What if you want to go to slashdot.org and the only thing in your autocomplete history is slashdot.org/some/page.html (because someone emailed you a link, or you cut/paste one from somewhere). Your scheme makes it impossible to actually go to an address when you type the full thing in and press enter.
Auto-complete type behavior should never randomly change the expected result of some keystrokes for someone who doesn't want to use that feature.
An example of this kind of bad design is MS Word trying to be helpful by changing "PCs" to "Pcs". It's not "terribly likely" you want a word with two capitals and the rest lowercase, but the times you do, the feature is insanely annoying.
Don't expect 200Mbps for general home use any time soon. The costs to provide that much bandwidth, even ridiculously oversold, are too high.
My home internet connection is over 50Mbps (I can get up to 5MB/second using BitTorrent). My apartment building has fiber from the provider, and they run 100BaseT ethernet to every apartment. I pay about $US35 a month for unlimited service.
I do live in South Korea, but it goes to show with enough demand, this kind of bandwidth DOES scale economically.
While the majority of the Unreal engine is C++, we often write assembly-code versions of critical functions for specific platforms. Of course this is done after the C++ versions are tried and tested, and the bottlenecks are idetified.
To take full advantage of processor features like SSE or AltiVec you don't really have a choice.
For example, UT2004 contains SSE and AltiVec assembly versions of some of the vector and matrix manipulation functions, some of the visibility culling code, etc. The amount of work Dan Vogel put into this kind of optimization is one of the reasons that UT2004 runs better than UT2003 on the same hardware.
Learning assembly language is useful, as it's sometimes the right tool for the job.
Seth makes a comment about how the bible that appears at the end of the episode is 'backwards' - that is, it reads right to left - apparently because "the show is animated in South Korea".
Unfortunately it's just American writers' ignorance - Korean is read left to right and (unlike in Japan) the books have the spine on the same side as we're used to.
Seoul is more technologically advanced than any US city, kind of like a more traditional Tokyo.
It's not really that expensive - many daily things like eating out at restaurants, cell phone bills, internet (I get 50Mbps for $US30 a month), taxis, subway are cheap.
Accomodation is expensive only because they have the "key money" deposit system where you give a landlord $50,000-$150,000 to live rent free for 2 years, after which time they give you all of that money back again (with no interest). There is a hybrid system with a reduced deposit amount ($15K->$80K) and a low monthly rent. But if you've got some cash you don't mind tying up for a while, it's very cheap.
Korea is beginning to feel the outsourcing pinch from its neighbours, notibly China - where they're beginning to make things for cheaper than the Koreans can at comparable quality.
Here in Seoul, South Korea you regularly see "picocell" antennas for the 3 mobile networks in all kinds of places - underground bars, restaurants, subway stations, everywhere. My gym is 3 levels below street level and has its own antenna, so I get perfect coverage there too.
It's pretty hard to find somewhere in this city where you don't have perfect cell coverage (including on the subway trains).
Maybe if, instead of just saying how great it is, you provided useful information such as where you live, what phone model and what provider you use, someone might mod you Informative.
Even if we can load memories directly in the human mind, we're still going to need somewhere to store all the stuff that won't fit, so we can load it later.
How many Libraries of Congress do you think the human mind can store? Using human minds as data storage makes about as much sense as using humans as energy generators in a big matrix...
If we're still using magnetic discs for storing data, we'll of course still be able to increase the transfer rate by distributing data to read/write across multiple physical platters using something like RAID.
This limit is interesting but won't have any practical impact on our ability to store data at faster rates than the limit, should we find an application requiring it...
I moved from mSQL to MySQL in 1997 for a PHP2 project, because of mSQL's licensing restrictions. It was trivially easy to move because the API was almost identical (add a y in all the function calls).
This dropin replacement for mSQL is what gave MySQL the start it needed in the web-backend market.
The downside of these interfaces is the ridiculously high processor and memory requirements. All that extra graphic manipulation comes at a price, and I for one don't see any reason to waste processor cycles.
Yeah, the 2D GUI will never take off - what a waste of CPU and memory! Remember when 2D graphics acceleration was a selling point of video cards? They relieved your CPU of the burden of the 2D GUI's bitblits and fills.
These days many people already have a 3D accelerator capable of doing all the 3D number crunching required - "wasting CPU cycles" is a moot point.
It's the same here in Seoul. On the subway everyone is talking on their mobile phones, but you can barely hear them speak. Many girls cover their mouth (and the phone) with their free hand while they talk. Most people have their phone on vibrate/silent "manner mode".
What really annoys me is the people who play their games on their phones with the volume turned up, although you can do this with a gameboy too.
Yeah, that policy sure seems to be affecting the 50Mbps internet connection I have at my apartment here in Seoul, South Korea.
I have no bandwidth limits and it costs me about $US30 a month. There is a transproxy in the middle for HTTP, but I can still BitTorrent at 500KB-1MB/second. And for HTTP stuff that hits the transproxy cache, I regularly get 4-5 MegaBYTES a second.
I'm an Australian who's been living in the US and now Korea. The price of wholesale bandwidth in the Australia is insane and has barely decreased in the 5 years since I left...
Some people have been burned publish PDFs with black boxes obscuring sensitive information (eg names and addresses). Because the boxes are seperate elements, it's relatively simple to remove them revealing the text behind...
This is a bug in Hotmail and Yahoo's filtering of HTML and scripting code. Normally these sites strip any script code, but this is a new way of injecting arbitary script code into the HTML page Hotmail or Yahoo gives you showing the email you wanted to view.
An attacker could craft an HTML email that, when viewed in your inbox on Yahoo or Hotmail will execute some JavaScript or other script code from within the context of the Hotmail.com or Yahoo.com window. So it could do nasty things like deleting your messages automatically, forwaring your emails to another address, etc.
It does NOT allow your computer to execute native code unless the attack exploits some other browser-specific vulnerability.
Webmail will always be succeptible to these kinds of attacks if it does not carefully filter out HTML using any number of obscure features to insert malicious script in the Hotmail.com output.
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry, that idea sucks.
What if you want to go to slashdot.org and the only thing in your autocomplete history is slashdot.org/some/page.html (because someone emailed you a link, or you cut/paste one from somewhere). Your scheme makes it impossible to actually go to an address when you type the full thing in and press enter.
Auto-complete type behavior should never randomly change the expected result of some keystrokes for someone who doesn't want to use that feature.
An example of this kind of bad design is MS Word trying to be helpful by changing "PCs" to "Pcs". It's not "terribly likely" you want a word with two capitals and the rest lowercase, but the times you do, the feature is insanely annoying.
Don't expect 200Mbps for general home use any time soon. The costs to provide that much bandwidth, even ridiculously oversold, are too high.
My home internet connection is over 50Mbps (I can get up to 5MB/second using BitTorrent). My apartment building has fiber from the provider, and they run 100BaseT ethernet to every apartment. I pay about $US35 a month for unlimited service.
I do live in South Korea, but it goes to show with enough demand, this kind of bandwidth DOES scale economically.
While the majority of the Unreal engine is C++, we often write assembly-code versions of critical functions for specific platforms. Of course this is done after the C++ versions are tried and tested, and the bottlenecks are idetified.
To take full advantage of processor features like SSE or AltiVec you don't really have a choice.
For example, UT2004 contains SSE and AltiVec assembly versions of some of the vector and matrix manipulation functions, some of the visibility culling code, etc. The amount of work Dan Vogel put into this kind of optimization is one of the reasons that UT2004 runs better than UT2003 on the same hardware.
Learning assembly language is useful, as it's sometimes the right tool for the job.
Not sure where you went to school, but IIRC 300 miles in 10 hours is 30 mph.
Seth makes a comment about how the bible that appears at the end of the episode is 'backwards' - that is, it reads right to left - apparently because "the show is animated in South Korea".
Unfortunately it's just American writers' ignorance - Korean is read left to right and (unlike in Japan) the books have the spine on the same side as we're used to.
Seoul is more technologically advanced than any US city, kind of like a more traditional Tokyo.
It's not really that expensive - many daily things like eating out at restaurants, cell phone bills, internet (I get 50Mbps for $US30 a month), taxis, subway are cheap.
Accomodation is expensive only because they have the "key money" deposit system where you give a landlord $50,000-$150,000 to live rent free for 2 years, after which time they give you all of that money back again (with no interest). There is a hybrid system with a reduced deposit amount ($15K->$80K) and a low monthly rent. But if you've got some cash you don't mind tying up for a while, it's very cheap.
Korea is beginning to feel the outsourcing pinch from its neighbours, notibly China - where they're beginning to make things for cheaper than the Koreans can at comparable quality.
You seem to miss the point.
The randomized order doesn't do anything to increase security unless the keypad order is randomized a different way EVERY TIME.
Possible with touch-screens, more difficult with physical keys required for Braille.
Here in Seoul, South Korea you regularly see "picocell" antennas for the 3 mobile networks in all kinds of places - underground bars, restaurants, subway stations, everywhere. My gym is 3 levels below street level and has its own antenna, so I get perfect coverage there too.
It's pretty hard to find somewhere in this city where you don't have perfect cell coverage (including on the subway trains).
Maybe if, instead of just saying how great it is, you provided useful information such as where you live, what phone model and what provider you use, someone might mod you Informative.
I remember printing pages of BASIC source code with one of these things. At 25cps I could usually type faster than this thing count print.
I once reprogramming the horizontal and vertical motion rates and printing lots and lots of periods to print really ugly bitmap images.
Even if we can load memories directly in the human mind, we're still going to need somewhere to store all the stuff that won't fit, so we can load it later.
How many Libraries of Congress do you think the human mind can store? Using human minds as data storage makes about as much sense as using humans as energy generators in a big matrix...
If we're still using magnetic discs for storing data, we'll of course still be able to increase the transfer rate by distributing data to read/write across multiple physical platters using something like RAID.
This limit is interesting but won't have any practical impact on our ability to store data at faster rates than the limit, should we find an application requiring it...
Parent is dead right.
I moved from mSQL to MySQL in 1997 for a PHP2 project, because of mSQL's licensing restrictions. It was trivially easy to move because the API was almost identical (add a y in all the function calls).
This dropin replacement for mSQL is what gave MySQL the start it needed in the web-backend market.
So I guess this means that stupid people are just like a Celeron. Same brain as the rest of us, but with a smaller cache.
The downside of these interfaces is the ridiculously high processor and memory requirements. All that extra graphic manipulation comes at a price, and I for one don't see any reason to waste processor cycles.
Yeah, the 2D GUI will never take off - what a waste of CPU and memory! Remember when 2D graphics acceleration was a selling point of video cards? They relieved your CPU of the burden of the 2D GUI's bitblits and fills.
These days many people already have a 3D accelerator capable of doing all the 3D number crunching required - "wasting CPU cycles" is a moot point.
It's the same here in Seoul. On the subway everyone is talking on their mobile phones, but you can barely hear them speak. Many girls cover their mouth (and the phone) with their free hand while they talk. Most people have their phone on vibrate/silent "manner mode".
What really annoys me is the people who play their games on their phones with the volume turned up, although you can do this with a gameboy too.
(lame, replying to self)
They've remove the link - it was there for about 5 hours. Anyway the happy birthday April page still seems to load.
Clearly playing at people's thinking that it was a joke.
Actually, most (all?) of the September 11 hijackers entered the USA legally. The problem was that no-one stopped them.
But I'm not sure how taking their photograph or fingerprints on entry would have done anything to stop it.
Yeah, that policy sure seems to be affecting the 50Mbps internet connection I have at my apartment here in Seoul, South Korea.
I have no bandwidth limits and it costs me about $US30 a month. There is a transproxy in the middle for HTTP, but I can still BitTorrent at 500KB-1MB/second. And for HTTP stuff that hits the transproxy cache, I regularly get 4-5 MegaBYTES a second.
I'm an Australian who's been living in the US and now Korea. The price of wholesale bandwidth in the Australia is insane and has barely decreased in the 5 years since I left...
It appears that slashdot does use a wildcard entry for *.slashdot.org, and changes section accordingly...
games.slashdot.org
yro.slashdot.org
apple.slashdot.org
NanoGator.slashdot.org
Some people have been burned publish PDFs with black boxes obscuring sensitive information (eg names and addresses). Because the boxes are seperate elements, it's relatively simple to remove them revealing the text behind...
File Sharing Increases CD Sales
So if you think it's a bug in IE, what do you suggest Microsoft changes in IE to fix this bug?
Should they release a patch which removes said (non-standard) feature?
This is a bug in Hotmail and Yahoo's filtering of HTML and scripting code. Normally these sites strip any script code, but this is a new way of injecting arbitary script code into the HTML page Hotmail or Yahoo gives you showing the email you wanted to view.
An attacker could craft an HTML email that, when viewed in your inbox on Yahoo or Hotmail will execute some JavaScript or other script code from within the context of the Hotmail.com or Yahoo.com window. So it could do nasty things like deleting your messages automatically, forwaring your emails to another address, etc.
It does NOT allow your computer to execute native code unless the attack exploits some other browser-specific vulnerability.
Webmail will always be succeptible to these kinds of attacks if it does not carefully filter out HTML using any number of obscure features to insert malicious script in the Hotmail.com output.