It's stunning how far technology has advanced - back in i4004 times pin counts were severely limited by price issues: pinning out one line cost about $1. Because of this bus width of the first microprocessor was just 4 bits. But now we build processors with more than thousand pins and a retail price of just... let me check... or, wait!!!
Here, although it's a little bit too minimalist for me. No GSM version AFAIK, sorry. And, funny, it's quite expensive. Here's the google link: tu-ka-s (cellphone | mobile).
In short, at 83rd second engine stopped working for unknown reason, and the whole thing is currently being intensively searched for. Probably Russian ICBMs are not so good for launching satellites after all.
Well I can only advise you to visit Tokyo even if just for that, there're tons of them in Akihabara, as well as of plain ones, so this is not because of law. They are helpful for tons of chargers and adapters you usually have if you don't want them to drain energy all the time - but probably in US just no one cares.
I mean new Star Wars are bad, but still can be made considerably worse.
I brought 'Star Troopers' to friends without watching it myself before, and I were constantly telling them I were thinking this parody will turn into a real drama real soon now (because it created some associations with the beginning of 'My Enemy'). Only because of this friends (and me) watched it to the end, then they were really angry as if it was me who shoot so braindamaged movie and spent all the budget on building usual hype.
These are very special tools only supplied to special electrical appliances shops, and usually not available within handreach from your chair unless you actually have raised your lower part to get out and buy one (watch out for cars - they are dangerous and you have only one life).
Not to mention that since it's so close to the star it may well be tidally locked with the same side always facing the star, in which case the sunward side could be used for energy and the starward side could be colonized easily.
I really missed that point, this is even better. However energy is not a problem (unless someone already dug all the uranium from there), while oxygen is - they must be at least some zone with enough light while not too hot to support bacterias producing it.
A little genetic engineering will take care of adapting to the higher gravity.
Now this is a problem - I bet we will fly there and back every day but still discuss legality of GM humans.
Gravity is only 1.8 from normal - I believe you can get used to it. Meanwhile surface is 3.2 times larger, so if it could be terraformed it will hold a lot of people from our overcrowded Earth.
Of course I put many questions aside like how would they get there, does it have any continents, how sensitive processes like childbirth are to the gravity, does its atmosphere shield properly from radiation, isn't it too cold/hot there (although this can be fixed) etc etc...
This will be the main indicator of criminal behaviour . By the way, the whole idea of the article silently assumes it's OK to scan everyones messages in search for criminals, isn't it nice?
Really, after reading so much slashdot on Internet surveillance I already stopped to use some vocabulary in my messages in hope my personal mail will be read less by third parties. Does not speaking on some subjects put them after me now? Then what the !@#$%^& should I do?
I thought what they are testing is the whole point of AMD Cool'n'Quiet technology, but they don't even mention it in the article! Nice try reinventing the bicycle. I'm already underclocking my Athlon 64 right now, thank you.
Just 2 hours ago while getting home I noticed lots of new posters in the train advertising to replace your old MS Office with a newer one. "Microsoft Office evolves". Of course, I thought (grinning:)), they didn't change file format for a long time, so now they just have to resort to this. Who would voluntary buy a new office if most people still don't use all features of Word 2? But now Microsoft can say - hey, you asked for this, we are just complying. And, ridiculous, it's true, but net result is still the same.
And it doesn't matter it's possible to save in the old format - as long as new format is default, you will be sent attachments you cannot read. Just remember how it was since version 2 to 97.
What is patentable is not copyrightable. At least so is written in Russian copyright&patent law, that conforms to international copyright&patent law AFAIK (except for DCMA of course).
It is not so clear about software itself, but thing that makes a game from a piece of software is closer to art than to technical invention in my opinion, i.e. it should stay copyrightable.
Can someone please explain WHF this is about? What do OS identification, attacks and replaying messages have in common? I though I'm TCP/IP literate, but I don't understand a word in the post description (well, to be preceise I do understand single words, but not sequences of two or more of them:)).
Probably it's only me been receiving viruses calling themselves critical security updates for years already. Or was it Microsoft actually sending me all these mails I deleted until now?
This is pointless. We are talking about efficient hardware management, of course any database can parse 2000 requests per second. Why use the wrong tool and compensate it with expensive hardware?
And BTW why do you think messing with database connections would be easier than doing it manually? I did this things in REXX (read Perl), it takes about hundred lines for all.
No you cannot. Oracle is designed to handle a lot of updates of the same data per second, but we are talking about a completely different task (databases are usually populated via separate batch interfaces by the way). There're specialized tools for this task as well (IBM had something, but I cannot remember correct TLA right now), but this is not hard to write yourself as I outlined in other reply.
You may want to look how video streams are composed, but basic idea is very simple - just dump it all in the arrival order and keep track of what did you write at which offset in some table of contents. Dump tables of contents at some regular offsets so you would be able to find them easily. That's it. Just one thing - use offsets relative to TOC, this way they'd consume less bits each, and align data - it also saves several bits from the other side.
And remember - Keep It Simply Stupid. Be sure you can reed it in hex editor when trouble comes.
Guess how Longhorn will make malicious software that gets onto computers without the users' knowledge 'a thing of the past'? You know it's very hard not to notice that something running in parallel on 286.
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It's stunning how far technology has advanced - back in i4004 times pin counts were severely limited by price issues: pinning out one line cost about $1. Because of this bus width of the first microprocessor was just 4 bits. But now we build processors with more than thousand pins and a retail price of just... let me check... or, wait!!!
In fact BBC Philharmonic owns copyright here (Beethoven would also, each for it's part of the job). IANAL though.
Here, although it's a little bit too minimalist for me. No GSM version AFAIK, sorry. And, funny, it's quite expensive. Here's the google link: tu-ka-s (cellphone | mobile).
But there's already a CNN for this.
here
In short, at 83rd second engine stopped working for unknown reason, and the whole thing is currently being intensively searched for. Probably Russian ICBMs are not so good for launching satellites after all.
Well I can only advise you to visit Tokyo even if just for that, there're tons of them in Akihabara, as well as of plain ones, so this is not because of law. They are helpful for tons of chargers and adapters you usually have if you don't want them to drain energy all the time - but probably in US just no one cares.
I mean new Star Wars are bad, but still can be made considerably worse.
I brought 'Star Troopers' to friends without watching it myself before, and I were constantly telling them I were thinking this parody will turn into a real drama real soon now (because it created some associations with the beginning of 'My Enemy'). Only because of this friends (and me) watched it to the end, then they were really angry as if it was me who shoot so braindamaged movie and spent all the budget on building usual hype.
These are very special tools only supplied to special electrical appliances shops, and usually not available within handreach from your chair unless you actually have raised your lower part to get out and buy one (watch out for cars - they are dangerous and you have only one life).
I'm sorry, I never played Zero Wing, now is probably a good time to see it finally. Google only displays links on Doom and Quake for some reason.
but the joke only works with unix people, /400 ones have nothing to see here (MOVALONG)
Two AIXoids:
- Know how they call 'root' in OS/400 lab?
- How?
- ROOT!
I really missed that point, this is even better. However energy is not a problem (unless someone already dug all the uranium from there), while oxygen is - they must be at least some zone with enough light while not too hot to support bacterias producing it.
Now this is a problem - I bet we will fly there and back every day but still discuss legality of GM humans.
Gravity is only 1.8 from normal - I believe you can get used to it. Meanwhile surface is 3.2 times larger, so if it could be terraformed it will hold a lot of people from our overcrowded Earth.
Of course I put many questions aside like how would they get there, does it have any continents, how sensitive processes like childbirth are to the gravity, does its atmosphere shield properly from radiation, isn't it too cold/hot there (although this can be fixed) etc etc...
This will be the main indicator of criminal behaviour . By the way, the whole idea of the article silently assumes it's OK to scan everyones messages in search for criminals, isn't it nice?
Really, after reading so much slashdot on Internet surveillance I already stopped to use some vocabulary in my messages in hope my personal mail will be read less by third parties. Does not speaking on some subjects put them after me now? Then what the !@#$%^& should I do?
I thought what they are testing is the whole point of AMD Cool'n'Quiet technology, but they don't even mention it in the article! Nice try reinventing the bicycle. I'm already underclocking my Athlon 64 right now, thank you.
Just 2 hours ago while getting home I noticed lots of new posters in the train advertising to replace your old MS Office with a newer one. "Microsoft Office evolves". Of course, I thought (grinning :)), they didn't change file format for a long time, so now they just have to resort to this. Who would voluntary buy a new office if most people still don't use all features of Word 2? But now Microsoft can say - hey, you asked for this, we are just complying. And, ridiculous, it's true, but net result is still the same.
And it doesn't matter it's possible to save in the old format - as long as new format is default, you will be sent attachments you cannot read. Just remember how it was since version 2 to 97.
What is patentable is not copyrightable. At least so is written in Russian copyright&patent law, that conforms to international copyright&patent law AFAIK (except for DCMA of course).
It is not so clear about software itself, but thing that makes a game from a piece of software is closer to art than to technical invention in my opinion, i.e. it should stay copyrightable.
Can someone please explain WHF this is about? What do OS identification, attacks and replaying messages have in common? I though I'm TCP/IP literate, but I don't understand a word in the post description (well, to be preceise I do understand single words, but not sequences of two or more of them :)).
Probably it's only me been receiving viruses calling themselves critical security updates for years already. Or was it Microsoft actually sending me all these mails I deleted until now?
Or if DVDs bought in different countries each required own device... oh, wait!
This is pointless. We are talking about efficient hardware management, of course any database can parse 2000 requests per second. Why use the wrong tool and compensate it with expensive hardware?
And BTW why do you think messing with database connections would be easier than doing it manually? I did this things in REXX (read Perl), it takes about hundred lines for all.
No you cannot. Oracle is designed to handle a lot of updates of the same data per second, but we are talking about a completely different task (databases are usually populated via separate batch interfaces by the way). There're specialized tools for this task as well (IBM had something, but I cannot remember correct TLA right now), but this is not hard to write yourself as I outlined in other reply.
You may want to look how video streams are composed, but basic idea is very simple - just dump it all in the arrival order and keep track of what did you write at which offset in some table of contents. Dump tables of contents at some regular offsets so you would be able to find them easily. That's it. Just one thing - use offsets relative to TOC, this way they'd consume less bits each, and align data - it also saves several bits from the other side.
And remember - Keep It Simply Stupid. Be sure you can reed it in hex editor when trouble comes.
Guess how Longhorn will make malicious software that gets onto computers without the users' knowledge 'a thing of the past'? You know it's very hard not to notice that something running in parallel on 286.