I have gotten the impression that these P2P networks are not good netizens. I access the net via a dial-up connection. Within a few minutes of logging on yesterday morning, I found myself dealing with what appeared to be a DOS attack on port 6346 coming from an adsl connection in Lithuania. I have that port blocked, so I was seeing a large queue of security alerts from my firewall. This has not been the first time this has happened with one of the P2P ports. Shto/WTFO?
Hmm... WinNT was supposedly C2 when running on a special hardware configuration that blocked the usual vulnerabilities. Of course, it was supposed to be isolated from network access, but that allowed it to be used by J Random Luser without the crown jewels being vulnerable to an exploit. Looks like it might not have been that good.
I was involved in the Schmitz project, and have been watching events at Baen. Eric Flint indicates that the underlying idea is similar to that followed by some drug kingpins--free samples to hook the user. It seems to be working.
I've given up on trying to understand the justification for a lot of these policies. As far as I can tell, most are attempts to reduce upward social mobility. Back in the 1970s, we had a joke in America: "The War on Poverty is over. The poor lost."
Amen, brother--been there; done that. (In my case, it was only 3000 miles.) You are likely to have three problems: 1. The qualifications of the off-shore programmers may be questionable, 2. The lack of direct supervision will mean that corrective action may be a serious problem, and 3. It may be very difficult to motivate the off-shore programmers to put in the extra effort needed to get done on time.
>From someone who has played them, how does Chess compare to Go or Shogi in terms of depth and style of play?
--Shogi has about the depth of chess, but it's really different in its tactics. The fact that lost pieces can be used against you means that the game is much more decisive. Go, on the other hand, is much deeper than chess, uses human pattern recognition skills much more intensively, and emphasizes strategy to a much greater degree than chess.
I've been playing around with Gnu Chess and Sigma Chess 6.0 to see how the game has changed since I last played competitively. At that time, I was playing at an expert level, but now I'm having difficulty beating the machine when it plays at 1200. It might be that I'm 40 years out of date, but I'm not sure that's everything--the chessplaying programs are really hard to beat tactically. So how do people beat them?
My take is that MS is getting serious about standards compliance and quality in a number of areas. Hiring Herb is one of those high-profile actions that sends a message to the troops.
Baen is the only publisher I know of that is experimenting with new web-based business models. Baen's reprints of older SF authors that it is currently producing under Eric Flint's editorial guidance reflect a recent discovery that word of mouth works very well on the web and on usenet and produces spectacular sell-through. (I'm currently looking for an MSc student to explore this for me in more detail.)
I've been teaching computer science courses for years. I also have a background working on life-critical systems. Doing lots of coding projects is key to becoming skilled, but lends itself to cheating. The way I've learned to deal with this is: 1. Use exams as my primary tool for identifying those students who may have done well on projects but haven't learned the material. 2. Be explicit about my attitude towards cheating on projects--and (*this is important*) why-- 3. And punish infractions based on the severity and intent. I call this the soccer ref style. It usually seems to work.
Probably the case. I run Windows 98 using VPC 5.0 on my Mac, and it runs for weeks without crashing. That tells you where a lot of the Windows instability comes from.
The Nash Equilibrium is a very strange beast. It's a solution to the non-zero-sum game corresponding generally to a solution to the zero-sum game, but nastier. Interestingly, a number of the workers in Game Theory, in ESS Theory, and more generally in sociobiology have had similar mental illnesses. I suspect it has something to do with the nature of the problems game theorists like to work on.
Actually, I do it all the time on my UNIX laptop (Macintosh PowerBook G4 running MacOS X). I also run a Windows 98 box in emulation (VPC 5.0.2) pretty constantly on the G4, so I have two options: run the process on the emulated box and be able to recover after a shutdown, or run it on the PowerBook and use sleep.
The until-now-free Macintosh web site MacFixit.com is going subscription for similar reasons. Even though it's not as vulnerable to consumer fickleness as Yahoo, it's still dependent on its consumers for its information. The problem is that if you want to charge, you have to provide added value for the money. Otherwise the consumer will move to the free sites or even USENET.
My configuration consists of Mac OS X (BSD UNIX) as my base system + Windows 98 running in VPC 5.0 + Mac OS 9.2.2 running in Classic. Really stable (even the Windows 98 for some reason), and I can run anything I need. DirectX 8 runs fine.
My point is that I have the best of all worlds. I can even run multiple X86 operating systems (Linux, OS/2, various Windoze, DOS) at the same time if I want.
byolinux indicates: "I gotta say, that running Virtual PC on one of those, would certainly solve a lot of my problems."
That's exactly what I do. I'm currently running Civ3 in its own window that way. The terminal window gives me access to UNIX, and I have all my productivity applications accessible through the dock.
I felt that way until Mac OS X 10.1 came out and the vendors really began supporting it. At that point, almost all my productivity applications (MS Office, Virtual PC, Metrowerks Codewarrior, GraphicConverter, NOW, etc.) had finally been ported over and I didn't need Classic for much. Now I run days at a time between restarts, and if you're were used to Windoze or Mac OS 9.2, that's really an improvement. VPC gives me my Windoze software, and OSX gives a me terminal window with UNIX. OSX is really up to snuff.
I agree. I'm particularly interested in the evidence on short-term learning. This may connect to the work on microtubules, since the neurons seemed to show fast physical changes in response to Hebbian and anti-Hebbian stimuli. Unfortunately, I don't have easy access to Neuron here at Sunderland. My interest involves fast modulation of afferent signals in the early auditory system of bats, so it's probably relevant.
I've worked with children with these problems, both prior to and during my PhD in neuroscience. The rate data cited appear to indicate a combination of genetic and environmental causes similar to those seen for most diseases, including most cancers. Note that untangling environmental and genetic causes can be difficult--twins share a womb, so maternal effects (which are environmental) might be scored as genetic.
On the other hand, genetic susceptability, triggered by something environmental, seems indicated. The mechanism could be one of a couple of processes: neural development or the development of neural connectivity (the brain adjusts its general connectivity to handle the range of sensory input that it receives, and it also rewires itself slowly during learning). The evidence for miswiring in these syndromes is strong enough that it probably isn't just something learned, but instead something about the development of the brain. And that's bad. It could reflect patterns of stimuli, but it more likely involves chemistry.
Agreed. The current word in the media is that it wasn't a terrorist attack, but I'm worried about it having been a Stinger missile or an explosive device. I don't know what to suggest as countermeasures for either, but I suspect federalizing airport security is an idea whose time has come, despite the political dogfight currently going on in Washington.
I bought a 100 for one of my sons and a 1400 for me to do my dissertation on. Then came an iBook that another son bought. Next a G3 400 bronze keyboard to finish my dissertation on. Finally a G4 500 for me and two new iBooks for two sons living at home. The G3 400 now sits in a desk drawer as a backup and to play DVDs on. (It's region-free.) I love being able to run classic MacOS, UNIX (MacOS X), or Win 98 (VPC) on the same machine as needed...
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I have gotten the impression that these P2P networks are not good netizens. I access the net via a dial-up connection. Within a few minutes of logging on yesterday morning, I found myself dealing with what appeared to be a DOS attack on port 6346 coming from an adsl connection in Lithuania. I have that port blocked, so I was seeing a large queue of security alerts from my firewall. This has not been the first time this has happened with one of the P2P ports. Shto/WTFO?
Hmm... WinNT was supposedly C2 when running on a special hardware configuration that blocked the usual vulnerabilities. Of course, it was supposed to be isolated from network access, but that allowed it to be used by J Random Luser without the crown jewels being vulnerable to an exploit. Looks like it might not have been that good.
How does the new Mac look?
I was involved in the Schmitz project, and have been watching events at Baen. Eric Flint indicates that the underlying idea is similar to that followed by some drug kingpins--free samples to hook the user. It seems to be working.
I've given up on trying to understand the justification for a lot of these policies. As far as I can tell, most are attempts to reduce upward social mobility. Back in the 1970s, we had a joke in America: "The War on Poverty is over. The poor lost."
Amen, brother--been there; done that. (In my case, it was only 3000 miles.) You are likely to have three problems:
1. The qualifications of the off-shore programmers may be questionable,
2. The lack of direct supervision will mean that corrective action may be a serious problem, and
3. It may be very difficult to motivate the off-shore programmers to put in the extra effort needed to get done on time.
>From someone who has played them, how does Chess compare to Go or Shogi in terms of depth and style of play?
--Shogi has about the depth of chess, but it's really different in its tactics. The fact that lost pieces can be used against you means that the game is much more decisive. Go, on the other hand, is much deeper than chess, uses human pattern recognition skills much more intensively, and emphasizes strategy to a much greater degree than chess.
I've been playing around with Gnu Chess and Sigma Chess 6.0 to see how the game has changed since I last played competitively. At that time, I was playing at an expert level, but now I'm having difficulty beating the machine when it plays at 1200. It might be that I'm 40 years out of date, but I'm not sure that's everything--the chessplaying programs are really hard to beat tactically. So how do people beat them?
It doesn't hurt to verify something as basic as neutrino oscillation. It implies other particles (such as protons) are not stable.
Routledge is the publisher. It's probably out of print by now. Get it from a library.
My take is that MS is getting serious about standards compliance and quality in a number of areas. Hiring Herb is one of those high-profile actions that sends a message to the troops.
Baen is the only publisher I know of that is experimenting with new web-based business models. Baen's reprints of older SF authors that it is currently producing under Eric Flint's editorial guidance reflect a recent discovery that word of mouth works very well on the web and on usenet and produces spectacular sell-through. (I'm currently looking for an MSc student to explore this for me in more detail.)
I've been teaching computer science courses for years. I also have a background working on life-critical systems. Doing lots of coding projects is key to becoming skilled, but lends itself to cheating. The way I've learned to deal with this is:
1. Use exams as my primary tool for identifying those students who may have done well on projects but haven't learned the material.
2. Be explicit about my attitude towards cheating on projects--and (*this is important*) why--
3. And punish infractions based on the severity and intent.
I call this the soccer ref style. It usually seems to work.
See my paper in Time, Process, and Structured Transformation in Archaeology. 8)
Probably the case. I run Windows 98 using VPC 5.0 on my Mac, and it runs for weeks without crashing. That tells you where a lot of the Windows instability comes from.
The Nash Equilibrium is a very strange beast. It's a solution to the non-zero-sum game corresponding generally to a solution to the zero-sum game, but nastier. Interestingly, a number of the workers in Game Theory, in ESS Theory, and more generally in sociobiology have had similar mental illnesses. I suspect it has something to do with the nature of the problems game theorists like to work on.
Actually, I do it all the time on my UNIX laptop (Macintosh PowerBook G4 running MacOS X). I also run a Windows 98 box in emulation (VPC 5.0.2) pretty constantly on the G4, so I have two options: run the process on the emulated box and be able to recover after a shutdown, or run it on the PowerBook and use sleep.
The until-now-free Macintosh web site MacFixit.com is going subscription for similar reasons. Even though it's not as vulnerable to consumer fickleness as Yahoo, it's still dependent on its consumers for its information. The problem is that if you want to charge, you have to provide added value for the money. Otherwise the consumer will move to the free sites or even USENET.
My point is that I have the best of all worlds. I can even run multiple X86 operating systems (Linux, OS/2, various Windoze, DOS) at the same time if I want.
That's exactly what I do. I'm currently running Civ3 in its own window that way. The terminal window gives me access to UNIX, and I have all my productivity applications accessible through the dock.
I felt that way until Mac OS X 10.1 came out and the vendors really began supporting it. At that point, almost all my productivity applications (MS Office, Virtual PC, Metrowerks Codewarrior, GraphicConverter, NOW, etc.) had finally been ported over and I didn't need Classic for much. Now I run days at a time between restarts, and if you're were used to Windoze or Mac OS 9.2, that's really an improvement. VPC gives me my Windoze software, and OSX gives a me terminal window with UNIX. OSX is really up to snuff.
I agree. I'm particularly interested in the evidence on short-term learning. This may connect to the work on microtubules, since the neurons seemed to show fast physical changes in response to Hebbian and anti-Hebbian stimuli. Unfortunately, I don't have easy access to Neuron here at Sunderland. My interest involves fast modulation of afferent signals in the early auditory system of bats, so it's probably relevant.
Does this relate to the problem with SafeDisk II copy protection on games preventing them from being played from DVD drives?
I've worked with children with these problems, both prior to and during my PhD in neuroscience. The rate data cited appear to indicate a combination of genetic and environmental causes similar to those seen for most diseases, including most cancers. Note that untangling environmental and genetic causes can be difficult--twins share a womb, so maternal effects (which are environmental) might be scored as genetic.
On the other hand, genetic susceptability, triggered by something environmental, seems indicated. The mechanism could be one of a couple of processes: neural development or the development of neural connectivity (the brain adjusts its general connectivity to handle the range of sensory input that it receives, and it also rewires itself slowly during learning). The evidence for miswiring in these syndromes is strong enough that it probably isn't just something learned, but instead something about the development of the brain. And that's bad. It could reflect patterns of stimuli, but it more likely involves chemistry.
It's definitely worth following up.
Agreed. The current word in the media is that it wasn't a terrorist attack, but I'm worried about it having been a Stinger missile or an explosive device. I don't know what to suggest as countermeasures for either, but I suspect federalizing airport security is an idea whose time has come, despite the political dogfight currently going on in Washington.
I bought a 100 for one of my sons and a 1400 for me to do my dissertation on. Then came an iBook that another son bought. Next a G3 400 bronze keyboard to finish my dissertation on. Finally a G4 500 for me and two new iBooks for two sons living at home. The G3 400 now sits in a desk drawer as a backup and to play DVDs on. (It's region-free.) I love being able to run classic MacOS, UNIX (MacOS X), or Win 98 (VPC) on the same machine as needed...