Do we really want the date to change in the middle of the day? No, that is not practical. Most of the world still runs based on sleeping when the sun is down, so the time zone system still works.
Yes, alternating directions. That assumes the drives are mounted vertically. If they're mounted horizontally, then yes, upside-down.
If they're using SSDs, then they need special leveling algorithms to keep the accesses spread out so that they don't get out of balance. If you access the left side of all your SSDs in the rack, the rack might fall over.:)
Google+ lets you specify which circles to share each post with. That's fine. Except that you don't share with circles, you share with people. This is a big difference, and a big problem.
Let me explain.
When you share something and say which circles to share it with, Google converts that into a list of all the people in those circles. This is all good and fine as long as your circles don't change. But suppose my mother joins, and I add her to my Family circle. I would expect her to be able to see photos that I've previously shared with my Family circle. No such luck. And suppose I realize that someone shouldn't be in a circle, I can remove them from the circle, but I can't stop them from seeing that post I just shared with that circle without removing the post.
Google needs to fix this so that posts are shared with circles, not people.
Here in New England, I would estimate that we have snow on the roof perhaps a third of the time when the heat is on, perhaps less. With sloped roofs, it doesn't take much to get them to clear off, especially if we have a few sunny days after a snow storm.
Yes, but how many of those are just resellers? Essentially, they a virtual carriers with roaming agreements with the ones that you've heard of. Some may have a small area of real service, but I doubt that many do.
This isn't search based on facial recognition, but on product recognition, or so it seems from what I've read so far. It will be interesting when you can point Google at a picture of someone and have it search for other pictures of the same person. Then check to see if you get different results with safe-search off. (I'm surprised that there isn't a dangerous search mode that only shows results that would be blocked by safe search.)
This would be a great contest for other games, especially ones that already have a computer player that, in theory, is supposed to be equivalent to the human player. When I played FreeCiv, I was thinking that it might be more fun to program a strategy than to play it live. You could then run tournaments among the different AIs, rank them, and then when playing for real, let the player select a skill level that determines which AIs are selected.
That might be complex, but some games, like Settlers of Catan would also work for this.
The law should be that if a company pays kickbacks to get a contract, they forfeit all proceeds from the contract. So if they bribe someone for a $450M contract, they then should be liable for the full amount. I'll talk to my state representative about that.
No, with the amount of money in the video game industry, I doubt that an NFL team would be able to compete with the development that goes into the big-name games. They might be able to buy a customized version of one that lets them run unattended simulations and such.
Yes, but the discussion isn't limited to staying within the lines drawn by the article. And if you're complaining about geeks, you shouldn't be visiting a web site owned by Geek Net.
That comment is far more insightful than you probably meant for it to be. The current generation of coaches learned to coach without computers. In a few years, the next generation will include people like you that have also played video game versions. With the accuracy of video game simulations improving all the time, more coaches will trust the instincts that they've learned are reliable in the video games, and the typical coaching strategy will change.
Take it a step further (which some NFL team will), and get a good video game (i.e., simulation) that includes the stats on all the players on both the home and opposing teams, and run lots of plays in the week before the game to see which ones tend to work better than usual with the expected lineups.
Baseball has long been a numbers game, primarily because so much of the game is a matter of batter vs. pitcher, so it's relatively easy to quantify. It's just a matter of time before other sports follow.
If this means more research into cheaply producing areogels, that would be great. This stuff is the best insulation material (for heat) imaginable. Put that in my walls and attic, and my heating bills would go way down. Too bad it's completely impractical right now. Develop a spray-on areogel that's inexpensive and fire resistant, and you would transform the building industry.
You can't do a secure erase from software, because data may still exist in blocks that were remapped by the firmware due to errors or for write leveling. When you write to an SSD, the new data goes in a free block, and the old block is marked free. To do a real secure erase, you have to work with the SSD firmware, and even then, you can't be sure if data may still exist on bad blocks that can't be written to.
So the only way to be sure is to physically destroy it, and flash is reliable enough that it's difficult to be certain that you've truly destroyed it.
So as everyone else is saying, the only good solution is to encrypt everything, and don't store the keys in flash.
It is very unlikely that Apple would do anything to make it easy to put a DVD on the iPad. They want you to obtain content like that through the iTunes store. Anything they can do to help kill physical media is good for Apple.
The differences are so minimal that I can hardly believe it matters. The only issue is if the difference between the new definition and previous measurements is statistically significant. If you can't show that that would be the case, then pick whatever number between the two measurements that is easiest to work with mathematically, perhaps one with the most zeros (in decimal, since the metric system is designed to work well with powers of 10).
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Should we really trust revocation of certificates?
It might make more sense to change domain names than to trust that the bogus certificates won't be used.
Do we really want the date to change in the middle of the day? No, that is not practical. Most of the world still runs based on sleeping when the sun is down, so the time zone system still works.
Yes, alternating directions. That assumes the drives are mounted vertically. If they're mounted horizontally, then yes, upside-down.
If they're using SSDs, then they need special leveling algorithms to keep the accesses spread out so that they don't get out of balance. If you access the left side of all your SSDs in the rack, the rack might fall over. :)
If the torque were an issue (which it's not), you could mount the drives in alternating directions to balance them out.
Google+ lets you specify which circles to share each post with. That's fine. Except that you don't share with circles, you share with people. This is a big difference, and a big problem.
Let me explain.
When you share something and say which circles to share it with, Google converts that into a list of all the people in those circles. This is all good and fine as long as your circles don't change. But suppose my mother joins, and I add her to my Family circle. I would expect her to be able to see photos that I've previously shared with my Family circle. No such luck. And suppose I realize that someone shouldn't be in a circle, I can remove them from the circle, but I can't stop them from seeing that post I just shared with that circle without removing the post.
Google needs to fix this so that posts are shared with circles, not people.
I saw a bunch of posts mentioning Google being grouped together, which seemed silly.
Yes, but you can use the device's MAC address. It shouldn't be too difficult to determine the ranges used for iPhones.
Here in New England, I would estimate that we have snow on the roof perhaps a third of the time when the heat is on, perhaps less. With sloped roofs, it doesn't take much to get them to clear off, especially if we have a few sunny days after a snow storm.
Yes, but how many of those are just resellers? Essentially, they a virtual carriers with roaming agreements with the ones that you've heard of. Some may have a small area of real service, but I doubt that many do.
You mean like Google Talk? I use that, as it's the only solution that I've found that works on Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux.
This isn't search based on facial recognition, but on product recognition, or so it seems from what I've read so far. It will be interesting when you can point Google at a picture of someone and have it search for other pictures of the same person. Then check to see if you get different results with safe-search off. (I'm surprised that there isn't a dangerous search mode that only shows results that would be blocked by safe search.)
This would be a great contest for other games, especially ones that already have a computer player that, in theory, is supposed to be equivalent to the human player. When I played FreeCiv, I was thinking that it might be more fun to program a strategy than to play it live. You could then run tournaments among the different AIs, rank them, and then when playing for real, let the player select a skill level that determines which AIs are selected.
That might be complex, but some games, like Settlers of Catan would also work for this.
At least the full amount.
The law should be that if a company pays kickbacks to get a contract, they forfeit all proceeds from the contract. So if they bribe someone for a $450M contract, they then should be liable for the full amount. I'll talk to my state representative about that.
I'm very glad that my phone has a real IP address, so I can ssh into it. Thanks, Sprint.
That said, I wouldn't mind if it were IPv6, but I would be annoyed if it were through a NAT.
That may be true now, but will it be in five years?
No, with the amount of money in the video game industry, I doubt that an NFL team would be able to compete with the development that goes into the big-name games. They might be able to buy a customized version of one that lets them run unattended simulations and such.
Yes, but the discussion isn't limited to staying within the lines drawn by the article. And if you're complaining about geeks, you shouldn't be visiting a web site owned by Geek Net.
That comment is far more insightful than you probably meant for it to be. The current generation of coaches learned to coach without computers. In a few years, the next generation will include people like you that have also played video game versions. With the accuracy of video game simulations improving all the time, more coaches will trust the instincts that they've learned are reliable in the video games, and the typical coaching strategy will change.
Take it a step further (which some NFL team will), and get a good video game (i.e., simulation) that includes the stats on all the players on both the home and opposing teams, and run lots of plays in the week before the game to see which ones tend to work better than usual with the expected lineups.
Baseball has long been a numbers game, primarily because so much of the game is a matter of batter vs. pitcher, so it's relatively easy to quantify. It's just a matter of time before other sports follow.
If this means more research into cheaply producing areogels, that would be great. This stuff is the best insulation material (for heat) imaginable. Put that in my walls and attic, and my heating bills would go way down. Too bad it's completely impractical right now. Develop a spray-on areogel that's inexpensive and fire resistant, and you would transform the building industry.
Copper cables and connectors are cheap. Much cheaper than optical. The advantages of optical would only be used by a very tiny portion of the market.
I also wonder if the copper version carries power like USB does?
You can't do a secure erase from software, because data may still exist in blocks that were remapped by the firmware due to errors or for write leveling. When you write to an SSD, the new data goes in a free block, and the old block is marked free. To do a real secure erase, you have to work with the SSD firmware, and even then, you can't be sure if data may still exist on bad blocks that can't be written to.
So the only way to be sure is to physically destroy it, and flash is reliable enough that it's difficult to be certain that you've truly destroyed it.
So as everyone else is saying, the only good solution is to encrypt everything, and don't store the keys in flash.
It is very unlikely that Apple would do anything to make it easy to put a DVD on the iPad. They want you to obtain content like that through the iTunes store. Anything they can do to help kill physical media is good for Apple.
So users should respond by adding a "0." to the front of all the version numbers.
The differences are so minimal that I can hardly believe it matters. The only issue is if the difference between the new definition and previous measurements is statistically significant. If you can't show that that would be the case, then pick whatever number between the two measurements that is easiest to work with mathematically, perhaps one with the most zeros (in decimal, since the metric system is designed to work well with powers of 10).