Yes, we recently completed a deal with some european country (which one escapes at the moment). They were considering Gripen or F-16's and chose the former.
I don't think + signs do anything in Google since it searches as "must include" by default, as opposed to earlier search engines. Minus signs is used to exclude them though.
Actually, like I posted earlier, filters like SpamAssassin don't even need to apply bayesian filters to understand that things looking like base64 obfuscated body text is likely to be spam. Lots of graphics per text also count towards the likelyhood of being spam. What you quote was probably written by someone with no special insight in modern spam filters.
According to SpamAssassin's default scores, these are all adding up to the spam score that apply to the examples above to "challenge spam filters":
- Message text disguised using base64 encoding - Uses a numeric IP address in URL - Uses a dotted-decimal IP address in URL - HTML has over 9 kilopixels of images - HTML: images with 0-200 bytes of words - HTML has a low ratio of text to image area - The score from a bayesian filter, which would probably quickly increase for messages with tons of punctuation and still leave legit mail since you normally don't use tons of punctuation.
Spam operators might get more creative, but I still think spam removal tools are several steps ahead.
Yup. I recall "JPL-Jeff" in the #maestro IRC chat (irc.freenode.net) said that it takes around 7 hours for them to transmit a full-size image. The ping is 9 minutes btw since earth is 9 lightminutes away from Mars.:-)
But they *do* have color cams. Would be silly to make this rover worse on that part than Pathfinder. They have just not used them yet. I'm not sure if the Rover needs to be deployed for those pics, which it might not be yet. They'll spend the coming 8 days or so just retracting all those airbags.:-)
For an RBG pic I think they need to get 3 separate pics, each for each color channel. So 3x the time necessary.
Jeez, once you spend the first 9 $crillion, you'd think they'd throw in the extra ten bucks for color navigation
They have those cameras too. Actually, they can take photos of the three RGB channels separately and combine, so they aren't reducing the resolution by using color either. Patience:-)
Hmm, seems like these might not be compatible with any of the current Detonator/ForceWare drivers in the "50 series". Since I doubt downgrading to 45.23 just for this feature is an option for me, I don't really see a way to get that 3D support. Weird that nvidia just stopped updating them?
The initial minimum subscription length is six months.
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The subscription rate is $5 per machine per month; or a flat rate of $2,500 per month for unlimited machines. To take advantage of the unlimited access rate, you must use your own mirrored repository to deploy the updates internally to your organization's machines.
WTF? Do one need to subscribe and pay them to get flaws in the software fixed? Who on earth would like to do that after being used to apply free patches from Windows Update?
I think this is an exaggeration.. I can't complain about stability and usablity on my XP box. It never crashes by itself like Windows 9x did, it's very usable for everything I use it for (and that's quite a lot), plug & play support is pretty much unbeatable (at least give a few examples of hardware that Windows XP doesn't support properly even if the hardware supports plug & play). You only have a point with security. And that's why I think you're exaggerating...
Successfully have humans travel to Mars and back could be a huge boost to NASA PR. Robots and rovers simply don't gain as much attention from the average Joe. Relatively large parts of the world stood still when the first humans walked the moon, and most people I know where I live watched that landing. Can't exactly say the same about mechanical gizmos. These landings are lucky if they get good media coverage.
I'm happy for NASA's and USA's part and their achievement in yet again landing a probe on Mars, but also annoyed by people who go "take that, Beagle 2", "USA 1 - ESA 0". Like it was a competition... These are no better than anti-US zealots to me.
It was never a competition. Well, maybe in your mind, but I doubt in the mind of NASA or the mind of ESA. They are more mature than falling to those levels.:-)
Moderators, make it a New Year's Resolution to RTFA BEFORE moderating.
They probably did and it probably pointed to the actual article back then. If you look at the URL, it doesn't directly point to the Google Cache, but to some weird.ws site that's probably under his control so he can change to Goatse when he get modded up.
Second, the AC modded as Troll is using a web redirect for the second link, which explains the confusion about whether he's posting a goatse image or not. Sometimes, it points to one, other times it doesn't. By the way, the first link of the parent was broken and corrected now.
"* Our planet and all around us existed before the creation of the universe since it must have happened a LOOOOONG way away, or"
Probably not:-)
"* We are moving at nearly the speed of light away from the center point of creation and we are slowing down."
I can definitely say no to this one without even looking things up, since the Doppler effect also applies to light (not only sound), and the observations from Hubble combined with how the Doppler effect works proves that most objects are moving away from us and even that the further from us they are, the faster they're moving away from us.
As for the AC who posted big bang expanded faster than light, I haven't really seen any theories agreeing with this.
Remember to remove those added whitespaces or it won't work. Like "nomsng.re g", "Me ssenger" should have their spaces removed.
Also, remember to clean up afterwards...:-)
del %temp%\nomsngr.reg
Orphaned temporary files will build up your temp directory to *scary music* BILLIONS of bytes if you don't watch it.:-) Actually, I recently cleaned the temp directory of a coworker where Acrobat Reader had mysteriously stopped working. He had over 65,536 files in his temp directory, which made Acrobat Reader not being able to find free temp file names at startup.
I seriously doubt my biological clock or bird migration would be affected by an extra millisecond or so... I can't think of how that would be possible. Sounds like the change would be slow enough for us to adapt without many problems. Also, aren't bird migrations more triggered by seasonal changes than exact times? What I'm saying is: if a season gets 0.05 second longer per year, a season would not end 0.05 seconds later than before, but whenever that season would end due to climate changes. These usually vary with at least a week (or 604,800 seconds), back and forth from year to year. This is completely normal and birds has no problems whatsoever to adapt to these changes annually. For example, this year the snow and real cold we associate with winter came to us probably two - three weeks later than in 2002. It's not like a bird flying from place A to B need to perfectly match a certain time when the climate switch, or else they're doomed.
If the year gets a fraction of a second longer per year, that should still just add up to a second in a century or so... Nothing compared to what the birds have to put up with today due to climate variations. They only work with averages and tries to adapt the best they can.
To make the world's official time agree with where the Earth actually is in space, scientists in 1972 started adding an extra "leap second" on the last day of the year.
"Where earth actually is in space"?
As HopeOS said when the previous article was posted:
"Leap seconds, as pointed out, are an entirely different beast, and are meant to shore up the discrepency between our actual rotation and the atomic clocks we use."
That's why. This has nothing to do with rotations around our sun, just around our own axis.
At the National Institute for Science and Technology in Boulder, spokesman Fred McGehan said most scientists agree the Earth's orbit around the sun has been gradually slowing for millennia.
Assuming this is true and this is the actual news here, the reporter (and the writer of the other article) shouldn't have started talking about leap seconds in the first place since these aren't added to compensate for that.
I'm just getting DVD-R/RW nowadays and don't really see a reason to bother with the other ones. My DVD burner can of course read and write to both formats, but at least where I live, - discs are actually cheaper than + discs and + discs don't work with most standalone DVD players found in home theatres etc. A salesman told me it was because only DVD-R was an approvad standard by the DVD Forum and that's why all standalone players definitely play those, and only if you're lucky the others.
Isn't this why organizations with a commercial interest shouldn't be involved in deciding upon standards? Because they will obviously want to get what they want, and there's usually more than one will involved. It isn't a constructive battle for a format either, and the best format isn't necessarily victorious.
I wonder what the purpose of the DVD Forum was again?
1. To establish a single format for each DVD application product, including revisions, improvements and enhancements for the benefit of consumers and users
2. To promote broad acceptance of DVD products on a worldwide basis, including the entertainment, consumer electronics and IT industries as well as the general public.
I agree, and guess it's just about the market being blind... Right now, they can only see 3D games, but I guess if some company made some truly great marketing for a very innovative and addicting 2D game that became widely successful (perfectly possible IMHO), the market would be all for 2D games again...
It's like when the CRPG genre was revived again with Baldur's Gate. Suddenly all sorts of CRPG's building on basically the same format started popping out of the ground.
I don't really think 3D is anything that fuels the gameplay of a game, and therefore making them in 2D wouldn't give the game an obstacle. The important part is still that they're fun.
Slashdot Mirror
I looked around a bit more, and it was probably this deal with the czechs:t m
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3331889.s
are they getting some use?
Yes, we recently completed a deal with some european country (which one escapes at the moment). They were considering Gripen or F-16's and chose the former.
I don't think + signs do anything in Google since it searches as "must include" by default, as opposed to earlier search engines. Minus signs is used to exclude them though.
Actually, like I posted earlier, filters like SpamAssassin don't even need to apply bayesian filters to understand that things looking like base64 obfuscated body text is likely to be spam. Lots of graphics per text also count towards the likelyhood of being spam. What you quote was probably written by someone with no special insight in modern spam filters.
According to SpamAssassin's default scores, these are all adding up to the spam score that apply to the examples above to "challenge spam filters":
- Message text disguised using base64 encoding
- Uses a numeric IP address in URL
- Uses a dotted-decimal IP address in URL
- HTML has over 9 kilopixels of images
- HTML: images with 0-200 bytes of words
- HTML has a low ratio of text to image area
- The score from a bayesian filter, which would probably quickly increase for messages with tons of punctuation and still leave legit mail since you normally don't use tons of punctuation.
Spam operators might get more creative, but I still think spam removal tools are several steps ahead.
Yup. I recall "JPL-Jeff" in the #maestro IRC chat (irc.freenode.net) said that it takes around 7 hours for them to transmit a full-size image. The ping is 9 minutes btw since earth is 9 lightminutes away from Mars. :-)
:-)
But they *do* have color cams. Would be silly to make this rover worse on that part than Pathfinder. They have just not used them yet. I'm not sure if the Rover needs to be deployed for those pics, which it might not be yet. They'll spend the coming 8 days or so just retracting all those airbags.
For an RBG pic I think they need to get 3 separate pics, each for each color channel. So 3x the time necessary.
Jeez, once you spend the first 9 $crillion, you'd think they'd throw in the extra ten bucks for color navigation
:-)
They have those cameras too. Actually, they can take photos of the three RGB channels separately and combine, so they aren't reducing the resolution by using color either. Patience
So why are all the pictures black and white?
Because they aren't using their color cam yet.
Hmm, seems like these might not be compatible with any of the current Detonator/ForceWare drivers in the "50 series". Since I doubt downgrading to 45.23 just for this feature is an option for me, I don't really see a way to get that 3D support. Weird that nvidia just stopped updating them?
... and here's the latest 3D stereo drivers.
From second link:
The initial minimum subscription length is six months.
--
The subscription rate is $5 per machine per month; or a flat rate of $2,500 per month for unlimited machines. To take advantage of the unlimited access rate, you must use your own mirrored repository to deploy the updates internally to your organization's machines.
WTF? Do one need to subscribe and pay them to get flaws in the software fixed? Who on earth would like to do that after being used to apply free patches from Windows Update?
they still don't even compare to OS X
I think this is an exaggeration.. I can't complain about stability and usablity on my XP box. It never crashes by itself like Windows 9x did, it's very usable for everything I use it for (and that's quite a lot), plug & play support is pretty much unbeatable (at least give a few examples of hardware that Windows XP doesn't support properly even if the hardware supports plug & play). You only have a point with security. And that's why I think you're exaggerating...
Successfully have humans travel to Mars and back could be a huge boost to NASA PR. Robots and rovers simply don't gain as much attention from the average Joe. Relatively large parts of the world stood still when the first humans walked the moon, and most people I know where I live watched that landing. Can't exactly say the same about mechanical gizmos. These landings are lucky if they get good media coverage.
I'm happy for NASA's and USA's part and their achievement in yet again landing a probe on Mars, but also annoyed by people who go "take that, Beagle 2", "USA 1 - ESA 0". Like it was a competition... These are no better than anti-US zealots to me.
Take that Beagle 2!
:-)
It was never a competition. Well, maybe in your mind, but I doubt in the mind of NASA or the mind of ESA. They are more mature than falling to those levels.
Moderators, make it a New Year's Resolution to RTFA BEFORE moderating.
.ws site that's probably under his control so he can change to Goatse when he get modded up.
They probably did and it probably pointed to the actual article back then. If you look at the URL, it doesn't directly point to the Google Cache, but to some weird
Come on, I can't believe none of you AC's noticed... First, please use these links instead:
Science with 100m telescopes - PDF Version
Science with 100m telescopes - HTML Version
Second, the AC modded as Troll is using a web redirect for the second link, which explains the confusion about whether he's posting a goatse image or not. Sometimes, it points to one, other times it doesn't. By the way, the first link of the parent was broken and corrected now.
"* Our planet and all around us existed before the creation of the universe since it must have happened a LOOOOONG way away, or"
:-)
Probably not
"* We are moving at nearly the speed of light away from the center point of creation and we are slowing down."
I can definitely say no to this one without even looking things up, since the Doppler effect also applies to light (not only sound), and the observations from Hubble combined with how the Doppler effect works proves that most objects are moving away from us and even that the further from us they are, the faster they're moving away from us.
As for the AC who posted big bang expanded faster than light, I haven't really seen any theories agreeing with this.
Remember to remove those added whitespaces or it won't work. Like "nomsng.re g", "Me ssenger" should have their spaces removed.
:-)
:-) Actually, I recently cleaned the temp directory of a coworker where Acrobat Reader had mysteriously stopped working. He had over 65,536 files in his temp directory, which made Acrobat Reader not being able to find free temp file names at startup.
Also, remember to clean up afterwards...
del %temp%\nomsngr.reg
Orphaned temporary files will build up your temp directory to *scary music* BILLIONS of bytes if you don't watch it.
Don't Blindly Believe The Story
News submitters have been wrong before.
Argh... Now you reminded me of that recent stupid & incorrect double-posted "Oooh Earth Is Moving Slower Through Space" article.
I seriously doubt my biological clock or bird migration would be affected by an extra millisecond or so... I can't think of how that would be possible. Sounds like the change would be slow enough for us to adapt without many problems. Also, aren't bird migrations more triggered by seasonal changes than exact times? What I'm saying is: if a season gets 0.05 second longer per year, a season would not end 0.05 seconds later than before, but whenever that season would end due to climate changes. These usually vary with at least a week (or 604,800 seconds), back and forth from year to year. This is completely normal and birds has no problems whatsoever to adapt to these changes annually. For example, this year the snow and real cold we associate with winter came to us probably two - three weeks later than in 2002. It's not like a bird flying from place A to B need to perfectly match a certain time when the climate switch, or else they're doomed.
If the year gets a fraction of a second longer per year, that should still just add up to a second in a century or so... Nothing compared to what the birds have to put up with today due to climate variations. They only work with averages and tries to adapt the best they can.
To make the world's official time agree with where the Earth actually is in space, scientists in 1972 started adding an extra "leap second" on the last day of the year.
"Where earth actually is in space"?
As HopeOS said when the previous article was posted:
"Leap seconds, as pointed out, are an entirely different beast, and are meant to shore up the discrepency between our actual rotation and the atomic clocks we use."
That's why. This has nothing to do with rotations around our sun, just around our own axis.
At the National Institute for Science and Technology in Boulder, spokesman Fred McGehan said most scientists agree the Earth's orbit around the sun has been gradually slowing for millennia.
Assuming this is true and this is the actual news here, the reporter (and the writer of the other article) shouldn't have started talking about leap seconds in the first place since these aren't added to compensate for that.
I'm just getting DVD-R/RW nowadays and don't really see a reason to bother with the other ones. My DVD burner can of course read and write to both formats, but at least where I live, - discs are actually cheaper than + discs and + discs don't work with most standalone DVD players found in home theatres etc. A salesman told me it was because only DVD-R was an approvad standard by the DVD Forum and that's why all standalone players definitely play those, and only if you're lucky the others.
And both can store equal amounts of data as well.
Isn't this why organizations with a commercial interest shouldn't be involved in deciding upon standards? Because they will obviously want to get what they want, and there's usually more than one will involved. It isn't a constructive battle for a format either, and the best format isn't necessarily victorious.
:-P
I wonder what the purpose of the DVD Forum was again?
1. To establish a single format for each DVD application product, including revisions, improvements and enhancements for the benefit of consumers and users
2. To promote broad acceptance of DVD products on a worldwide basis, including the entertainment, consumer electronics and IT industries as well as the general public.
Ooh, I see...
I agree, and guess it's just about the market being blind... Right now, they can only see 3D games, but I guess if some company made some truly great marketing for a very innovative and addicting 2D game that became widely successful (perfectly possible IMHO), the market would be all for 2D games again...
It's like when the CRPG genre was revived again with Baldur's Gate. Suddenly all sorts of CRPG's building on basically the same format started popping out of the ground.
I don't really think 3D is anything that fuels the gameplay of a game, and therefore making them in 2D wouldn't give the game an obstacle. The important part is still that they're fun.