They wont. In China, the value of a human life is cheap. Just look at the motorcycle sales vs accident ratio for the first generation Chinese motorcycle, the death rate was 100%, yes, 100%! Basically what you get is human trial of products. As far as the government is concerned, they consider every Chinese hybrid owner a beta tester. They are very practical, every death is one number less to worry about in term of over population.
instead of mind numbing violence and graphic eye candy, maybe it is a better idea to switch gears and provide something that actually cultivate the mind?
The problem is, even with a $1k pc, you have a hard time running a bunch of games that just come out to the market 6 months later, while the same games run in console without a problem.
And also, are you saying by owning a pc, you somehow don't pay for the games? There's always a way to pirate, console or pc, but pirating just for the sake of not paying for what you want is as morally bankrupt as they come. This also goes against the motto of most of the software cracking teams. The whole idea for cracking software is free as speech, not free as beer. If people stop making a living coding games, they will go code enterprise apps. And you are left with lower quality games or no games.
I totally agree, S3 suspend really hasn't matured to the point where it can be used without repercussions. Lots of software tend to crash when waking up from S3 suspend, or even S2 standby. Especially those god awful wireless network card drivers. And once they go down, your network card simply wont be active without a restart due to sudden jump in time. Too many things can go wrong on HAL. Even when using linux. Also, some hardware simply need the bios to re-initialize them, OS just wont do the trick and they stay at S3 even though the rest of the computer is back to active mode. I think we should make the "green" features functional before preaching about using them.
you are so wrong on believing that teaching programming is easier with a real language. The reason being there are many pitfalls people tend to get into while using a real language to start off. The biggest of all is transition between procedure oriented programming and object oriented programming. Some people can think in sequence very well, even if you throw spaghetti code at them, they still are able to do what they want. That can be a problem because team work, integration, and debugging with others become virtually impossible. The pitfall of modern programming languages is that regardless how they are designed, people always find ways to write spaghetti code. Especially when you teach people how to write code using examples like hello world and read file. All these programs can be written easily in a single function. That's why transition between C and Java in lots of universities get ugly. OOP isn't hard, but it just requires people to think in a different way than what we are naturally accustomed to. A visual representation would be much easier to be accepted by kids than words and theories later on.
No, just no. You ever debugged js before? I am sure those kids will make mistakes, but finding that one typo in 2000 lines of code using js console output is a nightmare. Let's not even get into the js cross browser compatibility issues. Also, unless you are using chrome exclusively, odds are your program will be very very slow and eats tons of memory.
Lego Mindstorm cost $ and i don't know how well funded OP's class is. ArgoUML is a piece of junk, but it's free. Well, if OP got the funding, i'm all for doing it the lego way. If not, then UML would work.
Instead of teaching them how to write a dummy program in a particular language, it is by far better idea to lay the foundation work by teaching them how to design and formulate a solution to a particular problem in a logical, concise, and efficient practice. Being able to diagram out an idea, condense it into a formula, and then simplify will be much more useful than knowing how to write hello world in one particular language. In a sense, you would do them the favor of prepping their minds to be able to handle any language their future employer will throw at them.
You probably never had a relationship with an independent woman before. Most of those suck, badly. You'll run into things like never be able to see her face because she's too busy between meetings and night school, having your date interrupted by incoming work phone calls, and constantly having to deal with in-laws because you have to pick up your kids from their place. And you better make sure she has a good job or work your ass off to get her one, because the alternative would be she working her ass off in the local supermarket for crap pay, but you have to deal with her taxes as well as putting up with the stuff i listed above.
Right now it is used to find terrorists, but this technology can be used in reverse. Flashing images of the president and the national flag, anyone don't respond positively get singled out... Such uses are very disturbing.
You obviously didn't read what i said because i specifically stated the system has to be on, thus the text message shutdown program should already be running. Further more, in most cases, your decryption driver loads the key into memory. By forcing shutdown, the driver will remove that key. Your password doesn't stop people from freezing your ram, put them into an analyzer, and dump all data including your disk encryption key. That method has been demonstrated over and over again as the primary method for defeating disk encryption. You are assuming thief only want the hardware, which isn't always the case.
it is precisely because you are using disk encryption that you need a feature like this to complement it. Disk encryption only works to lock people out when you need to boot. That means if a computer is on because you entered the password at boot time, disk encryption doesn't do anything to protect your data. By forcing it to shutdown using text message, you just made sure others cannot start it without knowing your pass phrase.
i wonder if they tested this in oil. if it is both water resistant and oil resistant, it would make a very good material for table cloths, chair cover, couch cover, pillow cover, etc.
The problem is, even if IBM runs a project only intend to imitate a cat's brain, it doesn't mean the said imitation wont evolve into something else altogether. This is the problem with neural net. Unless it is mathematically predetermined to be bounded by certain parameters, its cyclic digraph brain will self-insert new nodes and establish synapse links to grow beyond the designated limitation. Further more, it will adapt to its "body" (in this case a super computer). How it works is you have a cyclic digraph which has both category and weight on the edges as the construct, then you pretty much run a bunch of IDDFS threads on it, the threads will by organized and kept track of using a limited size heap. The size of the heap depends on the number of hardware threads your processor(s) can handle at once. There will also be some threads that simply run through the entire structure and re-organize data(retire old connections, and nodes if it doesn't have any connection to it, aka "forgetting"). When a path is used often enough, a new and shorter connection will be established between the source and destination; when new data are being presented, it will be stored in a node and connected to its neighbors. As we can see, the origination of a thought and destination are not so important, it's the path that really are where "understanding" come from. Keep that "understanding" under control is a very hard mathematical problem.
What consumer rights? The consumer is ultimately the person deciding what they purchase or not. You can either decide to buy something or you don't. What information you used to base your decision on has to be correct (thus the false advertisement issue). But if you purchase something, you agree to the terms and conditions attached to the product. You shouldn't go back and say "but I thought I have these implied rights" it doesn't work that way. It's a market driven system, it's much better to have the market drive products than moan and whine about some non-existent "rights". In essence, every "right" customers get are really marketing perks they get to entice the purchase.
The problem is, this is an issue with far reaching consequences. Under the first sale doctrine ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine ), it is perfectly legal and fair to re-sell games, but the aspect of how software sales fall into the category of first sale doctrine is still fuzzy. However, the counter point being if this is not the case, then large resellers such as best buy or office depot are all operating illegally. With the legality aside, There is really nothing stopping the developers from offering content to the first owner. However the ability to advertise those content in general should be under question. They have to specifically state that on the first owner has the rights to these content or else it would be a clear case of false advertisement. In that case, if you buy from best buy or gamestop, you can potentially be screwed because these companies would then have the rights to these first owner content.
No, please read, instead of skimming. I am saying developers of twofish saying in term of security serpent is better choice for AES, in term of hardware performance serpent is better as well. Only when in case of software only cipher does other algorithms become better. Further more, the difference is with the same number of rounds of cipher. of course with 24 rounds rijindael, it is going to be as secure as two fish and a little shy of serpent. but that is 24 rounds, the standard test was conducted with 6 rounds of cipher, 4 times of the processing power was needed for the 256bit block cipher. further more, smaller key size for rijindael will result in less rounds being processed basically a 128bit block cipher will have half as many rounds of encryption (3 in this case) and 4 times easier to crack. It's proportional in the magnitude of n^2! Since wifi is hardware anyways, serpent is the perfect candidate for it. one bit makes big difference when it is used 6 times over on the entire block.
on the other hand lots of mmorpgs let you become a crafter, you don't really need to kill monsters, just buy stuff from auction house and make things out of those items. Pretty much like the real world, where you don't really have to slay a cow to get beef, just buy from the local butcher... heh
Price controls inevitably lead to either rationing or shortages, period.
That line you are repeating are not only ill-informed, but outright copypasta rebuttal to price controlling scheme. The premise is when only market price is controlled, then yes, you have a drop in supply. This is because obviously, less people are willing to go through the process only to make little money. Now if you enforce both price control and supply however, you will have a different result. The price will stay the same, supply will stay the same, demand will stay the same, quality of the product will drop. This is how the market actually adjusting itself to fit with the current rule-set. What you want then is institute a minimum quality assurance. So you can get cheap product at a low cost, but if you want premium care, you'd pay a lot more. This is how European systems work. Nothing simple like trying to shoehorn simple answer you learn from econ 101 to a complex system like healthcare.
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They wont. In China, the value of a human life is cheap. Just look at the motorcycle sales vs accident ratio for the first generation Chinese motorcycle, the death rate was 100%, yes, 100%! Basically what you get is human trial of products. As far as the government is concerned, they consider every Chinese hybrid owner a beta tester. They are very practical, every death is one number less to worry about in term of over population.
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instead of mind numbing violence and graphic eye candy, maybe it is a better idea to switch gears and provide something that actually cultivate the mind?
The difference is, in MMO you pay money to grind and work, in RL you get paid for grind and work.
The problem is, even with a $1k pc, you have a hard time running a bunch of games that just come out to the market 6 months later, while the same games run in console without a problem.
And also, are you saying by owning a pc, you somehow don't pay for the games? There's always a way to pirate, console or pc, but pirating just for the sake of not paying for what you want is as morally bankrupt as they come. This also goes against the motto of most of the software cracking teams. The whole idea for cracking software is free as speech, not free as beer. If people stop making a living coding games, they will go code enterprise apps. And you are left with lower quality games or no games.
I totally agree, S3 suspend really hasn't matured to the point where it can be used without repercussions. Lots of software tend to crash when waking up from S3 suspend, or even S2 standby. Especially those god awful wireless network card drivers. And once they go down, your network card simply wont be active without a restart due to sudden jump in time. Too many things can go wrong on HAL. Even when using linux. Also, some hardware simply need the bios to re-initialize them, OS just wont do the trick and they stay at S3 even though the rest of the computer is back to active mode. I think we should make the "green" features functional before preaching about using them.
you are so wrong on believing that teaching programming is easier with a real language. The reason being there are many pitfalls people tend to get into while using a real language to start off. The biggest of all is transition between procedure oriented programming and object oriented programming. Some people can think in sequence very well, even if you throw spaghetti code at them, they still are able to do what they want. That can be a problem because team work, integration, and debugging with others become virtually impossible. The pitfall of modern programming languages is that regardless how they are designed, people always find ways to write spaghetti code. Especially when you teach people how to write code using examples like hello world and read file. All these programs can be written easily in a single function. That's why transition between C and Java in lots of universities get ugly. OOP isn't hard, but it just requires people to think in a different way than what we are naturally accustomed to. A visual representation would be much easier to be accepted by kids than words and theories later on.
No, just no. You ever debugged js before? I am sure those kids will make mistakes, but finding that one typo in 2000 lines of code using js console output is a nightmare. Let's not even get into the js cross browser compatibility issues. Also, unless you are using chrome exclusively, odds are your program will be very very slow and eats tons of memory.
Lego Mindstorm cost $ and i don't know how well funded OP's class is. ArgoUML is a piece of junk, but it's free. Well, if OP got the funding, i'm all for doing it the lego way. If not, then UML would work.
Instead of teaching them how to write a dummy program in a particular language, it is by far better idea to lay the foundation work by teaching them how to design and formulate a solution to a particular problem in a logical, concise, and efficient practice. Being able to diagram out an idea, condense it into a formula, and then simplify will be much more useful than knowing how to write hello world in one particular language. In a sense, you would do them the favor of prepping their minds to be able to handle any language their future employer will throw at them.
Just like TCP/IP Protocol.
You probably never had a relationship with an independent woman before. Most of those suck, badly. You'll run into things like never be able to see her face because she's too busy between meetings and night school, having your date interrupted by incoming work phone calls, and constantly having to deal with in-laws because you have to pick up your kids from their place. And you better make sure she has a good job or work your ass off to get her one, because the alternative would be she working her ass off in the local supermarket for crap pay, but you have to deal with her taxes as well as putting up with the stuff i listed above.
Right now it is used to find terrorists, but this technology can be used in reverse. Flashing images of the president and the national flag, anyone don't respond positively get singled out... Such uses are very disturbing.
You obviously didn't read what i said because i specifically stated the system has to be on, thus the text message shutdown program should already be running. Further more, in most cases, your decryption driver loads the key into memory. By forcing shutdown, the driver will remove that key. Your password doesn't stop people from freezing your ram, put them into an analyzer, and dump all data including your disk encryption key. That method has been demonstrated over and over again as the primary method for defeating disk encryption. You are assuming thief only want the hardware, which isn't always the case.
welcome our 2d overlords.
it is precisely because you are using disk encryption that you need a feature like this to complement it. Disk encryption only works to lock people out when you need to boot. That means if a computer is on because you entered the password at boot time, disk encryption doesn't do anything to protect your data. By forcing it to shutdown using text message, you just made sure others cannot start it without knowing your pass phrase.
i wonder if they tested this in oil. if it is both water resistant and oil resistant, it would make a very good material for table cloths, chair cover, couch cover, pillow cover, etc.
The problem is, even if IBM runs a project only intend to imitate a cat's brain, it doesn't mean the said imitation wont evolve into something else altogether. This is the problem with neural net. Unless it is mathematically predetermined to be bounded by certain parameters, its cyclic digraph brain will self-insert new nodes and establish synapse links to grow beyond the designated limitation. Further more, it will adapt to its "body" (in this case a super computer). How it works is you have a cyclic digraph which has both category and weight on the edges as the construct, then you pretty much run a bunch of IDDFS threads on it, the threads will by organized and kept track of using a limited size heap. The size of the heap depends on the number of hardware threads your processor(s) can handle at once. There will also be some threads that simply run through the entire structure and re-organize data(retire old connections, and nodes if it doesn't have any connection to it, aka "forgetting"). When a path is used often enough, a new and shorter connection will be established between the source and destination; when new data are being presented, it will be stored in a node and connected to its neighbors. As we can see, the origination of a thought and destination are not so important, it's the path that really are where "understanding" come from. Keep that "understanding" under control is a very hard mathematical problem.
What consumer rights? The consumer is ultimately the person deciding what they purchase or not. You can either decide to buy something or you don't. What information you used to base your decision on has to be correct (thus the false advertisement issue). But if you purchase something, you agree to the terms and conditions attached to the product. You shouldn't go back and say "but I thought I have these implied rights" it doesn't work that way. It's a market driven system, it's much better to have the market drive products than moan and whine about some non-existent "rights". In essence, every "right" customers get are really marketing perks they get to entice the purchase.
The problem is, this is an issue with far reaching consequences. Under the first sale doctrine ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine ), it is perfectly legal and fair to re-sell games, but the aspect of how software sales fall into the category of first sale doctrine is still fuzzy. However, the counter point being if this is not the case, then large resellers such as best buy or office depot are all operating illegally. With the legality aside, There is really nothing stopping the developers from offering content to the first owner. However the ability to advertise those content in general should be under question. They have to specifically state that on the first owner has the rights to these content or else it would be a clear case of false advertisement. In that case, if you buy from best buy or gamestop, you can potentially be screwed because these companies would then have the rights to these first owner content.
No, please read, instead of skimming. I am saying developers of twofish saying in term of security serpent is better choice for AES, in term of hardware performance serpent is better as well. Only when in case of software only cipher does other algorithms become better. Further more, the difference is with the same number of rounds of cipher. of course with 24 rounds rijindael, it is going to be as secure as two fish and a little shy of serpent. but that is 24 rounds, the standard test was conducted with 6 rounds of cipher, 4 times of the processing power was needed for the 256bit block cipher. further more, smaller key size for rijindael will result in less rounds being processed basically a 128bit block cipher will have half as many rounds of encryption (3 in this case) and 4 times easier to crack. It's proportional in the magnitude of n^2! Since wifi is hardware anyways, serpent is the perfect candidate for it. one bit makes big difference when it is used 6 times over on the entire block.
You sir, are grossly misinformed, serpent is about twice as secure as rijindael with the same bit rate.
please read this:
http://csrc.nist.gov/archive/aes/round2/comments/20000515-bschneier.pdf
Massive "be-friending" ensured!
on the other hand lots of mmorpgs let you become a crafter, you don't really need to kill monsters, just buy stuff from auction house and make things out of those items. Pretty much like the real world, where you don't really have to slay a cow to get beef, just buy from the local butcher... heh
Rijindael is still not good enough... they need to offer 256 bit twofish and serpent for WPA.
Price controls inevitably lead to either rationing or shortages, period.
That line you are repeating are not only ill-informed, but outright copypasta rebuttal to price controlling scheme. The premise is when only market price is controlled, then yes, you have a drop in supply. This is because obviously, less people are willing to go through the process only to make little money. Now if you enforce both price control and supply however, you will have a different result. The price will stay the same, supply will stay the same, demand will stay the same, quality of the product will drop. This is how the market actually adjusting itself to fit with the current rule-set. What you want then is institute a minimum quality assurance. So you can get cheap product at a low cost, but if you want premium care, you'd pay a lot more. This is how European systems work. Nothing simple like trying to shoehorn simple answer you learn from econ 101 to a complex system like healthcare.
obvious get rich quick scheme is obvious.