I believe #6 was referring to this article (link goes to google cache of a geocities site). That theory alleges that all the "humans" are robots/AIs.
The article I linked doesn't nearly that far, and does explain a lot of the two movies without being "needlessly" complex. (It has to be a little complex; I don't think the movies lend themselves to a simple explanation.)
The chips are tested at a DIE temperature of 85C. However, the temperature sensor on you MB isn't at the die, it's at the packaging (or maybe just near the packaging), so it's not going to read as hot. A rule of thumb I've read is a 20 degrees difference, so that would mean 65C.
Unfortunately, this is all academic because motherboard temperature sensors are notoriously non-calibrated, and I've seen them be 10C off or more! It's more useful to use MB sensors to monitor relative changes than absolute temperature. (In other words, the difference between temperatures running at idle and at load is probably accurate...but the absolute values are probably fuzzy).
Additionally, the fact that the chip was tested at 85C doesn't mean that it will be harmed by temperatures over 85C; it just means it's likely to not work (a bit won't flip somewhere on the chip). Your system will eventually lock up if this is happening. They used to test some chips at 95C or more, and military use chips get tested even higher, so that shows that the silicon chip itself won't be damaged at those temps...it's just functionality that will suffer.:)
If your chip is marginal, running for long times at higher temps can cause it to die quickly (atom migration, etc, can be more pronounced at higher temps) so some people will warn of running at very high temperatures. But this is very unlikely, and if it does eventually happen, hey...now you need to upgrade. Sweet.
I'm going to start writing letters to the artists: "I bought your CD, but couldn't play it because of some crazyass copy protection scheme, so I had to return it. I bought a copy of Yanni instead."
I'm hoping they'll eventually throw a hissy fit and complain to their managers/producers/labels/etc. This probably won't make a difference, but maybe it will, and at the very least someone at the record labels will have to deal with the annoyance, which makes me happy.
If it's long term climate change, there's no reason to fear or try to prevent it
Why not?
If the planet is naturally globally warming to the detrement of humans, why shouldn't we try to stop it? (Or at least stop any accelerating affect we might be having?) I say forget the "it's a natural process" argument; I'm greedy, and a want a world hospitable to me.
Which C99 feature do you need to use that: 1) Isn't also a C++ feature (that covers a large chunk of C99) 2) Isn't already a vendor-specific extension 3) Doesn't have a commonly-known (and often-used) workaround?
C99 is still new enough that compiler support is very spotty (for example, GCC C99 status) anyways.
Take another look over David R. Tribble's list of C99 v. C++ incompatabilities. I find it difficult to believe that there will be anyone stymied by having a C++ compiler but not a C99 compiler.
A bit of trivia: Bruce Perens of Open Source fame founded No-Code International, "a norganization dedicated to the abolition of the Morse code testing requirement as a prerequisite for any class of Amateur Radio license." I didn't see NCI mentioned anywhere in the article, but they're pretty much responsible for the last overhaul of Morse requirements.
Here's a whitepaper on Triangle Boy, a solution to allow users to circumvent a censoring firewall (with the help of an external network of proxies, of course).
It's a little complex, so I advise you read the article to get the details, but here's my take: The general idea is the user behind the firewall doesn't connect to a single proxy; instead, it connects to any one of a network of ever-changing mini-proxies. These mini-proxies forward the request to the real proxy.
The mini-proxies can be blocked, but you just switch to a different mini-proxy. In order to reduce load on the mini-proxies, the real proxy returns data directly to the user, but with a spoofed ip address of the mini-proxy.
This indicates that the network that the train signaling stations are on is not protected by firewalls, at least to block ports 135 and 444 where the DCOM vulnerability is attacked.
Actually, I suspect that someone unwittingly plugged an infected laptop into the network inside of the firewall.
RTFA. It says right there that they're trying to prevent benefeits fraud.
Certainly. But they're proposing to collect a lot of data unrelated to preventing benefits fraud (HIV status, etc.). I still think that the majority of the data they're collecting is not for any specific reason; they just figure, "We can collect the data, so why not collect the data."
Not to be coy, but why do they want this data? I want specifics of what they plan to do. What decisions are going to be made on the data?
I can think of several possible reasons that one might give, some good, some evil. Unfortunately, I bet none of those reasons are correct. I really suspect that this proposal is a result of the typical beaurocratic line of thought: "We don't know what to do about the problem, so we will collect data that nobody has asked for. In this way, it will look like we are doing something."
Your site is slashdotted to all heck right now, but on the pages that I did manage to load, I didn't see anything about California's education system. Last I heard (which was a few years ago) we were ranked 49th in the country (thank you, Louisiana!). I don't have any children, but my friends at work do, and my sister is a teacher (on emergency credentials), and the stories they tell about California's schools are frightening.
As governor, this is one of the areas that you would have a lot of control over. What are your ideas for improving our state's schools?
Not only a good book, but so useful that you'll be applying it the next time you open a newspaper: How To Lie With Statistics by by Darrell Huff. Please, do yourself a favor and at least read the reviews on Amazon.
I have a tube of Arctic Silver 2 (yeah, I'm like two generations behind) but I'm not sure that I really needed it. This dude tried out several non-conventional thermal transfer compounds, including vegemite.(!) When properly applied, there wasn't a huge difference between them. In fact, in the (extremely specific) conditions, the vegemite and toothpaste outperformed the Arctic Silver! (Obviously, you should read the article for details.)
The article's point isn't that you should be using toothpaste; rather, it's that make sure you properly apply whatever thermal compound you do use, and don't expect miracles. No matter how effective your thermal transfer, you've still got to dump the heat somewhere. If you're running close to the edge of thermal failure, there are almost certainly other, much more effective cooling solutions. This new paste is probably a good thing, but don't expect miracles.
There was once an episode of the Twilight Zone that had the same idea.
No, wait... that was EVERY episode of the Twilight Zone.
On a more serious note: We assume that any aliens we can find in the near term would be more advanced than us because we won't be able to find them otherwise. Radio is a relatively recent invention, after all...we're not likely to find aliens who have had radio for less time than we have.
I guess I can't really comment on the accuracy, having not actually flown a plane. Also, on the scale of "Flight sim hardcore rankings", I'm really just a dilettante. (OK, that rarely stops people on the forums, but it's just not my style.) But I can comment on the processing power needed to run the dynamic model, and so can you.
The demo is free, runs on Windows and OSX, which is Austin's preferred development platform. Since it is a demo, it only lets you control the plane for a few minutes, but it will let you see how quickly he can do the aerodynamic calculations and experience the realism for yourself.
My opinion: Performance is ok but not great on my 500Mhz G3 ibook (although it is quite playable). It is pretty spiffy on my Athlon 2100. The video cards probably have a lot to do with that, too, not just the aerodynamic model.
I love X-Plane, precisely for the reasons posted: it's very cool that the simulation strives to be as accurate as possible, and gets better with each release. On the other hand, at least one journalist disagrees...
Yesterday, Salon had a ridiculous article(might be restricted to subscribers only, sorry) that claims that modern consumer flight simulators are too realistic, and implies that they should be banned or restricted somehow. And of course, as the headline promises, the article does indeed place some of the blame for 9/11 on such flight simlulators!
Bad Salon, bad. What is it with the media hating video games, anyways?
My rule of thumb for getting a new hard drive is: If you're "starting to run low" but still have 25% or more of your drive space left, wait. If you can wait even just 3 months, you'll save money and/or get more space.
I usually wait until I've actually run out. Then I delete all the useless crap I've collected, leaving me about 10-20% of the drive. At this point, I start shopping around, and try to overbuy so as to not have to purchase another drive too soon.
It's not really supported or production worthy, but try typing "chrome://messenger/contents/messenger.xul" and "chrome://chatzilla/contents/chatzilla.xul" into your URLbar.
It's clearly not totally debugged, and weird stuff can happen (who knows), but it seems to sort of work for me.
I meant "criminal" to mean "an actual crime is being committed".
This is a different use than, "Dude, did you see John take on that guy in Counterstrike? It was criminal."
Perhaps I should have said, "I'm not using 'criminal' in just an idiomatic sense" or "I'm not using 'criminal' just as hyperbole, I'm using it in the strict sense of the word" or whatever.
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If they ported it, they'd lose their primary revenue stream.
I think people are proposing they would pick up a new revenue stream (with a higher profit ratio) to make up for it.
I believe #6 was referring to this article (link goes to google cache of a geocities site). That theory alleges that all the "humans" are robots/AIs.
The article I linked doesn't nearly that far, and does explain a lot of the two movies without being "needlessly" complex. (It has to be a little complex; I don't think the movies lend themselves to a simple explanation.)
This explanation, while not perfect, is the best I've seen so far.
The chips are tested at a DIE temperature of 85C. However, the temperature sensor on you MB isn't at the die, it's at the packaging (or maybe just near the packaging), so it's not going to read as hot. A rule of thumb I've read is a 20 degrees difference, so that would mean 65C.
:)
Unfortunately, this is all academic because motherboard temperature sensors are notoriously non-calibrated, and I've seen them be 10C off or more! It's more useful to use MB sensors to monitor relative changes than absolute temperature. (In other words, the difference between temperatures running at idle and at load is probably accurate...but the absolute values are probably fuzzy).
Additionally, the fact that the chip was tested at 85C doesn't mean that it will be harmed by temperatures over 85C; it just means it's likely to not work (a bit won't flip somewhere on the chip). Your system will eventually lock up if this is happening. They used to test some chips at 95C or more, and military use chips get tested even higher, so that shows that the silicon chip itself won't be damaged at those temps...it's just functionality that will suffer.
If your chip is marginal, running for long times at higher temps can cause it to die quickly (atom migration, etc, can be more pronounced at higher temps) so some people will warn of running at very high temperatures. But this is very unlikely, and if it does eventually happen, hey...now you need to upgrade. Sweet.
I'm going to start writing letters to the artists: "I bought your CD, but couldn't play it because of some crazyass copy protection scheme, so I had to return it. I bought a copy of Yanni instead."
I'm hoping they'll eventually throw a hissy fit and complain to their managers/producers/labels/etc. This probably won't make a difference, but maybe it will, and at the very least someone at the record labels will have to deal with the annoyance, which makes me happy.
If it's long term climate change, there's no reason to fear or try to prevent it
Why not?
If the planet is naturally globally warming to the detrement of humans, why shouldn't we try to stop it? (Or at least stop any accelerating affect we might be having?) I say forget the "it's a natural process" argument; I'm greedy, and a want a world hospitable to me.
Which C99 feature do you need to use that:
1) Isn't also a C++ feature (that covers a large chunk of C99)
2) Isn't already a vendor-specific extension
3) Doesn't have a commonly-known (and often-used) workaround?
C99 is still new enough that compiler support is very spotty (for example, GCC C99 status) anyways.
Take another look over David R. Tribble's list of C99 v. C++ incompatabilities. I find it difficult to believe that there will be anyone stymied by having a C++ compiler but not a C99 compiler.
You're correct: one trivial example is any C code that uses identifiers which are C++ keywords.
But if you're writing new C code from scratch, aware that it will be compiled with a C++ compiler, it's trivial to get it all to work.
A bit of trivia: Bruce Perens of Open Source fame founded No-Code International, "a norganization dedicated to the abolition of the Morse code testing requirement as a prerequisite for any class of Amateur Radio license." I didn't see NCI mentioned anywhere in the article, but they're pretty much responsible for the last overhaul of Morse requirements.
A good article summarizing his No-Code work is Bruce's own article,"No-Code: The End-Game".
Beavis, I get wood from the internet all the time.
Here's a whitepaper on Triangle Boy, a solution to allow users to circumvent a censoring firewall (with the help of an external network of proxies, of course).
It's a little complex, so I advise you read the article to get the details, but here's my take: The general idea is the user behind the firewall doesn't connect to a single proxy; instead, it connects to any one of a network of ever-changing mini-proxies. These mini-proxies forward the request to the real proxy.
The mini-proxies can be blocked, but you just switch to a different mini-proxy. In order to reduce load on the mini-proxies, the real proxy returns data directly to the user, but with a spoofed ip address of the mini-proxy.
Pretty cool.
This indicates that the network that the train signaling stations are on is not protected by firewalls, at least to block ports 135 and 444 where the DCOM vulnerability is attacked.
Actually, I suspect that someone unwittingly plugged an infected laptop into the network inside of the firewall.
RTFA. It says right there that they're trying to prevent benefeits fraud.
Certainly. But they're proposing to collect a lot of data unrelated to preventing benefits fraud (HIV status, etc.). I still think that the majority of the data they're collecting is not for any specific reason; they just figure, "We can collect the data, so why not collect the data."
Not to be coy, but why do they want this data? I want specifics of what they plan to do. What decisions are going to be made on the data? I can think of several possible reasons that one might give, some good, some evil. Unfortunately, I bet none of those reasons are correct. I really suspect that this proposal is a result of the typical beaurocratic line of thought: "We don't know what to do about the problem, so we will collect data that nobody has asked for. In this way, it will look like we are doing something."
Your site is slashdotted to all heck right now, but on the pages that I did manage to load, I didn't see anything about California's education system. Last I heard (which was a few years ago) we were ranked 49th in the country (thank you, Louisiana!). I don't have any children, but my friends at work do, and my sister is a teacher (on emergency credentials), and the stories they tell about California's schools are frightening.
As governor, this is one of the areas that you would have a lot of control over. What are your ideas for improving our state's schools?
Not only a good book, but so useful that you'll be applying it the next time you open a newspaper: How To Lie With Statistics by by Darrell Huff. Please, do yourself a favor and at least read the reviews on Amazon.
I have a tube of Arctic Silver 2 (yeah, I'm like two generations behind) but I'm not sure that I really needed it. This dude tried out several non-conventional thermal transfer compounds, including vegemite.(!) When properly applied, there wasn't a huge difference between them. In fact, in the (extremely specific) conditions, the vegemite and toothpaste outperformed the Arctic Silver! (Obviously, you should read the article for details.)
The article's point isn't that you should be using toothpaste; rather, it's that make sure you properly apply whatever thermal compound you do use, and don't expect miracles. No matter how effective your thermal transfer, you've still got to dump the heat somewhere. If you're running close to the edge of thermal failure, there are almost certainly other, much more effective cooling solutions. This new paste is probably a good thing, but don't expect miracles.
There was once an episode of the Twilight Zone that had the same idea.
No, wait... that was EVERY episode of the Twilight Zone.
On a more serious note: We assume that any aliens we can find in the near term would be more advanced than us because we won't be able to find them otherwise. Radio is a relatively recent invention, after all...we're not likely to find aliens who have had radio for less time than we have.
but it's not like he did a Libby whatever... (you know... the girl whose "private" strip act for her boyfriend is all over the internet now).
How did this get rated up without having a link?
I guess I can't really comment on the accuracy, having not actually flown a plane. Also, on the scale of "Flight sim hardcore rankings", I'm really just a dilettante. (OK, that rarely stops people on the forums, but it's just not my style.) But I can comment on the processing power needed to run the dynamic model, and so can you.
The demo is free, runs on Windows and OSX, which is Austin's preferred development platform. Since it is a demo, it only lets you control the plane for a few minutes, but it will let you see how quickly he can do the aerodynamic calculations and experience the realism for yourself.
My opinion: Performance is ok but not great on my 500Mhz G3 ibook (although it is quite playable). It is pretty spiffy on my Athlon 2100. The video cards probably have a lot to do with that, too, not just the aerodynamic model.
I love X-Plane, precisely for the reasons posted: it's very cool that the simulation strives to be as accurate as possible, and gets better with each release. On the other hand, at least one journalist disagrees...
Yesterday, Salon had a ridiculous article(might be restricted to subscribers only, sorry) that claims that modern consumer flight simulators are too realistic, and implies that they should be banned or restricted somehow. And of course, as the headline promises, the article does indeed place some of the blame for 9/11 on such flight simlulators!
Bad Salon, bad. What is it with the media hating video games, anyways?
My rule of thumb for getting a new hard drive is: If you're "starting to run low" but still have 25% or more of your drive space left, wait. If you can wait even just 3 months, you'll save money and/or get more space.
I usually wait until I've actually run out. Then I delete all the useless crap I've collected, leaving me about 10-20% of the drive. At this point, I start shopping around, and try to overbuy so as to not have to purchase another drive too soon.
Just tried it: "chrome://editor/contents/editor.xul"
Hosed my mozilla, but neat to watch it crash and burn: "chrome://venkman/contents/venkman.xul"
Once again, your mileage may vary.
It's not really supported or production worthy, but try typing "chrome://messenger/contents/messenger.xul" and "chrome://chatzilla/contents/chatzilla.xul" into your URLbar.
It's clearly not totally debugged, and weird stuff can happen (who knows), but it seems to sort of work for me.
I meant "criminal" to mean "an actual crime is being committed".
This is a different use than, "Dude, did you see John take on that guy in Counterstrike? It was criminal."
Perhaps I should have said, "I'm not using 'criminal' in just an idiomatic sense" or "I'm not using 'criminal' just as hyperbole, I'm using it in the strict sense of the word" or whatever.