I wrote a simple graphics program in Java that behaves very odd under Linux. What happens is the application requests a number of edges and then draws a polygon which rotates the even numbered vertices clockwise and odd numbered vertices anti clockwise . This was done at the same speed to create a kind of neat kalidescope (sp?) graphic. This is a very simple 10-15 line program. Well, it originally worked fine when I had Mandrake 7.1 with the JDK 1.3 RPM that Sun released in October when I tested it. So for various reasons, I re-installed my Mandrake system and re-installed the same JDK. Now the program will not work properly, it only rotates if an odd number of edges are entered and when it does that, it doesn't display the graphic properly. Switching between native and green threads doesn't help it. I'm mystified.
You are an idiot. The cable itself is far cheaper than the act of laying thousands of miles of it in the bottom of the ocean. It would make a lot more sense to go ahead and lay a second cable at the same time as the first.
The pot calling the kettle black?
Actually cable is not cheaper then laying it. Assuming they are using single mode fibre as opposed to multimode step index or multimode grade index fibre they are probably paying something like $74AUD per meter.
Won't Chris McKinstry be proud when his or (insert your favourite) networked AI project gets enough mindpixels to become self aware, work out within.003 seconds that humans are a "disease", crack thousands of computers, locate at least one that is hooked up to an RF receiver to re-task those fighters. Oh the encryption? That was broken using trojaned SETI@Home or distributed.net that our AI project "SkyNet" took over. Piece of cake.
No amount of safeguards will prevent this or a similiar scenario, given enough time and stupidity by a bunch of redneck warmongers who know nothing about technology.
This should be marked as "insightful" not "funny".
Most Soviet computing technology of this era was obtained from the US by Soviet spies (KGB, GRU). Most of the stuff they independantly designed was special purpose stuff for the military. Probably still classified. An interesting book about this is the "Mitrokhin Archive".
It would be nice if those guys with the source shot a few copies off to say the WINE team and anyone else who needed details of undocumented M$ API stuff. The fact of the matter is, this is one thing justice should have forced them disclose a long time ago. M$'s main benefit in the marketplace is it's control of the mainstream application market.
There is a pretty intense book about Everest. It tells the true story about the events surrounding the tragedy when famous kiwi mountaineer Rob Hall and American Scott Fischer died on a summit attempt on Everest in 1996.
- We've got the big "E" all figured out.
Legendary climber, Scott Fisher, circa 1995.
Mother nature it seems, is not without a sense of irony.
The book -- Into thin air. Jon Krakauer.
There is an excellent open source Winblows encryption program called scramdisk. (www.scramdisk.clara.net) I believe they are porting it to linux. The nice thing about it is it mounts a file as a partition, and it's simple enough to back up that file so you don't have to worry about data integrity issues preventing you from decryption. I haven't read the howto yet but I hope it works the same way.....Rather then actually partitioning off part of the disk geometry.
Yeah I know the book you mean. It was edited by Martin Greenberg. (Pretty sure it was Greenberg, I don't know about Martin). Had all sorts of other authors. There was (I think), 3 of them. Titles were something like Adventures of Batman 1 & 2, and the Complete stories of the Joker. Try this one, though the cover looks different. Maybe it's another printing. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1567310761/ ref=sim_books/104-4876177-8038311
3COM should be where CISCO systems is now...Why aren't they? Bad leadership.
(this is paraphrasing an article by Bob Metcalfe, talking about when he was in charge of 3COM).
What is it with Inprise/Borland and corporate reversals? First Corel and now this. Obviously there is a lack of strong leadership in the company. Senior management must have absolutely no cajones at all. I feel a management shakeout coming. I wonder if my broker will be able to get me some shares that I can sell short on Monday...
SpeakFreely is a multi-architechture open source program that deserves mention. It supports crypto and is primarily designed for voice chat but also includes IM type messaging.
A more immediate scenario would be body-builders injecting an inhibitor to this protein or a virus programmed to knock out the gene into their muscle tissue. This is not really any stranger than what is already going on in the sporting world at the moment anyway, so I shouldn't think one more treatment of this kind would make all that much difference. This post should be moderated up. Super-humans are already here. Bodybuilders who inject GH, steroids (testosterone analogs), Insulin, IGF-1, and every other new drug use this kind of stuff regularly. And why not? It's their body's.
They would forget about their software strategy, build a KILLER transmeta based native system with a Y2K video toaster, one of the "user friendly" linux distros (Mandrake, Corel) and lots of open source video editing software and some games. Then put the whole shebang in a chassis that looked like it fell out of a time warp from 2050 and market it to the mainstream. It would fill a great niche. Oh it would have to have support for clustering of course...
Yeah. It had to be. This sort of thing has Skaggs written all over it. Read this article . It's hilarious. The reporter who wrote is must be a complete pinhead. Read these choicy paragraphs: Never married, Walker also jokes that a successful flight would help him meet women: "The rocket will make me a babe magnet. . . . I think it's going to take machismo to a new height." Charlie Walker, an engineer who made three space shuttle flights in the 1980s when he worked for McDonnell Douglas, met Brian Walker last year at a space tourism symposium in Washington, D.C. When was the last time McDonnell douglas sent an engineer into space? Especially one with the same last name as rockeyboy?? Ahhhhh. DUPED. Suckers. Probably shouldn't expose it. It'd be in the New York Times tommorow.
I just wish they would make the bookmark manager a little more robust, then I would just start using mozilla milestones as my primary browser. Right now I think it renders stuff at least as good as NS4.72.
I just don't find a level of awareness amongst conventional Windows programmers. How insightful. I agree. IMHO 5 years ago, people with CS degrees were more likely to be in slashdot parlance, well..geeks. Nowadays, every johhny punchclock who wants to make some quick money is in the field and has no interest in elegant solutions, intereesting problems, killer apps, etc. If you know MS SQL server you are all set. Duh, What's an ACID test?? uh-will taking some goldenseal herb *FIX* that up?
Mr. Adams: I really enjoyed your books. I am interested in any "techniques" you use to get your creative juices flowing. (i.e. Beating up old ladies?). Are there any tips you would like to share with those of us aspiring writers interested in enhancing the creative process? My biggest problem seems to be I never know which voice I'm supposed to be speaking in, the first, 2nd, or 3rd and I'm the one writing the bloody thing.
Re:Chess has already been conquered. Humans lose!
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I completely disagree. The first time Gary played deep blue in the rematch, he won. A strong player like Gary could have easily forced draws the next five games, but instead Gary chose to play more aggressively and hence a riskier fashion and lost the match 3.5(DB)-2.5(GK). I, and many others believe that if Gary Kasparov were to play deep blue again, he would win. This is why: The art of learning how to play chess against a computer is a new one. Strong computers have only been around for a short period of time. There are techniques that professional chess players have developed to "beat" strong computer chess opponents like Fritz and Junior. These strategy's are things like, playing strange openings such as the double fianchetto, long term strategy planning and "closed games" which computers are notoriously poor at playing and the technique of sacrificing the exchange for position, to name a few. Keeping a game complex and tactical will confuse the computer and prevent it from capitalizing on it's powerful tactical engine which works best in clear cut, open scenarios. These are but a few of the techniques. Regularly playing Fritz, Junior and Shredder will also keep one on their toes against a computer. Although Moore's law dictates computer's will become fearlessly powerful, their is nothing that says that we cannot use our own ingenuity to advance the evolution of our own mind. An excellent way to do this is through chess.
One time I was in New Zealand, walking down the street killing some time, when I saw a large sandwichboard for "FREE IQ TESTS - administered by a professional". Despite my belief that IQ tests are not really true measures of intelligence, it piqued my curiousity and I decided to "take the test". After going into this commercial building, I was given the most pathetic excuse for a IQ test ever, and then 'lectured' about the benefits of conversion to Scientology for about 30 minutes, asking me personal questions and trying to be my buddy. After trying to politely leave halfway through their spiel, they all lined up in front of me and wouldn't let me leave, all the while telling me all sorts of the usual mumbo-jumbo, trying to get me to sit back down. I had had enough. I pushed past them in disgust and threw the books they tried to force down my throat into a garbage bin outside. One strange thing I noticed however, out of about 15 scientologists that seemed to be at this revival meeting, about 3 of them were thalidomide victims. Does scientology specifically target the feeble?
The good old days (Manhattan Project/Tube Alloys)
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A comment Enricho Fermi made just prior to the first successful nuclear explosion, that of the Trinity bomb in New Mexico:
"It was considered possible that it could ignite the atmosphere and turn the entire earth into one giant fireball, but we had to try."
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Very, very odd. Anyone have any idea?
The pot calling the kettle black?
Actually cable is not cheaper then laying it. Assuming they are using single mode fibre as opposed to multimode step index or multimode grade index fibre they are probably paying something like $74AUD per meter.
This should be marked as "insightful" not "funny".
Most Soviet computing technology of this era was obtained from the US by Soviet spies (KGB, GRU). Most of the stuff they independantly designed was special purpose stuff for the military. Probably still classified. An interesting book about this is the "Mitrokhin Archive".
It would be nice if those guys with the source shot a few copies off to say the WINE team and anyone else who needed details of undocumented M$ API stuff. The fact of the matter is, this is one thing justice should have forced them disclose a long time ago. M$'s main benefit in the marketplace is it's control of the mainstream application market.
There is a pretty intense book about Everest. It tells the true story about the events surrounding the tragedy when famous kiwi mountaineer Rob Hall and American Scott Fischer died on a summit attempt on Everest in 1996. - We've got the big "E" all figured out. Legendary climber, Scott Fisher, circa 1995. Mother nature it seems, is not without a sense of irony. The book -- Into thin air. Jon Krakauer.
Nonsense. When IBM was first contracted to develop DES it was developed with a 128 bit key. The NSA forced IBM to lower it.
There is an excellent open source Winblows encryption program called scramdisk. (www.scramdisk.clara.net) I believe they are porting it to linux. The nice thing about it is it mounts a file as a partition, and it's simple enough to back up that file so you don't have to worry about data integrity issues preventing you from decryption. I haven't read the howto yet but I hope it works the same way.....Rather then actually partitioning off part of the disk geometry.
Yeah I know the book you mean. It was edited by Martin Greenberg. (Pretty sure it was Greenberg, I don't know about Martin). Had all sorts of other authors. There was (I think), 3 of them. Titles were something like Adventures of Batman 1 & 2, and the Complete stories of the Joker. Try this one, though the cover looks different. Maybe it's another printing. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1567310761/ ref=sim_books/104-4876177-8038311
3COM should be where CISCO systems is now...Why aren't they? Bad leadership. (this is paraphrasing an article by Bob Metcalfe, talking about when he was in charge of 3COM).
What is it with Inprise/Borland and corporate reversals? First Corel and now this. Obviously there is a lack of strong leadership in the company. Senior management must have absolutely no cajones at all. I feel a management shakeout coming. I wonder if my broker will be able to get me some shares that I can sell short on Monday...
SpeakFreely is a multi-architechture open source program that deserves mention. It supports crypto and is primarily designed for voice chat but also includes IM type messaging.
A more immediate scenario would be body-builders injecting an inhibitor to this protein or a virus programmed to knock out the gene into their muscle tissue. This is not really any stranger than what is already going on in the sporting world at the moment anyway, so I shouldn't think one more treatment of this kind would make all that much difference.
This post should be moderated up. Super-humans are already here. Bodybuilders who inject GH, steroids (testosterone analogs), Insulin, IGF-1, and every other new drug use this kind of stuff regularly. And why not? It's their body's.
They would forget about their software strategy, build a KILLER transmeta based native system with a Y2K video toaster, one of the "user friendly" linux distros (Mandrake, Corel) and lots of open source video editing software and some games. Then put the whole shebang in a chassis that looked like it fell out of a time warp from 2050 and market it to the mainstream. It would fill a great niche. Oh it would have to have support for clustering of course...
Yeah. It had to be. This sort of thing has Skaggs written all over it. Read this article . It's hilarious. The reporter who wrote is must be a complete pinhead. Read these choicy paragraphs:
Never married, Walker also jokes that a successful flight would help him meet women: "The rocket will make me a babe magnet. . . . I think it's going to take machismo to a new height."
Charlie Walker, an engineer who made three space shuttle flights in the 1980s when he worked for McDonnell Douglas, met Brian Walker last year at a space tourism symposium in Washington, D.C.
When was the last time McDonnell douglas sent an engineer into space? Especially one with the same last name as rockeyboy?? Ahhhhh. DUPED. Suckers. Probably shouldn't expose it. It'd be in the New York Times tommorow.
I just wish they would make the bookmark manager a little more robust, then I would just start using mozilla milestones as my primary browser. Right now I think it renders stuff at least as good as NS4.72.
I just don't find a level of awareness amongst conventional Windows programmers. How insightful. I agree. IMHO 5 years ago, people with CS degrees were more likely to be in slashdot parlance, well..geeks. Nowadays, every johhny punchclock who wants to make some quick money is in the field and has no interest in elegant solutions, intereesting problems, killer apps, etc. If you know MS SQL server you are all set. Duh, What's an ACID test?? uh-will taking some goldenseal herb *FIX* that up?
Mr. Adams: I really enjoyed your books. I am interested in any "techniques" you use to get your creative juices flowing. (i.e. Beating up old ladies?). Are there any tips you would like to share with those of us aspiring writers interested in enhancing the creative process? My biggest problem seems to be I never know which voice I'm supposed to be speaking in, the first, 2nd, or 3rd and I'm the one writing the bloody thing.
I completely disagree. The first time Gary played deep blue in the rematch, he won. A strong player like Gary could have easily forced draws the next five games, but instead Gary chose to play more aggressively and hence a riskier fashion and lost the match 3.5(DB)-2.5(GK). I, and many others believe that if Gary Kasparov were to play deep blue again, he would win. This is why: The art of learning how to play chess against a computer is a new one. Strong computers have only been around for a short period of time. There are techniques that professional chess players have developed to "beat" strong computer chess opponents like Fritz and Junior. These strategy's are things like, playing strange openings such as the double fianchetto, long term strategy planning and "closed games" which computers are notoriously poor at playing and the technique of sacrificing the exchange for position, to name a few. Keeping a game complex and tactical will confuse the computer and prevent it from capitalizing on it's powerful tactical engine which works best in clear cut, open scenarios. These are but a few of the techniques. Regularly playing Fritz, Junior and Shredder will also keep one on their toes against a computer. Although Moore's law dictates computer's will become fearlessly powerful, their is nothing that says that we cannot use our own ingenuity to advance the evolution of our own mind. An excellent way to do this is through chess.
One time I was in New Zealand, walking down the street killing some time, when I saw a large sandwichboard for "FREE IQ TESTS - administered by a professional". Despite my belief that IQ tests are not really true measures of intelligence, it piqued my curiousity and I decided to "take the test". After going into this commercial building, I was given the most pathetic excuse for a IQ test ever, and then 'lectured' about the benefits of conversion to Scientology for about 30 minutes, asking me personal questions and trying to be my buddy. After trying to politely leave halfway through their spiel, they all lined up in front of me and wouldn't let me leave, all the while telling me all sorts of the usual mumbo-jumbo, trying to get me to sit back down. I had had enough. I pushed past them in disgust and threw the books they tried to force down my throat into a garbage bin outside. One strange thing I noticed however, out of about 15 scientologists that seemed to be at this revival meeting, about 3 of them were thalidomide victims. Does scientology specifically target the feeble?
"It was considered possible that it could ignite the atmosphere and turn the entire earth into one giant fireball, but we had to try."