The universe is not so discriminating. Humans are just trying to categorize it, imposing artificial order on the chaos that results from natural order.
That being said, a galaxy needs to be defined as a 1st order organization where the rotational mass is twice as wide as it is tall. Else, its a cluster.
My orders are: -1 - multiverse 0 - universe 1 - galaxy / cluster 2 - star 3 - planet / belt 4 - satellite (includes moon) 5 - satellites of satellites.
Actually, I think science precludes the assumption that the cat can be put back in the bag.
With the private key released, they cannot prevent anything. Sony has two choices: Change the private/public key pair and resign every game made to date (require everyone connect for resigned games, or be shipped a disc that will do it) or Do nothing.
The first one costs too much and probably is exploitable so that you could have it re-sign illegitimate software. It would however allow them to assign unique keys for every PS3, so every binary is signed and encrypted for your own PS3.
What has happened here, is only the outdated, maintained systems are still running telnet. This corresponds to a likely weak password. And if no one is obsoleting it, then no one is really watching it either. It has now become the forgotten-about low-hanging fruit.
We'll get access to more viking camps that are buried by ice and snow. The same thing is happening in Alaska, where native American artifacts are being found as glaciers recede. Which mean that it wasn't too long ago that those areas were ice-free... which means ice was added in the time between now and then. Which means that it happens extremely quickly in geologic time.
So the only real concern is... will it come back? That's the subject of debate. Will the CO2 forgings outweigh the natural glaciation cycle. I don't even think the "experts" know, our models only go out a few hundred years, not 10k years.
Well, when I installed AC2, it required me to perform a system update. So you pretty much have to have a connection anyway.
What, should we all start demanding update disks sent to us, thus raising the costs to Sony? If I can't buy a single player game and play it without internet and without free updates, then there's some kind of collusion there.
We've moved everything to XHTML or XML for the most part. What is the worst that happens? You get an unsupported tag. In which case you can detect and handle the unsupported tag. HTML per se is on the way out. Encoding information as XML-style tags is here to stay.
Someone has to fire first, and I hope everyone remembers we did.
While I don't want to over-generalize, Russian hackers are top-notch. We have may started a war we're going to lose. As more and more Russian systems go Linux, and we keep writing checks to Microsoft for shoddy code, I expect us to be at a full disadvantage.
Dark matter is the fudge factor which explains the rotation of galaxies whose outer extents rotate too fast for known orbital mechanics. Applying Occums's razor, the explanation is missing mass. The alternative explanations: Time is not as constant as we think. (Allowing for General Relativity) Gravity does not work as we think over large distances. Dark Energy (companion/alternative to DM)
Those first two are often dismissed as being too complicated because we've got plenty examples of our predictions being right based on those assumptions, and sort-of rule out Dark Energy. But be it Energy or matter it is some form of a quantifiable unknown.
Faced with revising our equations for reality on the small-medium scale, we'd rather say matter is escaping detection for the large scale.
The skeptic blogs continuously catch NASA revising older temperatures down. 1998 has been the hottest year on record... Now 2005/2010 is? This article from a skeptic blog concedes that 2010 was hot, but the included graph shows 2005 no where hear 1998/2010. What is the point of mislabeling 2005? Does a 5 year gap lend more credence to AGW than a 12 year gap?
It does everything pretty damn easily and extends your C++ compiler by using a MetaObjectCompiler (MOC pre-processor) and gives you most, not all, of what C++0xForever is promising. Platform independently.
Of you don't like Qt, then there is Boost. Both are just C++ libraries.
As a service writer (as in SOAP, REST, Win32 system Service, unix daemon etc) I can say the trivial case - waiting for an entire file before processing is far more conceptually simple than writing a true streaming service. I see it all the time. Wait for the file to be done before processing it. Of course, for small files this makes sense. However when working on ever-more-common larger files this doesn't. Most calculations on input data can be done before the next packet arrives. The most trivial is if you're doing a file copy. A more complex example is if you are doing movie transcoding. Anyway, as it works out having a byte stream-oriented design allows you to process the data while you wait. This is seemingly for free. Consider a file-copy from internet to local storage. You can receive your TCP packet at line speed, then write it out on a remote volume far faster. If you do this, you won't have to wait X+Y time, where X is net transfer time (slow) and Y is local transfer time (fast). You will only need to wait X time. Yes, if there is an error you have to abort the local transfer and that takes slightly more intelligent error handling.
Case and point: I used a video transcoding service. I had to wait for 3 times X+Y+Z which are upload, transcode and download. Since my effective upload speed was a few dozen KBps, the transcoder CPU could have transcoded in real time, and sent me a byte stream back. meaning it would only take X time. Also note that if it is a multicore CPU, the transcoding can be done independent of the byte stream reading/writing.
In the case of errors - which are not common, it is ok to throw out those wasted CPU cycles, because the odds are they would have been idled anyway. On a server that handles many requests at the same time and isn't idle, errors (and cancellation) are rare enough that the time saved more than makes up for the few wasted transactions.
There are graphics libraries that support streaming pixel transforms like graphicsmagick ( http://www.graphicsmagick.org/ ) and I am sure VLC/ffmpeg supports a streaming conversion as well. using streams rather than whole files is the way to go.
Of course, this requires a but more error handling (and checksums, which can be problematic http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-bryan-metalinkhttp-01.html#checksums ) because the checksum needs to be in the HTTP header, which means it can't be sent unless you've already ran through the file once... They way I addressed that is on the HTTP upload, you checksum as you go (again a streaming operation) and store that in a database or md5sum file.
I often wonder how much better the net would perform if amateur programmers didn't wait to get the whole file.
Take a lot of wire and run it all over the house, using a minimal length. This will balance out the EMI fields (if any) which are attributed to feeling of a "presence". In the lab, this feeling of a presence has been replicated by people wearing salad colendars on their heads with inductive EMI circuits. So by providing a more conductive medium than earth or air, you should eliminate any "stray" fields (including EM noise) (and 'kill' the ghosts)
Qt is compile anywhere, run anywhere. Sure, there is some management of binaries (each platform gets its own) but build scripts take care of this. Scripts then deal with selecting the right binary. Imagine an app store where you upload your code, it compiles for each platform and it installs the right version to the device automatically. Want AgryBirds for Android? No problem. iOS? No problem. Desktop, no Problem!
It seems like something like Meego (Linux+GL+Qt) would be the best way to go, if you are not an Apple device.
I never understood why anyone would want to interpret byte-code on a battery powered device. Or give up control of garbage collection. Maybe the VM enforces things like local file system access, but a few lines in the kernel can enforce that too.
The judges that ruled in favor were not considering that when a person is taken into custody searched and examined, it is not for personal information, rather the safety for the officers and the accountability of returning and cataloging the property.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Obviously an immediate arrest is slightly different, but I would say after the arrest they could get a warrant. It wouldn't be impossible and actually quite easy.
The QA of this release is way down. On top of that, skype auto-updated people from 4.0 to 5.0. Within a few days, the buggy 5.0 had enough penetration (50%) to bring them down.
The windows client has widely been reported to: consume 2x as much CPU (33% to 60% on mine after upgrade) leak RAM (starts out ok but after some use over 1.5gig needed) the GUI is slow, so the fade effects on some computers (mine) causes video tearing. It is no longer possible to run full-screen. (320x240 is all I get before tearing sets in) The fonts in the video area don't render correctly. It should be noted that I have a AMD X2 1.6 and Radeon 1200 card in this computer. Its not shabby. But the 5.0 client brought it to its knees.
It plays SCII just fine (albeit on the lowest setting).
It comes at a bad time when they are trying for more corporate agreements, but can't run on my 3-year-old hardware.
I uninstalled 5.0 and installed 4.0 and its back to normal.
Because most of that isn't real Viagra, it's Canadian/Indian knock-off Viagra.
I love the IBM commercial where "10% of the worlds medication is counterfeit" and they go on about tracking and safety. What it is really about is profits. They don't want counterfeit meds hitting the shelves. While this sounds good, the "counterfeit" meds aren't as dangerous as they seem. Some countries are not respecting patents so India and Canada can produce their own. Since it is sold and labeled as "Viagra" but isn't produced by the patent older or license, it is technically counterfeit. But it is just as safe as acetaminophen is to "Tylenol".
*Note: there has been a push for India and other countries to respect patents, I don't know where these efforts currently stand. These countries just don't want to pay the extortion rates from the patent holders.
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The universe is not so discriminating. Humans are just trying to categorize it, imposing artificial order on the chaos that results from natural order.
That being said, a galaxy needs to be defined as a 1st order organization where the rotational mass is twice as wide as it is tall. Else, its a cluster.
My orders are:
-1 - multiverse
0 - universe
1 - galaxy / cluster
2 - star
3 - planet / belt
4 - satellite (includes moon)
5 - satellites of satellites.
Actually, I think science precludes the assumption that the cat can be put back in the bag.
With the private key released, they cannot prevent anything. Sony has two choices:
Change the private/public key pair and resign every game made to date (require everyone connect for resigned games, or be shipped a disc that will do it) or
Do nothing.
The first one costs too much and probably is exploitable so that you could have it re-sign illegitimate software. It would however allow them to assign unique keys for every PS3, so every binary is signed and encrypted for your own PS3.
"outdated, UNmaintained systems" - FTFM
What has happened here, is only the outdated, maintained systems are still running telnet. This corresponds to a likely weak password. And if no one is obsoleting it, then no one is really watching it either. It has now become the forgotten-about low-hanging fruit.
Yeah well I had a ReplayTV which was founded 2 years before TiVo.
ReplayTV's interface was way better than TiVo's
The Russians don't have a war to justify.
I never thought I'd say "Hey America, lets follow the Russian example..." but I find myself saying it now.
We'll get access to more viking camps that are buried by ice and snow. The same thing is happening in Alaska, where native American artifacts are being found as glaciers recede. Which mean that it wasn't too long ago that those areas were ice-free... which means ice was added in the time between now and then. Which means that it happens extremely quickly in geologic time.
So the only real concern is... will it come back? That's the subject of debate. Will the CO2 forgings outweigh the natural glaciation cycle. I don't even think the "experts" know, our models only go out a few hundred years, not 10k years.
Well, when I installed AC2, it required me to perform a system update. So you pretty much have to have a connection anyway.
What, should we all start demanding update disks sent to us, thus raising the costs to Sony? If I can't buy a single player game and play it without internet and without free updates, then there's some kind of collusion there.
Its not as bad as you think.
We've moved everything to XHTML or XML for the most part. What is the worst that happens? You get an unsupported tag. In which case you can detect and handle the unsupported tag. HTML per se is on the way out. Encoding information as XML-style tags is here to stay.
What you thought you had privacy on facebook?
Your best bet is to be uninteresting, which for the /. crowd is quiet easy.
Who has been helping Iran? Russia.
Yes, I hear a lot of new research is looking into the quantization of space-time, in the order of Planck length.
Also, at small distances, gravity is weaker than all other forces, so it is less relevant.
Someone has to fire first, and I hope everyone remembers we did.
While I don't want to over-generalize, Russian hackers are top-notch. We have may started a war we're going to lose. As more and more Russian systems go Linux, and we keep writing checks to Microsoft for shoddy code, I expect us to be at a full disadvantage.
Dark matter is the fudge factor which explains the rotation of galaxies whose outer extents rotate too fast for known orbital mechanics. Applying Occums's razor, the explanation is missing mass. The alternative explanations:
Time is not as constant as we think. (Allowing for General Relativity)
Gravity does not work as we think over large distances.
Dark Energy (companion/alternative to DM)
Those first two are often dismissed as being too complicated because we've got plenty examples of our predictions being right based on those assumptions, and sort-of rule out Dark Energy. But be it Energy or matter it is some form of a quantifiable unknown.
Faced with revising our equations for reality on the small-medium scale, we'd rather say matter is escaping detection for the large scale.
The skeptic blogs continuously catch NASA revising older temperatures down. 1998 has been the hottest year on record... Now 2005/2010 is? This article from a skeptic blog concedes that 2010 was hot, but the included graph shows 2005 no where hear 1998/2010. What is the point of mislabeling 2005? Does a 5 year gap lend more credence to AGW than a 12 year gap?
So, I am an unapologetic Qt freak.
It does everything pretty damn easily and extends your C++ compiler by using a MetaObjectCompiler (MOC pre-processor) and gives you most, not all, of what C++0xForever is promising. Platform independently.
Of you don't like Qt, then there is Boost. Both are just C++ libraries.
As a service writer (as in SOAP, REST, Win32 system Service, unix daemon etc) I can say the trivial case - waiting for an entire file before processing is far more conceptually simple than writing a true streaming service. I see it all the time. Wait for the file to be done before processing it. Of course, for small files this makes sense. However when working on ever-more-common larger files this doesn't. Most calculations on input data can be done before the next packet arrives. The most trivial is if you're doing a file copy. A more complex example is if you are doing movie transcoding. Anyway, as it works out having a byte stream-oriented design allows you to process the data while you wait. This is seemingly for free. Consider a file-copy from internet to local storage. You can receive your TCP packet at line speed, then write it out on a remote volume far faster. If you do this, you won't have to wait X+Y time, where X is net transfer time (slow) and Y is local transfer time (fast). You will only need to wait X time. Yes, if there is an error you have to abort the local transfer and that takes slightly more intelligent error handling.
Case and point: I used a video transcoding service. I had to wait for 3 times X+Y+Z which are upload, transcode and download. Since my effective upload speed was a few dozen KBps, the transcoder CPU could have transcoded in real time, and sent me a byte stream back. meaning it would only take X time. Also note that if it is a multicore CPU, the transcoding can be done independent of the byte stream reading/writing.
In the case of errors - which are not common, it is ok to throw out those wasted CPU cycles, because the odds are they would have been idled anyway. On a server that handles many requests at the same time and isn't idle, errors (and cancellation) are rare enough that the time saved more than makes up for the few wasted transactions.
There are graphics libraries that support streaming pixel transforms like graphicsmagick ( http://www.graphicsmagick.org/ ) and I am sure VLC/ffmpeg supports a streaming conversion as well. using streams rather than whole files is the way to go.
Of course, this requires a but more error handling (and checksums, which can be problematic http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-bryan-metalinkhttp-01.html#checksums ) because the checksum needs to be in the HTTP header, which means it can't be sent unless you've already ran through the file once... They way I addressed that is on the HTTP upload, you checksum as you go (again a streaming operation) and store that in a database or md5sum file.
I often wonder how much better the net would perform if amateur programmers didn't wait to get the whole file.
Take a lot of wire and run it all over the house, using a minimal length. This will balance out the EMI fields (if any) which are attributed to feeling of a "presence". In the lab, this feeling of a presence has been replicated by people wearing salad colendars on their heads with inductive EMI circuits. So by providing a more conductive medium than earth or air, you should eliminate any "stray" fields (including EM noise) (and 'kill' the ghosts)
Did he participate in events that made him his own grandfather? 'Cause if not, it does nothing to help our coming brain invasion problem.
Qt is compile anywhere, run anywhere. Sure, there is some management of binaries (each platform gets its own) but build scripts take care of this. Scripts then deal with selecting the right binary.
Imagine an app store where you upload your code, it compiles for each platform and it installs the right version to the device automatically. Want AgryBirds for Android? No problem. iOS? No problem. Desktop, no Problem!
One app store to rule them all.
It seems like something like Meego (Linux+GL+Qt) would be the best way to go, if you are not an Apple device.
I never understood why anyone would want to interpret byte-code on a battery powered device. Or give up control of garbage collection. Maybe the VM enforces things like local file system access, but a few lines in the kernel can enforce that too.
Well physical items can provide a threat to the safety of officers. Information items do not.
The judges that ruled in favor were not considering that when a person is taken into custody searched and examined, it is not for personal information, rather the safety for the officers and the accountability of returning and cataloging the property.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Obviously an immediate arrest is slightly different, but I would say after the arrest they could get a warrant. It wouldn't be impossible and actually quite easy.
The QA of this release is way down. On top of that, skype auto-updated people from 4.0 to 5.0. Within a few days, the buggy 5.0 had enough penetration (50%) to bring them down.
The windows client has widely been reported to:
consume 2x as much CPU (33% to 60% on mine after upgrade)
leak RAM (starts out ok but after some use over 1.5gig needed)
the GUI is slow, so the fade effects on some computers (mine) causes video tearing. It is no longer possible to run full-screen. (320x240 is all I get before tearing sets in)
The fonts in the video area don't render correctly.
It should be noted that I have a AMD X2 1.6 and Radeon 1200 card in this computer. Its not shabby. But the 5.0 client brought it to its knees.
It plays SCII just fine (albeit on the lowest setting).
It comes at a bad time when they are trying for more corporate agreements, but can't run on my 3-year-old hardware.
I uninstalled 5.0 and installed 4.0 and its back to normal.
Because most of that isn't real Viagra, it's Canadian/Indian knock-off Viagra.
I love the IBM commercial where "10% of the worlds medication is counterfeit" and they go on about tracking and safety. What it is really about is profits. They don't want counterfeit meds hitting the shelves. While this sounds good, the "counterfeit" meds aren't as dangerous as they seem. Some countries are not respecting patents so India and Canada can produce their own. Since it is sold and labeled as "Viagra" but isn't produced by the patent older or license, it is technically counterfeit. But it is just as safe as acetaminophen is to "Tylenol".
*Note: there has been a push for India and other countries to respect patents, I don't know where these efforts currently stand. These countries just don't want to pay the extortion rates from the patent holders.