Microsoft patches have to wait for their nightly automatic install or when a user shuts down their PC. I believe Firefox checks every time it is launched for updates and installs them. The odds are, you are going to get patched quicker using Firefox then IE.
You must surf very differently that I. The only time my Mozilla gets shut down is when Microsoft's updater reboots my PC (usually to fix an IE security hole). So it is literally the same either way for me.
After reading through the teacher's email, I don't really think the root of the problem has anything to do with Liunx at all. As a father of 3 school-age children, I have seen a lot of teachers. Most are good, some aren't, but occasionally you come across one that is just a petty tyrant by nature. I don't think there is anything that can be done in that case, other than to pray for their charges. That's pretty clearly the case here.
This line tells you all you need to know about Karen:
These children look up to adults for guidance and discipline.
This is a person who not only belives this, but apparently believes it is an important enough point that the reader needs to understand. Imagine going through a whole school year under the thumb of someone who has always has this thought running through their head while dealing with you.
As a matter of fact, all kinds of such things *were* tried at the time. The problem is that things like personal appeals and shunning only work on people who actually give a damn. Not only did the H-man not care, but he knew everyone else did care, and used that against them.
(sigh). The first volume in Churchill's history of World War 2 (The Gathering Storm) should really be required reading in the west.
Here's an idea how to. Rather than do stimulus...rather than do bailouts to companies. Why not give to every US taxpayer (read, payer of taxes, not non-payers) over the age of 18, about $25K-$100K or whatever
Because they already tried that last summer with the tax rebates, and the impact was minimal. The problem is that everyone is so overextended that they just paid down debt. That's a bit nice for them, but to get a good stimulus you need people circulating money around the economy where it multiplies against itself, not stashing it in a bank (that is too afraid to lend any of it back out).
The latest take I heard on a stimulus was that it would probably need to go to folks who are *sure* to spend it. That means the really poor, or the unemployed. Extending unemployment benifits seems to be the current popular idea.
I was just relating this post to my wife when she said "I wonder, if all that is true, if it is possible the vaccinations we all receive for chickenpox might actually be the root cause of all these diseases".
Errr...no. The chickenpox vaccine has only been licensed in the US since 1995. Almost no Aldsheimers sufferers have had that vaccine. If there were any effct from it, you wouldn't see it in most diseases associated with aging for a few decades yet.
Fantasy games like WoW are generally not based on African or Asian mythology - they use medieval Europe
...and we of course could never, never, sacrifice historical accuracy in a game based on a made up universe to be more inclusive.
Honestly, I don't think there's any real reason for things being this way, other than the subconcious biases of the folks who make the character generators. I seriously doubt any of these games ever had tons of nice native american, African, and Asian character options, only to have an editor come along and say, "Those looks don't fit in with this race's mileu. Take them out!" I don't think the artists decided aginst doing it because they thought those looks were "ugly" either.
I think what happened was that that nobody on the dev teams ever even thought about trying to create characters like that, so models for them were never even considered for inclusion. It is still just as wrong, no matter what the reason though.
The biggest problem I see with this thing is that it doesn't look at all like a gun. Because of that, there is *no* deterrence value in having one. If you pull that silly looking plastic thing on someone, you are going to have to *use* it.
I play MMORPGs a lot, and generally like to try to make either Native American or African-looking avitars. I have a nice stable of Osage and Carribean/African names I like to use.
You'd be really suprised how difficult this is in pretty much every game. I certianly was. It is not difficult at all to make a European-looking avatar. In fact, it is really difficult *not* make one. If you don't believe me, give it a try yourself. For example, in WoW it is possible to make a human look a bit like Hally Berry (light skinned, unnaturally skinny, straight black hair), but that's as far as you can go. There is no way to make the males look anything like even an African-American. I couldn't find a way to make a good Osage or Asian looking person at all. If you want someone with a non-pale skin, you have to go with a non-human. Does that sound as bad to you as it does to me?
I'm not just picking on WoW, it's just the most popular. I've had pretty much the same experience in *every* one of the 12 or so MMORPGs I've tried. The only real exception was City of Heroes/Villans (which has the best character editor in the business by a long shot).
The really insane thing about this is that a lot of these games sell as much or more in Asia as in Europe and North America. You'd think they'd at least have several good options for making Asian-looking avitars! You really have to wonder what the message non-Europian looking kids are taking away from this is, when they have to make their character from the Cow, Troll, or Demon looking races to get skin color, body shape, and/or cultural equivalents to theselves, and "normal humans" are all white.
My point to OP was that Bittorrent is *already* having to reimplement the parts of TCP that it needs because of the way Bittorrent works. It is essentially already a UDP-style application.
It already keeps track of what pieces of its overall file is missing, and handles handshaking with a multitude of external servers that may have and be able to provide each individual chunk. It is already (as someone else pointed out) keeping a 160bit hash of every chunk of the file. On top of that, TCP's paltry handshaking and packet integrity checking is really just getting in the way.
Each bittorrent chunk is transferred using many network packets. If you're going to transfer those chunks using UDP, you need to sort out the packet order and do all the missing-packet checks and retries etc yourself.
Not nessecarily. You could just let the packets fragment. That gives you 64K to work with.
The problem there of course is that if there is a bad (or missing) fragment is that the entire datagram (all fragments) get thrown away, where TCP would just ditch the one bad packet. Net result is even more traffic.
Still, they could get around this by defining the "bittorrent chunk" size to be 1.5k (UDP payload size). Everything else would probably work fine.
In many ways, UDP is probably more appropriate for a situation where the information is naturally distributed like this. Bittorrent *already* has to deal with assembling all the pieces of the file from out of order discrete transmissions. Individual connections aren't all that important to maintain as there are plenty of other servers out there. So all the overhead of TCP maintaining connection and packet integrity really isn't buying Bittorrent much.
If you actually RTFM(ap), you'll see its actually *not* Somali problem, its a world-wide problem.
The really interesting thing is that almost every single attack (all but one or two) happened in the tropics. Why would that be? There are plenty of failed states outside of the tropics. Does the international pirate union require the perpetrators to go shirtless or someting?
Also, they were all offshore of "third world counties"... with one exception: Italy. It looks like one incident happened right near Rome. WTH is up with that?
Theres a power vacuum now with the fall of the Soviet Union
That's actually a very interesting point. If you look at the map, nearly all incidents happened off shore of former Soviet client states, allies, or friends.
John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, can eat his heart out (unless that's been patented, too).
He's got nothing to worry about there. The Aztec's patent on "A method for removing, preparing, and eating human hearts (not nessecarily in that order)" expired centuries ago.
...and you thought it was bad when your laptop's battery started leaking into your lap. Just wait until its liquid nitrogen cooling system starts leaking.
there will be less 'megastars' but there will be more people making a living at their art, instead of having to take 'day jobs' to sustain themselves. Society will be the better for it.
Says you. If that happens, who's going to be surly to me while bringing my double cheesburger?
Unfortunately, the article mentions that in the 80s, female enrollment in CS was closer to parity with males
As someone who graduated in the 80's I find that scary. My graduating class had exactly two females in it. One of the two was only there because her father taught in the engineering school, children of faculty got free tuition in the same school, and CS was the easiest major in engineering. She wanted to be a grade school teacher.
The thought of it being even less than that now is just nasty.
I laughed, but then I remembered people saying the same thing about Regan after the 1976 election (he lost the nomination to Ford). Chevy Chase on SNL used to do jokes about Regan forgetting to put the hood down on his white robe. That didn't turn out so well four years later. So now you've just scared me.
We need a National Dipshit Register. So these people can be flagged.
Those are quite easy to generate. Just scrape all the email addresses out of the next few virus/gang scare/Obama hoax/otherwise Snopes-worthy emails that people forward to you.
Heck, I saved all the emails I got from victims of the ILOVEYOU virus a few years ago, just in case I ever found myself in need of a nice list of rubes' email addresses.
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Microsoft patches have to wait for their nightly automatic install or when a user shuts down their PC. I believe Firefox checks every time it is launched for updates and installs them. The odds are, you are going to get patched quicker using Firefox then IE.
You must surf very differently that I. The only time my Mozilla gets shut down is when Microsoft's updater reboots my PC (usually to fix an IE security hole). So it is literally the same either way for me.
After reading through the teacher's email, I don't really think the root of the problem has anything to do with Liunx at all. As a father of 3 school-age children, I have seen a lot of teachers. Most are good, some aren't, but occasionally you come across one that is just a petty tyrant by nature. I don't think there is anything that can be done in that case, other than to pray for their charges. That's pretty clearly the case here.
This line tells you all you need to know about Karen:
These children look up to adults for guidance and discipline.
This is a person who not only belives this, but apparently believes it is an important enough point that the reader needs to understand. Imagine going through a whole school year under the thumb of someone who has always has this thought running through their head while dealing with you.
A visual aid
A petition? Seriously?
As a matter of fact, all kinds of such things *were* tried at the time. The problem is that things like personal appeals and shunning only work on people who actually give a damn. Not only did the H-man not care, but he knew everyone else did care, and used that against them.
(sigh). The first volume in Churchill's history of World War 2 (The Gathering Storm) should really be required reading in the west.
Also on the list of taboos are hats, eyeglasses, and hair that hangs down over the face.
So I guess Slash is out entirely.
Here's an idea how to. Rather than do stimulus...rather than do bailouts to companies. Why not give to every US taxpayer (read, payer of taxes, not non-payers) over the age of 18, about $25K-$100K or whatever
Because they already tried that last summer with the tax rebates, and the impact was minimal. The problem is that everyone is so overextended that they just paid down debt. That's a bit nice for them, but to get a good stimulus you need people circulating money around the economy where it multiplies against itself, not stashing it in a bank (that is too afraid to lend any of it back out).
The latest take I heard on a stimulus was that it would probably need to go to folks who are *sure* to spend it. That means the really poor, or the unemployed. Extending unemployment benifits seems to be the current popular idea.
From earlier up in that thread:
Don't get too excited, it's not usable as a phone. If anyone wants to help get the radio working though all the source is on the site.
The odds are simply staggering
Not really. They just sue every 19 year old.
There's nothing special about winning the lottery either, if you buy every ticket.
I was just relating this post to my wife when she said "I wonder, if all that is true, if it is possible the vaccinations we all receive for chickenpox might actually be the root cause of all these diseases".
Errr...no. The chickenpox vaccine has only been licensed in the US since 1995. Almost no Aldsheimers sufferers have had that vaccine. If there were any effct from it, you wouldn't see it in most diseases associated with aging for a few decades yet.
Honestly, I don't think there's any real reason for things being this way, other than the subconcious biases of the folks who make the character generators. I seriously doubt any of these games ever had tons of nice native american, African, and Asian character options, only to have an editor come along and say, "Those looks don't fit in with this race's mileu. Take them out!" I don't think the artists decided aginst doing it because they thought those looks were "ugly" either.
I think what happened was that that nobody on the dev teams ever even thought about trying to create characters like that, so models for them were never even considered for inclusion. It is still just as wrong, no matter what the reason though.
The biggest problem I see with this thing is that it doesn't look at all like a gun. Because of that, there is *no* deterrence value in having one. If you pull that silly looking plastic thing on someone, you are going to have to *use* it.
I play MMORPGs a lot, and generally like to try to make either Native American or African-looking avitars. I have a nice stable of Osage and Carribean/African names I like to use.
You'd be really suprised how difficult this is in pretty much every game. I certianly was. It is not difficult at all to make a European-looking avatar. In fact, it is really difficult *not* make one. If you don't believe me, give it a try yourself. For example, in WoW it is possible to make a human look a bit like Hally Berry (light skinned, unnaturally skinny, straight black hair), but that's as far as you can go. There is no way to make the males look anything like even an African-American. I couldn't find a way to make a good Osage or Asian looking person at all. If you want someone with a non-pale skin, you have to go with a non-human. Does that sound as bad to you as it does to me?
I'm not just picking on WoW, it's just the most popular. I've had pretty much the same experience in *every* one of the 12 or so MMORPGs I've tried. The only real exception was City of Heroes/Villans (which has the best character editor in the business by a long shot).
The really insane thing about this is that a lot of these games sell as much or more in Asia as in Europe and North America. You'd think they'd at least have several good options for making Asian-looking avitars! You really have to wonder what the message non-Europian looking kids are taking away from this is, when they have to make their character from the Cow, Troll, or Demon looking races to get skin color, body shape, and/or cultural equivalents to theselves, and "normal humans" are all white.
My point to OP was that Bittorrent is *already* having to reimplement the parts of TCP that it needs because of the way Bittorrent works. It is essentially already a UDP-style application.
It already keeps track of what pieces of its overall file is missing, and handles handshaking with a multitude of external servers that may have and be able to provide each individual chunk. It is already (as someone else pointed out) keeping a 160bit hash of every chunk of the file. On top of that, TCP's paltry handshaking and packet integrity checking is really just getting in the way.
Errr...according to my math, that's 20 bytes for every 1.5K, which would work out to about 13K for a 1 Gigabyte file. That hardly seems unreasonable.
Each bittorrent chunk is transferred using many network packets. If you're going to transfer those chunks using UDP, you need to sort out the packet order and do all the missing-packet checks and retries etc yourself.
Not nessecarily. You could just let the packets fragment. That gives you 64K to work with.
The problem there of course is that if there is a bad (or missing) fragment is that the entire datagram (all fragments) get thrown away, where TCP would just ditch the one bad packet. Net result is even more traffic.
Still, they could get around this by defining the "bittorrent chunk" size to be 1.5k (UDP payload size). Everything else would probably work fine.
In many ways, UDP is probably more appropriate for a situation where the information is naturally distributed like this. Bittorrent *already* has to deal with assembling all the pieces of the file from out of order discrete transmissions. Individual connections aren't all that important to maintain as there are plenty of other servers out there. So all the overhead of TCP maintaining connection and packet integrity really isn't buying Bittorrent much.
If you actually RTFM(ap), you'll see its actually *not* Somali problem, its a world-wide problem.
The really interesting thing is that almost every single attack (all but one or two) happened in the tropics. Why would that be? There are plenty of failed states outside of the tropics. Does the international pirate union require the perpetrators to go shirtless or someting?
Also, they were all offshore of "third world counties" ... with one exception: Italy. It looks like one incident happened right near Rome. WTH is up with that?
Theres a power vacuum now with the fall of the Soviet Union
That's actually a very interesting point. If you look at the map, nearly all incidents happened off shore of former Soviet client states, allies, or friends.
My mother always told me that nice computers never go down.
John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, can eat his heart out (unless that's been patented, too).
He's got nothing to worry about there. The Aztec's patent on "A method for removing, preparing, and eating human hearts (not nessecarily in that order)" expired centuries ago.
...and you thought it was bad when your laptop's battery started leaking into your lap. Just wait until its liquid nitrogen cooling system starts leaking.
there will be less 'megastars' but there will be more people making a living at their art, instead of having to take 'day jobs' to sustain themselves. Society will be the better for it.
Says you. If that happens, who's going to be surly to me while bringing my double cheesburger?
Unfortunately, the article mentions that in the 80s, female enrollment in CS was closer to parity with males
As someone who graduated in the 80's I find that scary. My graduating class had exactly two females in it. One of the two was only there because her father taught in the engineering school, children of faculty got free tuition in the same school, and CS was the easiest major in engineering. She wanted to be a grade school teacher.
The thought of it being even less than that now is just nasty.
I laughed, but then I remembered people saying the same thing about Regan after the 1976 election (he lost the nomination to Ford). Chevy Chase on SNL used to do jokes about Regan forgetting to put the hood down on his white robe. That didn't turn out so well four years later. So now you've just scared me.
It's a burden to be old somtimes.
I can't wait for Groo, the movie!
Groo is truly big and strong,
but then, so are most cattle.
Groo will fight to right each wrong,
and kill both sides in battle!
...
OMFG. I was joking, but apparently one is in production
We need a National Dipshit Register. So these people can be flagged.
Those are quite easy to generate. Just scrape all the email addresses out of the next few virus/gang scare/Obama hoax/otherwise Snopes-worthy emails that people forward to you.
Heck, I saved all the emails I got from victims of the ILOVEYOU virus a few years ago, just in case I ever found myself in need of a nice list of rubes' email addresses.