3) Other sites have gone up, yes. Are they deserving of the traffic? No. When a search for "web design Calgary" returns the home page for a hockey team in the #1 spot, that's broken.
At first glance I thought you had made a good point there, but once I thought more about it I realized that I disagree.
We're talking about sites that contain the three words. Of those said sites the Calgary Flames site is that should be on top, based on page views, links from other high profile sites and on any metric that I can think of.
The fact that google fails to understand from those three words that it's actually wed designing you're looking for is quite understandable. I mean, how could it? And based on what metric should some "Calgary web design company" be on top? Or am I missing something obvious here?
As far as gameplay goes, nobody play's the Quake 3 Arena standard game either anymore.
Oh, that's a bit harsh thing to say, there are numerous active leagues out there. Take barrysworld for example. Even the ctf league alone consists of 9 divisions with about 10 clans each, and there are a lot of clans in queue just to get in.
Quake3 is still widely played among serious gamers precisely due to it's gameplay that seems to suit really well for expert players.
And the reason why I'm pointing this out is that it's still just about one of the very best games available for Linux! Some of us don't have pirated M$ crap, not even for games...
So, instead of SpamAssassin simply blocking your incoming junk mail, it should also send out bogus contact info/sign up for fake stuff? Brings new meaning to the concept of a Spam-bot... Anybody care to write one?
Although, I'm whole heartedly for such a software, it may not be that simple after all.
How about someone then sending fake spam to people with such spambot running and misleading it to send bogus replies to, say, G.W.Bush? I'd hate to become yet-another-hitech-terrorist in that lunatic's eyes just for running SpamAssassinOnSteroids.
That's not ironic. Why? Hell if I know. But whenever someone says ironic here, there's always a reply moaning about missuse of the word ironic, links to webster et al and raving how Alanis is to blame for all this confusion. I figured it might as well be me this time.
I've found that the coolest stereo effects come from panning using both delay and volume differences - that is, delaying the sound in one channel and making it slightly quieter.
Naturally, that's how sound waves coming from right/left behave in real world. I've often wondered how come the the stereo effect knobs even on high end HiFis don't have a possibility to tweak that tiny delay.
Err, I agree with what you say about Free Software, wholeheartedly, but you failed to see my point. GPL does have it's restrictions yes, but the point was that it indeed grants you rights when you'd otherwise be bound by the copyright law, which is a lot stricter than GPL.
So that it getting overthrown in court would not be a disaster, because the failsafe underneath is not public domain, but basic copyright. One would still own it's code and be free to relicence it using some form of GPL version n+1.
With the right leverage (such as the kind that IBM has) this could easially compel strong legal backing for the GPL, something it could definately use.
One more time, GPL grants rights, it doesn't restrict. Meaning that it getting voided in court will not result in proprieatry use of GPL code.
wouldn't all gasoline engines be better off with really big flywheels?
Or an electric motor, acting as a generator, as in a hybrid car. With the flywheel you might run into trouble: install it with its axis oriented horizontally, and it acts as a gyroscope, preventing the car from making turns. Install it with the axis oriented vertically, and your car would swerve every time you hit the brakes. Maybe two flywheels aligned vertically would do the job... but they'd make the car much heavier, of course.
Err, the low efficiency of a combustion engine cannot really be helped by a flywheel. The compression ratio defines an upper bound for the thermal efficiency, which for common engines is IIRC somewhere around 20%. The waste energy actually comes out of the exhaust pipe.
Well, I'm not saying that a flywheel in theory couldn't help a bit, but it's help is negligible compared to the other sources of inefficiency.
Tell me about it. Mid November way up north in Finland and the excessive heat produced by hardware these days is the best thing since the invention of internal heating using alcoholic liquids (which is probably the reason why our ancestors wound up here anyway).
I'll curse the cool reversible computers, embrace the P4 and drink 'till I'm sun bathing in the Caribbean.
Grandmasters like Kasparov are commonly known to be able to not only play blindfolded but play on almost the same level that they play with the board in front of them. For some reason this really applies to only the really great ones, though I must admit that I have knowledge of Kasparov playing blindfolded but many grandmasters before him have played absolutely astonishing games like that.
I remember a picture of a former russian grandmaster Aljechin sitting on a chair and behind him were some 20 to 30 other top russian players. He played against them simultaneously and without back against them. Can't remember the exact result, but in overall he won by some margin. Just about the most spectacular event in chess history that I can remember, althoug there are many many others.
So my point being, the vr glasses probably won't do that much good for him and even worse they may disturb his concentration more than they're of use.
I can wholeheartedly recommed borrowing some chess history books. They're filled with amazing true stories about those goons. One really doesn't have to be all that much into chess to enjoy them. Was it Spasski who was so concentrated on his next game in a tournament that he got mixed with the doors of the cafeteria and somehow wound up back inside. Deep thinking poor chap ate again. Might have not been Spasski, but it was one of the greater ones.
Maybe linux is ready for tightly controlled office settings where you have homogenous hardware, set it up so it all works dandy, don't touch it and pray it doesn't break down, but it's not good where you have people with many diverse needs from their computers.
You tend to forget _the_ use it's been ready for years, for those of us that do not just use the computer in their work, but whoose work is the computer. Power users.
I agree it not being ready for everybody, but it is ready for our desktops. Wether it'll be one day ready for aunt Tillie, quite frankly I don't care.
I mean, sure I sound like typical blowhearted linux zealot, but seriously, I don't go whining to Guns&Ammo saying "Who on earth needs some $5000 scope and all sorts of dangles for this and that when all I need is just a base ball bat in close range".
It won't be long before the banner ads will be placed in the html so that they're indistinguishable from decorative pictures. I'm talking about both the html keywording as well as the layout part. So long for simple regex banner blocking.
One of the problems they have found with radio noise is that if you take your samples too close together you get too many strings of either 1111, 0000, or 10101010. While all three of these strings, as well as many of the permutations are perfectly normal as part of a truely random process, it doesn't do much for your encryption process if you xor your raw text with a string of zeros.
Which is also the most frequent and most easily solved problem. A simple quick approach is to discard all sequences of 00s and 11s, and encode say, 10 to 1 and 01 to 0. Takes away the bias with one swift stroke.
My understanding from school chemistry was that the c-c sp2 bonds in graphite were stronger than the c-c sp3 bonds in diamond (well shorter at least). The difference in hardness is due to the fact that the c-c sp2 bonds in graphite are only in one plane, and the sheets of carbon atoms are only losely bonded together. The reason why diamind is so much harder is that the tetrahedral arrangement of the sp3 bonds means that diamond is very hard in all directions whereas forces applied to graphite simply cause the very strong sheets of atoms to slide over each other.
As a singular bond the sp2 is stronger, but what you mustn't forget that there are also 25% of those bonds in graphite. Granted that graphite suffers from it's sheeted structure, but even amorphous carbon that's made of both sp2 and sp3 bonds in a non continious structure isn't as hard as diamond, it's indeed fairly hard, enough to warrant a dlc (diamon like carbon) name in the industry, but still not quite as hard diamond.
Point being that bond density, if you please, also plays a role in hardness, not just the strength of some particular bond.
The experimenter neatly summarises the novelty with "This experiment is the first to determine quantitatively how the bonding in graphite changes under high-pressure conditions.". But the article completely ignores what this new bonding is. These are not difficult diagrams. Diamond and graphite are simple to draw, where's the new one?
My thoughts exactly. Having done some structural analysis for amorphous carbon myself I can't help but think that that's what they have there, i.e. amorphous carbon of some degree.
Those of you that are unfamiliar with amorphous carbon (also called dlc, diamon like carbon, in the corporation sector) it's a form of carbon where there are both graphite and diamon bonds in some ratio, i.e. chaotic structure where some carbons have three neighbors and some have four. It's commonly being growed on metals to give them a hard surface.
My hunch is that they managed to create some diamond bonding to graphite by using mere pressure, which is interesting, but nothing to jump on walls about.
Also the stuff about cracking and hardness, well I think that was just journalist hype...
CxC is apparently closed proprietary language and all they offer for downloading is some gw2something.exe. And don't even get me started about the flash only web site...
I'm not quite sure slashdot is the correct forum for advertising such crap.
...but there's a reason why Windoze uses that for logging in. That is, that key combo cannot be intercepted by applications thus making it impossible to create infamous fake logins for grabbing user credentials mere looks-like-login-screen. Naturally such preventive measures could've been done a bit more elegantly than just using ctrl-alt-del to log in, but still, it's a very windowsy way of overcoming obstacles.
In many unix systems however, there are little or no protection for fake-login local attacks, eventhough preventive measures would be quite easy to implement using some key combo deemed ungrabbable by user software (little like say ctrl-alt-backspace is in X). It's all too easy to display a xdm/gdm look-a-like screen on university/public-office displays and grab logins and then display some sort of segfault crap an logout back to the real xdm/gdm. Average (l)user hardly takes much of a notice.
Also, remember that for cars in traffic, most of the energy that made your car go gets turned into heat when you hit the brakes....
Well, not quite. Most of the energy that made your car go goes out through the exhaust pipe as heat. The compression rate of the combustion engine defines an upper limit for attainable efficiency for turning heat energy into kinetic energy. For moderns cars I recall it's somewhere around 20% or so, could be a tad higher. On top of that comes all practical lackings, like heat leakage through the metal, friction and all thtat.
What you meant with brakes is probably that with a combustion car the braking indeed sucks away your kinetic energy (and yes, into heat), but why it's uneconomic is because it practically means you have to reaccelerate after that, which takes and releases loads more heat than your brake plates.
Notice that this does not hold for an electric vehicle which have near 1 efficiency when it comes to convertic electric (well chemical to be a tad more accurate) energy into kinetic energy, and on top that the ones I've dealt with also perform recharging upon breaking simply using the engine in reverse.
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3) Other sites have gone up, yes. Are they deserving of the traffic? No. When a search for "web design Calgary" returns the home page for a hockey team in the #1 spot, that's broken.
At first glance I thought you had made a good point there, but once I thought more about it I realized that I disagree.
We're talking about sites that contain the three words. Of those said sites the Calgary Flames site is that should be on top, based on page views, links from other high profile sites and on any metric that I can think of.
The fact that google fails to understand from those three words that it's actually wed designing you're looking for is quite understandable. I mean, how could it? And based on what metric should some "Calgary web design company" be on top? Or am I missing something obvious here?
This goes a bit off topic, but ...
As far as gameplay goes, nobody play's the Quake 3 Arena standard game either anymore.
Oh, that's a bit harsh thing to say, there are numerous active leagues out there. Take barrysworld
for example. Even the ctf league alone consists of 9 divisions with about 10 clans each, and there are a lot of clans in queue just to get in.
Quake3 is still widely played among serious gamers precisely due to it's gameplay that seems to suit really well for expert players.
And the reason why I'm pointing this out is that it's still just about one of the very best games available for Linux! Some of us don't have pirated M$ crap, not even for games...
So, instead of SpamAssassin simply blocking your incoming junk mail, it should also send out bogus contact info/sign up for fake stuff?
Brings new meaning to the concept of a Spam-bot...
Anybody care to write one?
Although, I'm whole heartedly for such a software, it may not be that simple after all.
How about someone then sending fake spam to people with such spambot running and misleading it to send bogus replies to, say, G.W.Bush? I'd hate to become yet-another-hitech-terrorist in that lunatic's eyes just for running SpamAssassinOnSteroids.
That's not ironic. Why? Hell if I know. But whenever someone says ironic here, there's always a reply moaning about missuse of the word ironic, links to webster et al and raving how Alanis is to blame for all this confusion. I figured it might as well be me this time.
I've found that the coolest stereo effects come from panning using both delay and volume differences - that is, delaying the sound in one channel and making it slightly quieter.
Naturally, that's how sound waves coming from right/left behave in real world. I've often wondered how come the the stereo effect knobs even on high end HiFis don't have a possibility to tweak that tiny delay.
Err, I agree with what you say about Free Software, wholeheartedly, but you failed to see my point. GPL does have it's restrictions yes, but the point was that it indeed grants you rights when you'd otherwise be bound by the copyright law, which is a lot stricter than GPL.
So that it getting overthrown in court would not be a disaster, because the failsafe underneath is not public domain, but basic copyright. One would still own it's code and be free to relicence it using some form of GPL version n+1.
With the right leverage (such as the kind that IBM has) this could easially compel strong legal backing for the GPL, something it could definately use.
One more time, GPL grants rights, it doesn't restrict. Meaning that it getting voided in court will not result in proprieatry use of GPL code.
wouldn't all gasoline engines be better off with really big flywheels?
Or an electric motor, acting as a generator, as in a hybrid car. With the flywheel you might run into trouble: install it with its axis oriented horizontally, and it acts as a gyroscope, preventing the car from making turns. Install it with the axis oriented vertically, and your car would swerve every time you hit the brakes. Maybe two flywheels aligned vertically would do the job... but they'd make the car much heavier, of course.
Err, the low efficiency of a combustion engine cannot really be helped by a flywheel. The compression ratio defines an upper bound for the thermal efficiency, which for common engines is IIRC somewhere around 20%. The waste energy actually comes out of the exhaust pipe.
Well, I'm not saying that a flywheel in theory couldn't help a bit, but it's help is negligible compared to the other sources of inefficiency.
Wrong. The climate is not warming.
Tell me about it. Mid November way up north in Finland and the excessive heat produced by hardware these days is the best thing since the invention of internal heating using alcoholic liquids (which is probably the reason why our ancestors wound up here anyway).
I'll curse the cool reversible computers, embrace the P4 and drink 'till I'm sun bathing in the Caribbean.
Grandmasters like Kasparov are commonly known to be able to not only play blindfolded but play on almost the same level that they play with the board in front of them. For some reason this really applies to only the really great ones, though I must admit that I have knowledge of Kasparov playing blindfolded but many grandmasters before him have played absolutely astonishing games like that.
I remember a picture of a former russian grandmaster Aljechin sitting on a chair and behind him were some 20 to 30 other top russian players. He played against them simultaneously and without back against them. Can't remember the exact result, but in overall he won by some margin. Just about the most spectacular event in chess history that I can remember, althoug there are many many others.
So my point being, the vr glasses probably won't do that much good for him and even worse they may disturb his concentration more than they're of use.
I can wholeheartedly recommed borrowing some chess history books. They're filled with amazing true stories about those goons. One really doesn't have to be all that much into chess to enjoy them. Was it Spasski who was so concentrated on his next game in a tournament that he got mixed with the doors of the cafeteria and somehow wound up back inside. Deep thinking poor chap ate again. Might have not been Spasski, but it was one of the greater ones.
Maybe linux is ready for tightly controlled office settings where you have homogenous hardware, set it up so it all works dandy, don't touch it and pray it doesn't break down, but it's not good where you have people with many diverse needs from their computers.
You tend to forget _the_ use it's been ready for years, for those of us that do not just use the computer in their work, but whoose work is the computer. Power users.
I agree it not being ready for everybody, but it is ready for our desktops. Wether it'll be one day ready for aunt Tillie, quite frankly I don't care.
I mean, sure I sound like typical blowhearted linux zealot, but seriously, I don't go whining to Guns&Ammo saying "Who on earth needs some $5000 scope and all sorts of dangles for this and that when all I need is just a base ball bat in close range".
It won't be long before the banner ads will be placed in the html so that they're indistinguishable from decorative pictures. I'm talking about both the html keywording as well as the layout part. So long for simple regex banner blocking.
"E-bombs (not email bombs, rather electronic microwave weapons)"
What's the difference? I'm sure the subtle theoretical differences will escape the end-user.
One of the problems they have found with radio noise is that if you take your samples too close together you get too many strings of either 1111, 0000, or 10101010. While all three of these strings, as well as many of the permutations are perfectly normal as part of a truely random process, it doesn't do much for your encryption process if you xor your raw text with a string of zeros.
Which is also the most frequent and most easily solved problem. A simple quick approach is to discard all sequences of 00s and 11s, and encode say, 10 to 1 and 01 to 0. Takes away the bias with one swift stroke.
Thanks, that's it.
My understanding from school chemistry was that the c-c sp2 bonds in graphite were stronger than the c-c sp3 bonds in diamond (well shorter at least). The difference in hardness is due to the fact that the c-c sp2 bonds in graphite are only in one plane, and the sheets of carbon atoms are only losely bonded together. The reason why diamind is so much harder is that the tetrahedral arrangement of the sp3 bonds means that diamond is very hard in all directions whereas forces applied to graphite simply cause the very strong sheets of atoms to slide over each other.
As a singular bond the sp2 is stronger, but what you mustn't forget that there are also 25% of those bonds in graphite. Granted that graphite suffers from it's sheeted structure, but even amorphous carbon that's made of both sp2 and sp3 bonds in a non continious structure isn't as hard as diamond, it's indeed fairly hard, enough to warrant a dlc (diamon like carbon) name in the industry, but still not quite as hard diamond.
Point being that bond density, if you please, also plays a role in hardness, not just the strength of some particular bond.
The experimenter neatly summarises the novelty with "This experiment is the first to determine quantitatively how the bonding in graphite changes under high-pressure conditions.". But the article completely ignores what this new bonding is. These are not difficult diagrams. Diamond and graphite are simple to draw, where's the new one?
My thoughts exactly. Having done some structural analysis for amorphous carbon myself I can't help but think that that's what they have there, i.e. amorphous carbon of some degree.
Those of you that are unfamiliar with amorphous carbon (also called dlc, diamon like carbon, in the corporation sector) it's a form of carbon where there are both graphite and diamon bonds in some ratio, i.e. chaotic structure where some carbons have three neighbors and some have four. It's commonly being growed on metals to give them a hard surface.
My hunch is that they managed to create some diamond bonding to graphite by using mere pressure, which is interesting, but nothing to jump on walls about.
Also the stuff about cracking and hardness, well I think that was just journalist hype...
... explain why it should ever exceed the life in the first place?
I mean, one good reason beyond wealth inheritance.
CxC is apparently closed proprietary language and all they offer for downloading is some gw2something.exe. And don't even get me started about the flash only web site...
I'm not quite sure slashdot is the correct forum for advertising such crap.
security? How would you know you have the right file?
And you'd have better security by downloading it over http or ftp ???
Geeez, you should really check md5s even non p2p files...
anyone?
"Valve's Counter-Strike Condition Zero Done"
Was I the only one thinking that how can some one claim that CS is in zero-done condition...
...but there's a reason why Windoze uses that for logging in. That is, that key combo cannot be intercepted by applications thus making it impossible to create infamous fake logins for grabbing user credentials mere looks-like-login-screen. Naturally such preventive measures could've been done a bit more elegantly than just using ctrl-alt-del to log in, but still, it's a very windowsy way of overcoming obstacles.
In many unix systems however, there are little or no protection for fake-login local attacks, eventhough preventive measures would be quite easy to implement using some key combo deemed ungrabbable by user software (little like say ctrl-alt-backspace is in X). It's all too easy to display a xdm/gdm look-a-like screen on university/public-office displays and grab logins and then display some sort of segfault crap an logout back to the real xdm/gdm. Average (l)user hardly takes much of a notice.
Where's the source?
In my perspective Yodaiken comes with a rather questionable track record of toying around with linux only commercially.
Also, remember that for cars in traffic, most of the energy that made your car go gets turned into heat when you hit the brakes....
Well, not quite. Most of the energy that made your car go goes out through the exhaust pipe as heat. The compression rate of the combustion engine defines an upper limit for attainable efficiency for turning heat energy into kinetic energy. For moderns cars I recall it's somewhere around 20% or so, could be a tad higher. On top of that comes all practical lackings, like heat leakage through the metal, friction and all thtat.
What you meant with brakes is probably that with a combustion car the braking indeed sucks away your kinetic energy (and yes, into heat), but why it's uneconomic is because it practically means you have to reaccelerate after that, which takes and releases loads more heat than your brake plates.
Notice that this does not hold for an electric vehicle which have near 1 efficiency when it comes to convertic electric (well chemical to be a tad more accurate) energy into kinetic energy, and on top that the ones I've dealt with also perform recharging upon breaking simply using the engine in reverse.