I just Chain up a SilverBack Gorilla to my laptop. Ive never had a problem getting my laptop back.
I'd believe you if you had said that you never had any problems with anyone _else_ getting your laptop, but I'm sure that you would have a problem getting your laptop from the back of a gorilla... That's the problem with having perfect security, it makes the product perfectly useless.
if you check pricewatch RDRAM and DDR have almost identical costs. if someone is charging more for RDRAM then they are just lagging behind the market...
How did this get moded up when the link doesn't work!!
You know there is POST as well as GET for sending information to a server... just cutting and pasting a link has no garauntee of working. Did you leave the "Please save my password" box checked and then tested to see if your URL worked?
it is absolutely possible to increase the efficincy of even a perfect otto engine. that is because the best otto engine could never convert more than ~70% (?) of the input energy into mechanical output.
what it comes down to is that if you take just the exhaust pipe as a seperate system you have a differential in temperature, and such an energy potential can always be used to produce useful work
well acording to the site it is actually running the apache server on the native BASIC interpreter. i really doubt that BSD would fit into 32k... much less BSD and Apache.
this of course all depends on whether or not that is really the server. while it all looks relative possible, i have a doubt or two about how it is attached to the network. in the picture it looks like an RJ45 plug is somehow attached to the side of the box... although they do have what looks like a hub on top of the box (and under the tape deck).
i'm going to guess that the box really can do the time, but that there is another server for other pages on the site. otherwise i doubt that both i and a friend could both have gotten to the server description page. That poor little tape deck that stores the images would have to be in flames by now.
oh well, i'll go back to the site in a week when the excitement has died down a bit...
Am I the only person reading this that has no idea who Feed and Suck are (or were...)? By the sound of it I would have enjoyed reading them, but I had no way to learn of their existance besides word of mouth. And lets face it, word of mouth is a pretty lousy way to advertise yourself on the internet. And maybe I missed something, but I still haven't heard anything about what happened to segfault.org... they dropped offline more than a week ago.
SIG:
Fear: When you see B8 00 4C CD 21 and know what it means
From DOS debug: (using 'e' and 'u' commands)
B8 00 4C MOV AX, 4C00
CD 21 INT 21
Meaning:
Terminate process with return code zero. (not supported before DOS version 2.x, but who cares)
Translation:
can't remember the exact quote... something along the lines of "fear is seeing (?your) death and truly understanding it". if someone has the original quote and/or the author please reply... I came up blank after searching for a while
Wow, this certainly wasted a good portion of my time...
I can't believe we are flaming trademarks here and no one has mentioned AdCritic yet. They have some really good speculation ads and spoofs... one of my favorites is the "Passengers Wanted" spoof on Volkswagon
(sorry, all of there video is in quicktime format)
The most obvious reason why a client's computer would need to know if someone was walking on the other side of a wall is to correctly model the 3D sound produced by his footsteps. I'm not sure what FPS games have the players produce sound when they move, but I do know that there are some very impressive effects that can be done with 3D sound. I know I wouldn't want to give my enemies an unfair advantage of being completely quiet!
I am of the opinion expressed by others that you should be able to trust the people you play with. Know the people you are playing with. It's more fun to shoot someone if they have a personality, otherwise they may as well just be a computer controlled character.
I think that launching them into the sun may be a bit more complicated than you are giving it credit for... However I do agree that it would produce a deep sense of satisfaction upon completion. Perhaps simply giving them concrete shoes would be as satisfying?
Do you really believe that this could ever be built by ONE country? Especially for the first one, the financial resources required would be enormous! It not like the only hurdles are scientific.
And as far as the prospect of tearing the earth in two, just how well are you going to attach this thing:)
I don't know exactly how it goes, but I believe that if you are found to be committing a crime and you are in possession of "burlary tools" at the time the penalties can be stiffer. These tools include lock picks, crowbars, and any other stuff that would aid in committing any crime, not necessarily the one that you were found to be committing. The restictions vary between states.
If someone has a clearer understanding of this then please chime in...
actually, i'm afraid that i had not read the article when i wrote my comment. i figured that there would be that stupid free registration screen again... that is why i figured i should put the rules that i was playing by in the message
first the obligatory IANAMM (i am not a math major).
no, this does not break any rules (obviously, since it does work). the key is to think about where the players can get their information. the kth person can see the colors on the n-k hats in from of him (but not the ones of the people that preceed him). everyone but the first person also has the knowledge of what the sum of all colors modulo m is, and what the colors of the k-1 people between them and the first person. this is enough information to reconstruct the color of their own hat, so only the first person has the possibility of dying. he dies a heros death, however, and gives all of the other players the extra information that they need to save themselves.
that doesn't necessarily work for ANY number (greater than 4 or otherwise). ALL OF THE HATS CAN BE THE SAME COLOR!!! think about it. you want to garauntee that people get it correct, not have a certain probability of it...
i don't do the nyt reg, but this sounds like the problem when a row of prisoners is lined up and can see all of the people in front of them (and their hats). they can discuss a plan the night before, but they can not say anything but a color once the hats are put on. the gaurds also tell them what the possible colors are. also, everyone can hear the answers from the people behind them. even when it is expanded to n people and m colors (with mn) only one person will die with the best algorithm! it took me about ten minutes to figure out after i was told what the best possible outcome was...
THE ANSWER: (SPOILER!!)
1) each color is given a number (alphabetically to remove the ambiguity) from 1 to m
2) the first person adds up all of the colors in front of him modulo m. he will likely die (especially with a lot of colors)
3) the second person adds up all of the people in front of him modulo m. he then subtracts this from the color the first person said. (if it is negative he adds m) this gives him the color on his head.
4) the nth person subtracts the sum of all of the previous n-2 people's answers modulo m from the first persons response, and adds m if necessary, to get the color on his head!
this is one of the coolest math problems i have ever heard. does anyone have some more alone the same vein?
they should sue SETI@Home while they're at it for trying to break their encryption (of course i guess they would have to wait until it produced some result)
Slashdot Mirror
I just Chain up a SilverBack Gorilla to my laptop. Ive never had a problem getting my laptop back.
I'd believe you if you had said that you never had any problems with anyone _else_ getting your laptop, but I'm sure that you would have a problem getting your laptop from the back of a gorilla... That's the problem with having perfect security, it makes the product perfectly useless.
If your laptop is 50 pounds, it's not really a laptop, is it?!
:P
well i guess it all depends on the lap
Ah, from the mouths of babes (cowards)...
if you check pricewatch RDRAM and DDR have almost identical costs. if someone is charging more for RDRAM then they are just lagging behind the market...
Not for me.
How did this get moded up when the link doesn't work!!
You know there is POST as well as GET for sending information to a server... just cutting and pasting a link has no garauntee of working. Did you leave the "Please save my password" box checked and then tested to see if your URL worked?
forgot about the less than sign in the title... seems like that should be automatically converted to < automatically with plain text submissions
oh well
it is absolutely possible to increase the efficincy of even a perfect otto engine. that is because the best otto engine could never convert more than ~70% (?) of the input energy into mechanical output.
what it comes down to is that if you take just the exhaust pipe as a seperate system you have a differential in temperature, and such an energy potential can always be used to produce useful work
not to be rude, but a 10-fold increase means 1024 times the previous value. what happens when you fold a paper n times? 2^n sections!
I spent three week tracking down a bug in my code that would kill the box every time it ran...
From the text it seems that you meant 2.5 FPS (or possibly .4spf? although who would want a sunscreen like that?)
ummm... then try downloading it. there are two links right after that paragraph.
well acording to the site it is actually running the apache server on the native BASIC interpreter. i really doubt that BSD would fit into 32k... much less BSD and Apache.
this of course all depends on whether or not that is really the server. while it all looks relative possible, i have a doubt or two about how it is attached to the network. in the picture it looks like an RJ45 plug is somehow attached to the side of the box... although they do have what looks like a hub on top of the box (and under the tape deck).
i'm going to guess that the box really can do the time, but that there is another server for other pages on the site. otherwise i doubt that both i and a friend could both have gotten to the server description page. That poor little tape deck that stores the images would have to be in flames by now.
oh well, i'll go back to the site in a week when the excitement has died down a bit...
Am I the only person reading this that has no idea who Feed and Suck are (or were...)? By the sound of it I would have enjoyed reading them, but I had no way to learn of their existance besides word of mouth. And lets face it, word of mouth is a pretty lousy way to advertise yourself on the internet. And maybe I missed something, but I still haven't heard anything about what happened to segfault.org... they dropped offline more than a week ago.
SIG:
Fear: When you see B8 00 4C CD 21 and know what it means
From DOS debug: (using 'e' and 'u' commands)
B8 00 4C MOV AX, 4C00
CD 21 INT 21
Meaning:
Terminate process with return code zero. (not supported before DOS version 2.x, but who cares)
Translation:
can't remember the exact quote... something along the lines of "fear is seeing (?your) death and truly understanding it". if someone has the original quote and/or the author please reply... I came up blank after searching for a while
Wow, this certainly wasted a good portion of my time...
I can't believe we are flaming trademarks here and no one has mentioned AdCritic yet. They have some really good speculation ads and spoofs... one of my favorites is the "Passengers Wanted" spoof on Volkswagon (sorry, all of there video is in quicktime format)
The most obvious reason why a client's computer would need to know if someone was walking on the other side of a wall is to correctly model the 3D sound produced by his footsteps. I'm not sure what FPS games have the players produce sound when they move, but I do know that there are some very impressive effects that can be done with 3D sound. I know I wouldn't want to give my enemies an unfair advantage of being completely quiet!
I am of the opinion expressed by others that you should be able to trust the people you play with. Know the people you are playing with. It's more fun to shoot someone if they have a personality, otherwise they may as well just be a computer controlled character.
I think that launching them into the sun may be a bit more complicated than you are giving it credit for... However I do agree that it would produce a deep sense of satisfaction upon completion. Perhaps simply giving them concrete shoes would be as satisfying?
Do you really believe that this could ever be built by ONE country? Especially for the first one, the financial resources required would be enormous! It not like the only hurdles are scientific.
:)
And as far as the prospect of tearing the earth in two, just how well are you going to attach this thing
(not a troll or a conspiracy theory -- just an observation)
Jethro
That's too bad. If you were then you'd be "Jethro Troll"...
*ignoring groans from audience*
I don't know exactly how it goes, but I believe that if you are found to be committing a crime and you are in possession of "burlary tools" at the time the penalties can be stiffer. These tools include lock picks, crowbars, and any other stuff that would aid in committing any crime, not necessarily the one that you were found to be committing. The restictions vary between states.
If someone has a clearer understanding of this then please chime in...
actually, i'm afraid that i had not read the article when i wrote my comment. i figured that there would be that stupid free registration screen again... that is why i figured i should put the rules that i was playing by in the message
sorry for the confusion.
first the obligatory IANAMM (i am not a math major).
no, this does not break any rules (obviously, since it does work). the key is to think about where the players can get their information. the kth person can see the colors on the n-k hats in from of him (but not the ones of the people that preceed him). everyone but the first person also has the knowledge of what the sum of all colors modulo m is, and what the colors of the k-1 people between them and the first person. this is enough information to reconstruct the color of their own hat, so only the first person has the possibility of dying. he dies a heros death, however, and gives all of the other players the extra information that they need to save themselves.
that doesn't necessarily work for ANY number (greater than 4 or otherwise). ALL OF THE HATS CAN BE THE SAME COLOR!!! think about it. you want to garauntee that people get it correct, not have a certain probability of it...
i don't do the nyt reg, but this sounds like the problem when a row of prisoners is lined up and can see all of the people in front of them (and their hats). they can discuss a plan the night before, but they can not say anything but a color once the hats are put on. the gaurds also tell them what the possible colors are. also, everyone can hear the answers from the people behind them. even when it is expanded to n people and m colors (with mn) only one person will die with the best algorithm! it took me about ten minutes to figure out after i was told what the best possible outcome was...
THE ANSWER: (SPOILER!!)
1) each color is given a number (alphabetically to remove the ambiguity) from 1 to m
2) the first person adds up all of the colors in front of him modulo m. he will likely die (especially with a lot of colors)
3) the second person adds up all of the people in front of him modulo m. he then subtracts this from the color the first person said. (if it is negative he adds m) this gives him the color on his head.
4) the nth person subtracts the sum of all of the previous n-2 people's answers modulo m from the first persons response, and adds m if necessary, to get the color on his head!
this is one of the coolest math problems i have ever heard. does anyone have some more alone the same vein?
they should sue SETI@Home while they're at it for trying to break their encryption (of course i guess they would have to wait until it produced some result)