In theory Java is better for flexibility, however it lacks several things:
1. A robust, hand-optimized-assembly, variable quality vector drawing system. Java can do 2D anti-alised graphics now, but at nowhere near the speed that flash can.
2. An IDE that marries artwork creation, layout, and scripting. This is simply from the lack of anyone doing it.
3. Startup times comparable to image loading or JPEG decompression. This is inherent to the nature of the Java runtime environment.
4. Web Service support. Java applets can only talk to the originating server, preventing you from using web services.
Classic Flash is completely hamstrung to prevent it from doing things like... communicating outside the basic arena of your own web site...
Huh? It can talk to anything it wants to. This makes it in some ways more powerful than Java because you can use web services and databases (like TerraServerUSA). Now if it could just handle runtime loading of gif and png images...
At a first glance, that might look reasonable; however, once you start to get a lot of songs (and you start to approach RAND_MAX), it will skew your result in favor of low-ID songs.
Worse than that. Many implementations of rand() have extremely un-random low-order bits, so the above code will produce both predictable and unevenly weighted selection. It's much better to do
const int song_id = (int)((random()*(long long)num_songs)/RAND_MAX);
(long long cast required because max songs * RAND_MAX might overflow an int).
Safari, which moves focus to a loading web page when it finishes loading.
This is actually the combined fault of the web page you loaded (for calling window.focus() or something like that), and Safari for letting it do that. Firefox gets this right. Window focusing should be considered equivalent to window creation - don't allow it unless resulting from user input.
4. To perform that actual attack, it does not make an HTTP request. Instead, it opens an XML socket to the server and sends small XML documents (all of the form {garbage}). Occasionally these have garbage xml tags embedded within them. I assume their reason for this is that HTTP requests go through the browser and could have personally identifiable info attached to them.
Last time I checked, the entire purpose of Decent's existence was to make people sick. The human brain has spent far too much time evolving with 4DOF to expect it to handle 6DOF in any way other than thinking it ate the wrong mushrooms.
Alright, I saw the flick yesterday. Ignoring it's quality, the "no sets" thing is a lie. Several sets are obviously real, most noticeably Polly Perkins' Office. The professor's lab also looks to be significantly practial.
My pet peeve patent is 6,137,498 on PhotoMosaics. The first few claims are neither non-obvious nor novel. People were doing claims 1 and 2 in early 1994, over three years before the file date (the code uses a lookup table to build the output, but the generation of the lookup table uses the technique claimed in 1 and 2). Claims 3 and beyond they can keep, as they're all either naive or over-specified and easily avoidable.
Also, claim 1 is a bit ambiguous. Does "distinct" mean "unique" or "disjoint"? Yes, this matters.
One error popped out while I was reading it. In the section near the end on failures of the analogy, it lists the human hearing range as 20-20,000kHz. That should be Hz, not kHz. Right next to that they list the usable EM spectrum as 0Hz-30GHz. I've never seen a radio that could tune below 10kHz.
One of the keys to the fast load times on the Cube is the small disk. It's reduced data area significantly reduces the average seek time required to get from one point on the disk to another. The other is, as you mentioned, a lot of innovation and engineering going into predictive loading and similar techniques.
The article mentions that the device is able to "generate more than 200 tons of downward force to the seabed", but nowhere does it state how that force is used. A static force does no work and therefore can generate no energy.
No, this is most definitely a software or hardware problem. Repeatedly rewinding and replaying the same segment will reliably (but randomly) randomly FLIP the channels.
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In theory Java is better for flexibility, however it lacks several things:
1. A robust, hand-optimized-assembly, variable quality vector drawing system. Java can do 2D anti-alised graphics now, but at nowhere near the speed that flash can.
2. An IDE that marries artwork creation, layout, and scripting. This is simply from the lack of anyone doing it.
3. Startup times comparable to image loading or JPEG decompression. This is inherent to the nature of the Java runtime environment.
4. Web Service support. Java applets can only talk to the originating server, preventing you from using web services.
Classic Flash is completely hamstrung to prevent it from doing things like ... communicating outside the basic arena of your own web site ...
Huh? It can talk to anything it wants to. This makes it in some ways more powerful than Java because you can use web services and databases (like TerraServerUSA). Now if it could just handle runtime loading of gif and png images...
Worse than that. Many implementations of rand() have extremely un-random low-order bits, so the above code will produce both predictable and unevenly weighted selection. It's much better to do
const int song_id = (int)((random()*(long long)num_songs)/RAND_MAX);
(long long cast required because max songs * RAND_MAX might overflow an int).
I hope someone nominates I Love Bees. It was a fun and very innovative game, worthy of this type of recognition.
Safari, which moves focus to a loading web page when it finishes loading.
This is actually the combined fault of the web page you loaded (for calling window.focus() or something like that), and Safari for letting it do that. Firefox gets this right. Window focusing should be considered equivalent to window creation - don't allow it unless resulting from user input.
It isn't on the front page, so it should be safe. It was able to flood my downlink with ease, so they're doing just fine so far.
It's just a flash movie in a cross platform shell.Run it in your browser!
2. It requests http://backend.makelovenotspam.com:80/xml/1/0/0/0
3. This produces an XML document that looks like this:4. To perform that actual attack, it does not make an HTTP request. Instead, it opens an XML socket to the server and sends small XML documents (all of the form {garbage}). Occasionally these have garbage xml tags embedded within them. I assume their reason for this is that HTTP requests go through the browser and could have personally identifiable info attached to them.
Summary: looks legit to me.
http://www.inio.org/~inio/GTASA_TRAILER3_480x360.w mv.torrent
Alright, I saw the flick yesterday. Ignoring it's quality, the "no sets" thing is a lie. Several sets are obviously real, most noticeably Polly Perkins' Office. The professor's lab also looks to be significantly practial.
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... And the CSI episode Bad Words
As long as it doesn't involve immersive VR games, I'm cool with it. Just don't make me worry about having an infected bioport.
My pet peeve patent is 6,137,498 on PhotoMosaics. The first few claims are neither non-obvious nor novel. People were doing claims 1 and 2 in early 1994, over three years before the file date (the code uses a lookup table to build the output, but the generation of the lookup table uses the technique claimed in 1 and 2). Claims 3 and beyond they can keep, as they're all either naive or over-specified and easily avoidable.
Also, claim 1 is a bit ambiguous. Does "distinct" mean "unique" or "disjoint"? Yes, this matters.
Whatever it is, she better watch out for any people-eaters in the area.
CafePress can print at 23"x35" for $18 plus shipping.
One error popped out while I was reading it. In the section near the end on failures of the analogy, it lists the human hearing range as 20-20,000kHz. That should be Hz, not kHz. Right next to that they list the usable EM spectrum as 0Hz-30GHz. I've never seen a radio that could tune below 10kHz.
A much better (and much larger) version of the panorama has been available at the NASA site for days.
One of the keys to the fast load times on the Cube is the small disk. It's reduced data area significantly reduces the average seek time required to get from one point on the disk to another. The other is, as you mentioned, a lot of innovation and engineering going into predictive loading and similar techniques.
The article mentions that the device is able to "generate more than 200 tons of downward force to the seabed", but nowhere does it state how that force is used. A static force does no work and therefore can generate no energy.
The privacy policy is right here.
I would have second thoughts before strapping the HDD to the side of the PSU...
120 comments and nobody has written a compare/contrast piece between Online! The Book! and Cannibal! The Musical! yet?
This can't be slashdot.
No, this is most definitely a software or hardware problem. Repeatedly rewinding and replaying the same segment will reliably (but randomly) randomly FLIP the channels.