License is "use it freely". Wide adoption of this standard would benefit Adobe; right now they have to issue new Camera Raw plugins every so often and reconfigure it for all the new cameras and format that come out. My new 20D is not yet supported by today's new version of camera raw for instance...
Nice story, but god it's completely irrelevant! Don't you think that the social implications of online gambling, as well as the issues of trust (bots vs humans, etc...) are what's at stake here? Fraud is a different beast altogether.
For some reason, this is modded 'insightful'. I'd like to point out that RFiD requires antennas in a proxity of about 10 feet to be detectable (that's with the best one, 915 MHz version). Moreover, it is very susceptible to interferences, be it metal or water (and thus a human body).
Thanks for the numbers. I indeed didn't think that lights were that inneficient. Looking on the web I didn't find your numbers though. A website of the canadian government says about incandescent lights that they are efficient between 5 & 8 % (so a factor of three with your estimate) and two other site states 10%
http://oee.nrcan.gc.ca/english/media/articles_in do or_may99_shininglight.cfm
Do you actually believe that you can project a reasonable image with _4 watts_ of power? You need energy to create photons. Even with zero heat loss, you can't get a luminous image out of 4 watts. This is vaporware at best.
I wouldn't want to be locked out of my files due to clumsiness
It seems pretty easy to have two ways to access the encrypted info: using fingerprints or passphrase. This would insure never being locked out of your files.
> Incidentally, has anyone else noticed that the MacOS scheme is equivalent to having 4 character extensions which aren't displayed
It isn't; there are 4 characters for the type _and_ 4 characters for the creator. That creator is important since double clicking on a text file will open it in Word / BBEdit / etc... if that's the creator. If the creator is not recognized, the OS will ask you to choose between applications that can deal with that type of files.
He likes to ask for your birthday and by the time he's done saying "well, I can tell you that this was a" he has the weekday.
Of course, I didn't check his answer at the time, so I presume mistakes could easily go unnoticed, but he's really good at those kinds of things. To practice he has a program in his.login that prompts for a couple of random given day of the week (and checks) and gives him his score (total time taken for 5 good answers iirc) He has the same kind of program for factoring 4 digit numbers, etc...
(I've been privileged to be one of his student and he is truly the most amazing mind I've personally met)
I would think one could find the errors in the answer key simply by looking at the distribution of responses... Shouldn't the right be the most popular one if the question is not misleading or tricky? Or take the top 10% of the respondees and look at their answers... wouldn't it be a bit surprising that 75% of those answer 'a' when the answer key states 'b' is the answer?
The questions with poor success rate should be checked over, not only to make sure the answer key is right but to evaluate the question's validity.
A solution to the 'open question-answer' problem could be the publication of answer distribution (right answer: 70%, wrong answer a: 11.2%,...) and the questions for which the distribution looks wrong could be eliminated from the scoring or else published with its choices.
My 0.03$ canadian.
Hi Many people see the open source movement heading in opposite direction to corporations and government. But governements are responsible for some major "open" enterprises, like our road systems. They made sure that telephone communications were "open" (design your phone and plug-it anywhere) and have been a major player in the scientific research domain. It strikes me as natural that everyone pays, through taxes, for building an open infra-structure for open-source software, like we do for science, roads, etc... Why do most people see this dichotomy between open source and goverment? Is the FSF or any major player in the open-source movement lobbying to get government funding? Thanks
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At 4h30 EST, it was sluggish but completely functional with images and all. I ordered sucessfully a iPod mini :-)
License is "use it freely". Wide adoption of this standard would benefit Adobe; right now they have to issue new Camera Raw plugins every so often and reconfigure it for all the new cameras and format that come out. My new 20D is not yet supported by today's new version of camera raw for instance...
Nice story, but god it's completely irrelevant!
Don't you think that the social implications of online gambling, as well as the issues of trust (bots vs humans, etc...) are what's at stake here? Fraud is a different beast altogether.
For some reason, this is modded 'insightful'. I'd like to point out that RFiD requires antennas in a proxity of about 10 feet to be detectable (that's with the best one, 915 MHz version). Moreover, it is very susceptible to interferences, be it metal or water (and thus a human body).
Good luc, Big Brother, you'll need it!
Thanks for the numbers. I indeed didn't think that lights were that inneficient. Looking on the web I didn't find your numbers though. A website of the canadian government says about incandescent lights that they are efficient between 5 & 8 % (so a factor of three with your estimate) and two other site states 10%
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So using your calculations, we get around 800 lumens, with 100% efficiency which is not possible.
Do you actually believe that you can project a reasonable image with _4 watts_ of power? You need energy to create photons. Even with zero heat loss, you can't get a luminous image out of 4 watts. This is vaporware at best.
I wouldn't want to be locked out of my files due to clumsiness
It seems pretty easy to have two ways to access the encrypted info: using fingerprints or passphrase. This would insure never being locked out of your files.
> Incidentally, has anyone else noticed that the MacOS scheme is equivalent to having 4 character extensions which aren't displayed
It isn't; there are 4 characters for the type _and_ 4 characters for the creator. That creator is important since double clicking on a text file will open it in Word / BBEdit / etc... if that's the creator. If the creator is not recognized, the OS will ask you to choose between applications that can deal with that type of files.
He likes to ask for your birthday and by the time he's done saying "well, I can tell you that this was a" he has the weekday. .login that prompts for a couple of random given day of the week (and checks) and gives him his score (total time taken for 5 good answers iirc) He has the same kind of program for factoring 4 digit numbers, etc...
Of course, I didn't check his answer at the time, so I presume mistakes could easily go unnoticed, but he's really good at those kinds of things. To practice he has a program in his
(I've been privileged to be one of his student and he is truly the most amazing mind I've personally met)
I would think one could find the errors in the answer key simply by looking at the distribution of responses... Shouldn't the right be the most popular one if the question is not misleading or tricky? Or take the top 10% of the respondees and look at their answers... wouldn't it be a bit surprising that 75% of those answer 'a' when the answer key states 'b' is the answer?
The questions with poor success rate should be checked over, not only to make sure the answer key is right but to evaluate the question's validity.
A solution to the 'open question-answer' problem could be the publication of answer distribution (right answer: 70%, wrong answer a: 11.2%,...) and the questions for which the distribution looks wrong could be eliminated from the scoring or else published with its choices.
My 0.03$ canadian.
Hi
Many people see the open source movement heading in opposite direction to corporations and government. But governements are responsible for some major "open" enterprises, like our road systems. They made sure that telephone communications were "open" (design your phone and plug-it anywhere) and have been a major player in the scientific research domain.
It strikes me as natural that everyone pays, through taxes, for building an open infra-structure for open-source software, like we do for science, roads, etc... Why do most people see this dichotomy between open source and goverment? Is the FSF or any major player in the open-source movement lobbying to get government funding?
Thanks