Now I have an oh-so-sort dictionary (only 160 entries!) to feed to my favorite password-cracking program. The odds of my success just went from potentially being neigh-impossible to almost-certain.
160? Why are you assuming the password must start on a "word" boundary? I guess you're also assuming it's 8 characters long? So if it's "ao2taahz8ieNgbu9" you'll miss it.
Instead of using the UTF8 character set that the mysql devs have requested, mythtv makes you force your mysql installation to use the latin1 character set. Nope they haven't fixed it- now they just blame the problem on whatever distros don't automatically force mysql into latin1. I had to change some config files and dump and reload my database to get it to work with the new version. And from what I have read I wouldn't wait for them to fix it - they don't believe they have a problem.
Well done, you've got it exactly wrong. 0.22 requires the server to be utf8.
Which is my point. We shouldn't really be getting our panties in a twist over Jon Carmack losing a contest that Jon Carmack lost.
If he really cared about it then he could have spent another month perfecting it. Doing it early smells of "Best of luck but I'm busy with other things." Which is fine, but it just means that if he doesn't care, then I most certainly won't.:D
You have a point, but so does Carmack. The judges reduced the impact of the weakness of Marsten's vehicle (reliability). They've effectively changed the focus of the competition. And Armadillo might well have won the level 2 prize a year ago given the same sort of leeway. I don't think it's at all unreasonable for Carmack to feel aggrieved. I would in his position.
The CIGS PV cell is called "thin film" because the photoelectric sandwich is deposited as thin layers on top of a GLASS plate. Oh, and they apparently are (very) moisture-sensitive, so having them last 20-25 years will be difficult.
The substrate isn't necessarily glass. Flexible metal substrates have been used already by other companies. They do bend, and they're encased in a flexible moisture barrier and offered with a warranty that lasts as long as the lifetime claims. I don't think that the companies selling these would be willing to offer the warranty without a reasonably good expectation that the cells would actually last that long.
The Dow site says they are manufactured on a flexible substrate. Since it's Dow Chemical that's making these I bet there is no glass involved anywhere.
Top Gear tries to stay away from useful facts and info as much as possible.
Yes, Top Gear is entertainment, pure and simple. If you want useful information you'll need to look elsewhere. The reason Top Gear is so popular is because the don't review cars most people are likely to buy. Those sorts of reviews are about as interesting as watching paint dry, so they don't do them. If I wanted to know how good the latest budget Toyota was I'd go down to a dealership and test drive one myself. I can't do that with a Veyron or a DB9.
And the idea of Top Gear having TWO cars that cost below $40,000 on the screen at the same is pretty far fetched.
They don't often review new cars that cheap, but they often do challenges in old cars worth less than $5k.
But USB3: You say it cannot use USB3 cabling to connect USB2 devices? Hogwash. Bullshit. [grr.]
Even if it's currently true, it's crap. Expect vendors of actual chipsets (once some actually emerge...) to make this a non-issue before it ever hits the populace.
Take a look at the link from the part I quoted: the B end of the cable won't fit in a USB2 B socket. How are the chipset manufacturers going to get around that?
The submission is concerned with connecting a hard drive.
Most modern drives are more than capable of saturating USB2. High performance drives, solid state or platter based, are noticeably limited by the connection.
As mentioned, anyone with a speed issue with transfer speeds could have been using the superior eSATA for some time now: It's inexpensively supported by lots of devices, and exposes the native capabilities of the storage device to the controller.
Which is fine if you have eSATA. But plenty of laptops and desktop motherboards don't have it as standard. Everything has USB.
I'm not down on USB 3, I just think this is a gimmicky way to get some attention for a non-solution.
It's a non-solution for you. That doesn't mean it's not a solution for other people.
Let's be clear on this situation: HDD makers, instead of making larger HDDs would rather spin the numbers to make them appear larger instead of actually being larger. And to do this, they have changed a standard unit of measure.
No, they haven't. Storage manufacturers have almost always used metrics prefixes. Which, btw, is the set of prefixes that is defined in a standard. There have been specific cases where they've used binary prefixes or mixed prefixes. What's the capacity of a "1.44MB" floppy disk? 1.40MiB. But they never changed from one to the other as some sort of concerted marketing move. And note that CPU manufacturers have always reported CPU speeds with metric prefixes, and communications device manufacturers have always reported network and modem speeds using metric prefixes. This idea you seem to have that HDD manufacturers have stepped out of line with the rest of the industry is, well, erroneous.
Nothing in the article linked implies that a shadow of any kind should exist.
Simple logic should make it obvious. The probe is blocked by the molecule in exactly the same way that a beam of light would be blocked by the molecule. A shadow results in both cases.
Hmmm, although this looks great, their technique doesn't seem to allow for the shadows seen in the image of five. It's not recording light, it's feeling them very gently. Anyone care to explain why a feely-recorder manages to see shadows?
In the same way that an optical shadow is the area that a physical object blocks light from reaching, the "shadows" on that picture are probably the area of the background that probe is not able to reach due to the molecule of pentacene being in the way. Note that the "shadows" do not fall in the same direction as they would if they were optical shadows.
Brown bears run at speeds approaching 40 miles per hour. No human has run faster than 25. You're not outrunning the bear. Not alone, anyway.;-)
Just to be needlessly pedantic I must point out that top sprinters are slightly faster than 25mph. For example Bolt peeked at about 27.3mph in both the 100m and 200m finals in the World Championships this year.
Obviously even he'll still get run down by the bear though.
To me this 'exploding transformer' seems strange. I mean, the transformers we use where I work are filled with non-explosive mineral oil. Something seriously bad must have happened to this transformer. I mean, so bad I can't even imagine. Looking at the amount of destruction I just don't understand how it's possible. Any electrical engineers out there who can offer some insight?
Perhaps the transformers they use in a power station are not the same as the transformers they use at your work?
In fact, there are but two essential reasons we maintain these increased controls on behalf of our community...
If there are only two cases where you need that control then specify those two cases in the terms and conditions. Don't just include a blanket "we can make you take them down for any reason and then we own them" clause.
Don't bother. Just overhaul the entire IP system. So far Trademarks is the only member of the three types of IP that doesn't with regularity make headlines with how broken it is.
I guess you've missed all the stories where sues for "breaching" their trademark? Here's a recent example. Another that's been bought up on Slashdot is Nissan Motors vs Nissan Computer. I agree that trademark law is the sanest of the three, but it still gets plenty of abuse.
It's not the music industry that's dying, it's the recording industry. It's become clear that the money people are not spending on recorded music they are instead spending on live music:
I have heard that Ray Charles liked to ride a motorcycle by following someone else and just listening to where they went and what noises their bike was making. (Needless to say, this requires a cooperative lead rider.) Then Mythbusters did the "blind drunk" driving test and found that a blind person can follow directions and drive passably. Maybe this is not so far-fetched. Still, if we can make a machine smart enough to instruct a person how to drive, why can't we just let the machine drive?
I think the regular driving is pretty straight forward. Handling unusual situations is the tricky part. Many emergency situations could be handled better by a machine driving, but some stuff (e.g. slowing down when a cop on the side of the road signals you to) is going to be very hard to get right for either a machine or a blind human.
It is a common misconception, because little is known about the equatorial ice caps.
In fact so little is known I couldn't even find a wikipedia entry about them.
But you have heard of the Antarctic, right? You know, the one sitting on top of a continent?
Better would be to teach drivers to better cope with distractions including cell phone usage. If a pilot be required to be communicating on a radio while they land and take off - in a fast moving vehicle that falls out of the sky if not kept within parameters, at the edge of those parameters - I think drivers can be taught to drive safely on a cell phone.
Those conversations pilots hold with air traffic control are specifically related to what they are doing. Their brains are focused on one activity. Phone calls in cars are never related to what the driver is doing. The car driver's brain needs to be focused on two things at one. It may be that it is simply not possible to train people to pay enough attention to both driving and talking on the phone at the same time.
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Now I have an oh-so-sort dictionary (only 160 entries!) to feed to my favorite password-cracking program. The odds of my success just went from potentially being neigh-impossible to almost-certain.
160? Why are you assuming the password must start on a "word" boundary? I guess you're also assuming it's 8 characters long? So if it's "ao2taahz8ieNgbu9" you'll miss it.
Instead of using the UTF8 character set that the mysql devs have requested, mythtv makes you force your mysql installation to use the latin1 character set. Nope they haven't fixed it- now they just blame the problem on whatever distros don't automatically force mysql into latin1. I had to change some config files and dump and reload my database to get it to work with the new version. And from what I have read I wouldn't wait for them to fix it - they don't believe they have a problem.
Well done, you've got it exactly wrong. 0.22 requires the server to be utf8.
Which is my point. We shouldn't really be getting our panties in a twist over Jon Carmack losing a contest that Jon Carmack lost.
If he really cared about it then he could have spent another month perfecting it. Doing it early smells of "Best of luck but I'm busy with other things." Which is fine, but it just means that if he doesn't care, then I most certainly won't. :D
You have a point, but so does Carmack. The judges reduced the impact of the weakness of Marsten's vehicle (reliability). They've effectively changed the focus of the competition. And Armadillo might well have won the level 2 prize a year ago given the same sort of leeway. I don't think it's at all unreasonable for Carmack to feel aggrieved. I would in his position.
I like the thing with the maps because it is the kind of thing that makes the violator look like a complete idiot
OTOH the map maker dosen't look that flash to all the users who notice the mistakes.
The CIGS PV cell is called "thin film" because the photoelectric sandwich is deposited as thin layers on top of a GLASS plate. Oh, and they apparently are (very) moisture-sensitive, so having them last 20-25 years will be difficult.
The substrate isn't necessarily glass. Flexible metal substrates have been used already by other companies. They do bend, and they're encased in a flexible moisture barrier and offered with a warranty that lasts as long as the lifetime claims. I don't think that the companies selling these would be willing to offer the warranty without a reasonably good expectation that the cells would actually last that long.
The Dow site says they are manufactured on a flexible substrate. Since it's Dow Chemical that's making these I bet there is no glass involved anywhere.
Top Gear tries to stay away from useful facts and info as much as possible.
Yes, Top Gear is entertainment, pure and simple. If you want useful information you'll need to look elsewhere. The reason Top Gear is so popular is because the don't review cars most people are likely to buy. Those sorts of reviews are about as interesting as watching paint dry, so they don't do them. If I wanted to know how good the latest budget Toyota was I'd go down to a dealership and test drive one myself. I can't do that with a Veyron or a DB9.
And the idea of Top Gear having TWO cars that cost below $40,000 on the screen at the same is pretty far fetched.
They don't often review new cars that cheap, but they often do challenges in old cars worth less than $5k.
But USB3: You say it cannot use USB3 cabling to connect USB2 devices? Hogwash. Bullshit. [grr.]
Even if it's currently true, it's crap. Expect vendors of actual chipsets (once some actually emerge...) to make this a non-issue before it ever hits the populace.
Take a look at the link from the part I quoted: the B end of the cable won't fit in a USB2 B socket. How are the chipset manufacturers going to get around that?
The Wii when it was sold a couple years ago was already behind the time in terms of graphics and performance. Today it is that much further behind.
Really? Did Microsoft and Sony release new consoles while I wasn't looking? The Wii is exactly as out of date today as it was when it was released.
The submission is concerned with connecting a hard drive.
Most modern drives are more than capable of saturating USB2. High performance drives, solid state or platter based, are noticeably limited by the connection.
As mentioned, anyone with a speed issue with transfer speeds could have been using the superior eSATA for some time now: It's inexpensively supported by lots of devices, and exposes the native capabilities of the storage device to the controller.
Which is fine if you have eSATA. But plenty of laptops and desktop motherboards don't have it as standard. Everything has USB.
I'm not down on USB 3, I just think this is a gimmicky way to get some attention for a non-solution.
It's a non-solution for you. That doesn't mean it's not a solution for other people.
That's true of the A end of the interface, but not the B end... http://www.hailink.net/uploadfiles/CAUSB30-01_USB_Cable_01.jpg
So it looks like you'll be able to:
What you can't do is plug a USB2 device into anything using a USB3 cable. Doesn't seem like much of a problem to me.
I think this is at least one of the Science articles to which the post (almost) refers.
That's one, the other is here.
Let's be clear on this situation: HDD makers, instead of making larger HDDs would rather spin the numbers to make them appear larger instead of actually being larger. And to do this, they have changed a standard unit of measure.
No, they haven't. Storage manufacturers have almost always used metrics prefixes. Which, btw, is the set of prefixes that is defined in a standard. There have been specific cases where they've used binary prefixes or mixed prefixes. What's the capacity of a "1.44MB" floppy disk? 1.40MiB. But they never changed from one to the other as some sort of concerted marketing move. And note that CPU manufacturers have always reported CPU speeds with metric prefixes, and communications device manufacturers have always reported network and modem speeds using metric prefixes. This idea you seem to have that HDD manufacturers have stepped out of line with the rest of the industry is, well, erroneous.
Nothing in the article linked implies that a shadow of any kind should exist.
Simple logic should make it obvious. The probe is blocked by the molecule in exactly the same way that a beam of light would be blocked by the molecule. A shadow results in both cases.
Hmmm, although this looks great, their technique doesn't seem to allow for the shadows seen in the image of five. It's not recording light, it's feeling them very gently. Anyone care to explain why a feely-recorder manages to see shadows?
In the same way that an optical shadow is the area that a physical object blocks light from reaching, the "shadows" on that picture are probably the area of the background that probe is not able to reach due to the molecule of pentacene being in the way. Note that the "shadows" do not fall in the same direction as they would if they were optical shadows.
Brown bears run at speeds approaching 40 miles per hour. No human has run faster than 25. You're not outrunning the bear. Not alone, anyway. ;-)
Just to be needlessly pedantic I must point out that top sprinters are slightly faster than 25mph. For example Bolt peeked at about 27.3mph in both the 100m and 200m finals in the World Championships this year.
Obviously even he'll still get run down by the bear though.
To me this 'exploding transformer' seems strange. I mean, the transformers we use where I work are filled with non-explosive mineral oil. Something seriously bad must have happened to this transformer. I mean, so bad I can't even imagine. Looking at the amount of destruction I just don't understand how it's possible. Any electrical engineers out there who can offer some insight?
Perhaps the transformers they use in a power station are not the same as the transformers they use at your work?
In fact, there are but two essential reasons we maintain these increased controls on behalf of our community...
If there are only two cases where you need that control then specify those two cases in the terms and conditions. Don't just include a blanket "we can make you take them down for any reason and then we own them" clause.
The US has, bar none, the best medical care in the world.
That's why the US at the top of this graph. Oh wait...
Don't bother. Just overhaul the entire IP system. So far Trademarks is the only member of the three types of IP that doesn't with regularity make headlines with how broken it is.
I guess you've missed all the stories where sues for "breaching" their trademark? Here's a recent example. Another that's been bought up on Slashdot is Nissan Motors vs Nissan Computer. I agree that trademark law is the sanest of the three, but it still gets plenty of abuse.
We just don't see the need for a personal transport device that costs too much for people who are perfectly capable of either walking or biking.
And that causes you to shout abuse at people who do? That's what TFA is talking about: the hate, not the lack of interest.
These reports all say the same thing: concert ticket sales growth more than makes up for the decline in recorded music sales.
I have heard that Ray Charles liked to ride a motorcycle by following someone else and just listening to where they went and what noises their bike was making. (Needless to say, this requires a cooperative lead rider.) Then Mythbusters did the "blind drunk" driving test and found that a blind person can follow directions and drive passably. Maybe this is not so far-fetched. Still, if we can make a machine smart enough to instruct a person how to drive, why can't we just let the machine drive?
I think the regular driving is pretty straight forward. Handling unusual situations is the tricky part. Many emergency situations could be handled better by a machine driving, but some stuff (e.g. slowing down when a cop on the side of the road signals you to) is going to be very hard to get right for either a machine or a blind human.
It is a common misconception, because little is known about the equatorial ice caps. In fact so little is known I couldn't even find a wikipedia entry about them.
But you have heard of the Antarctic, right? You know, the one sitting on top of a continent?
The OP of the message I replied to made no reference to the ice sheets on land.
Next time, when you think you are about to be witty. Stop. Because you aren't.
Which part of "ice caps" confused you into thinking the OP was only talking about the Arctic?
Better would be to teach drivers to better cope with distractions including cell phone usage. If a pilot be required to be communicating on a radio while they land and take off - in a fast moving vehicle that falls out of the sky if not kept within parameters, at the edge of those parameters - I think drivers can be taught to drive safely on a cell phone.
Those conversations pilots hold with air traffic control are specifically related to what they are doing. Their brains are focused on one activity. Phone calls in cars are never related to what the driver is doing. The car driver's brain needs to be focused on two things at one. It may be that it is simply not possible to train people to pay enough attention to both driving and talking on the phone at the same time.