Medtronic Inc., Minneapolis, demonstrated the Chronicle, an implantable heart-monitoring device now being clinically tested by physicians in applications where it
transmits critical patient information to secure Internet sites.
So how exactly do you get a denial of service attack against a system that only transmits and does not receive or process requests?
How about reporting news without inserting redundant pokes at certain software simply for the shock/sarcasm/controversy value?
A whole 5 levels, and WAY too much wood required to do anything.
Yes, I agree on that point. You need stupid amounts of wood. Add to the way the 'advisors' tell you useless things like 'we're running out of wood'... but don't tell you which effing village is out of wood. After a while you have stacks of villages, but still have generic messages that don't tell you where to look.
And how do you become evil? I taught my creature to eat people, I destroy entire villages, I set people on fire, fling them into mountains, sacrifice 'em all over the place, starve them to death and I'm a GOOD God? They got some good weed down at Lionhead, uh-huh.
I don't know what you're doing, but I'm on the 4th world and my god's hand looks pretty damn evil... lots of icky veins and so on.
Burn villages, electrocute children, throw around
the elderly, get your giant cow to eat the innocent, that sort of thing.
I wasn't even trying to be evil, those damn villagers just got in the way:-p It's not my fault they're impressed by carnage:-p
I've only got experience of a mouse with gesture recognition, so I can't speak for any other device.
What I have seen is how much the 'refresh rate' of the mouse's position (temporal frequency?) affects the usability of gestures.
I've bought Black and White, and it has serious issues on Windows 2000. As in it doesn't run at all. Fantastic.
I've got a triple-boot machine (Slackware/Win98/Win2k), so I'm forced to run B&W in Windows 98 where the update rate of the mouse is pretty appalling.
Getting B&W to recognise some of the more complex gestures is a pain because the time between updates of mouse position gives the gesture considerably more 'jaggy' edges, making it look less like what you actually did with the mouse.
Windows 2000 has the refresh rate pretty high, so I'd have thought it's far easier to use gestures successfully on there.
I've not used the mouse much under Linux; my dedicated Linux box doesn't have a monitor, let alone a mouse, I just use it over ssh or X-Win32, so I don't know if the PS/2 refresh rate has been increased (or is configurable); the last I saw was that it wasn't particularly fast.
Opera's gestures are fairly simple (so far), not nearly as complex as some of B&W's gestures, so the rate isn't as critical. But, add more complex ones and you will see the difference.
It's not a new technology by any stretch of the imaginatio (emacs strokes mode anyone?) but it's very useful; even something as simple as Opera's 'back' gesture is so convenient, I wonder 'why didn't they put this in earlier!'.
Nice one Mr. Molyneux; he was always the king of games back in the good old days of Atari STs, and now something from his latest game seems to have started a bit of trend elsewhere in the software business.
There was the paper (abstract here, paper here (PDF)) mentioned in the Slashdot article here about the resilience of the 'net; crash 99% of the nodes at random and it'll still run. Which isn't bad.
Problem is of course when you crash the <1% of nodes that actually do the major routing.
Routing's getting hairier and hairier; it should really get fun once IPv6 kicks off and everyone and their dog have a squillion IP addresses each.
Just checking, but I hope you mean you can get a better bandwith increase by using multiple frequencies (than by increasing the speed of transmission)
Hm, yes, that's what I meant, looking back at what I said it doesn't look like it though.
The top speed of this application is limited by the speed of light. There is no way to make this application go faster short of altering physics as we know it."
The customer was a bit angry (lots of dollars spent)
"We've spent so much money, can't you get us some, um, extra-fast light or something?"
I know this isn't feasible (at least, not yet), but is the next step going to be to try to get light to travel through a vaccuum?
I understand (with my crude understanding of physics) that the more 'stuff' you have in the way of the photons, the more it gets blocked. What if there were a way to take everything out of the light's path?
Yes, that'd be fun. All you'd need is a vacuum in a perfect straight line from you to the target system.:-p
Or a very long tube, with perfectly mirrored insides, and a vacuum all the way down the centre - not exactly easy to manufacture, and it'd be pretty delicate.
Speed of light in glass is what, about 1/3rd speed of light in vacuum? So it's only a threefold increase anyway; you get more than that with clever use of multiple frequencies down the same fibre etc.
3E08 approx. - Java time fails - (64-bit signed milliseconds from 1970) - A.D. 292,278,994-08-17 Sun 07:12:55.808 GMT
I knew Java was over-engineered, but this is taking things a bit far.:-p (and possibly being a little optimistic on the popularity of Java over the next 292 million years)
Santa as an evil information gathering dark conspericy: "He's making a list and checking it twice.. gona find out whos naughty and nice" [and sell the information? Think those presents are free?]
Just had a look through the linked article, and this sentence caught my eye... I misread it at a glance.
This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.
Oi! Lay off Queen Elizabeth, she may be part of the superfluous monarchy but she doesn't weigh 35,343 tons!
I'm sure the guys(or girls) with 3.7 million credit cards are pretty cheerful right about now.
3.7 million credit cards each?
Actually, that's probably possible. The amount of junk (snail) mail that comes through the door, I could probably have applied for 3.7 million credit cards already.
Releases for Windows: Executable install program, which decompresses and installs the program, and sets up the registry entries.
Releases for Linux: A project.tar.gz file, which you tar zcvf into your home directory, then./configure then make install
Binary releases are pretty useless, since not everyone runs the same CPU and libaries. So you have to release stacks of binary releases. Just release a well set up source distribution that compiles on all (supported) platforms, with prominent information in an INSTALL file that points out what platforms it will and won't compile on.
Where's the problem?
Linux gets the arguments from the RPM crowd, and the apt-get crowd, but as far as I'm concerned you can't beat./configure and make install.
Slashdot Mirror
Save the poor slashdotted site two page fetches :-p
Computer Audio CD Car Player HOWTO
Oh, wait a minute...
Might be an idea to give the smaller sites a bit of warning before thrashing their servers into oblivion.
Of course, there's always the obvious grudge match... Starfleet versus the real Star Fleet.
;-)
Star Fleet would probably send the Federation running with the fantastically cheesy theme tune alone
How about reporting news without inserting redundant pokes at certain software simply for the shock/sarcasm/controversy value?
I don't know what you're doing, but I'm on the 4th world and my god's hand looks pretty damn evil... lots of icky veins and so on.
Burn villages, electrocute children, throw around the elderly, get your giant cow to eat the innocent, that sort of thing.
I wasn't even trying to be evil, those damn villagers just got in the way
I've only got experience of a mouse with gesture recognition, so I can't speak for any other device.
What I have seen is how much the 'refresh rate' of the mouse's position (temporal frequency?) affects the usability of gestures.
I've bought Black and White, and it has serious issues on Windows 2000. As in it doesn't run at all. Fantastic.
I've got a triple-boot machine (Slackware/Win98/Win2k), so I'm forced to run B&W in Windows 98 where the update rate of the mouse is pretty appalling.
Getting B&W to recognise some of the more complex gestures is a pain because the time between updates of mouse position gives the gesture considerably more 'jaggy' edges, making it look less like what you actually did with the mouse.
Windows 2000 has the refresh rate pretty high, so I'd have thought it's far easier to use gestures successfully on there.
I've not used the mouse much under Linux; my dedicated Linux box doesn't have a monitor, let alone a mouse, I just use it over ssh or X-Win32, so I don't know if the PS/2 refresh rate has been increased (or is configurable); the last I saw was that it wasn't particularly fast.
Opera's gestures are fairly simple (so far), not nearly as complex as some of B&W's gestures, so the rate isn't as critical. But, add more complex ones and you will see the difference.
It's not a new technology by any stretch of the imaginatio (emacs strokes mode anyone?) but it's very useful; even something as simple as Opera's 'back' gesture is so convenient, I wonder 'why didn't they put this in earlier!'.
Nice one Mr. Molyneux; he was always the king of games back in the good old days of Atari STs, and now something from his latest game seems to have started a bit of trend elsewhere in the software business.
There was the paper (abstract here, paper here (PDF)) mentioned in the Slashdot article here about the resilience of the 'net; crash 99% of the nodes at random and it'll still run. Which isn't bad.
Problem is of course when you crash the <1% of nodes that actually do the major routing.
Routing's getting hairier and hairier; it should really get fun once IPv6 kicks off and everyone and their dog have a squillion IP addresses each.
"We've spent so much money, can't you get us some, um, extra-fast light or something?"
Nice
Or a very long tube, with perfectly mirrored insides, and a vacuum all the way down the centre - not exactly easy to manufacture, and it'd be pretty delicate.
Speed of light in glass is what, about 1/3rd speed of light in vacuum? So it's only a threefold increase anyway; you get more than that with clever use of multiple frequencies down the same fibre etc.
Then we call it 'Knowledge Base article Q216641' (after quickly working out how long 2**32 milliseconds is)...
Unfortunately you don't have until 2038 in this case.
... it's already been done.
Where would we be without nutcases^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hgeniuses like Alex Chiu?
That would be http://www.teleportec.com.
:-p
And of course he's see through, it's a projection, what do you expect
If the moderator who defiled the Words of Linus is ever found, the Linux zealots will probably burn him at the stake.
See here.
That's got to be a Slashdot story all by itself.
Or even 88,357 tons. Blah.
Oi! Lay off Queen Elizabeth, she may be part of the superfluous monarchy but she doesn't weigh 35,343 tons!
Oh, you mean the boat.
Actually, that's probably possible. The amount of junk (snail) mail that comes through the door, I could probably have applied for 3.7 million credit cards already.
Releases for Windows:
./configure then make install
./configure and make install.
Executable install program, which decompresses and installs the program, and sets up the registry entries.
Releases for Linux:
A project.tar.gz file, which you tar zcvf into your home directory, then
Binary releases are pretty useless, since not everyone runs the same CPU and libaries. So you have to release stacks of binary releases. Just release a well set up source distribution that compiles on all (supported) platforms, with prominent information in an INSTALL file that points out what platforms it will and won't compile on. Where's the problem? Linux gets the arguments from the RPM crowd, and the apt-get crowd, but as far as I'm concerned you can't beat
You should be able to see that even through some pretty severe light pollution.