That would seem to be a reasonable request but if fulfilled, it would lead to people using the source code and applying the own optimizations to it. Many people view Seti@home in a compeatative way; there have been contests, and people have cheated by saving a work-unit that was all but done and repetativly re-processed and submitted it to artificialy inflate there stats or win.
The problem is Seti@home is science, and a primary requirement for science is that results must be repetable. If I were for example to recompile to program for athlon optimisation, it probably wouldn't be too big a deal and might gain me an advantage of of 20 min to an hour for each work-unit, which are averaging about 27 hours on my older machine. Sooner or later somebody is going to take apart the program and start change the math involved which would increase the advantage but absolutly kill reproducability.
I think that this exploit would be pretty hard to exploit because you would have to intercept the IP address of the seti@home server, and redirect to a malicious server to exploit it. It would be easier to just exploit one of the many other easier to exploit security holes out there.
If we set up the transmitters as an phase array, we could make it look like the signal was coming from cold empty space; imagine them trying to figure that out
I think Open Source projects are certainly displacing the sale of Microsoft products. Probably true, I wonder how much OSS is displacing pireted copies of MS software the potential there is much greater. Get Mom and Pop to use OpenOffice to send simple slide shows instead of a bootlegg copy of Ofice and you'd get some momentum going.
Not where I'm at, they love the rock solid reliablity of the SCO box those terminals are connected to; that's a 10 year old box too. After a couple of days they are flying around with the shortcuts they've learned, because there was no mouse to make them lazy not to mention that their arms and hands don't ache as much at the end of the day from mouseing.
What they hate is when one of the Windows machines does strange stuff like forgetting how to read the mouse, or corrupts their files. The other thing they hate is all of the harping on them to back-up their files when a hard-drive starts to make strange noises, it's so much easier to put the files on a sever that's administered, I can back up their files even if they don't.
They are even envious of how I can go on one of those windows machines and get directory listings or files loaded faster from my Linux box in back, over ethernet than I can off the windows machine's hard-drive (to be fair the linux box does the same off the windows machine's hard-drive).
Sure I don't think running Gimp or photoshop over ethernet to a thin-client would be any fun but the bottom line is the right tool for the right job.
Your definition ommited the feature that in deimation, the decimated organiation's punishment is delivered by persons in the decimated unit to ramdomly selected individuals;this brings considerable peer presure into play. Imagine your department having 10% fired because you missed a buffer overflow and it's resulting security hole in a project and not being selected for firing!
Yes a coalition of Distro's bitchslaped some sense into the guy in court and then gave it back to Linus, that's while Linux is realy Linux now or Linux tm in broken browsers
Ever looked down Snow White's cleavage? good stuff. Jessica in "Who Framed Rodger Rabbit" was pretty hot for a toon, and their was a lot of sexual innuendos too.
I wonder how many software patents would be filed if the PTO required full, compileable and functional source code to be part of the description and therefore to be on public display for everybody to pounce on as soon as their 17 years was up? Imagine reaction if their next big improvement was already patented by a competitor as an improvement on your existing patent?
He certainly won't be able to mount a primary challenge against a sitting president if he runs as a republican 2008, chose between Forbes and Cheny nuff said.
Another thing about the google paid ads is that google is not beneath tell an advertiser that their ad is not performing, pulling it with permission and refunding the unused ballance. The result is even the paid adverts have a high degree of relevancy and tend to be from companies that are a little bit better than the pack.
Microsoft on the otherhand is not known for turning down money.
There are five people with the same first and last name in a 12 mile radius of me 3 have the same middle initial. One of these people has a wife whose first name, last anme and middle initial is the same as my wifes, and her SSN, and Drivers liceinse is only one digit different! My town is perfectly ordinary town of 35,000, makes you wonder how bad the problem is nation-wide. Right now we have trouble writing checks because of bads checks written by the above couple and also have had to jump through considerable hoops to get hospital bills miss asigned to us removed. When we remortgaged our house we were suprised to find a tax lien against our property also due to the above couple.
I think it's in everyones best interest to periodicaly check their credit reports and take other anti-identity theft measures to protect themselves not as much for identity theft as for indentiy mistakes.
The bummer is everytime the xFree86 is upgraded I seem to lose monitor resolution because the archaic modes my monitors us isn't supported anymore I've gone from 1076 down to 640!
Be extremely cautious about working on a CRT, there are extremely high voltages present and it doesn't necessarily go away because the thing is un-plugged. 35-40 Thousand volts can reach out and touch you, and with enough jolt to sometimes stop a heart and often enough to injuries from your physical reaction such as falling down and breaking an arm ect.
I'm old school electronics, tube-type guided missiles, launchers and radar so I know about High Voltage, if you don't, learn about it before you open the monitor case
The rub is profit, and profit is direct+indirect expenses subtracted from revenues. On extreme is;
If we price to low, everybody who wants one gets one and a lot of profit is realised inititaly, but the market dies and all of the equipment we bought sits idle but still needs to be paid for and all of the workers who got fat overtime checks are laid off. The indirect expenses that still have to be paid errode the company into bankruptcy.
If we price too high, only a few people are willing to buy, but not enough to make a profit, equipment still sits idle, the workers get hit with re-occuring lay-off's until the best of them get jobs else where, your quality takes a dump and the company still goes bankrupt.
The odd thing about computers and peripherals is that prices never seem to go up; I paid the same for a 12Mhz 286 as I did for a 2.4GHz pentium IV! So naturaly things are going to be priced on the high side of the two extremes. It's easier to adjust prices down or have sales then to increase prices.
I'm not a JAVA programmer, in fact I keep thinking that I don't understand OOPs at all. But GCJ seems like it would be the ticket to boost performance up a couple notches
Can't censor Al Jazeera, still nothing there to censor. Followed the link to ArabNews.com and they are on the air but a quick glance showed nothing that needed censorship. That's not the same as saying that everything there is flattering to the coalition, I am finding the different point of view refreshing. Thanks for the link.
I was looking for a specific accessory for a specific model of sony equipment, moving my zip code across the street resulted in the clossest dealer moving 60 Mi.! Of course the result was only for a dealer that sold anything sony not the specific model or accessory.
You'd think that they would be better integrated so that I would be pointed to locations that at least had ordered the model or even the general product line there
Yes it was and its still happening, aren't cell phone increasingly able to report their locations when you call in an emergency. Now I think the capability is mostly a triangulation of several cells signal strength but that is not capable of determining a location, it just gets them close.
I think it's interesting that coalition forces are not alowing certain brands of satalite phone to be used on the battlefield because of there position reporting capabilities.
I would hate to have to explain to the FBI why i was so interested in websites about people like Vlad Dracula and Mehmed the Conqueor while there is armed conflict in Iraq. That would be particulary difficult if a serial killer made his/herself know in the area.
On the other hand I try not to start flames, but sometimes I just get into a trollish mood and post things that perhaps I wouldn't have done otherwise. At least with some annominity I usualy don't have to worry about some wacko stalking me.
Actualy It's amazing how much you can find out about someone on the internat anyways. A Friend in Australia recieved an Email she found threatening from a neo-nazi type, and basicaly an American tracked an Email to an Austrailian, through a website hosted in the UK back to one of two men in Tampa Fla, in about two hours. Makes you wonder what a professional can do.
actualy powerlines are invisible when your'e going 480 KM/Hr, pilots tend to look for the supporting poles and assume the wires are in between. unfortunately things like cable-cars can fool them. Sand from sand storms can be removed from the intake air by centrifical seperation simalr to bagless vacuume cleaners.
Obviously you've never seen 7 GI's piling into the back of a HummV because a tank that can shoot 1st round kills at 2Km 95% of the time while traveling at 45 MPH over is chasing them; tha's just training war is more intense.
Most commercial hardware is not designed to withstand the corrosive effects of chemical decontamination solutions, our DS2, decontaminating solution will strip the paint off your car in minutes. Ask your Dentist how much of his equipment got eaten up by disinfectent solutions they have to use. Realy think an Ipod could withstand thing like EMP from a near lightening strike or a nuclear detonation? How about I have an IPOD that's storing maps in my pocket and I get blown off a wall fall 10 feet and land on top of the darned thing.
When is the last time you asked consumer grade hardware to operated at -40 degrees or +50 degrees, aircraft can go from one to the other in minutes.
Military equipment is taken care of because people stake their lives on it working when its supposed to.
A little bit of malpractice Insurance goes a long ways here. A benefit that many programers might not have considered is sometimes its very usefull have an malpractice Insurance company looking over your employers shoulder when they are trying to short change things like the design or testing phases of developement, impossible deadlines or even outsourcing your job to India.
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That would seem to be a reasonable request but if fulfilled, it would lead to people using the source code and applying the own optimizations to it. Many people view Seti@home in a compeatative way; there have been contests, and people have cheated by saving a work-unit that was all but done and repetativly re-processed and submitted it to artificialy inflate there stats or win.
The problem is Seti@home is science, and a primary requirement for science is that results must be repetable. If I were for example to recompile to program for athlon optimisation, it probably wouldn't be too big a deal and might gain me an advantage of of 20 min to an hour for each work-unit, which are averaging about 27 hours on my older machine. Sooner or later somebody is going to take apart the program and start change the math involved which would increase the advantage but absolutly kill reproducability.
I think that this exploit would be pretty hard to exploit because you would have to intercept the IP address of the seti@home server, and redirect to a malicious server to exploit it. It would be easier to just exploit one of the many other easier to exploit security holes out there.
If we set up the transmitters as an phase array, we could make it look like the signal was coming from cold empty space; imagine them trying to figure that out
The photo is a processed visible light image according to the hubbleste/
I think Open Source projects are certainly displacing the sale of Microsoft products.
Probably true, I wonder how much OSS is displacing pireted copies of MS software the potential there is much greater. Get Mom and Pop to use OpenOffice to send simple slide shows instead of a bootlegg copy of Ofice and you'd get some momentum going.
Not where I'm at, they love the rock solid reliablity of the SCO box those terminals are connected to; that's a 10 year old box too. After a couple of days they are flying around with the shortcuts they've learned, because there was no mouse to make them lazy not to mention that their arms and hands don't ache as much at the end of the day from mouseing.
What they hate is when one of the Windows machines does strange stuff like forgetting how to read the mouse, or corrupts their files. The other thing they hate is all of the harping on them to back-up their files when a hard-drive starts to make strange noises, it's so much easier to put the files on a sever that's administered, I can back up their files even if they don't.
They are even envious of how I can go on one of those windows machines and get directory listings or files loaded faster from my Linux box in back, over ethernet than I can off the windows machine's hard-drive (to be fair the linux box does the same off the windows machine's hard-drive).
Sure I don't think running Gimp or photoshop over ethernet to a thin-client would be any fun but the bottom line is the right tool for the right job.
Your definition ommited the feature that in deimation, the decimated organiation's punishment is delivered by persons in the decimated unit to ramdomly selected individuals;this brings considerable peer presure into play. Imagine your department having 10% fired because you missed a buffer overflow and it's resulting security hole in a project and not being selected for firing!
Yes a coalition of Distro's bitchslaped some sense into the guy in court and then gave it back to Linus, that's while Linux is realy Linux now or Linux tm in broken browsers
Ever looked down Snow White's cleavage? good stuff. Jessica in "Who Framed Rodger Rabbit" was pretty hot for a toon, and their was a lot of sexual innuendos too.
yeah, use two browsers or delete the cookies, then post AC to a thread you've already MODed
I wonder how many software patents would be filed if the PTO required full, compileable and functional source code to be part of the description and therefore to be on public display for everybody to pounce on as soon as their 17 years was up? Imagine reaction if their next big improvement was already patented by a competitor as an improvement on your existing patent?
He certainly won't be able to mount a primary challenge against a sitting president if he runs as a republican
2008, chose between Forbes and Cheny nuff said.
Another thing about the google paid ads is that google is not beneath tell an advertiser that their ad is not performing, pulling it with permission and refunding the unused ballance. The result is even the paid adverts have a high degree of relevancy and tend to be from companies that are a little bit better than the pack.
Microsoft on the otherhand is not known for turning down money.
There are five people with the same first and last name in a 12 mile radius of me 3 have the same middle initial. One of these people has a wife whose first name, last anme and middle initial is the same as my wifes, and her SSN, and Drivers liceinse is only one digit different! My town is perfectly ordinary town of 35,000, makes you wonder how bad the problem is nation-wide. Right now we have trouble writing checks because of bads checks written by the above couple and also have had to jump through considerable hoops to get hospital bills miss asigned to us removed. When we remortgaged our house we were suprised to find a tax lien against our property also due to the above couple.
I think it's in everyones best interest to periodicaly check their credit reports and take other anti-identity theft measures to protect themselves not as much for identity theft as for indentiy mistakes.
The bummer is everytime the xFree86 is upgraded I seem to lose monitor resolution because the archaic modes my monitors us isn't supported anymore I've gone from 1076 down to 640!
Be extremely cautious about working on a CRT, there are extremely high voltages present and it doesn't necessarily go away because the thing is un-plugged. 35-40 Thousand volts can reach out and touch you, and with enough jolt to sometimes stop a heart and often enough to injuries from your physical reaction such as falling down and breaking an arm ect.
I'm old school electronics, tube-type guided missiles, launchers and radar so I know about High Voltage, if you don't, learn about it before you open the monitor case
The rub is profit, and profit is direct+indirect expenses subtracted from revenues. On extreme is;
If we price to low, everybody who wants one gets one and a lot of profit is realised inititaly, but the market dies and all of the equipment we bought sits idle but still needs to be paid for and all of the workers who got fat overtime checks are laid off. The indirect expenses that still have to be paid errode the company into bankruptcy.
If we price too high, only a few people are willing to buy, but not enough to make a profit, equipment still sits idle, the workers get hit with re-occuring lay-off's until the best of them get jobs else where, your quality takes a dump and the company still goes bankrupt.
The odd thing about computers and peripherals is that prices never seem to go up; I paid the same for a 12Mhz 286 as I did for a 2.4GHz pentium IV! So naturaly things are going to be priced on the high side of the two extremes. It's easier to adjust prices down or have sales then to increase prices.
I'm not a JAVA programmer, in fact I keep thinking that I don't understand OOPs at all. But GCJ seems like it would be the ticket to boost performance up a couple notches
Can't censor Al Jazeera, still nothing there to censor. Followed the link to ArabNews.com and they are on the air but a quick glance showed nothing that needed censorship. That's not the same as saying that everything there is flattering to the coalition, I am finding the different point of view refreshing. Thanks for the link.
I was looking for a specific accessory for a specific model of sony equipment, moving my zip code across the street resulted in the clossest dealer moving 60 Mi.! Of course the result was only for a dealer that sold anything sony not the specific model or accessory.
You'd think that they would be better integrated so that I would be pointed to locations that at least had ordered the model or even the general product line there
Yes it was and its still happening, aren't cell phone increasingly able to report their locations when you call in an emergency. Now I think the capability is mostly a triangulation of several cells signal strength but that is not capable of determining a location, it just gets them close.
I think it's interesting that coalition forces are not alowing certain brands of satalite phone to be used on the battlefield because of there position reporting capabilities.
I would hate to have to explain to the FBI why i was so interested in websites about people like Vlad Dracula and Mehmed the Conqueor while there is armed conflict in Iraq. That would be particulary difficult if a serial killer made his/herself know in the area.
On the other hand I try not to start flames, but sometimes I just get into a trollish mood and post things that perhaps I wouldn't have done otherwise. At least with some annominity I usualy don't have to worry about some wacko stalking me.
Actualy It's amazing how much you can find out about someone on the internat anyways. A Friend in Australia recieved an Email she found threatening from a neo-nazi type, and basicaly an American tracked an Email to an Austrailian, through a website hosted in the UK back to one of two men in Tampa Fla, in about two hours. Makes you wonder what a professional can do.
actualy powerlines are invisible when your'e going 480 KM/Hr, pilots tend to look for the supporting poles and assume the wires are in between. unfortunately things like cable-cars can fool them. Sand from sand storms can be removed from the intake air by centrifical seperation simalr to bagless vacuume cleaners.
Obviously you've never seen 7 GI's piling into the back of a HummV because a tank that can shoot 1st round kills at 2Km 95% of the time while traveling at 45 MPH over is chasing them; tha's just training war is more intense.
Most commercial hardware is not designed to withstand the corrosive effects of chemical decontamination solutions, our DS2, decontaminating solution will strip the paint off your car in minutes. Ask your Dentist how much of his equipment got eaten up by disinfectent solutions they have to use. Realy think an Ipod could withstand thing like EMP from a near lightening strike or a nuclear detonation? How about I have an IPOD that's storing maps in my pocket and I get blown off a wall fall 10 feet and land on top of the darned thing.
When is the last time you asked consumer grade hardware to operated at -40 degrees or +50 degrees, aircraft can go from one to the other in minutes.
Military equipment is taken care of because people stake their lives on it working when its supposed to.
A little bit of malpractice Insurance goes a long ways here. A benefit that many programers might not have considered is sometimes its very usefull have an malpractice Insurance company looking over your employers shoulder when they are trying to short change things like the design or testing phases of developement, impossible deadlines or even outsourcing your job to India.