Because in these days most of the people that use computers are not computer experts (not that this is a bad thing though)
If they have a problem with microsoft word, they don't usually blame the program. For them there is no distinction between the software that runs on their computers and the computer itself. They blame the computer, because they don't know better.
FYI, The Canary Islands are a part of Spain, which is a democracy since 25 years.
And instead of coconuts or oil (!), the main industry down there is tourism. So if you want to take something from there, the only thing that you will find in abundance are german tourists!;-)
Agreed with the dragon book:Don't buy it now. It's quite old now and as the parent says, a new edition is due "early"
About TAOCP...it's a though book. And it fits in the definition of "classic" (a book that everyone talks about but very few have read;-). I find the "Introduction to Algorithms" (sec. ed), by Cormen et al much more comprehensive and easy to read. Also, "Algorithms in C", by Sedgewick, is another fine book. And of course, one of my favourites: "Programming Pearls", by Jon Bentley (take the updated second edition)
anyways, I mainly use One Time Passwords when I'm outside home, like in a cybecafe or something like that. In that places encryption (SSL,SSH) prevents password sniffing, but not keylogging at the machine. OTP is a good solution for these situations. And of course, there is the geek factor of taking out your password list in front of everybody else;-)
Nice idea. I'm going to use it for services for which I can't control the auth method used. For services that I host on my server I use one time passwords and a PAM module that I wrote (see sig)
I don't know OS X Voice commands system, but I'm guessing that it works on a reduced vocabulary (i.e.: "close", "open", "mail", and such). That's the key there: with reduced vocabularies and a strict syntax speech recognition works pretty good. The challenge is to make it work with a natural lang . such as English (and in real time)
Said in another way: when you issue a voice command to OS X, it has to choose between 40-100 alternatives (this is guesswork). (True) speech recognizers work with +60K vocabularies...
Music recognition is the way to go (ok, that was a shameless plug;-)
Anyways, it seems that Dragon Naturally Speaking scans your documents to adapt to your writing style. My question is... how does it know if that docs where written by me?. I mean: imagine what would happen if it finds a copy of the bible on your HD;-). And BTW: "detailed review"?. It seemed more like a "It worked for me and I liked" thing. No detailed word error rates, a lot of useless screenshots, etc...
Even when I f*k up some pointer math during development and write strings god knows where in memory, XP recovers gracefully.
errhm, clueless. Any real O.S. won't let you "write strings god knows where".Of course you can fuck your own memory space, but any decent OS will prevent you from overwriting system or other users memory spaces.
You can divide CPUs in two groups: the "wired ones" (only "hardware") and the microprogrammed ones (IIRC the first CPU of this kind was some IBM mainframe - 360 maybe??).
Wired ones rely the implementation of all the intruction set on hardware gates (ORs, ANDs, XORs, etc) while microprogrammed ones rely on a control memory which contains the microcode that actually implements the instruction set. Each microinstruction basically controls all the signals in charge of the CPU (register bank selection, multiplexers of the CPU operands, main memory R/W, etc...).
I wont go in further details, because you can read all of this things (and more) on almost any computer architecture book (Hennessy & Paterson Computer Architecture series is an excellent start point). Go learn
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grammer? or grammar?. Ahh, the irony...
Tux Racer? bzFlag?, pfff, everybody knows that Moagg is the one and only game any linux user will need!! ;-)
On the other hand, for $20 per install I sure hope it does something more than just displaying my TV remotely. At least it will justify the price!!!
...do you really need that much your regular dose of TV when you are in travel?. Seems a little extreme to me
Because in these days most of the people that use computers are not computer experts (not that this is a bad thing though)
If they have a problem with microsoft word, they don't usually blame the program. For them there is no distinction between the software that runs on their computers and the computer itself. They blame the computer, because they don't know better.
And instead of coconuts or oil (!), the main industry down there is tourism. So if you want to take something from there, the only thing that you will find in abundance are german tourists!
(sorry
We open our gifts the morning of January 6th ;-)
It takes a minute or so to warm up, but it is a laser, that is to be expected.
The HP 1300, which is an entry-level laser printer (PS), warms up in 8 seconds. 1 minute way more than is expected for modern laser printers!.
About TAOCP...it's a though book. And it fits in the definition of "classic" (a book that everyone talks about but very few have read
Use the Coralized link, or Mozilla will to ask for more donations to pay for the bandwidth ;-). BTW, the Firefox coral extension rules!
the only thing that you are really interested of this article: a photo of her
anyways, I mainly use One Time Passwords when I'm outside home, like in a cybecafe or something like that. In that places encryption (SSL,SSH) prevents password sniffing, but not keylogging at the machine. OTP is a good solution for these situations. And of course, there is the geek factor of taking out your password list in front of everybody else
Nice idea. I'm going to use it for services for which I can't control the auth method used. For services that I host on my server I use one time passwords and a PAM module that I wrote (see sig)
Said in another way: when you issue a voice command to OS X, it has to choose between 40-100 alternatives (this is guesswork). (True) speech recognizers work with +60K vocabularies...
Anyways, it seems that Dragon Naturally Speaking scans your documents to adapt to your writing style. My question is... how does it know if that docs where written by me?. I mean: imagine what would happen if it finds a copy of the bible on your HD
I have HTML rendering disabled on kmail.
operating voltage has nothing to do with power consuption.
The mini-box power consumption is 10 Watts
errhm, clueless. Any real O.S. won't let you "write strings god knows where".Of course you can fuck your own memory space, but any decent OS will prevent you from overwriting system or other users memory spaces.
Sure, never heard of memory pages, didn't you?
Wrong. Very wrong, in fact.
You can divide CPUs
in two groups: the "wired ones" (only "hardware")
and the microprogrammed ones (IIRC the first
CPU of this kind was some IBM mainframe - 360
maybe??).
Wired ones rely the implementation of all the
intruction set on hardware gates (ORs, ANDs, XORs,
etc) while microprogrammed ones rely on a
control memory which contains the microcode
that actually implements the instruction set. Each
microinstruction basically controls all the
signals in charge of the CPU (register bank
selection, multiplexers of the CPU operands,
main memory R/W, etc...).
I wont go in further details, because you
can read all of this things (and more) on almost any
computer architecture book (Hennessy & Paterson
Computer Architecture series is an excellent
start point). Go learn
cojones, man. cajones means drawer
but do not follow their price guidelines :-)
Of course you can save .gif/.tiff files with gimp: apt-get install gimp-non-free (or consult compilation options)
that's demagogic