate than with windows.
You are stranded on a foreign planet, and can only comunicate with the aliens in a sort of sign language. As you progress throught the game you have to become more and more fluent. Try it!
I certainly like my dynamic IP. The last thing I need is another global unique and permanent identifier to track me.
It is certainly possible to assign dynamically changing IPs even in IPv6, but I would guess that the ISP won't bother with the extra overhead of a dynamic IP pool, or charge extra for it.
So most people will get a permanent IP, or permanent IP range. Most won't ever know about it, or about the implications.
An advertisers wet dream. I can't wait.
(Oh, and soon after permanent IP becomes the default, an union of the RIAA/MPAA/Advertisers will probably push for laws to make permanent IPs the rule)
This is patently absurd. Should other industries be compelled to offer "undiscriminatory licenses"? If I manufacture bullets, should I be forced to sell them to both the Allies and the Nazis? If I manufacture fertilizer, should I be forced to sell it to you if I believe you're going to make a bomb with it?
Neither of these is a monopoly, and furthermore, either is covered by the law. You are not allowed to sell fertilizer to someone if you have good reasons to believe he is going to make a bomb with it. And selling wepons to the nazies was forbidden in the allied nations.
Microsoft not selling to people that use Open Source? They'd be perfectly within their rights, but probably not their best business interests.
nope, they tried that, got burned for it. They are not allowed to sell windows licenses only to computer shops that don't sell linux. Or give huge discounts only to them. They still try to anyway, but not as openly as before. Monopolies have certain obligations.
Ditto. O'Reilly is perfectly free to open its own chain of bookstores and only sell its books there, if that's a business it wants to get into.
But they are not allowed to punish bookchains if they dare to sell other books. Intel got burned for doing just that with amd.
while the cause might seem worthwile in this case, this outlines a worrying feature of the copyright system.
A copyright is a state-granted monopoly. To get a given copyrighted text there literaly ARE no other options than to get it from the ONE producer. (exept maybe the used-book market, hardly an option for a school)
With a monopoly there should come certain obligations, like an undiscriminatory license. What else a school teaches, or whatever other unrelated thing they do should not have any influence on whether the school can buy a license for this work.
Microsoft not selling to people that use Open Source? O'Reilly not selling books to stores that also carry other tech books? Or an association that forbids the use of its texts in institutions that also teach certain other things?
Where is the difference?
What if the next time "certain other things" is something else the association does not agree with?
The only ethically "right" way to prevent something to be thaught is to vote, complain, explain the problems etc. But not these strongarm tactics.
Displaying of porn in public is against the law, i'm ok with trhat. But why make an extra rule about cars? if the car is in public, the law should apply, and if it isn't who cares?
And I'd really like to know who watches pornos in cars. I mean, how many cars are there with a television set anyway?
In February, a man was arrested in Schenectady, New York, for viewing an adult movie in his vehicle. Also this year, Tennessee outlawed the display of obscene movies from a car. The City Council in Flint, Michigan, passed a measure imposing a $500 fine upon drivers who play pornographic movies in their cars.
WTF? there is a rule specifically against watching PORN in a CAR? Is this a rampant problem? Why would anyone need a rule against that?
(I presume this is not about watching movies while driving)
The way I understood it was that his IP was found to be distributing some movie, and after a raid they found three moovies on his pc, but it does not neccessary mean that these are the same movies, and I am curious whether they really have evidence that he distributet all of them, or just assumed it
that used to work, but nowadays it seems most sites are using IP or some other criterion too. Can anyone confirm this? OR am I using the wrong useragent?
one areay were gaim seems to be lacking is behaviour on disconnects/reconnects There is a plugin to automatically retry whenever the connection is lost, but even with that it is barely workable.
I have to use an unreliable wlan connection, and whenever the signal drops for a moment, three gaim windows suddenly pop up or try to grab focus, and a reconnect rarely seems to work, usually i have to do it manually
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p.s.: Here is a link to the "mass, charge and spin" properties of black holes:. html
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/BlackHole
Ok,I'm no scientist either.
But I remember reading that a black hole can have exactly three properties: mass, electric charge and spin. Since electric charge is caried by (virtual) photons, does that mean photons do escape a black hole?
"It's one thing to see death coming at the hands of your own creation. Oedipus and his father. Baron Frankenstein and his monster. William Henry Gates and Windows '09."
-- David Brin, Kiln People
You could do that without a save button just as well.
Instead of saving to a new location AFTER you made your changes, you could also enter a new filename BEFORE you make your changes if your 'Save As' were called 'Name and File'.
It is just a matter of what we are used to, I guess.
And a good undo/versioning function is about the only thing that would allow you to catch mistakes that can happen in either system (e.g. hitting "save" instead of "save as" with the current scheme or forgetting to rename the file before making the changes with the new one, either of which would destroy your draft)
On that note, why does every freaking office app ask me if I want to "save, discard, cancel" when I close the program or shut down the pc?
I want neither! I just want out of here!
Maybe I am in a hurry. Maybe I already walked away after hitting "shutdown". So dont ask useless questions.
Just keep everything as it is, save to some temporary location if you must, and the next time i boot the pc and open the app i want everything just as I left it.
you could just take some scientific texts from your profession that are available electronically and that are already proofread.
tokenize them, sort the words, filter out duplicates (maybe only keep words that appear more than once), and voila, you have a spelling dictionary.
Not sure about copyright but I think it should not be a problem for this use.
the problem with most of these modern anti-spyware software is all of them want to stay in memory ALL THE TIME. Even worse are Anitvirus tools. I tried once to install several of them to have mre than one on-demand scanner at my disposal, and it was a mess.
Even IF they offer the option to NOT load themselves at each startup, many still do load something anyway. Most dont even ask so that you have to disable 3 different services and 2 startup programs with cryptical names.
Otherwise you end up with all of these tools concurently trying to scan each file access / internet request, registry change etc.
You end up with all sort of interesting and unpredictable side effects, probably offering worse protection than each of them alone.
that seems to be as likely as if someone who does not speak your language could give you a speech that changes your beliefs
furthermore, if some cilivlisations are really capapble of such a feat, for each successfull virus there should be millions of tries that fail partially because of some odd incompatibility.
So, where are all the signals from outer space that *almost* managed to take over seti? Some should at least have crashed it.
All the more reason to test it! :)
BTW, do you know of any benchmarks that deal with this sort of thing?
I would be interested in performance for a single user, but accessing a very large table and/or very complicated queries.
Most benchmarks only deal with multi-user performance. Most problems I had to solve dealed with managing large datasets with complicated relationships, but only one user that has to access them.
Althought I highly suspect that mysql is not suited for that sort of usage anyway. But I am curious how postgresql would compare there with firebird.
On that note, is there a way to keep windows running smooth without rebooting it every two weeks?
I absolutely hate rebooting, but after a while of playing hibernate/standby/wake up with my laptop the system becomes more and more unresponsive, and some weird bug keeps cropping up that prevents the opening of new windows (even dialog boxes) until I close some of the old ones.
And how does linux handle this kind of thing for you? On my few tries I had even less luck with Linux and hibernate than with windows.
Time to plug a short flash game i found a while ago, which does kind of the same thing (single player):
TORK
You are stranded on a foreign planet, and can only comunicate with the aliens in a sort of sign language. As you progress throught the game you have to become more and more fluent. Try it!
I certainly like my dynamic IP. The last thing I need is another global unique and permanent identifier to track me.
It is certainly possible to assign dynamically changing IPs even in IPv6, but I would guess that the ISP won't bother with the extra overhead of a dynamic IP pool, or charge extra for it.
So most people will get a permanent IP, or permanent IP range. Most won't ever know about it, or about the implications.
An advertisers wet dream. I can't wait.
(Oh, and soon after permanent IP becomes the default, an union of the RIAA/MPAA/Advertisers will probably push for laws to make permanent IPs the rule)
This whole publicity mess has made me curious.
is there a way to download the sony rootkit, so I can test it out and see wheter it is really that bad?
Neither of these is a monopoly, and furthermore, either is covered by the law.
You are not allowed to sell fertilizer to someone if you have good reasons to believe he is going to make a bomb with it.
And selling wepons to the nazies was forbidden in the allied nations.
nope, they tried that, got burned for it. They are not allowed to sell windows licenses only to computer shops that don't sell linux. Or give huge discounts only to them. They still try to anyway, but not as openly as before.
Monopolies have certain obligations.
But they are not allowed to punish bookchains if they dare to sell other books. Intel got burned for doing just that with amd.
while the cause might seem worthwile in this case, this outlines a worrying feature of the copyright system.
A copyright is a state-granted monopoly. To get a given copyrighted text there literaly ARE no other options than to get it from the ONE producer. (exept maybe the used-book market, hardly an option for a school)
With a monopoly there should come certain obligations, like an undiscriminatory license. What else a school teaches, or whatever other unrelated thing they do should not have any influence on whether the school can buy a license for this work.
Microsoft not selling to people that use Open Source?
O'Reilly not selling books to stores that also carry other tech books?
Or an association that forbids the use of its texts in institutions that also teach certain other things?
Where is the difference?
What if the next time "certain other things" is something else the association does not agree with?
The only ethically "right" way to prevent something to be thaught is to vote, complain, explain the problems etc.
But not these strongarm tactics.
But there already are laws against showing porn in public, aren't there?
The main problem i have is how there could be a large enough number of people that watch porn movies in cars to require a special law for it
Displaying of porn in public is against the law, i'm ok with trhat. But why make an extra rule about cars? if the car is in public, the law should apply, and if it isn't who cares?
And I'd really like to know who watches pornos in cars. I mean, how many cars are there with a television set anyway?
In February, a man was arrested in Schenectady, New York, for viewing an adult movie in his vehicle. Also this year, Tennessee outlawed the display of obscene movies from a car. The City Council in Flint, Michigan, passed a measure imposing a $500 fine upon drivers who play pornographic movies in their cars.
WTF? there is a rule specifically against watching PORN in a CAR?
Is this a rampant problem? Why would anyone need a rule against that?
(I presume this is not about watching movies while driving)
The way I understood it was that his IP was found to be distributing some movie, and after a raid they found three moovies on his pc, but it does not neccessary mean that these are the same movies, and I am curious whether they really have evidence that he distributet all of them, or just assumed it
how do they know these were copyright infringing copies, as opposed to legal backups?
And are photos of cd labels illegal in Hong Kong?
Is there an overview about the different rulings around the world and involving different software?
for example, which platform has the most 'guilty' cases? or which land?
that used to work, but nowadays it seems most sites are using IP or some other criterion too.
Can anyone confirm this? OR am I using the wrong useragent?
I think what usually kills you is the sudden deceleration, so sitting on the other side would not help you
one areay were gaim seems to be lacking is behaviour on disconnects/reconnects
There is a plugin to automatically retry whenever the connection is lost, but even with that it is barely workable.
I have to use an unreliable wlan connection, and whenever the signal drops for a moment, three gaim windows suddenly pop up or try to grab focus, and a reconnect rarely seems to work, usually i have to do it manually