Different type of hard. Surgeon Simulator is hard if you do not have the right eye/hand coordination for it, I did not find it all that difficult once I got the controls down.
Nethack is hard because you can be unlucky, and given the amount of time required to play in order to win, the chances of you being unlucky (dying) once ends up being really high. You never know when you may turn a corner and get hit with a wand of death from a random weak monster that is smart enough to know how to work a wand. Just happened to me yesterday, as a matter of fact.
105TB/ms over 42 hours (15.88ZB) Means you could copy the estimated information content of all human knowledge (about 12EB as of mid-1999) in about 2.52 minutes. Source: Wolfram Alpha.
The target Website is protected by cloud security vendor Incapsula, which was able to withstand the massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack and keep the targeted Website up and running.
There are a total of 8 mentions of Incapsula and how fantastic their services are.
He is right, I checked. For all we know, 100 Gigabits of data was transferred to the target over the course of 9 hours, and for some reason this was considered a DDoS attack. FYI: 100 Gigabits is only 12.5 Gigabytes... Exciting.
Note: GBps !=Gbps. GB is 8 times larger than Gb.
You just said they withstood 2400 Gbps, which is incorrect. Also, it should be noted that the 300 Gbps quoted was only the peak, I think the average was only about 120 Gbps.
Along the same lines you might be interested to look at acoustic, or "dumb", black holes...
Thanks for mentioning this, I looked it up and found it quite an interesting read. I do not understand most of the technical speak (I am wholly unschooled in this area) but I can at least grasp the general ideas behind everything that was explained, and it was incredibly fascinating.
I find all of your posts on this topic very helpful, thank you for your insight.
Would whirling a fully gimbled gyroscope around your head on a string have any effect on the orientation of the gyroscope's axis?
Not sure what you are getting at here, my head is not massive enough to create any kind of significant gravitational pull, nor does it have a magnetic field. My head would in no way affect the gyroscope, unless it were touching, or there was a wind blowing.
Now my EGO, on the other hand, maybe, but there is no scientific data on the mass of an ego that I know of, so I am unable to give a proper answer on that one. Also, I left my fully gimbled gyroscope at home, I do have a half-gimbled one, but that is not in question here.
The purpose of him switching to HDMI was so that his sound would be consistently working, not so he could have great quality audio. He was having to constantly reboot his system because his onboard sound card was jacked up.
You must have just missed it.
My realtek sound chip is a POS that used to require reboots to get skype working.
And this:
True I might not notice an audible difference but I hated my buggy sound on my mobo.
This is what I loved about playing WoW, if I felt like I wanted a certain part of the UI to be bigger/smaller, I could make it happen. If I wanted extra awesome translucent bars so I could have more slots for spells, I could. And let me tell you, that spoiled me. These days, I come upon an interface that is wholly uncustomizable and it makes me a little ill. Perfect example: iPhones. I hate them, you cannot configure anything except the background.
And with Androids, you already can download new interface packages, they are called Launchers. I use Nova Launcher, it is free, and it rocks my socks off. I can change everything down to the icons. If you want to change the notification bar, they have those apps too. This is why I love Android over iPhone, customization. And also why I am sad when I see someone with a Galaxy S3 that still has all the default settings on it.
That's a feature-fight I'd like to see Google, Microsoft and Apple get into.
Apple would never do this, customization means fragmentation. Suddenly their walled garden is editable by their end users? No no, that would be impossible.
Anyway, I feel like I am ranting now, I will stop.
I thought they explained that they had to bury the machines under the earth because the actual aliens could not travel fast enough, so they sent their tanks first, then traveled the slow way themselves.
But yeah, why did they think we would build cities in those areas? Why did they hate us so much that they would predict how our populations would boom, and where to plant the tanks to murder us?
The number of times I read the article are astoundingly slim. I mean, this is Slashdot, after all.
but to dismiss the entire advertising industry is wrong
I dismissed the entire ad industry as soon as I got background popup videos that were playing sound, and an ad somewhere near the bottom of a long page that was also playing sound at the same time. At that point, it just became a battle of who could make me hate the internet more, so I decided to surrender and make a blanket statement of "I never want to see another ad again, lest I destroy my computer out of sheer rage".
It is not my fault that sound-based advertisements ruined the entire game for everyone.
I know these guys, and none of those are a part of their reasoning. As far as my implied "Pathological fear" of ads, I have none. I simply dislike clutter, and I really hate having to watch an ad before I can watch a video on Youtube.
In a similar vein, on sites I visit the most I use Adblock Element hider to get rid of extra unwanted elements that are meaningless to me. For example, share buttons. I will never share content except maybe on Youtube, thus if I commonly use a website, I will hide the "Sharing pane". It is pointless for me, so I would rather have extra reading space, than have something else drawing my attention away from the main purpose of the site.
And if you are really worried about your point #1, the vast majority of web browsing I do is spent on Google-owned websites, and Slashdot. Google does not need the revenue generated by my adviews, and I contribute often enough on Slashdot that I am "Eligible to disable ads". So I am not worried about preventing the sites I visit from much-needed ad revenue.
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Different type of hard. Surgeon Simulator is hard if you do not have the right eye/hand coordination for it, I did not find it all that difficult once I got the controls down.
Nethack is hard because you can be unlucky, and given the amount of time required to play in order to win, the chances of you being unlucky (dying) once ends up being really high. You never know when you may turn a corner and get hit with a wand of death from a random weak monster that is smart enough to know how to work a wand. Just happened to me yesterday, as a matter of fact.
Wow, despite playing HL2 at least 6-7 years ago, I still said that sentence with the same creepy cadence as the G-man.
I had fun reading this, mostly because I have had the same train of thoughts before. (Right up until the end)
105TB/ms over 42 hours (15.88ZB) Means you could copy the estimated information content of all human knowledge (about 12EB as of mid-1999) in about 2.52 minutes. Source: Wolfram Alpha.
The target Website is protected by cloud security vendor Incapsula, which was able to withstand the massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack and keep the targeted Website up and running.
There are a total of 8 mentions of Incapsula and how fantastic their services are.
He is right, I checked. For all we know, 100 Gigabits of data was transferred to the target over the course of 9 hours, and for some reason this was considered a DDoS attack. FYI: 100 Gigabits is only 12.5 Gigabytes... Exciting.
Wolfram Alpha says that 100Gb per second per second for 9 hours is about 10 times the estimated global IP data traffic rate in 2015.(1 ZB/year)
Note: GBps !=Gbps. GB is 8 times larger than Gb.
You just said they withstood 2400 Gbps, which is incorrect. Also, it should be noted that the 300 Gbps quoted was only the peak, I think the average was only about 120 Gbps.
Yeah, this is just not working for me... Can you narrow this down to 3 steps, but keep the required ambiguity of the "???" step?
That would be greeaaaat.
Dang it, a TVTropes link. I should have checked before I clicked... Now i am 8 tabs deep into world-ending monsters and Eldritch Horrors.
Along the same lines you might be interested to look at acoustic, or "dumb", black holes...
Thanks for mentioning this, I looked it up and found it quite an interesting read. I do not understand most of the technical speak (I am wholly unschooled in this area) but I can at least grasp the general ideas behind everything that was explained, and it was incredibly fascinating.
I find all of your posts on this topic very helpful, thank you for your insight.
This is the clip that AC is talking about.
The downloadable program linked above has information for seemingly every spacecraft currently in space, a very informative tool.
Would whirling a fully gimbled gyroscope around your head on a string have any effect on the orientation of the gyroscope's axis?
Not sure what you are getting at here, my head is not massive enough to create any kind of significant gravitational pull, nor does it have a magnetic field. My head would in no way affect the gyroscope, unless it were touching, or there was a wind blowing.
Now my EGO, on the other hand, maybe, but there is no scientific data on the mass of an ego that I know of, so I am unable to give a proper answer on that one. Also, I left my fully gimbled gyroscope at home, I do have a half-gimbled one, but that is not in question here.
You must have just missed it.
My realtek sound chip is a POS that used to require reboots to get skype working.
And this:
True I might not notice an audible difference but I hated my buggy sound on my mobo.
Hmmm... The words "Child Pornography" linking to a picture on a Russian site... No thanks.
Negative.
A search reveals that even when a dummy is not wearing their seatbelt, the airbag is able to deploy fully (albeit, barely) before the dummy hits it.
Read the 23 page excerpt, bought a hard copy from Amazon. Will have to wait 5-9 business days to read the rest...
Thank you.
Thanks for the article link!
And with Androids, you already can download new interface packages, they are called Launchers. I use Nova Launcher, it is free, and it rocks my socks off. I can change everything down to the icons. If you want to change the notification bar, they have those apps too. This is why I love Android over iPhone, customization. And also why I am sad when I see someone with a Galaxy S3 that still has all the default settings on it.
That's a feature-fight I'd like to see Google, Microsoft and Apple get into.
Apple would never do this, customization means fragmentation. Suddenly their walled garden is editable by their end users? No no, that would be impossible.
Anyway, I feel like I am ranting now, I will stop.
I thought they explained that they had to bury the machines under the earth because the actual aliens could not travel fast enough, so they sent their tanks first, then traveled the slow way themselves.
But yeah, why did they think we would build cities in those areas? Why did they hate us so much that they would predict how our populations would boom, and where to plant the tanks to murder us?
Aliens make no sense these days.
Can you convert to LOC?
I have no idea if it does or not, I have them blocked either way.
but to dismiss the entire advertising industry is wrong
I dismissed the entire ad industry as soon as I got background popup videos that were playing sound, and an ad somewhere near the bottom of a long page that was also playing sound at the same time. At that point, it just became a battle of who could make me hate the internet more, so I decided to surrender and make a blanket statement of "I never want to see another ad again, lest I destroy my computer out of sheer rage".
It is not my fault that sound-based advertisements ruined the entire game for everyone.
I know these guys, and none of those are a part of their reasoning. As far as my implied "Pathological fear" of ads, I have none. I simply dislike clutter, and I really hate having to watch an ad before I can watch a video on Youtube.
In a similar vein, on sites I visit the most I use Adblock Element hider to get rid of extra unwanted elements that are meaningless to me. For example, share buttons. I will never share content except maybe on Youtube, thus if I commonly use a website, I will hide the "Sharing pane". It is pointless for me, so I would rather have extra reading space, than have something else drawing my attention away from the main purpose of the site.
And if you are really worried about your point #1, the vast majority of web browsing I do is spent on Google-owned websites, and Slashdot. Google does not need the revenue generated by my adviews, and I contribute often enough on Slashdot that I am "Eligible to disable ads". So I am not worried about preventing the sites I visit from much-needed ad revenue.