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This is just my general experience from having this plan for the past three years, I know servers can limit how quickly they send you data. My "speed-test" results used to hover between 280 and 300 kb/s, though I haven't done one in awhile.
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I'm not confusing it, maybe I wrote it wrong. I know I'm not supposed be to getting 3 megabytes per-second with my plan. My point was that Bittorent tends to give me higher speeds by 50 to 70 kilobytes. The misunderstanding here probably resulted from my improper use of notation.
All we need is a bunch of Nexus 6's walking around xD.
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Just the opposite happens for me actually. I'm supposed to have 3 mb/s Internet, generally, the most I get via http tends to be 250kb/s, while bitorrent tends to hover around 300/330 for torrents with a good seed/peer ratio. No idea as to why this is, but in my experience, properly configured torrents tend to download faster than direct http transfers.
Using up free RAM was probably meant as a feature to increase snappiness, but something tells me the huge amount that actually ends up getting used is due to memory leaks somewhere in the code.
Yea, but if you find it in an office or school, for example, there's a high probability that it will contain some kind of report or assignment on it which can help you identify the owner.
For me, the drudgery suddenly became a lot more interesting after learning about the Mandelbrot set and its relationship to Julia sets. Their infinity and the beautiful patterns which derive from it made it more interesting to find points within a Julia set by setting up a quadratic. Hopefully, this museum will be able to convey the beauty of mathematics, which can often be the missing ingredient in classrooms, since understanding the beauty requires the knowledge of getting through drudgery.
Statistics is in a way, a great place to start. Most of it doesn't require any major mathematical skills to comprehend, and people would certainly get a kick out of some of those manipulations, or at least examples of them.
Couple this with some stories/examples of "cool stuff you can do with math", like some simple cryptography, and I think you'll be able to reach out to some people who'd otherwise (like me, before the whole Mandelbrot set thing) continue pretty much ignoring mathematics as anything more than an obligatory school subject.
As for #4, I guarantee someone will dump the ROM ASAP. I'm sure the ROMhacking crowd will get a kick out of this one, and promptly crack it. And if not, hell, everyone will just use save-states.
But I totally agree, this is like they're trying to make you pay for every play, like an arcade or something.
Agreed, I think Mech-Suits/Dreadnought (40k, hell yea) will exist only as a nerdy graduate students final project. The cooler they are, the less practical they seem.
I've always wondered if you could create an EMP generator that is weak enough not to destroy consumer electronics but fry spy devices...
This might amount to a pipe-dream, since I've forgotten exactly how these things work, but it'd be the only way to ensure your privacy short of discharging an actual full-scale EMP in an area where you know you don't have any "friendly" electronics.
I highly doubt they're quitting. Regardless of whether or not they call themselves Lulzsec, I'm sure they'll continue trying to leak information and hack/deface websites. Breaking up Lulzsec may or may not be just an attempt to throw the Police off whatever trail they might have. Maybe this has to do with the direction of political hacking they started to adopt, I mean, continuing as Lulzsec while trying to release anything halfway serious just screams contradiction.
There's plenty of things going on, but I don't think they're quitting totally. At most, the people behind the handles will create new handles and continue on their merry way.
I know you are technically correct, but didn't these collisions take a cluster of PS3s (At least with that demonstration with the web-certificates)? I think for general usage md5 is still a pretty good way to check whether or not a file has been messed with.
Updates rarely truly break plugins at all. The major hindrance is the version checking Firefox does before allowing plugins to run. There's a way to disable it, but I've forgotten it.
Kinda like what happened with phantasy star online, though that had a considerable lifespan all on its own. Still, releasing dedicated servers would certainly simplify things for hardcore/nostalgic players, while not really harming the company in any way.
I've actually considered buying a Nook just to use it as a low-cost Android Tablet. If B&N are paying any attention whatsoever to the online buzz, the last thing they'll do is try to stop the customization of these devices.
In addition, if you're a criminal that can't keep his cool when talking to an inanimate object in a relatively private area, then you seriously need a new profession.
It may be more addicting, but I hate this argument, as it tries to relate the consequences of smoking cigarettes to heroin use. Heroin is far more dangerous a drug, especially over the long-term than nicotine.
No, it was specific to the itouch/iphone, designed so that you could only transfer music via itunes to your player. The encryption for the regular line of Ipods was cracked a long time ago, as it was for some of the early version of iOS, but fairly recently, (a few months or so), someone cracked it for the newer versions as well (at least up to iOS 4). It's not DRM per-se, but rather a mechanism to disallow other music players to sync with the itouch. More players==More people more likely to not buy from itunes.
I think shes just an example of a very driven individual, someone who finds a strong passion and pursues it. Everybody doesn't necessarily have that passion. I'd agree that school doesn't promote intellectualism (at least not through University, where you have more freedom in choosing what you study), but it can help develop interests.
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This is just my general experience from having this plan for the past three years, I know servers can limit how quickly they send you data. My "speed-test" results used to hover between 280 and 300 kb/s, though I haven't done one in awhile.
I'm not confusing it, maybe I wrote it wrong. I know I'm not supposed be to getting 3 megabytes per-second with my plan. My point was that Bittorent tends to give me higher speeds by 50 to 70 kilobytes. The misunderstanding here probably resulted from my improper use of notation.
All we need is a bunch of Nexus 6's walking around xD.
Just the opposite happens for me actually. I'm supposed to have 3 mb/s Internet, generally, the most I get via http tends to be 250kb/s, while bitorrent tends to hover around 300/330 for torrents with a good seed/peer ratio. No idea as to why this is, but in my experience, properly configured torrents tend to download faster than direct http transfers.
Using up free RAM was probably meant as a feature to increase snappiness, but something tells me the huge amount that actually ends up getting used is due to memory leaks somewhere in the code.
Yea, but if you find it in an office or school, for example, there's a high probability that it will contain some kind of report or assignment on it which can help you identify the owner.
For me, the drudgery suddenly became a lot more interesting after learning about the Mandelbrot set and its relationship to Julia sets. Their infinity and the beautiful patterns which derive from it made it more interesting to find points within a Julia set by setting up a quadratic. Hopefully, this museum will be able to convey the beauty of mathematics, which can often be the missing ingredient in classrooms, since understanding the beauty requires the knowledge of getting through drudgery.
Statistics is in a way, a great place to start. Most of it doesn't require any major mathematical skills to comprehend, and people would certainly get a kick out of some of those manipulations, or at least examples of them.
Couple this with some stories/examples of "cool stuff you can do with math", like some simple cryptography, and I think you'll be able to reach out to some people who'd otherwise (like me, before the whole Mandelbrot set thing) continue pretty much ignoring mathematics as anything more than an obligatory school subject.
As for #4, I guarantee someone will dump the ROM ASAP. I'm sure the ROMhacking crowd will get a kick out of this one, and promptly crack it. And if not, hell, everyone will just use save-states. But I totally agree, this is like they're trying to make you pay for every play, like an arcade or something.
Agreed, I think Mech-Suits/Dreadnought (40k, hell yea) will exist only as a nerdy graduate students final project. The cooler they are, the less practical they seem.
I've always wondered if you could create an EMP generator that is weak enough not to destroy consumer electronics but fry spy devices... This might amount to a pipe-dream, since I've forgotten exactly how these things work, but it'd be the only way to ensure your privacy short of discharging an actual full-scale EMP in an area where you know you don't have any "friendly" electronics.
I highly doubt they're quitting. Regardless of whether or not they call themselves Lulzsec, I'm sure they'll continue trying to leak information and hack/deface websites. Breaking up Lulzsec may or may not be just an attempt to throw the Police off whatever trail they might have. Maybe this has to do with the direction of political hacking they started to adopt, I mean, continuing as Lulzsec while trying to release anything halfway serious just screams contradiction. There's plenty of things going on, but I don't think they're quitting totally. At most, the people behind the handles will create new handles and continue on their merry way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzHglsRSOs
I know you are technically correct, but didn't these collisions take a cluster of PS3s (At least with that demonstration with the web-certificates)? I think for general usage md5 is still a pretty good way to check whether or not a file has been messed with.
Updates rarely truly break plugins at all. The major hindrance is the version checking Firefox does before allowing plugins to run. There's a way to disable it, but I've forgotten it.
Same here, for the most part. It takes longer than I'd like to start up, but since I rarely close it that doesn't bother me too much.
Kinda like what happened with phantasy star online, though that had a considerable lifespan all on its own. Still, releasing dedicated servers would certainly simplify things for hardcore/nostalgic players, while not really harming the company in any way.
The Dreamcast was (IS!!) a pretty fucking awesome system. Though the Sega of today isn't nearly as awesome as the Sega of yesteryear.
If it runs Linux and comes with a USB port, what was stopping people from simply popping in one of those wifi-card usb things?
Google will be streaming via Youtube, so you can check it out for free if you're so inclined.
(I kid, I kid, of course. ...It's really 1/4 tau radians.)
I love you. Just sayin'.
I've actually considered buying a Nook just to use it as a low-cost Android Tablet. If B&N are paying any attention whatsoever to the online buzz, the last thing they'll do is try to stop the customization of these devices.
In addition, if you're a criminal that can't keep his cool when talking to an inanimate object in a relatively private area, then you seriously need a new profession.
It may be more addicting, but I hate this argument, as it tries to relate the consequences of smoking cigarettes to heroin use. Heroin is far more dangerous a drug, especially over the long-term than nicotine.
No, it was specific to the itouch/iphone, designed so that you could only transfer music via itunes to your player. The encryption for the regular line of Ipods was cracked a long time ago, as it was for some of the early version of iOS, but fairly recently, (a few months or so), someone cracked it for the newer versions as well (at least up to iOS 4). It's not DRM per-se, but rather a mechanism to disallow other music players to sync with the itouch. More players==More people more likely to not buy from itunes.
I think shes just an example of a very driven individual, someone who finds a strong passion and pursues it. Everybody doesn't necessarily have that passion. I'd agree that school doesn't promote intellectualism (at least not through University, where you have more freedom in choosing what you study), but it can help develop interests.