To extend the news stand analogy, what if you get quoted in a newspaper? Copies will be sent to individuals and libraries. they will be archived. They will be publicly available from those archives. People want to be able to make their websites diappear, but the thought of going to every library in the world to make them get rid of their copy of the new york times because you changed your mind is silly.
If I am quoted by the New York Times as saying that "The Mets Suck," because I knowingly talked to a reporter, and told him it would be fine to let the world read my thoughts... Well, then if I change my mind I have no right to try to eliminate my past views from history. The issue isn't that history exists, it's that some people seem to think that anything you ever said or did must be consistent with your current state of mind.
What I want is a fingerprint scanner, where you have to scan all your fingers, but the order you put your fingers on the pads would be a sort of 'pin code,' which you could change. Make all fingerprint scanners be sold with a protective hood, so nobody can see what order you use. If some criminal ever chops off your hand, just use the other one to phone in (or use voice dial), to change the pin before then can buy a TV.
You have the security of revocability, but the convenience of never accidentally losing your "card" (except in extreme cases of accident.)
I disagree strongly. When I move my mouse in an FPS, the view updates right away. If I am playing remotely, I may get 10-20 frames before my movement results in a change of view. Now, when I shoot, it registers instantly. My system may not have accurate info about where the other player was at that instant, so I may shout "I hit the bastard, dammit" when the hit doesn't register. But, I get the visual feedback of the shooting instantly.
So, yeah, fundamentally I agree that it would work, but I think that there will always be a good reason to have some code running locally and doing rendering/UI stuff. A carefully designed game could well handle the quirks fine. For example, a slower paced "sniper" style FPS, where pulling the trigger at an exact instant isn't as important as positioning yourself strategically, and finding good cover.
The problem isn't just bandwidth. It's latency. If I click on something, and it takes 150 ms for the packet to reach my "real computer" and then 150 ms for it to come back, then that's almost 1/3 second percieved lag whenever trying to do anything. Imagine trying to play Quake on a remote system. No matter how much bandwidth you've got, the game just won't run right with 1/3 second lag. Then, also assume that your "real computer" has to talk to another server. It'll be like playing in mud.
When I got my "new" car with a CD player, I ran out and bought "Six Not So Easy Pieces." Sadly, I discovered that the car's CD player didn't work. So, I put it on my iPod, and listen with headphones when I drive/eat/whatever. It's great.
One problem is that Feynman often says, "As you can see on this diagram..." and then you hear chalk on a blackboard for a bit. I can usually fugure out roughly what he drew, but I think that something like this would actually be perfect as a slide show on the iPod photo, if the images were sync'd right. Whenever he draws a new diagram, it appears on the iPod screen, so I can glance at it for a moment. But, yes, very cool lectures. He's a funny guy. I've learned more than I care to admit from him!
This isn't thread safe. If you have multiple threads incrimenting totaldownloads, you can pass 500000 without ever hitting the conditional. Depending on the overflow behavior it will wither be a very long loop, or infinite...
Come on, people, just because it is a joke doesn't mean it shouldn't take advantage of paralellism.
I'm more surprised by the "underrated," despite no negative mods. Obviously, the moderators are on crack. Or maybe just don't know what the mod options mean, and meant to mod me down... ?
Seriously, I think there may be something to it. "Anybody who breaks our DRM just needs to tell us, and submit patches, and you get to have beautiful women in bikini's serving you drinks on the beach for the next five years. Anybody who goes public means we pay a lawyer whatever we would have paid to send you on vacation."
I'm unsure how to even parse your response. You can't have one drive simultaneously connected to two active controllers. The only way, as I said, would be to hack a cable, and only have one controller active at a time. I'm not sure why that would be silly or in any way confusing.
If you don't believe me, then read the ATA spec, think about what would happen when two controllers try sending commands over the same bus. Nothing good or predictable (save "not working") The drive and both controllers would all be getting data that is out of spec. There isn't any wizardry to it. It isn't magic. Your question was born out os asort of dedicated ignorance, making it silly.
I dunno. The presentation was closed. I don't know anything about the specifics. If they use hard core DRM, it's possible it wouldn't be cracked. I suppose their first move should be to hire "DVD Jon" and then send him on a permanent vacation with no net access.
Well, if you were really dedicated, just hack an IDE cable to allow you to plug it into both controllers. Oh, and only have one machine on at the same time. This is a very silly question.
Interesting. A bit like passing on the executable binary intact, but also inheriting the most current config file. What is the extra-genetic information, and what is the process of inheritence?
Given that shady banking has recently gone away, and the phosphate mines are depleted, Nauru needs some new income, and I think "being in the middle of nowhere" is their only resource. Given that, semi-shady web hosting would be right up their alley if they can get any cheap bandwidth. How much bandwitdh does thepiratebay.org use?
I agree, if Bram were serious about the espoused views, he would have placed it under his clearly labelled "serious writing" section which is right above "musings." Also, the title on the link from his home page is "A technological activist's agenda" rather than "My opinion on stuff." He presents it is the general agenda of a generic "technological activist" rather than his own.
Further, given his usual worditude, this is completely inconsistent with his style, and must be assumed that it is not in his own voice, regardless of context and presentation. This story being "news" is a bit like if he had made a joke about how a minister and a rabbi walked into a bar, and reporting that we need to start a missing persons search for clergy. how does he know they went into a bar? He must be stalking them! Bram stalks clergy, and we dn't know what happened to them! Maybe he ate them!
I don't have any music on my 60 GB iPod. I do have some audio, but it is mostly language lessons, and a series of physics lectures by Feynman. I have the last three Doctors of the classic Dr. Who series. All the episodes from like 1981 to the end of the show about ten years later. and, some Samurai Champloo. And, a bunch of other stuff that won't fit on my iBook, and I like to have handy wherever I might be.
My only complaint... finding drivers for a decent filesystem for Windows is almost impossible, (except for NTFS). I just naturally assumed i would be able to get an HFS driver for the PC's I deal with. Linux isn't a big deal, though. You can't even get an XFS driver for Windows, or anything else. It makes me sad. Not really an iPod specific complaint, but it made me greatly annoyed when I realised that I couldn't have a modern Filesystem which runs well under Mac OS, various *nixen, and Windows.
Techincally, yes, but it is also calling him a girl. Calling him a dude would be Der Wesley der. Die is the femenine form. (And, pronounced, "dee" rather than "dye")
No. Not when you have such a small amount of stuff that hot. The hard part about fusion is getting something that hot. It takes containment better than currently exists to do it. If the containment fails, the plasma cools off. Thats what makes it so difficult to do.
I used to live nearby Fermilab. I went to their movie nights from time to time. They have a herd of bison living onsite, with absolutely no ill effects. The claims that they are causing mutants and the like are simply silly. Seriously, if I remember correctly, the bison are living right above/nearby the tevatron main ring. If the magnets screwed with wildlife that much, somebody would have noticed, and tried to get famous by writing a paper about it and studying the exact nature of the effects.
If there was a plasma leak, you wouldn't want to be right in the stream, but once containment fails, the plasma will quickly cool, and fusion will not be sustained for more than a few seconds. It'd be bad, but it would be impossible for a fusion reactor to really do anything terrible.
Wireless doesn't need to suck. Just use something like 802.11 for the speakers. It'll be perfect digital sound right to the speaker. Assuming the transmitter is in the same room as the speakers, there should be no issue with signal strength.
That said, why do we have fixed number of speakers? Why not just have an audio format which supports a large number of tracks, and the ability to say, track01 is at XYZ position, moving to X'Y'Z'. Then, you have a home theater setup which knows where the speakers all are, and uses however many speakers are in the system to simulate the sound being at XYZ?
Well, I don't completely agree with you, but I agree that the issue is at least partly Freenet's. Freenet is made to accumulate large amounts of information over time. It caches content locally, and also known nodes. Freenet is designed to get bigger the longer it is running.
That said, Java has no "delete." It just isn't part of the language. So, in some cases, there just isn't anything the programmer can do if the garbage collector doesn't play nice.
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To extend the news stand analogy, what if you get quoted in a newspaper? Copies will be sent to individuals and libraries. they will be archived. They will be publicly available from those archives. People want to be able to make their websites diappear, but the thought of going to every library in the world to make them get rid of their copy of the new york times because you changed your mind is silly.
If I am quoted by the New York Times as saying that "The Mets Suck," because I knowingly talked to a reporter, and told him it would be fine to let the world read my thoughts... Well, then if I change my mind I have no right to try to eliminate my past views from history. The issue isn't that history exists, it's that some people seem to think that anything you ever said or did must be consistent with your current state of mind.
That's just fucking stupid.
What I want is a fingerprint scanner, where you have to scan all your fingers, but the order you put your fingers on the pads would be a sort of 'pin code,' which you could change. Make all fingerprint scanners be sold with a protective hood, so nobody can see what order you use. If some criminal ever chops off your hand, just use the other one to phone in (or use voice dial), to change the pin before then can buy a TV.
You have the security of revocability, but the convenience of never accidentally losing your "card" (except in extreme cases of accident.)
I disagree strongly. When I move my mouse in an FPS, the view updates right away. If I am playing remotely, I may get 10-20 frames before my movement results in a change of view. Now, when I shoot, it registers instantly. My system may not have accurate info about where the other player was at that instant, so I may shout "I hit the bastard, dammit" when the hit doesn't register. But, I get the visual feedback of the shooting instantly.
So, yeah, fundamentally I agree that it would work, but I think that there will always be a good reason to have some code running locally and doing rendering/UI stuff. A carefully designed game could well handle the quirks fine. For example, a slower paced "sniper" style FPS, where pulling the trigger at an exact instant isn't as important as positioning yourself strategically, and finding good cover.
The problem isn't just bandwidth. It's latency. If I click on something, and it takes 150 ms for the packet to reach my "real computer" and then 150 ms for it to come back, then that's almost 1/3 second percieved lag whenever trying to do anything. Imagine trying to play Quake on a remote system. No matter how much bandwidth you've got, the game just won't run right with 1/3 second lag. Then, also assume that your "real computer" has to talk to another server. It'll be like playing in mud.
When I got my "new" car with a CD player, I ran out and bought "Six Not So Easy Pieces." Sadly, I discovered that the car's CD player didn't work. So, I put it on my iPod, and listen with headphones when I drive/eat/whatever. It's great.
One problem is that Feynman often says, "As you can see on this diagram..." and then you hear chalk on a blackboard for a bit. I can usually fugure out roughly what he drew, but I think that something like this would actually be perfect as a slide show on the iPod photo, if the images were sync'd right. Whenever he draws a new diagram, it appears on the iPod screen, so I can glance at it for a moment. But, yes, very cool lectures. He's a funny guy. I've learned more than I care to admit from him!
This isn't thread safe. If you have multiple threads incrimenting totaldownloads, you can pass 500000 without ever hitting the conditional. Depending on the overflow behavior it will wither be a very long loop, or infinite...
Come on, people, just because it is a joke doesn't mean it shouldn't take advantage of paralellism.
No, the *proper* slashdotter response starts, "Now... How hard will it be to port DECNET to the iPod for my cluster?"
I'm more surprised by the "underrated," despite no negative mods. Obviously, the moderators are on crack. Or maybe just don't know what the mod options mean, and meant to mod me down... ?
Seriously, I think there may be something to it. "Anybody who breaks our DRM just needs to tell us, and submit patches, and you get to have beautiful women in bikini's serving you drinks on the beach for the next five years. Anybody who goes public means we pay a lawyer whatever we would have paid to send you on vacation."
I'm unsure how to even parse your response. You can't have one drive simultaneously connected to two active controllers. The only way, as I said, would be to hack a cable, and only have one controller active at a time. I'm not sure why that would be silly or in any way confusing.
If you don't believe me, then read the ATA spec, think about what would happen when two controllers try sending commands over the same bus. Nothing good or predictable (save "not working") The drive and both controllers would all be getting data that is out of spec. There isn't any wizardry to it. It isn't magic. Your question was born out os asort of dedicated ignorance, making it silly.
I dunno. The presentation was closed. I don't know anything about the specifics. If they use hard core DRM, it's possible it wouldn't be cracked. I suppose their first move should be to hire "DVD Jon" and then send him on a permanent vacation with no net access.
Well, if you were really dedicated, just hack an IDE cable to allow you to plug it into both controllers. Oh, and only have one machine on at the same time. This is a very silly question.
Interesting. A bit like passing on the executable binary intact, but also inheriting the most current config file. What is the extra-genetic information, and what is the process of inheritence?
Thank you, it feels so good to be recognised!
Derrida doesn't actually play the games. He just runs them through a disassembler, and then watched videos of himself reading the output.
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That may be too obscure for
More likely some place like Nauru, or Sealand.
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http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru
Given that shady banking has recently gone away, and the phosphate mines are depleted, Nauru needs some new income, and I think "being in the middle of nowhere" is their only resource. Given that, semi-shady web hosting would be right up their alley if they can get any cheap bandwidth. How much bandwitdh does thepiratebay.org use?
I agree, if Bram were serious about the espoused views, he would have placed it under his clearly labelled "serious writing" section which is right above "musings." Also, the title on the link from his home page is "A technological activist's agenda" rather than "My opinion on stuff." He presents it is the general agenda of a generic "technological activist" rather than his own.
Further, given his usual worditude, this is completely inconsistent with his style, and must be assumed that it is not in his own voice, regardless of context and presentation. This story being "news" is a bit like if he had made a joke about how a minister and a rabbi walked into a bar, and reporting that we need to start a missing persons search for clergy. how does he know they went into a bar? He must be stalking them! Bram stalks clergy, and we dn't know what happened to them! Maybe he ate them!
I don't have any music on my 60 GB iPod. I do have some audio, but it is mostly language lessons, and a series of physics lectures by Feynman. I have the last three Doctors of the classic Dr. Who series. All the episodes from like 1981 to the end of the show about ten years later. and, some Samurai Champloo. And, a bunch of other stuff that won't fit on my iBook, and I like to have handy wherever I might be.
My only complaint... finding drivers for a decent filesystem for Windows is almost impossible, (except for NTFS). I just naturally assumed i would be able to get an HFS driver for the PC's I deal with. Linux isn't a big deal, though. You can't even get an XFS driver for Windows, or anything else. It makes me sad. Not really an iPod specific complaint, but it made me greatly annoyed when I realised that I couldn't have a modern Filesystem which runs well under Mac OS, various *nixen, and Windows.
Techincally, yes, but it is also calling him a girl. Calling him a dude would be Der Wesley der. Die is the femenine form. (And, pronounced, "dee" rather than "dye")
No. Not when you have such a small amount of stuff that hot. The hard part about fusion is getting something that hot. It takes containment better than currently exists to do it. If the containment fails, the plasma cools off. Thats what makes it so difficult to do.
I used to live nearby Fermilab. I went to their movie nights from time to time. They have a herd of bison living onsite, with absolutely no ill effects. The claims that they are causing mutants and the like are simply silly. Seriously, if I remember correctly, the bison are living right above/nearby the tevatron main ring. If the magnets screwed with wildlife that much, somebody would have noticed, and tried to get famous by writing a paper about it and studying the exact nature of the effects.
If there was a plasma leak, you wouldn't want to be right in the stream, but once containment fails, the plasma will quickly cool, and fusion will not be sustained for more than a few seconds. It'd be bad, but it would be impossible for a fusion reactor to really do anything terrible.
All you have to do is contract with real estate developers to spell out things with the layout of homes in new subdivisions. "Buy Coke"
Wireless doesn't need to suck. Just use something like 802.11 for the speakers. It'll be perfect digital sound right to the speaker. Assuming the transmitter is in the same room as the speakers, there should be no issue with signal strength.
That said, why do we have fixed number of speakers? Why not just have an audio format which supports a large number of tracks, and the ability to say, track01 is at XYZ position, moving to X'Y'Z'. Then, you have a home theater setup which knows where the speakers all are, and uses however many speakers are in the system to simulate the sound being at XYZ?
Well, I don't completely agree with you, but I agree that the issue is at least partly Freenet's. Freenet is made to accumulate large amounts of information over time. It caches content locally, and also known nodes. Freenet is designed to get bigger the longer it is running.
That said, Java has no "delete." It just isn't part of the language. So, in some cases, there just isn't anything the programmer can do if the garbage collector doesn't play nice.