Don't you dare unroll that fully! I shudder to think what would happen if you did. Block light from plants, collapse biosphere, change albedo of the earth and make the climate go all screwy.
Never was a statement rendered so inaccurate no that this has been slashdotted. "1,000 people from 61 countries have signed up with the Quake-Catcher Network" More than that by now.
Not at speed. Your average road car has enough peak braking power, yes, but road car brakes don't handle heat well. Even without a engine at full rpm fighting against it, decelerating from much above the speed limit dumps serious heat into common disk brakes, if the driver doesn't brake hard enough quick enough. It all depends on how braking is applied -. Most drivers don't apply the full potential of braking in an emergency anyway, let alone have any experience pulling up from high speed, with a engine fighting against them. They might also be inclined to pump the brakes trying to give the car the impression you might want to slow down, which is the worst thing you could do in a runaway acceleration scenario.
Throw some panic on top of that also.
The only way to beat this kind of thing is to jam on the brakes HARD, with both feet, and do not let up. While searching for neutral or something.
Junk food advertising? Dumber also leads to less resistance to the constant bombardment of junk food advertising. There is also agressive product placement in primetime TV in the US at least.
I have observed actors in American TV, in particular bog standard sitcoms, are always eating and going to the fridge, or at least there is a fridge or a vending machine nearby, or the actors go and get takeout for no apparent advancement to the story. This doesn't seem to happen to the same frequency in an overseas equivelent show. Indeed it seems almost absent in the top few primetime shows in my area, that is, only occuring where it's natural background to the story (ie characters are in a restaurant on a date), and not stand-out unecessarily added in.
I have no doubt this would have some subliminal effect encouraging people to eat. How convient there will be junk food advertising in the ad breaks then.
OO has proven to be just as secure as the programmers ability to make it secure, just like any other language.
If I went back in time to the 80s and told my young BASIC-coding self what was possible with a few lines of PHP it would have seemed like science fiction.
Actually you can have it both ways. The problem is in the equal length of compression and expansion cycles, which is far removed from the actual volumes of gas you have to deal with. The atkinson cycle engine was designed to solve this problem by having unequal length intake and expansion cycles. (some trick cam thing on the crankshaft to change stroke throw).
This way you could have 10:1 intake compression, but a much longer expansion ratio (gasoline could go all the way to 18:1 which OFTOMH is the practial limit before diminishing returns). This approaches diesel-like efficiency without high peak pressure.
Psuedo-atkinson cycle engines pop up in the Toyota Prius's engine, which as a 13:1 compression ratio, but an effective intake compression ratio of about 10:1
You sacrafice power, this is where a power-adder is necessary, in a miller-cycle engine a supercharger is present to prevent reverse flow and take over some of the job of compressing intake charge - being more efficient at low ratios than a piston -(although compression ratio remains standard) in the case of the Prius the electric motor and a CVT transmission is there to boost off the line torque.
Cores themselves had been growing in transistor count even with the increase in cores. So I would say, for now the answer is no. Cores are doing more and more per clock cycle and have more parallelism within the core itself. This is still going on. Overall, specific peformance is still governed by transistor density, Moore's law still holds sway.
Past a point, cores may simpify, I guess thats what we already have in billion transistor GPUs with 1000+ stream processors etc. I would go so far as to say the definition of 'core' is no longer what it once used to be.
Nvidia has failed to engage the coding community in the right way. Any hardware-accelerated physics API needed to be openly available at the DirectX/OpenCL level from the begining. AMD has kind of seen the light here.
The original intention of Ageia and their PhysX set up seemed to be just to sell the company, rather than try to make a viable business model of selling hardware. Ageia would have been more open with API and code right from the start if they intended to make a business selling hardware.
3. Here is a simpler puzzle, with an obvious solution. Wherever computers exist, nearly everyone who writes uses a word processor. The word processor is one of history's most successful inventions. Most people call it not just useful but indispensable. Granted that the word processor is indeed indispensable, what good has it done? We say we can't do without it; but if we had to give it up, what difference would it make? Have word processors improved the quality of modern writing? What has the indispensable word processor accomplished?
Free speech, that's what. Not only free as in libre, but free as in gratis. It's possible to replicate ideas across the world at real-world cost far too small to meter.
One of my ancestors wrote a book, the only copy of the manuscript was destroyed when the house was flooded by a nearby river. The publishers also lost the only other copy of the text, but the family considered they'd be unlikely to actually accept it and publish.
So one can see the fundamental advantage of not being bound by a pencil or a typewriter. In the information age what we really have in excess is truly inexpensive duplication.
It's ironic then that data can still go missing, although this is for other reasons rather than cost of making a backup, like intellectual property.
The question the author poses is not quite the right one to ask. What has been ubounded by digital word processing is quantity. Quality is different, a subjective and arbitrary value.
Looking at it another way, I consider readily ubiqutious free speech too cheap to meter as a pretty nicequality.
Indeed the 'du-' in duplication implies you create a second identical copy which is what you'd have to do with a pen or typewriter. This word is no longer accurate for what is possible with the Internet.
Yes, it would be the first time. Microsoft doesn't offer any kind of licensing that requires an organization to use their software exclusively. If they did they would open themselves up to a whole new round of anti-trust litigation.
Oh I see what you did there - that was tongue in cheek wasn't it. They actually *do* offer discounts, but claim it's nothing to do with exclusivity. But if you weren't exclusive... they wouldn't offer it.
It's naughty, but it's very standard business practice.
It's not as simple as that. You also need a flashy fake UI on the computer that makes bleepy noises all the time, especially when characters arrive on the screen one by one.
... is that Microsoft can actually get away saying this, and lawmakers don't see the falsehood, let alone immediatley laugh it off.
The viruses, malware and to a large extent the cyber criminal underworld is exclusively a problem of the Microsoft software ecosystem, and Microsoft's top brass suggests and internet tax to deal with affected computers.
(well not quite exclusively but good enough for all practical purposes)
Must add here: ClamWin is a good open source anti-virus option.
It does not do on-access scan. But if you follow the posters advice below you are fine, but some kind of virus-scanning capability is essiential in the windows world.
Even on Linux, which can be carrier for infected files and data.
Can't be bothered?
Have you *used* anti-virus software lately? It takes over your computer and bogs everything down by scanning at irritating times, like every file access.
I don't use anti-virus software, except for the occasional one-off malware scan. I don't get viruses because I don't do stupid shit.
* I don't trust free downloads unless they're open source, or a google on "$SOFTWARE spyware" comes up clean.
* I don't browse porn (or anything else) on internet explorer.
* I don't browse porn with adblock turned off.
* I don't download stupid free desktop frills, like smileys and crap.
* I don't open obvious spam, even if it appears to be from my friends.
* When a webpage informs me that it has SCANNED MY COMPUTER and VIRUS DETECTED, I remember that I did not, in fact, install a virus scanner, and that the message is fake, and I do not have to install their special software to fix it. Instead, I close the web page.
* When doing p2p file-sharing, I use clients that are well known and spyware free.
* I don't put audio CDs into my machine when I'm running Windows, because they might install rootkits.
* I always click the "advanced" button when I install software, because that's where they hide the fact that they're installing a bunch of extra shit I don't want.
* Under no circumstances do I *ever* install Norton, which in my experience is far worse for performance than any virus.
It's my understanding great lengths are gone to prevent oxidation in alcoholic beverages (and indeed many packaged beverages and foods) because this changes flavour and generally makes the food/drink decompose. This is partly why wine doesn't taste too good after the bottle has been open 24 hours or more, even if chilled. There are 'wine-saver' gadgets that can exclude air with a vacuum pump or in some cases introduce inert gas like nitrogen.
Introducing oxygen into a beverage would have to be done when serving. It could not be bottled long term like this, unless its some kind of tailored artificial alco-pop crap.
Seconded. Why in the world would anyone with a quarter of a clue look at
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and think "Hey, I better do this right away."?
An firm worth it's salt with have a change process with the firewall, which would catch out anything like this. Mr "Hey, I better do this right away" Admin should not have the access and authority to do this kind of thing on the fly... or the organization had another thing coming.
for non Unix people... it's an EPIC fail. there is NO reason for them to copy paste and open a terminal. that can be written as a simple one click, enter password, done procedure. and it NEEDS to be.
Anyone who's ever tried to support any friends and family who you've encouraged to make the switch to linux then one knows exactly what you mean. Non-unix people often question why it doesn't just work, that by design it can't and won't do these simple and useful things automatically, and forces them to jump through flaming hoops ("The Ubuntu Way") to get something working.
Reccently I had a lay person rightly point out the danger of entering a root password everywhere for otherwise trivial administrative tasks (She had called me because she didn't want to enter the root password... just to download a update).
This is a concern I've had for some time, indeed an attacker only needs to phish for this one password and thats pwnership.
Sounds like one step removed from a certain popular operating system.
Partly my fault as I told her not to give out this password to anyone, when I explained that yes she would have to, often, and offered the standard apologies for contemporary technology , that we have to do to folk from an older and simpler time. You know what I mean.
The book was in fact an intelligence test. It seems a page explaining it's purpose was left out. An intelligent (enough) person such as myself reading this kind of book will spot the holes, misinterpretations, distortions and glaring factual inaccuracy (also known as outright lies). Your score is higher if you stop reading sooner once you note the particular writing style and go do something useful with your day.
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Don't you dare unroll that fully! I shudder to think what would happen if you did. Block light from plants, collapse biosphere, change albedo of the earth and make the climate go all screwy.
Not nice!
Two words: iPhone phanboys
Watch them turn green.
Never was a statement rendered so inaccurate no that this has been slashdotted. "1,000 people from 61 countries have signed up with the Quake-Catcher Network" More than that by now.
Not at speed. Your average road car has enough peak braking power, yes, but road car brakes don't handle heat well. Even without a engine at full rpm fighting against it, decelerating from much above the speed limit dumps serious heat into common disk brakes, if the driver doesn't brake hard enough quick enough. It all depends on how braking is applied -. Most drivers don't apply the full potential of braking in an emergency anyway, let alone have any experience pulling up from high speed, with a engine fighting against them. They might also be inclined to pump the brakes trying to give the car the impression you might want to slow down, which is the worst thing you could do in a runaway acceleration scenario.
Throw some panic on top of that also.
The only way to beat this kind of thing is to jam on the brakes HARD, with both feet, and do not let up. While searching for neutral or something.
Junk food advertising? Dumber also leads to less resistance to the constant bombardment of junk food advertising. There is also agressive product placement in primetime TV in the US at least.
I have observed actors in American TV, in particular bog standard sitcoms, are always eating and going to the fridge, or at least there is a fridge or a vending machine nearby, or the actors go and get takeout for no apparent advancement to the story. This doesn't seem to happen to the same frequency in an overseas equivelent show. Indeed it seems almost absent in the top few primetime shows in my area, that is, only occuring where it's natural background to the story (ie characters are in a restaurant on a date), and not stand-out unecessarily added in.
I have no doubt this would have some subliminal effect encouraging people to eat. How convient there will be junk food advertising in the ad breaks then.
OO has proven to be just as secure as the programmers ability to make it secure, just like any other language.
If I went back in time to the 80s and told my young BASIC-coding self what was possible with a few lines of PHP it would have seemed like science fiction.
I call this progress.
Skip the googling for reviewing and making sense of ad-laiden hardware sites with 25 pages of graphs.
Find charts and round-ups, gives you a real fast comparission of different hardware.
An example of a 'best graphics card for given money' kind of chart: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-graphics-card,2569.html
Whatever is cheap, and well up the chart will do you just fine.
Actually you can have it both ways. The problem is in the equal length of compression and expansion cycles, which is far removed from the actual volumes of gas you have to deal with. The atkinson cycle engine was designed to solve this problem by having unequal length intake and expansion cycles. (some trick cam thing on the crankshaft to change stroke throw).
... IANAAE (I am not a automotive engineer)
This way you could have 10:1 intake compression, but a much longer expansion ratio (gasoline could go all the way to 18:1 which OFTOMH is the practial limit before diminishing returns). This approaches diesel-like efficiency without high peak pressure.
Psuedo-atkinson cycle engines pop up in the Toyota Prius's engine, which as a 13:1 compression ratio, but an effective intake compression ratio of about 10:1
You sacrafice power, this is where a power-adder is necessary, in a miller-cycle engine a supercharger is present to prevent reverse flow and take over some of the job of compressing intake charge - being more efficient at low ratios than a piston -(although compression ratio remains standard) in the case of the Prius the electric motor and a CVT transmission is there to boost off the line torque.
But
I don't get why that's worse, that's the same thing as the headline?
Cores themselves had been growing in transistor count even with the increase in cores. So I would say, for now the answer is no. Cores are doing more and more per clock cycle and have more parallelism within the core itself. This is still going on. Overall, specific peformance is still governed by transistor density, Moore's law still holds sway.
Past a point, cores may simpify, I guess thats what we already have in billion transistor GPUs with 1000+ stream processors etc. I would go so far as to say the definition of 'core' is no longer what it once used to be.
Nvidia has failed to engage the coding community in the right way. Any hardware-accelerated physics API needed to be openly available at the DirectX/OpenCL level from the begining. AMD has kind of seen the light here.
The original intention of Ageia and their PhysX set up seemed to be just to sell the company, rather than try to make a viable business model of selling hardware. Ageia would have been more open with API and code right from the start if they intended to make a business selling hardware.
3. Here is a simpler puzzle, with an obvious solution. Wherever computers exist, nearly everyone who writes uses a word processor. The word processor is one of history's most successful inventions. Most people call it not just useful but indispensable. Granted that the word processor is indeed indispensable, what good has it done? We say we can't do without it; but if we had to give it up, what difference would it make? Have word processors improved the quality of modern writing? What has the indispensable word processor accomplished?
Free speech, that's what. Not only free as in libre, but free as in gratis. It's possible to replicate ideas across the world at real-world cost far too small to meter.
One of my ancestors wrote a book, the only copy of the manuscript was destroyed when the house was flooded by a nearby river. The publishers also lost the only other copy of the text, but the family considered they'd be unlikely to actually accept it and publish.
So one can see the fundamental advantage of not being bound by a pencil or a typewriter. In the information age what we really have in excess is truly inexpensive duplication.
It's ironic then that data can still go missing, although this is for other reasons rather than cost of making a backup, like intellectual property.
The question the author poses is not quite the right one to ask. What has been ubounded by digital word processing is quantity. Quality is different, a subjective and arbitrary value.
Looking at it another way, I consider readily ubiqutious free speech too cheap to meter as a pretty nicequality.
Indeed the 'du-' in duplication implies you create a second identical copy which is what you'd have to do with a pen or typewriter. This word is no longer accurate for what is possible with the Internet.
Yes it's most likely to be a switcheroo in a warehouse somewhere. There's a good chance of inside help with the fake goods substitution.
A whole pallet of core i5's would approach $100,000 in value.
Simplify: Grab the genuine product from the shelf and bolt.
Shareware would actually have deccent content available in the free version.
And it was Great.
"ARSEnic based life form" has so much potential for /. humour,where is it?
Yes, it would be the first time. Microsoft doesn't offer any kind of licensing that requires an organization to use their software exclusively. If they did they would open themselves up to a whole new round of anti-trust litigation.
Oh I see what you did there - that was tongue in cheek wasn't it. They actually *do* offer discounts, but claim it's nothing to do with exclusivity. But if you weren't exclusive... they wouldn't offer it. It's naughty, but it's very standard business practice.
It's not testable, so it's not a theory. It's a hypothesis.
A hypothesis is testable or it's not really a valid hypothesis.
A theory is an explaination that best fits the observed facts.
Conjecture is anything plausible given known facts, but not necessarily testable.
Meh, definitions vary, but thats how I like it.
Enhance!
It's not as simple as that. You also need a flashy fake UI on the computer that makes bleepy noises all the time, especially when characters arrive on the screen one by one.
... is that Microsoft can actually get away saying this, and lawmakers don't see the falsehood, let alone immediatley laugh it off.
The viruses, malware and to a large extent the cyber criminal underworld is exclusively a problem of the Microsoft software ecosystem, and Microsoft's top brass suggests and internet tax to deal with affected computers.
(well not quite exclusively but good enough for all practical purposes)
It does not do on-access scan. But if you follow the posters advice below you are fine, but some kind of virus-scanning capability is essiential in the windows world.
Even on Linux, which can be carrier for infected files and data.
Can't be bothered?
Have you *used* anti-virus software lately? It takes over your computer and bogs everything down by scanning at irritating times, like every file access.
I don't use anti-virus software, except for the occasional one-off malware scan. I don't get viruses because I don't do stupid shit.
* I don't trust free downloads unless they're open source, or a google on "$SOFTWARE spyware" comes up clean. * I don't browse porn (or anything else) on internet explorer. * I don't browse porn with adblock turned off. * I don't download stupid free desktop frills, like smileys and crap. * I don't open obvious spam, even if it appears to be from my friends. * When a webpage informs me that it has SCANNED MY COMPUTER and VIRUS DETECTED, I remember that I did not, in fact, install a virus scanner, and that the message is fake, and I do not have to install their special software to fix it. Instead, I close the web page. * When doing p2p file-sharing, I use clients that are well known and spyware free. * I don't put audio CDs into my machine when I'm running Windows, because they might install rootkits. * I always click the "advanced" button when I install software, because that's where they hide the fact that they're installing a bunch of extra shit I don't want. * Under no circumstances do I *ever* install Norton, which in my experience is far worse for performance than any virus.
It's my understanding great lengths are gone to prevent oxidation in alcoholic beverages (and indeed many packaged beverages and foods) because this changes flavour and generally makes the food/drink decompose. This is partly why wine doesn't taste too good after the bottle has been open 24 hours or more, even if chilled. There are 'wine-saver' gadgets that can exclude air with a vacuum pump or in some cases introduce inert gas like nitrogen.
Introducing oxygen into a beverage would have to be done when serving. It could not be bottled long term like this, unless its some kind of tailored artificial alco-pop crap.
Seconded. Why in the world would anyone with a quarter of a clue look at
and think "Hey, I better do this right away."?
An firm worth it's salt with have a change process with the firewall, which would catch out anything like this. Mr "Hey, I better do this right away" Admin should not have the access and authority to do this kind of thing on the fly... or the organization had another thing coming.
for non Unix people... it's an EPIC fail. there is NO reason for them to copy paste and open a terminal. that can be written as a simple one click, enter password, done procedure. and it NEEDS to be.
Anyone who's ever tried to support any friends and family who you've encouraged to make the switch to linux then one knows exactly what you mean. Non-unix people often question why it doesn't just work, that by design it can't and won't do these simple and useful things automatically, and forces them to jump through flaming hoops ("The Ubuntu Way") to get something working.
Reccently I had a lay person rightly point out the danger of entering a root password everywhere for otherwise trivial administrative tasks (She had called me because she didn't want to enter the root password... just to download a update).
This is a concern I've had for some time, indeed an attacker only needs to phish for this one password and thats pwnership.
Sounds like one step removed from a certain popular operating system.
Partly my fault as I told her not to give out this password to anyone, when I explained that yes she would have to, often, and offered the standard apologies for contemporary technology , that we have to do to folk from an older and simpler time. You know what I mean.
The book was in fact an intelligence test. It seems a page explaining it's purpose was left out. An intelligent (enough) person such as myself reading this kind of book will spot the holes, misinterpretations, distortions and glaring factual inaccuracy (also known as outright lies). Your score is higher if you stop reading sooner once you note the particular writing style and go do something useful with your day.