Yeah good point - sorry, being dumb there. But they do context highlighting, so they create new jpgs on the fly, which must be slightly tricky to do if it became a popular service
Well, because while the warehouse guys and shop flunkies can come and go on a weekly basis, nobody, NOBODY ever gets to pay with the money. Two people are normally required to do the counting, and then it gets put in the safe.
Also, while moving merchandise round is done everywhere in broadly the same way, the cash routines are normally more tightly fixed and less easy to predict. Also, the money has to be counted nice and carefully as the cashiers need to check they haven't screwed up during the day.
Okay - I have my Graphics exam at 9am tomorrow. It's 10pm now, and we were told that we must tell the lecturer stuff that he didn't teach us to get good marks (which is bollocks to Uni policy - we checked). This article is a godsend, as I can now talk about BSPs and check the links in these threads to sound more knowledgable in any essay questions.
I thought the problem the US had with the Kyoto treaty was that there WASN'T any credit trading, and that's what the US wanted, to allow them to "buy" the ability to pollute a bit more.
And I'm not saying whether that's good or bad, I have no idea any more
Just to be picky, but there is little intelligence involved in playing chess for computers. They merely explore the combinatorial explosion of possible moves. Deep Blue won by being able to see further than 8 moves ahead, which is normally the standard for chess grandmasters.
If you want to see some good, intelligence, I suggest you look at this. (Scroll down a bit).
This is a neural network trained to play backgammon. It plays at a world grandmaster level, and has discovered at least one strategy not known to humans before. I found my Reinforcement Learning course pretty boring until I discovered this.
I agree with the others replying to this post in that there would be no doubt that the plane could be destroyed if desired, and little doubt that it would.
However, something I'd like to check - I Am Not An American - isn't the White House kinda surrounded by Washington and lots of people (in a general kind of way). Where do you shoot it down that doesn't do more damage to the surrounding populace? Not all plane crashes end like Con Air.
The same thing that happened to the guy who was undergoing radiotherapy when he walked through some Geiger checkpoint in New York, ie. nothing nice until they realised the poor bastard had cancer rather than actually being a terrorist.
Upstairs on the "techy" floor. I think it's the future stuff or something. There's quite a few random exhibits. And two BSODs and one POST failure (Press F1 to continue).
The Imperial War Museum also got a BSOD in the how-dangerous-and-smelly-submarines-are section.
I can't be arsed to find the relevant slashdot article, but apparently a server in a university in North Carolina or something (I think, my American geography is poor) was lost for 17 YEARS, but was still working and they eventually discovered it was in a room that had been bricked up and forgotten about.
I don't know what *nix it was running, but that's a pretty impressive uptime regardless
If you don't specifically need Bluetooth, you could use 802.11b - someone has written a TCP/IP stack for the 18F452 PIC, that will access either a 8139 Ethernet chip or a PRISM2 chipset 802.11b card. This corresponds to some of the cheaper wifi cards - I can look up the names if anyone is curious.
The source code costs about 60UKP and supports SMTP, DHCP, UDP, TCP, HTTP, and some other random protocols. I'm using them in a network of robots that can all have their own IPs and websites (On an IIC EEPROM)
I have to confess I actually had no idea that JNT was gay. But I still think Dr Who rocks, and I don't care about who writes it as long as they're good, and I'm sure Queer As Folk won some awards.
But if it's written by a gay guy, then we could have a camp Doctor, who dresses is really stupid clothes and doesn't seem particularly interested in women . ..
They're closing their unmoderated chatrooms on the 14th of October, the day before they "upgrade" and kick off all the old clients. Is this a coincidence or what? I'm voting for "what".
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I love Neal Stephenson books, and I have no qualms in rereading books whether they're particularly tricky or not, being a quite avaricious reader. However, there's one thing I don't get.
SPOILER ALERT FOR CRYPTONOMICON
What the hell is Enoch Root still doing alive at the end of the book when he dies halfway through and is pronounced dead by a doctor? He seems fine 50 years later. Did I miss something vital? I feel as stupid as I did finishing Diamond Age, although I'm a bit more sure I've got that one sussed.
Assuming this isn't all complete bollocks, about which I'm going to hold an open mind, as I'm not entirely sure how this thing would work near computers or pylons, or electrified rail tracks, or power mains, unless it has some AMAZINGLY good filtering in it.
Anyway, assuming that, does that mean we get a chip on a usb stick (say), that would allow Van Eck Phreaking to be done at home? I mean, if you can send useful amounts of data through this technology, it must be good enough to pick up clock signals and keyboard presses?
I know this post is amazingly vague, but so is the technology.
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Yeah good point - sorry, being dumb there. But they do context highlighting, so they create new jpgs on the fly, which must be slightly tricky to do if it became a popular service
Sorry to burst your bubble but they do. I have no idea how they do it, and tbh the sheer processing power or raw manpaper of scanning scares me.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these . . .
Seriously, I am totally amazed at that guy's genius. Full on Wayne's World "Not Worthy!" moment.
Well, because while the warehouse guys and shop flunkies can come and go on a weekly basis, nobody, NOBODY ever gets to pay with the money. Two people are normally required to do the counting, and then it gets put in the safe.
Also, while moving merchandise round is done everywhere in broadly the same way, the cash routines are normally more tightly fixed and less easy to predict. Also, the money has to be counted nice and carefully as the cashiers need to check they haven't screwed up during the day.
Okay - I have my Graphics exam at 9am tomorrow. It's 10pm now, and we were told that we must tell the lecturer stuff that he didn't teach us to get good marks (which is bollocks to Uni policy - we checked). This article is a godsend, as I can now talk about BSPs and check the links in these threads to sound more knowledgable in any essay questions.
W00t! W00t!
Makes me think of Lurr from Omicron Persei 8.
We shall not destory your planet, but neither shall we give you the secret to immortality!
You do know this is a Microsoft funded competition that this software run? Why the hell would Microsoft want people to think for themselves?
It's a glitch in the matrix, it happens when they change something . .
I thought the problem the US had with the Kyoto treaty was that there WASN'T any credit trading, and that's what the US wanted, to allow them to "buy" the ability to pollute a bit more.
And I'm not saying whether that's good or bad, I have no idea any more
This is a neural network trained to play backgammon. It plays at a world grandmaster level, and has discovered at least one strategy not known to humans before. I found my Reinforcement Learning course pretty boring until I discovered this.
I haven't seen the Shoot-Em-Up Construction Kit for a while, but that was great on the Amiga.
I agree with the others replying to this post in that there would be no doubt that the plane could be destroyed if desired, and little doubt that it would.
However, something I'd like to check - I Am Not An American - isn't the White House kinda surrounded by Washington and lots of people (in a general kind of way). Where do you shoot it down that doesn't do more damage to the surrounding populace? Not all plane crashes end like Con Air.
The same thing that happened to the guy who was undergoing radiotherapy when he walked through some Geiger checkpoint in New York, ie. nothing nice until they realised the poor bastard had cancer rather than actually being a terrorist.
I thought he never said it was any kind of law and he was postulating. And then the media got hold of it, and suddenly it's law.
Upstairs on the "techy" floor. I think it's the future stuff or something. There's quite a few random exhibits. And two BSODs and one POST failure (Press F1 to continue).
The Imperial War Museum also got a BSOD in the how-dangerous-and-smelly-submarines-are section.
I can't be arsed to find the relevant slashdot article, but apparently a server in a university in North Carolina or something (I think, my American geography is poor) was lost for 17 YEARS, but was still working and they eventually discovered it was in a room that had been bricked up and forgotten about.
I don't know what *nix it was running, but that's a pretty impressive uptime regardless
The only problem would be me expecting him to sing his song about Dr Qui et le TARDIS. And Davros 'Il n'est pas tres realistique'
And no, Bill Bailey is a great comedian, but not a startling actor, perhaps because he just looks wrong and the audience expect his comedy
If you don't specifically need Bluetooth, you could use 802.11b - someone has written a TCP/IP stack for the 18F452 PIC, that will access either a 8139 Ethernet chip or a PRISM2 chipset 802.11b card. This corresponds to some of the cheaper wifi cards - I can look up the names if anyone is curious.
The source code costs about 60UKP and supports SMTP, DHCP, UDP, TCP, HTTP, and some other random protocols. I'm using them in a network of robots that can all have their own IPs and websites (On an IIC EEPROM)
Wow.
I have to confess I actually had no idea that JNT was gay. But I still think Dr Who rocks, and I don't care about who writes it as long as they're good, and I'm sure Queer As Folk won some awards.
Roll on 2005!
But if it's written by a gay guy, then we could have a camp Doctor, who dresses is really stupid clothes and doesn't seem particularly interested in women . . .
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Hang on .
PS Hurrah! Dr Who is back in 2005!
They're closing their unmoderated chatrooms on the 14th of October, the day before they "upgrade" and kick off all the old clients. Is this a coincidence or what? I'm voting for "what".
I love Neal Stephenson books, and I have no qualms in rereading books whether they're particularly tricky or not, being a quite avaricious reader. However, there's one thing I don't get.
SPOILER ALERT FOR CRYPTONOMICON
What the hell is Enoch Root still doing alive at the end of the book when he dies halfway through and is pronounced dead by a doctor? He seems fine 50 years later. Did I miss something vital? I feel as stupid as I did finishing Diamond Age, although I'm a bit more sure I've got that one sussed.
Assuming this isn't all complete bollocks, about which I'm going to hold an open mind, as I'm not entirely sure how this thing would work near computers or pylons, or electrified rail tracks, or power mains, unless it has some AMAZINGLY good filtering in it.
Anyway, assuming that, does that mean we get a chip on a usb stick (say), that would allow Van Eck Phreaking to be done at home? I mean, if you can send useful amounts of data through this technology, it must be good enough to pick up clock signals and keyboard presses?
I know this post is amazingly vague, but so is the technology.
If it's any help, I have two computers running 2.6.0-test4-mm4, and the desktop has no PS/2 mouse and it doesn't hang on bootup.
However the console framebuffer isn't going above 800x600. Ah well
Or bugzilla.kernel.org.
That's what I get for magically getting Submit and Preview mixed up.