Not brain surgery but more sophisticated than a tape head connected to a serial port. Since the speed of the card over the head is expected to have a wide speed range, the reader has to have its own adaptive clock circuitry in it to decode the card, and THEN it's converted to rs-232 or CMOS level signals.
The speed of the card doesn't matter as all cards have one or more "clock tracks" with 0-1-0-1 sequences to make the data readable. But if your statement was correct, the problem would be damn easy to fix with just one FIFO buffer.
If there are 100 million winning numbers, then about 1 in 30 million of them is going to be a winner.
And you can be pretty sure that the codes aren't generated from some algorithm. That would be too risky with the amount of data available...the codes are definitely generated by random, so the/. article statement about a code-generator is pretty naive.
We just believe that GPL code should STAY free for all like it was when it was published under the GPL. I know such an idea could come only from a zealot... but hey....
My thoughts, exactly. The first A-virus only targeted SCO but som script kiddie used an advanced tool called a "h-e-x e-di-tor" and changed the expiration date of the virus and changed the target to microsoft.com - The B-virus was born.
This hack suddenly changed the MyDoom authors into an angry group og linux zealots who hate both SCO and MS merely for their legal clains and dominance over Linux, respectively.
The Mp3 player in the Motorola A920 smartphone works by using a dedicated DSP (Digital Signal Processor). The DSP is 200 MHz while the main processor is 154 MHz. It's not multitasking but it does allow for streaming while doing other stuff.
Maybe the Palm has something like that. For what I know, mp3 decoding is a bad idea to do with a general purpose CPU, especially in battery operated devices.
The problem isn't really supporting two platforms. Packages are being created anyway. The problem is that the UserLinux people wants companies to use it and the "selling" argument will be that is't ONE common platform that they can program their own applications for.
Imagine the resources for programming and testing for both KDE, Gnome and many more platforms. One programmer can only know so many platforms. The world sometimes is easier with fewer choises...
I got my masters degree in engineering (M.Sc. - E) two days ago and for my thesis I used several open source tools designs for electrical engineering.
A site gathering many tools and aiming to be a complete design and analysis package is, gEDA: GPL Electronic Design Automation.
Another promising project is SystemC, which is an open source HDL (Hardware description language). The language is C-based and easy to learn (if you know C). With some (very expensive) commercial tools from Synopsys, it is possible to translate SystemC code to VHDL and do synthesis.
Moving a bit more towards software, but for embedded devices, a project from Berkeley is TinyOS. Completely open source.
Many things can be done without spending a dime but actual engineering, i.e. a product, does require commercial products before a design can be shipped of to the factory. But a startup can go a long way before spending anything on commercial software, very much like many software companies have done for many years now.
You do realize this patch phones home, don't you? Slashdot just advertised a piece of spyware. It phones home to validate every URL. Read the website.
The patch is open source. I don't even know if you are right in your statement but if you are, then download the source and change the way it works! Or live in fear...
If you look at "database size", number 4 is listed as anonymous. They probably aren't too interested in telling everyone what database and platform they are using for storing very critical data with.
That's exactly what I was thinking. But just think: Now when you hear people's cell phones during a movie, [...] Blind people at the movies?? Are you drunk?
Well pardon me for not bashing the paperclip, but that's not a bad idea. How about something like: "I can see on the AGPS reciever that you are not at your meeting that started 15 minutes ago. Do you want me to write a SMS telling John Doe that you are running late?". Or...it could do this automatically. "This is clippy from Brians cell phone. Brian will be with you in 20 minutes"...on some 3G phones you can actually see where your friends are on a map if they have enabled the feature.
> Forums have been doing this for years right? I mean even/. customises its user interface based on user preferences, users being identified by a unique ID in a cookie... Maybe years, yes. But MS filed this claim 7 years ago. Sounds a bit like cookies to me, though. They were invented by Netscape many years ago...
Well, 0xFFFFFFFF is the largest 32bit number you can write with an unsigned integer - or -1 for a signed 32bit number. Weren't we looking for things to do with 64 bit processors?
So I believe the code should be: int main(int argc, char *argv) { double i=0; while ( i++ != 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF); return 0; }
Any generic word should work the same...
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So the basic idea of the article (I guess I'm not a real hardcore/. reader since I bothered to read the article) is that every mail is sent through a common SMTP relay and everyone that wants to e-mail you, must sign up with that company.
Then you filter all e-mail not sent through that relay...i.e. e-mails not signed by them!
Here's a cheaper idea: I tell everyone I know to start the subject line with "goat" if they want to e-mail me. Then I filter all e-mail without "goat" as the first word in the subject...
Hmmm, that actually crashed my Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1...
But me-no-worry. XP offered me to send a report back to Microsoft telling them about the problem and I'm sure they're working on the problem right now:-)
At my university, DTU, the rules for cheating are very strict. If caught cheating, you will loose every ECTS point for that semester. I really can't see why cheaters shouldn't be punished severely. They reduce the value of my education that I'm taking the hard way!
And the article states... "Our review was focused on the code we contributed to Linux; however, we did run the Comparator code on the Linux 2.4.21 kernel. The process involves using subjective judgment to review similarities identified by the tool," said Greg Estes... So it sounds to me like they found SOMETHING but the important thing was that they had nothing to do with it. Otherwise they could just state that a complete comparison didn't turn up anything.
This could prove very interesting as the speed usually drops when "leaving the chip" to do communications. There has been alot of research to develop protocols to ease on-chip communication when several ICs are combined on a single chip. If Suns technology can stand the test, NoC/SoC products could reduce it's time-to-marked dramatically...smaller and faster devices for everyone!
"My job requires mostly masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the men's room so I can jerk off while I fantasize about a life that less closely resembles Hell..."
From the (f*******) article: Gnome 2.4 ships with GOK, an award-winning dynamic onscreen keyboard. It supports Direct Selection, Dwell Selection, Automatic Scanning and Inverse Scanning, and includes word completion. A detailed overview can be found on the GOK website.
Gnopernicus, the second accessibility application to ship with GNOME, provides a number of assistive technologies for people suffering from visual impairment. Most notably, it includes a screen reader, a screen magnifier and a Braille writer.
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Has anybody run into a problem with Hyper-Threading and per-CPU licensing?
Are you talking about SCO?
Not brain surgery but more sophisticated than a tape head connected to a serial port. Since the speed of the card over the head is expected to have a wide speed range, the reader has to have its own adaptive clock circuitry in it to decode the card, and THEN it's converted to rs-232 or CMOS level signals.
The speed of the card doesn't matter as all cards have one or more "clock tracks" with 0-1-0-1 sequences to make the data readable. But if your statement was correct, the problem would be damn easy to fix with just one FIFO buffer.
If there are 100 million winning numbers, then about 1 in 30 million of them is going to be a winner.
/. article statement about a code-generator is pretty naive.
And you can be pretty sure that the codes aren't generated from some algorithm. That would be too risky with the amount of data available...the codes are definitely generated by random, so the
We just believe that GPL code should STAY free for all like it was when it was published under the GPL. I know such an idea could come only from a zealot... but hey....
My thoughts, exactly. The first A-virus only targeted SCO but som script kiddie used an advanced tool called a "h-e-x e-di-tor" and changed the expiration date of the virus and changed the target to microsoft.com - The B-virus was born.
This hack suddenly changed the MyDoom authors into an angry group og linux zealots who hate both SCO and MS merely for their legal clains and dominance over Linux, respectively.
The Mp3 player in the Motorola A920 smartphone works by using a dedicated DSP (Digital Signal Processor). The DSP is 200 MHz while the main processor is 154 MHz. It's not multitasking but it does allow for streaming while doing other stuff.
Maybe the Palm has something like that. For what I know, mp3 decoding is a bad idea to do with a general purpose CPU, especially in battery operated devices.
The problem isn't really supporting two platforms. Packages are being created anyway. The problem is that the UserLinux people wants companies to use it and the "selling" argument will be that is't ONE common platform that they can program their own applications for.
Imagine the resources for programming and testing for both KDE, Gnome and many more platforms. One programmer can only know so many platforms. The world sometimes is easier with fewer choises...
I got my masters degree in engineering (M.Sc. - E) two days ago and for my thesis I used several open source tools designs for electrical engineering.
A site gathering many tools and aiming to be a complete design and analysis package is, gEDA: GPL Electronic Design Automation.
Another promising project is SystemC, which is an open source HDL (Hardware description language). The language is C-based and easy to learn (if you know C). With some (very expensive) commercial tools from Synopsys, it is possible to translate SystemC code to VHDL and do synthesis.
Moving a bit more towards software, but for embedded devices, a project from Berkeley is TinyOS. Completely open source.
Many things can be done without spending a dime but actual engineering, i.e. a product, does require commercial products before a design can be shipped of to the factory. But a startup can go a long way before spending anything on commercial software, very much like many software companies have done for many years now.
You do realize this patch phones home, don't you? Slashdot just advertised a piece of spyware. It phones home to validate every URL. Read the website.
The patch is open source. I don't even know if you are right in your statement but if you are, then download the source and change the way it works! Or live in fear...
What about visa/mastercard/american express?
IMHO some of them didn't want to be in that list.
If you look at "database size", number 4 is listed as anonymous. They probably aren't too interested in telling everyone what database and platform they are using for storing very critical data with.
That's exactly what I was thinking. But just think: Now when you hear people's cell phones during a movie, [...]
Blind people at the movies?? Are you drunk?
Yep, it's a dupe: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/29/143420 3&mode=thread&tid=137
Apple backs DVD-R take it as you will.
Strange how MSs mighty Apple stock portfolio couldn't get them to agree for once!
While this isn't the overall solution, a list of known non-spam servers could be a very important part of a spam filtering system.
That's a great idea. Why hasn't anyone done that??
Well pardon me for not bashing the paperclip, but that's not a bad idea. How about something like: "I can see on the AGPS reciever that you are not at your meeting that started 15 minutes ago. Do you want me to write a SMS telling John Doe that you are running late?". Or...it could do this automatically. "This is clippy from Brians cell phone. Brian will be with you in 20 minutes" ...on some 3G phones you can actually see where your friends are on a map if they have enabled the feature.
> Forums have been doing this for years right? I mean even /. customises its user interface based on user preferences, users being identified by a unique ID in a cookie...
Maybe years, yes. But MS filed this claim 7 years ago. Sounds a bit like cookies to me, though. They were invented by Netscape many years ago...
Well, 0xFFFFFFFF is the largest 32bit number you can write with an unsigned integer - or -1 for a signed 32bit number. Weren't we looking for things to do with 64 bit processors?
So I believe the code should be:
int main(int argc, char *argv)
{
double i=0;
while ( i++ != 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF);
return 0;
}
So the basic idea of the article (I guess I'm not a real hardcore /. reader since I bothered to read the article) is that every mail is sent through a common SMTP relay and everyone that wants to e-mail you, must sign up with that company.
Then you filter all e-mail not sent through that relay...i.e. e-mails not signed by them!
Here's a cheaper idea: I tell everyone I know to start the subject line with "goat" if they want to e-mail me. Then I filter all e-mail without "goat" as the first word in the subject...
Hmmm, that actually crashed my Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1...
But me-no-worry. XP offered me to send a report back to Microsoft telling them about the problem and I'm sure they're working on the problem right now:-)
At my university, DTU, the rules for cheating are very strict. If caught cheating, you will loose every ECTS point for that semester. I really can't see why cheaters shouldn't be punished severely. They reduce the value of my education that I'm taking the hard way!
And the article states...
"Our review was focused on the code we contributed to Linux; however, we did run the Comparator code on the Linux 2.4.21 kernel. The process involves using subjective judgment to review similarities identified by the tool," said Greg Estes...
So it sounds to me like they found SOMETHING but the important thing was that they had nothing to do with it. Otherwise they could just state that a complete comparison didn't turn up anything.
Is this disturbing news to anyone but me?
because everybody knows that Power = VI
...even high-school student could tell you that!
even freshman Physics students could tell you that...
Geez, hate to be trolling but:
U = voltage (unit is V for Volt)
I = current (unit is A for Apms)
Power = UI (unit is W for Watt)
So it's either UI or VA. Emacs wins, I guess...
Well, IANAD (I am not a dentist) so what does flouride do for your teeth?
This could prove very interesting as the speed usually drops when "leaving the chip" to do communications. There has been alot of research to develop protocols to ease on-chip communication when several ICs are combined on a single chip. If Suns technology can stand the test, NoC/SoC products could reduce it's time-to-marked dramatically...smaller and faster devices for everyone!
BTW: I didn't RTFA since it requires (free) reg.
"My job requires mostly masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the men's room so I can jerk off while I fantasize about a life that less closely resembles Hell..."
From the (f*******) article:
Gnome 2.4 ships with GOK, an award-winning dynamic onscreen keyboard. It supports Direct Selection, Dwell Selection, Automatic Scanning and Inverse Scanning, and includes word completion. A detailed overview can be found on the GOK website.
Gnopernicus, the second accessibility application to ship with GNOME, provides a number of assistive technologies for people suffering from visual impairment. Most notably, it includes a screen reader, a screen magnifier and a Braille writer.