Strangely enough, synthetic meat is the same meat as regular grown meat. Hopefully they'll perfect it.
What I think it mostly is directed to is the idea of getting a little variety. If I were stuck in space for 6 months, I wouldn't want to be living off freeze dried neopolitan icecream and protein paste.
I think NASA would be better advised to experiment with some of the great flavors that contemporary vegan cooking can produce.
Oh yeah. You'd be amazed at how incredibly difficult it is to do something like a stirfry without gravity. Or even cook a piece of tofu (why would it even stay against the pan? They couldn't velcro it). It's one of those fundamental problems that makes it so bloody difficult to cook anything resembling real food for astronauts. They basically end up living off of the equivalent of frozen dinners and ramen.
MPEG4 + 1GB CompactFlash card. (or microdrive) About the size of a large postage stamp.
He said a 'postage stamp', and that'd be a real big one, and much thicker. Besides, do you think someone who has the bling bling to run around buying 1GB CompactFlash cards and Microdrives expressly for the purpose of movies is actually going to waste the time pirating them? If I had that kind of cash, I'd buy four of each movie just to say I could.
Newly developed digital compression and memory technologies make it possible to store two complete movies on a device the size of a postage stamp.
Really? Why didn't I hear about these? It would obsolete DVDs, CDs, even hard drives in one go! Wow! When is the wonder technology available?
Or maybe he's just talking about memory sticks. I guess if you compressed it down to like 32x48 with 8 or 9 FPS you might be able to fit two on a 256mb stick.
Or maybe he's talking about actual hard drive space? I guess two movies, in mpeg2 (DVD quality) would take roughly 4GB. In a 160GB HDD, that's roughly 1/40th of the total space devoted to two movies. If you figure that the average harddrive has a volume somewhere around 10 cu.in., that means that 2 movies would be 1/4th of a cubic inch, right? That's still a lot bigger than a stamp. Oh well.
God bless Politicians and their multiple axises of evils.
I do essentially the same thing. Except I just setup an account at hotmail (with a silly name like send_me_spam) and all the online non-personal stuff I do through that. Then my personal account stays perfectly clean.
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...I think the slashdotting this guy received inspired him.
When I went here last night, there were two files, the.png screenshot and the original.sed script. Now there's 2 more versions out (0.0 and 0.1) and a contest to see who can solve each level in the fewest moves, along with a solution to level 1.
Just in case all of you didn't bother to visit it, or didn't visit it twice, you should check it out: The contest makes for some fun gameplay.
Read The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. (ISBN 0-201-83595-9). This is one of the best books I've ever read when it comes to managing any sort of software product - and it gives great advice, including a chapter on documentation and why it is so IMPORTANT.
Please, go out and buy it and read it - or check it out from your local library. It is a must for all programmers, even if you're not the one in charge.
...with a friend on AIM, this is what he had to say about it: Y'know, if my employer tries to get me to sign into one of those contracts that says, "We own everything you do, even if it's nothing to do with the company, doesn't use anything with company resources, or isn't even intended for the company," I'm just going to tell them, "I refuse to cheat on my wife (or girlfriend)." And if they say, "What do you mean?" I'll tell them, "I'm already screwing my wife (girlfriend), I'm not going to be screwed by you."
Not only is the pole shifting from a spot just North of Resolute, Canada,...
Shouldn't the north pole be "just North" of... well... everywhere? I mean, you can't be more North than being on the North pole - *everything* is south of it. Don't you remember that joke: "If you walk a mile to the south, a mile to the east, and a mile to the north, come back to where you started, and see a bear, what color is it?"
I could imagine the Canadians say, "I woonder if the Noorth poole will be sooth of oos tomoroow, eh?"
Well, there's the practical use, and the intended use. Stealing music was a joke. Morpheus' intended use would be something like, "Peer to peer sharing of files and information." Only more specific.
I think many people take the view that they *could* work independently, and maybe they'd get something accomplished, or they could contribute, and achieve something for sure. We could fragment, but then there'd be half the number of developers working on each. Personally, I want to see Linux do well, so I'd rather not see that.
...that comes up all the time, particularly with reguard to virii and warez. If you can't trust the software - don't install it. When you run any.exe in Windows, you accept that you do not know that it is going to do - at all! It may format your hard-drives, and mail all your porn to your mother.
So, if you don't want all the crap, don't use software you can't trust. How do you know if you can trust it? Well, you could audit the source code and compile it yourself. You could write the software yourself. Or you could get the software maker to sign into a legally binding contract which says that their software will not do anything but its primary intended use (for Morpheus, this would be stealing music), and that they must disclose everything that it's going to do to your computer. Fat chance of that.
What do I do? I run Linux. I only login as a unpriviledged user (I have access to my home directory, that's all.) All the software I install I only install into my home directory (again, as the unpriviledge user.) I'm the sole user of my machine - I don't need to be putting it in/usr/local for others, so I never need to log in as anything but that unpriviledged user.
The security then isn't perfect, but strangely enough, most open source projects don't include spyware/scumware of any sort. So I don't worry about it.
Running any priviledged executable is the ultimate shrinkwrap EULA, saying, "I give you permission to do what ever you want to my computer." We'd all be a little better off if people were more paranoid about their computer - but if they don't mind untrusted software messing around, who am I to stop them? Maybe we'll get lucky, and the next version of Morpheus or Kazaa will automagically lock out any user that downloads it. That would provide a nice lesson. Would it be a virus? Well, you chose to download it and run it yourself. So, I say no.
They should be forced to come up with their own Linux distribution.
Honestly, I think the only reason there isn't a Microsoft Linux is PR. If they really want a monopoly, they wouldn't try and make everyone use their OS - they'd just take over and assimilate every other OS. Want unix? Use MSnix! Want Linux? Use MS Linux! Want MacOS? MS OS X!
Just make it the best, make it the cheapest, and then sell them MS "application solutions" or whatever they want to call it at the normal price.
Would I use MS Linux? Well, if it was as stable as my box now (running Mandrake 8.1), and it had interoperability with all of the Windows file formats, etc, I would. If it was superbloat? No. But it's hard to be superbloat and be stable too. But if it was just Mandrake with the MS logo, and a default install that provided easy access to all those proprietary file formats, it would be hard not to.
The easiest way to fool a shoulder surfer is to move your fingers one key to the left or right whenever you type your password. Makes it very difficult to follow the movements.
The best way to create a password is to come up with a passphrase that you'll remember. The password is then the first letter of each word in the phrase.
For example, I heard the song "Transylvanian Concubine" by Rasputina, and I told someone "I wish I had a Transylvanian Concubine." It was so funny we laughed at it, so my local password for a while was "IwIhaTC." Completely gibberish, but easy to remember.
It's easy to maintain multiple different passwords for different accounts/services by making up some phrase relating to the service you use, e.g. "Yahoo really sucks, but I like the games." would be "Yrs,bIltg." Or "YrsbIlg." if you have an eight character limit. Then whenever you're logging into the service you'll remember the password instantly.
And that way you don't have to write it down. The phrases are easy to come up with, but it's important to try and find a phrase that's hard to mutate (e.g. "I wish I had a Transylvanian Concubine." versus "I wish I was a Transylvanian Concubine."). You want to pick one that'll be remembered a specific way, and often times the easiest way to do it is to make sure the abbreviation is always a fixed number of characters (say, 8 or 14), one for each word and punctuation. That prevents you from adding in extra words, like "really": "Yahoo really sucks, but I really like the games." versus the above example. Or dropping words.
The most important thing is that anyone can do it without worrying too much about it.
...can't you just look over their shoulder? I mean really. If they aren't paranoid enough to pick a good password, then they won't care if you're standing right behind them.
Actually, all the Dragon Ball Z crap had nothing to do with Cartoon Network, and everything to do with Funimation, the U.S. company that bought the rights to the translation (dub'd and sub'd). Some of it's Cartoon Network (in the case of already released series, such as Tenchi), and some of it's not, in the case of Funimation.
Actually, IANAL, but I think putting, "So and so writes,..." pretty much says straightforward that this may or may not include any fact what so ever. It would be considered heresay if it was tried to be used as fact. If you go read the article itself, that is often linked to, then that's a different story altogether.
I doubt VA would still run Slashdot if it were so risky as you make it out to be.
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Who would want to eat GOLDFISH?
OH NO! MR. FLIPPER! Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...
etc.
Yeah, but eating all that Ramen gives you the schlitz, and you really don't want that in zero gravity.
Strangely enough, synthetic meat is the same meat as regular grown meat. Hopefully they'll perfect it.
What I think it mostly is directed to is the idea of getting a little variety. If I were stuck in space for 6 months, I wouldn't want to be living off freeze dried neopolitan icecream and protein paste.
I think NASA would be better advised to experiment with some of the great flavors that contemporary vegan cooking can produce.
Oh yeah. You'd be amazed at how incredibly difficult it is to do something like a stirfry without gravity. Or even cook a piece of tofu (why would it even stay against the pan? They couldn't velcro it). It's one of those fundamental problems that makes it so bloody difficult to cook anything resembling real food for astronauts. They basically end up living off of the equivalent of frozen dinners and ramen.
MPEG4 + 1GB CompactFlash card. (or microdrive) About the size of a large postage stamp.
He said a 'postage stamp', and that'd be a real big one, and much thicker. Besides, do you think someone who has the bling bling to run around buying 1GB CompactFlash cards and Microdrives expressly for the purpose of movies is actually going to waste the time pirating them? If I had that kind of cash, I'd buy four of each movie just to say I could.
Newly developed digital compression and memory technologies make it possible to store two complete movies on a device the size of a postage stamp.
Really? Why didn't I hear about these? It would obsolete DVDs, CDs, even hard drives in one go! Wow! When is the wonder technology available?
Or maybe he's just talking about memory sticks. I guess if you compressed it down to like 32x48 with 8 or 9 FPS you might be able to fit two on a 256mb stick.
Or maybe he's talking about actual hard drive space? I guess two movies, in mpeg2 (DVD quality) would take roughly 4GB. In a 160GB HDD, that's roughly 1/40th of the total space devoted to two movies. If you figure that the average harddrive has a volume somewhere around 10 cu.in., that means that 2 movies would be 1/4th of a cubic inch, right? That's still a lot bigger than a stamp. Oh well.
God bless Politicians and their multiple axises of evils.
I do essentially the same thing. Except I just setup an account at hotmail (with a silly name like send_me_spam) and all the online non-personal stuff I do through that. Then my personal account stays perfectly clean.
...I think the slashdotting this guy received inspired him.
.png screenshot and the original .sed script. Now there's 2 more versions out (0.0 and 0.1) and a contest to see who can solve each level in the fewest moves, along with a solution to level 1.
When I went here last night, there were two files, the
Just in case all of you didn't bother to visit it, or didn't visit it twice, you should check it out: The contest makes for some fun gameplay.
...will it julianne fries?
Read The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. (ISBN 0-201-83595-9). This is one of the best books I've ever read when it comes to managing any sort of software product - and it gives great advice, including a chapter on documentation and why it is so IMPORTANT.
Please, go out and buy it and read it - or check it out from your local library. It is a must for all programmers, even if you're not the one in charge.
...with a friend on AIM, this is what he had to say about it:
Y'know, if my employer tries to get me to sign into one of those contracts that says, "We own everything you do, even if it's nothing to do with the company, doesn't use anything with company resources, or isn't even intended for the company," I'm just going to tell them, "I refuse to cheat on my wife (or girlfriend)." And if they say, "What do you mean?" I'll tell them, "I'm already screwing my wife (girlfriend), I'm not going to be screwed by you."
I think that just sums it up perfectly.
Not only is the pole shifting from a spot just North of Resolute, Canada,...
... well... everywhere? I mean, you can't be more North than being on the North pole - *everything* is south of it. Don't you remember that joke: "If you walk a mile to the south, a mile to the east, and a mile to the north, come back to where you started, and see a bear, what color is it?"
Shouldn't the north pole be "just North" of
I could imagine the Canadians say, "I woonder if the Noorth poole will be sooth of oos tomoroow, eh?"
Well, there's the practical use, and the intended use. Stealing music was a joke. Morpheus' intended use would be something like, "Peer to peer sharing of files and information." Only more specific.
I think many people take the view that they *could* work independently, and maybe they'd get something accomplished, or they could contribute, and achieve something for sure. We could fragment, but then there'd be half the number of developers working on each. Personally, I want to see Linux do well, so I'd rather not see that.
...that comes up all the time, particularly with reguard to virii and warez. If you can't trust the software - don't install it. When you run any .exe in Windows, you accept that you do not know that it is going to do - at all! It may format your hard-drives, and mail all your porn to your mother.
/usr/local for others, so I never need to log in as anything but that unpriviledged user.
So, if you don't want all the crap, don't use software you can't trust. How do you know if you can trust it? Well, you could audit the source code and compile it yourself. You could write the software yourself. Or you could get the software maker to sign into a legally binding contract which says that their software will not do anything but its primary intended use (for Morpheus, this would be stealing music), and that they must disclose everything that it's going to do to your computer. Fat chance of that.
What do I do? I run Linux. I only login as a unpriviledged user (I have access to my home directory, that's all.) All the software I install I only install into my home directory (again, as the unpriviledge user.) I'm the sole user of my machine - I don't need to be putting it in
The security then isn't perfect, but strangely enough, most open source projects don't include spyware/scumware of any sort. So I don't worry about it.
Running any priviledged executable is the ultimate shrinkwrap EULA, saying, "I give you permission to do what ever you want to my computer." We'd all be a little better off if people were more paranoid about their computer - but if they don't mind untrusted software messing around, who am I to stop them? Maybe we'll get lucky, and the next version of Morpheus or Kazaa will automagically lock out any user that downloads it. That would provide a nice lesson. Would it be a virus? Well, you chose to download it and run it yourself. So, I say no.
What do you think?
They should be forced to come up with their own Linux distribution.
Honestly, I think the only reason there isn't a Microsoft Linux is PR. If they really want a monopoly, they wouldn't try and make everyone use their OS - they'd just take over and assimilate every other OS. Want unix? Use MSnix! Want Linux? Use MS Linux! Want MacOS? MS OS X!
Just make it the best, make it the cheapest, and then sell them MS "application solutions" or whatever they want to call it at the normal price.
Would I use MS Linux? Well, if it was as stable as my box now (running Mandrake 8.1), and it had interoperability with all of the Windows file formats, etc, I would. If it was superbloat? No. But it's hard to be superbloat and be stable too. But if it was just Mandrake with the MS logo, and a default install that provided easy access to all those proprietary file formats, it would be hard not to.
The easiest way to fool a shoulder surfer is to move your fingers one key to the left or right whenever you type your password. Makes it very difficult to follow the movements.
The best way to create a password is to come up with a passphrase that you'll remember. The password is then the first letter of each word in the phrase.
For example, I heard the song "Transylvanian Concubine" by Rasputina, and I told someone "I wish I had a Transylvanian Concubine." It was so funny we laughed at it, so my local password for a while was "IwIhaTC." Completely gibberish, but easy to remember.
It's easy to maintain multiple different passwords for different accounts/services by making up some phrase relating to the service you use, e.g. "Yahoo really sucks, but I like the games." would be "Yrs,bIltg." Or "YrsbIlg." if you have an eight character limit. Then whenever you're logging into the service you'll remember the password instantly.
And that way you don't have to write it down. The phrases are easy to come up with, but it's important to try and find a phrase that's hard to mutate (e.g. "I wish I had a Transylvanian Concubine." versus "I wish I was a Transylvanian Concubine."). You want to pick one that'll be remembered a specific way, and often times the easiest way to do it is to make sure the abbreviation is always a fixed number of characters (say, 8 or 14), one for each word and punctuation. That prevents you from adding in extra words, like "really": "Yahoo really sucks, but I really like the games." versus the above example. Or dropping words.
The most important thing is that anyone can do it without worrying too much about it.
...can't you just look over their shoulder? I mean really. If they aren't paranoid enough to pick a good password, then they won't care if you're standing right behind them.
Wasn't it a guy's memoirs? Can memoirs be fictionalized?
People just haven't started hijacking the fibre off the lines for their own inet.
:)
I'd do it if I knew how. Any good FAQs on it?
What does this teach you? While you're making that 6 figure salary, put some away for later use.
If he really wanted to let his friends use his mail, he'd setup SSH instead of an open relay, so they could SSH into his boxen, then mail from there.
Security is a 'good thing'. We don't need more virii being propagated, thanks.
Actually, all the Dragon Ball Z crap had nothing to do with Cartoon Network, and everything to do with Funimation, the U.S. company that bought the rights to the translation (dub'd and sub'd). Some of it's Cartoon Network (in the case of already released series, such as Tenchi), and some of it's not, in the case of Funimation.
And by the way, their voice actors all suck.
Looks like they enjoyed Amsterdam so much, they decided to go back a second time, just two months later.
Wonder why?
Actually, IANAL, but I think putting, "So and so writes,..." pretty much says straightforward that this may or may not include any fact what so ever. It would be considered heresay if it was tried to be used as fact. If you go read the article itself, that is often linked to, then that's a different story altogether.
I doubt VA would still run Slashdot if it were so risky as you make it out to be.