If the government (in the form of publicly funded schools) requires you to use specific software then you can't just go and "spend your money elsewhere". You have to use that software, even though it is physically impossible for you to do so, and despite the fact that there are alternatives you could use if allowed. That is what the accusations of violating civil rights are about.
I think the majority of the problem is that we are accustomed to seeing atmospheric effects in lighting. Space doesn't have that, so your light genuinely is a single point-source. The images thus look like what you would get from simplistic point-source renderers, with sharp shadows, no diffusion and no ambient light, which causes our minds to classify them as fake.
If the ring is even the slightest bit uncentered, then it will become more and more uncentered over time, moving in a hula-hoop like rotation around the sun until it eventually touches the sun. You need an active repositioning system to prevent this from happening (like Niven introduced in later books).
Seriously. It is blatantly unconstitutional, and a gross violation of our civil rights, but that doesn't stop more than half of out elected officials who swore to defend and protect the constitution from voting on it. Nor did it stop the majority of the people in the state from voting for a Governor who made crap like this a major part of her platform. Although the opposition was only slightly better as she constantly bragged about her role in passing Katie's law, the forerunner to this shit.
I have no hope left for this country because the people are begging to have their rights taken away so they can feel safe from the terrorists/immigrants/pedophiles/druggies/teenagers/neighbor with shaggy lawn.
I can see that, but most of the motivation that the ISPs have to throttle (and the situations where doing so would cause the most harm), are business driven not technical. The incentive for Comcast to throttle Netflix will be there regardless of how much bandwidth there is. The incentive for ISPs to prioritize their own VoIP over Skype will remain regardless of latency of the network. The ISP could even do things like fix buffer bloat in their trunks but not the outbound routers, to give themselves the advantage.
There will always be the possibility for both legitimate network management, and unfair prioritization, regardless of what technical problems are solved.
Let's get this insidious Bufferbloat fixed first, and THEN worry about whether we really need network neutrality or not.
Why? They are completely separate issues. Solving bufferbloat won't tell us anything about whether network neutrality regulations are needed. That depends on the behavior of the ISPs and with the CEO of AT&T calling Google leeches who ought to be throttled if they don't start handing over cash, then I think it is already pretty clear that they aren't going to behave without external pressure of some sort. The only argument is whether market pressures will be enough or regulation is needed.
There are apparently many things we can do to enhance and optimize queuing and sorting of packets before we add another layer.
I don't understand what you are saying. What other layer are you talking about - adding QoS? I don't think that is going to happen anytime soon anyway as it requires the cooperation of everyone at once before it becomes useful. It also is orthogonal to the network neutrality issue, as you can have fair and unfair network management with or without any QoS implementation.
Actually, for a while I did run TWM with no titlebar, and tied the windows key to all the standard actions. It worked pretty well actually, as the entire window was the click target rather than just a little button.
Windows-LeftClick => move Windows-DoubleClick => maximize Windows-MiddleClick => minimize (or pin, I forget). Windows-RightClick => resize (could also be done grabbing the edge) Windows-NumPad X => Goto desktop X Windows-Arrow Key => Move to adjacent desktop
The video shown is just the mechanical test; exercising each type of movement individually to see if it works. The other Geminoid robots have had smoother head motion than that, so I am eager to see how this one looks when it is done.
The approach he gives is good for preventing disagreements from turning into flamewars, but it is worthless and even counterproductive for dealing with real trolls. Reading the article he seems unaware of the fact that people who troll do it simply to get a rise out of people. Any response (even a calm boring one) just gives them another opportunity to respond, which increases the chance that someone else will eventually bite the bait.
If someone really is trolling, then ignoring them is the best thing to do. Having moderation systems to keep them out-of-sight out-of-mind will help with people who can't control the urge to feed the trolls.
Finally, while it is sometimes hard to tell the difference between a troll and and an angry rant, I don't have any problem treating them the same in general forums. When talking with people that you will see again (like work, friends, family, or development mailing lists) and you know they genuinely disagree with you then it is worthwhile to keep the peace and follow the suggestions here. But on a random discussion forum, "if you can't be civil you will be ignored" is good policy IMHO.
Defending your privacy against people with sufficient resources is a lost cause. I care about defending against people who don't have a court order or an army of snoops. Like the people interviewing me for a job.
I like open source. I don't like people taking money from you because they just don't want to pay for the work you did.
If you don't like the idea of people being able to freely use and redistribute your work, then you neither understand nor like open source software, because that is the the entire point.
Same here. To me it just meant that there were two layers of config files to worry about; the real ones and the linuxconf ones, which were constantly battling. To remain sane you either had to always use linuxconf or never use it. Unfortunately, you inevitable ran into situations where linuxconf didn't have options for all the setting you wanted, which you didn't find out about until you had configured most of your system using it.
What they are saying in that paragraph is that enough data has been collected to rule out the possibility of squarks whose energy is 700 TeV or less. By the end of the year enough data will have been collected to rule out 1 TeV squarks. However, the total energy of the collider will be 7 TeV for the entire duration (two 3.5 TeV beams hitting head-on). This is the same energy level that was met before it shut down for the winter break.
This stuff is way above my head, but I was wondering why the legend for the T-Shirt included × for quaternion multiplication, but × doesn't show up in the equation.
The energy levels for LHC will be staying about the same from now till 2012. The difference is that it will be collecting more data, and thus increasing the luminocity and statistical confidence that if supersymmetry is correct we would have seen something. This is the same reason that people were betting on whether Fermilab might find the Higgs Boson before the LHC; not because it is increasing energy levels, but because it has had more time to collect data and thus increase its luminosity. So it really is a matter of waiting until it has been running long enough.
When I was with Comcast in 2009, I had no problems sending outbound data on port 25. I had a lot of mail dropped/bounced either because my IP block in a blacklist, which is common for a residential IP, or because I couldn't ask Comcast to create a correct reverse DNS PTR record for me. However, there was nothing on Comcast's side that was blocking traffic.
It's really annoying. ISPs like Comcast forbid you from running any types of servers in the TOS, but don't even bother to block outbound port 25 connections. It's the worst of both worlds; legitimate server operators are banned, but they won't raise a finger to stop botnet spamming originating on their networks.
All they would have to to do is block port 25 by default, and say "call us" if you need to run a server. Spam would drop drop dramatically, and home servers would be possible.
conferences are a great way to find out if what you are doing is worth anything
I know that what I am doing isn't worth publishing, but they keep pushing me to anyway since it is part of the game. I really don't want fly across the country to hobnob with people.
Here is the original article by brandchannel in case you are interested in seeing the rest. I thought I would be, but after skimming it I changed my mind.
The way the summary was worded, I interpreted it the way you did. But if you read the real paywalled article, then you see that the 30% is just the normal App Store cut. Typical shitty slashdot editing.
The summary is very misleading. That 30% is the standard cut that MS gets for WP7 Apps and has nothing to do with their employee moonlighting policies.
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If the government (in the form of publicly funded schools) requires you to use specific software then you can't just go and "spend your money elsewhere". You have to use that software, even though it is physically impossible for you to do so, and despite the fact that there are alternatives you could use if allowed. That is what the accusations of violating civil rights are about.
So what happens when hundred of meteorite hunters and wanna be's jump in their cars with in minutes and race to an area all wanting to find it?
I don't know what will happen, but I do know wouldn't want to be Claire Danes right now. And they say there are no privacy concerns.
I think the majority of the problem is that we are accustomed to seeing atmospheric effects in lighting. Space doesn't have that, so your light genuinely is a single point-source. The images thus look like what you would get from simplistic point-source renderers, with sharp shadows, no diffusion and no ambient light, which causes our minds to classify them as fake.
If the ring is even the slightest bit uncentered, then it will become more and more uncentered over time, moving in a hula-hoop like rotation around the sun until it eventually touches the sun. You need an active repositioning system to prevent this from happening (like Niven introduced in later books).
http://testservice-eprints.gla.ac.uk/38/1/JIBS_C_McInnes_56_308.pdf
Seriously. It is blatantly unconstitutional, and a gross violation of our civil rights, but that doesn't stop more than half of out elected officials who swore to defend and protect the constitution from voting on it. Nor did it stop the majority of the people in the state from voting for a Governor who made crap like this a major part of her platform. Although the opposition was only slightly better as she constantly bragged about her role in passing Katie's law, the forerunner to this shit.
I have no hope left for this country because the people are begging to have their rights taken away so they can feel safe from the terrorists/immigrants/pedophiles/druggies/teenagers/neighbor with shaggy lawn.
I can see that, but most of the motivation that the ISPs have to throttle (and the situations where doing so would cause the most harm), are business driven not technical. The incentive for Comcast to throttle Netflix will be there regardless of how much bandwidth there is. The incentive for ISPs to prioritize their own VoIP over Skype will remain regardless of latency of the network. The ISP could even do things like fix buffer bloat in their trunks but not the outbound routers, to give themselves the advantage.
There will always be the possibility for both legitimate network management, and unfair prioritization, regardless of what technical problems are solved.
Let's get this insidious Bufferbloat fixed first, and THEN worry about whether we really need network neutrality or not.
Why? They are completely separate issues. Solving bufferbloat won't tell us anything about whether network neutrality regulations are needed. That depends on the behavior of the ISPs and with the CEO of AT&T calling Google leeches who ought to be throttled if they don't start handing over cash, then I think it is already pretty clear that they aren't going to behave without external pressure of some sort. The only argument is whether market pressures will be enough or regulation is needed.
There are apparently many things we can do to enhance and optimize queuing and sorting of packets before we add another layer.
I don't understand what you are saying. What other layer are you talking about - adding QoS? I don't think that is going to happen anytime soon anyway as it requires the cooperation of everyone at once before it becomes useful. It also is orthogonal to the network neutrality issue, as you can have fair and unfair network management with or without any QoS implementation.
Actually, for a while I did run TWM with no titlebar, and tied the windows key to all the standard actions. It worked pretty well actually, as the entire window was the click target rather than just a little button.
Windows-LeftClick => move
Windows-DoubleClick => maximize
Windows-MiddleClick => minimize (or pin, I forget).
Windows-RightClick => resize (could also be done grabbing the edge)
Windows-NumPad X => Goto desktop X
Windows-Arrow Key => Move to adjacent desktop
Whoever marked this as troll is not fit to have moderation points.
The video shown is just the mechanical test; exercising each type of movement individually to see if it works. The other Geminoid robots have had smoother head motion than that, so I am eager to see how this one looks when it is done.
The approach he gives is good for preventing disagreements from turning into flamewars, but it is worthless and even counterproductive for dealing with real trolls. Reading the article he seems unaware of the fact that people who troll do it simply to get a rise out of people. Any response (even a calm boring one) just gives them another opportunity to respond, which increases the chance that someone else will eventually bite the bait.
If someone really is trolling, then ignoring them is the best thing to do. Having moderation systems to keep them out-of-sight out-of-mind will help with people who can't control the urge to feed the trolls.
Finally, while it is sometimes hard to tell the difference between a troll and and an angry rant, I don't have any problem treating them the same in general forums. When talking with people that you will see again (like work, friends, family, or development mailing lists) and you know they genuinely disagree with you then it is worthwhile to keep the peace and follow the suggestions here. But on a random discussion forum, "if you can't be civil you will be ignored" is good policy IMHO.
Defending your privacy against people with sufficient resources is a lost cause. I care about defending against people who don't have a court order or an army of snoops. Like the people interviewing me for a job.
I like open source. I don't like people taking money from you because they just don't want to pay for the work you did.
If you don't like the idea of people being able to freely use and redistribute your work, then you neither understand nor like open source software, because that is the the entire point.
Same here. To me it just meant that there were two layers of config files to worry about; the real ones and the linuxconf ones, which were constantly battling. To remain sane you either had to always use linuxconf or never use it. Unfortunately, you inevitable ran into situations where linuxconf didn't have options for all the setting you wanted, which you didn't find out about until you had configured most of your system using it.
Err, that should be 700 GeV for the first number.
What they are saying in that paragraph is that enough data has been collected to rule out the possibility of squarks whose energy is 700 TeV or less. By the end of the year enough data will have been collected to rule out 1 TeV squarks. However, the total energy of the collider will be 7 TeV for the entire duration (two 3.5 TeV beams hitting head-on). This is the same energy level that was met before it shut down for the winter break.
Think of the poor stocker. How many Boxee boxes did he have to rebox on boxing day?
This stuff is way above my head, but I was wondering why the legend for the T-Shirt included × for quaternion multiplication, but × doesn't show up in the equation.
The energy levels for LHC will be staying about the same from now till 2012. The difference is that it will be collecting more data, and thus increasing the luminocity and statistical confidence that if supersymmetry is correct we would have seen something. This is the same reason that people were betting on whether Fermilab might find the Higgs Boson before the LHC; not because it is increasing energy levels, but because it has had more time to collect data and thus increase its luminosity. So it really is a matter of waiting until it has been running long enough.
When I was with Comcast in 2009, I had no problems sending outbound data on port 25. I had a lot of mail dropped/bounced either because my IP block in a blacklist, which is common for a residential IP, or because I couldn't ask Comcast to create a correct reverse DNS PTR record for me. However, there was nothing on Comcast's side that was blocking traffic.
It's really annoying. ISPs like Comcast forbid you from running any types of servers in the TOS, but don't even bother to block outbound port 25 connections. It's the worst of both worlds; legitimate server operators are banned, but they won't raise a finger to stop botnet spamming originating on their networks.
All they would have to to do is block port 25 by default, and say "call us" if you need to run a server. Spam would drop drop dramatically, and home servers would be possible.
conferences are a great way to find out if what you are doing is worth anything
I know that what I am doing isn't worth publishing, but they keep pushing me to anyway since it is part of the game. I really don't want fly across the country to hobnob with people.
Here is the original article by brandchannel in case you are interested in seeing the rest. I thought I would be, but after skimming it I changed my mind.
The way the summary was worded, I interpreted it the way you did. But if you read the real paywalled article, then you see that the 30% is just the normal App Store cut. Typical shitty slashdot editing.
The summary is very misleading. That 30% is the standard cut that MS gets for WP7 Apps and has nothing to do with their employee moonlighting policies.