Most places use IIS because they want to use ASP as their scripting language, instead of Perl/PHP. What is the performance like with an ASP parser? I don't think too many people will switchover, if it means having to rewrite all their ASP code, or if using an ASP parser is slower than using IIS, especially since IIS is free (if you have Windows), whereas the chilisoft asp parser costs money. I don't know of any other free asp parsers. But, if there were ones that offered comparable performance, I'm sure a lot of people would switch over.
This technology is pretty impressive, and if it does enable 3D television, then I'm just wondering how exactly we'd record video to be displayed using this technology. I know it'll probably work for 3D computer generated videos because you can just send it the raw data, but how exactly do you film something in real life so that viewer can walk around the object and see it from a different angle? Or am I not understanding this correctly?
Don't the Intel CPUs have some feature like this? I remember them advertising a while ago that they can generate true random numbers for power dissipation on resistors or something like that. I'm not very familiar with this, and am just recalling something I heard a while ago.
If all CPUs implemented something similar then can true random numbers be obtained from that?
If they've actually stopped the light, then the velocity is 0, therefore wouldn't the uncertainy in position be infinite (delta p)*(delta x) > (h-bar), so if that were true, how would you get the light to come back out the same crystal?
I'm not a physicist or anything I just have a high school physics backgrounds, and I'm just wondering.
No, it's actually a DNS suffix, that gets appended to the address, it's not WINS. In fact, I'm pretty sure their instructions tell you to disable NetBIOS.
The problem with self-improving programs using Genetic Programming, is that the problem inherent in the process of evolution are present in the programs. When species evolve, it's not always for the better, there have been cases where evolution has made things worser than before.
This might not be noticable for relatively simply programs, but on a very complex program, how do you tell if a certain modification introduced by the system, is actually an improvement? What if the modifications makes the program slightly faster, but introduces long-term problems?
I think this is one of the biggest problems (other than the programs becoming sentient, and taking over the world;-)) with self-improving programs.
Uh, I think I'm missing here what freedoms exactly are you losing?
The freedom to not have your face seen when walking in broad daylight in public?
I don't know if the cameras are effective or not, and I'm not disputing that.
But how exactly are your freedoms being violated when cameras in public places take pictures of you?
And don't give me that crap about what if, they start putting cameras in private places. I'm not talking about what this might lead to in the distant future, (which is impossible to predict anyways), I'm talking about what the problems are of having cameras in public, here and now.
I have a Sony MD player (MZR-700), and I don't really see any advantages in any of the other players compared to this. It can record 320 minutes on one minidisc (about the same size, physically, as the discs phillips is using -I think). It has optical input, and if u don't have optical output on your computer, it even comes with a usb to optical adapter. The battery life is also really great. Sony claims 48 hours, but realistically I get about 20 to 25 hours on a single AA battery. I still don't understand why these players never took off.
Does this mean that I have to be perfectly still while reading the book? Because if I'm moving, then time slows down according to special relativity, and I'm circumventing their 10-hour protection device, which is illegal under the DMCA.
Minidiscs already have copy protection schemes built into them that allow for fair use. You can make a copy of the original, but you can't make a copy of the copy.
First of all get your facts straight. Bill Gates donates billions of dollars to charities, and in his will, he's leaving 3 or 4 million dollars to his family, with the rest being donates to charities.
I don't like Microsoft any more than the average slashdot reader, and I don't agree with Microsoft's or Bill Gates' opinions, but that has nothing to do with Bill Gates himself, and what he does with his money.
Pierre Elliot Trudeau, a former Canadian prime-minister said the following, "Never attack the individual. One can be in total disagreement with someone without denigrating him as a consequence"
Well here in Canada we use the metric system, and it's 3 people/sq km. But that doesn't really mean anything because, they're all closely packed into the densely populated areas. The last time I checked, something like 93% of all the people live within 90 km, of the souther border. And in the major cities internet access is pretty cheap. I was one of the first people to have broadband, when it came into my area, and it was $40 CDN, even back in 1996. That's less than $30 US.
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Don't scheme and other lisp-type languages use prefix instead of postfix?
Most places use IIS because they want to use ASP as their scripting language, instead of Perl/PHP. What is the performance like with an ASP parser?
I don't think too many people will switchover, if it means having to rewrite all their ASP code, or if using an ASP parser is slower than using IIS, especially since IIS is free (if you have Windows), whereas the chilisoft asp parser costs money.
I don't know of any other free asp parsers. But, if there were ones that offered comparable performance, I'm sure a lot of people would switch over.
This technology is pretty impressive, and if it does enable 3D television, then I'm just wondering how exactly we'd record video to be displayed using this technology. I know it'll probably work for 3D computer generated videos because you can just send it the raw data, but how exactly do you film something in real life so that viewer can walk around the object and see it from a different angle? Or am I not understanding this correctly?
Don't the Intel CPUs have some feature like this? I remember them advertising a while ago that they can generate true random numbers for power dissipation on resistors or something like that. I'm not very familiar with this, and am just recalling something I heard a while ago.
If all CPUs implemented something similar then can true random numbers be obtained from that?
If they've actually stopped the light, then the velocity is 0, therefore wouldn't the uncertainy in position be infinite (delta p)*(delta x) > (h-bar), so if that were true, how would you get the light to come back out the same crystal?
I'm not a physicist or anything I just have a high school physics backgrounds, and I'm just wondering.
No, it's actually a DNS suffix, that gets appended to the address, it's not WINS. In fact, I'm pretty sure their instructions tell you to disable NetBIOS.
The problem with self-improving programs using Genetic Programming, is that the problem inherent in the process of evolution are present in the programs. When species evolve, it's not always for the better, there have been cases where evolution has made things worser than before.
;-)) with self-improving programs.
This might not be noticable for relatively simply programs, but on a very complex program, how do you tell if a certain modification introduced by the system, is actually an improvement? What if the modifications makes the program slightly faster, but introduces long-term problems?
I think this is one of the biggest problems (other than the programs becoming sentient, and taking over the world
Uh, I think I'm missing here what freedoms exactly are you losing?
The freedom to not have your face seen when walking in broad daylight in public?
I don't know if the cameras are effective or not, and I'm not disputing that.
But how exactly are your freedoms being violated when cameras in public places take pictures of you?
And don't give me that crap about what if, they start putting cameras in private places. I'm not talking about what this might lead to in the distant future, (which is impossible to predict anyways), I'm talking about what the problems are of having cameras in public, here and now.
I have a Sony MD player (MZR-700), and I don't really see any advantages in any of the other players compared to this. It can record 320 minutes on one minidisc (about the same size, physically, as the discs phillips is using -I think). It has optical input, and if u don't have optical output on your computer, it even comes with a usb to optical adapter. The battery life is also really great. Sony claims 48 hours, but realistically I get about 20 to 25 hours on a single AA battery. I still don't understand why these players never took off.
Does this mean that I have to be perfectly still while reading the book? Because if I'm moving, then time slows down according to special relativity, and I'm circumventing their 10-hour protection device, which is illegal under the DMCA.
Minidiscs already have copy protection schemes built into them that allow for fair use. You can make a copy of the original, but you can't make a copy of the copy.
Actually there is, doesn't super-string theory say there are 10 or 26 dimensions?
First of all get your facts straight. Bill Gates donates billions of dollars to charities, and in his will, he's leaving 3 or 4 million dollars to his family, with the rest being donates to charities. I don't like Microsoft any more than the average slashdot reader, and I don't agree with Microsoft's or Bill Gates' opinions, but that has nothing to do with Bill Gates himself, and what he does with his money. Pierre Elliot Trudeau, a former Canadian prime-minister said the following, "Never attack the individual. One can be in total disagreement with someone without denigrating him as a consequence"
Well here in Canada we use the metric system, and it's 3 people/sq km. But that doesn't really mean anything because, they're all closely packed into the densely populated areas. The last time I checked, something like 93% of all the people live within 90 km, of the souther border. And in the major cities internet access is pretty cheap. I was one of the first people to have broadband, when it came into my area, and it was $40 CDN, even back in 1996. That's less than $30 US.