Why would Google even keep this info.[?] How does Google expect to make money offering YouTube videos for free ? The answer is that they're not free, you pay with your viewing habits, you are an unwitting participant in a massive consumer research project.
just do user[joe].interests[interest-class[boobie-jiggle]]++ Wouldn't it be almost as effective as just incrementing boobie-jiggle for every male user ? That's got to be around 90% accurate... This is why I'm perfectly happy for TiVo to collect my anonymized viewing habits. If the networks and advertisers know that I like boobies, and that results in more boobies on TV, how can that be a bad thing ?
OK, that's two rhetorical questions I asked, so remember there is no such thing as a rhetorical question on Slashdot.
Actually that would be a drink Bond is supposed to have invented and named the "Vesper." No one whose experience of Martinis extends beyond James Bond would call that recipe a classic Martini.
Mind you, you should drink whatever you want to whatever recipe you choose. The "traditional" Martini has one measure of vermouth to 3 of Gin, which is how I like it. But most people I know prefer the "classic" recipe which involves little more vermouth than is needed to wet the inside of the glass.
We'll, not exactly. Every BMW I've driven "requires" 91 octane gas which is 10-20c/gal more "special" than regular. And, frankly, if you want to make the BMW do what it was designed to do best, then you do need to be on an Autobahn or private racetrack.
You are correct. I had not realized just how low the air pressure was on Mars: it can be around 0.006 atm which is exactly the point where ice will sublimate. Cool. Thanks !
Why the f*ck was I moderated troll ? I was wrong, but trolling ? Sheesh, get a life.
You see, you had a splendid joke there, and then you went and spoiled it. Any truly civilized individual knows that a Martini is made with gin, not vodka.
Sheesh, when will these damn colonials ever learn ?
Maybe someone should sew Denon for abuseing people's limited intellectual capability's You can't make that a crime. At least not in the US. How else would they ever elect another president ?
You're forgetting the signal direction markings: who knew that electrical signals could read ? I know that before I put little arrows on my cat5 a lot of my ethernet packets were getting lost.
Now I'm going to see if I can do traffic shaping by putting "Slashdot, this way ->" on them.
I'm sorry, but isn't this simply racism ? If a product is outsourced (which we know is a euphemism for "made in China") do we have to assume that it is crap ? The damn thing sat in a particle accelerator for three years and presumably still worked. Perhaps the Chinese can actually build these things ?
You point about MIL-SPEC is taken, however, presumably if HP were claiming it was MIL-SPEC they would have done the certification themselves. They didn't and NASA did some certification themselves. I don't doubt for a minute that with sufficient financial incentive HP would be perfectly happy to deliver MIL_SPEC switches hand built by union workers in the Good 'Ol USA. Except of course the only unionized workers for HP, as for Walmart, live in China.
It is impossible to have an email address and not have it sent to you.
Eh ? have several email addresses and non of them get this stuff sent to them. Sure my gmail account get a metric f*ckton of filtered spam but 90% of it is in Chinese, and the rest are adverts for some strange drug that appears to be called "\/1aqra" While my tastes are far more tame and quotidian than the honorable Judge's I'd know if someone was sending me pictures of nekkid ladies.
Both statements are correct. In the former, however, one of the inputs may be some function of time: time since power on, date, etc... Actually hash functions encoded in this manner, are intended to be unique and are equivalent to GUIDs. Actually there's a little bit of loose terminology. I expect that Wikipedia is talking about true hash functions which are really short cuts to otherwise complex algorithms. LimeWire on the otherhand is really using GUIDs and the main requirement is that they are globally unique. Determinism is a consequence of being globally unique. Being fast is desirable, but by no means necessary for GUIDs.
Hash functions and GUIDs are related, but not the same thing.
A type of Hypercard extension called an XCMD could indeed do anything, it was just compiled C or Pascal. In fairness, the Mac of that era lacked memory protection, and that was a much bigger security issue than a lack of sandboxing, so this was not a problem limited to Hypercard. Sneakernet suffered from very real security issues: I've never gotten a virus over the internet, I did through casual disk swapping.
I dunno. I'm no MBA but I would imagine that the rating of any composite security should be the lowest rating of the most risky component.
Nope. That's precisely the opposite purpose of a composite security. Think about a mutual fund: the risk of one component is mitigated by the risk of all the other components. You'd have no possibility of retiring if your pension was predicated on the risk of your riskiest investment.
My Gf is so sure I will do that, that she is already expecting it and promised me not to complain If I go ahead and do it. How else is in this same boat?
Yup, your Gf is unlikely to complain if I buy one also
I know it is hard to keep up with prevailing slashdot wisdom, but, strictly speaking, I think that the line of reasoning is that it's not stealing, since you're only duplicating bits.
>> Will Time Machine do differential backups now? >Well, it has been for the last two months and I doubt they disabled it.
If the unit of back up is the entire file system, then you are of course correct. I suspect the parent poster was looking for differences within files...that is, only backing up the 'diff' between two files, not the entire file when it changes.
Why did Microsoft have to start making things that I actually want and use ? Sheesh, if they can add Divx playback to the XBXO 360, anything is possible.
If I had mod points, you'd get them. This is a good point. There are a lot of.NET programmers out there, and anything to encourage coding for a platform has to be a good thing.
On the otherhand, I doubt this is the full story. I'd bet on "you can run your windows apps without running windows" before I'd bet on, ".NET programmers wanted, no Mac experience necessary."
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Why would Google even keep this info.[?]
How does Google expect to make money offering YouTube videos for free ? The answer is that they're not free, you pay with your viewing habits, you are an unwitting participant in a massive consumer research project.
just do user[joe].interests[interest-class[boobie-jiggle]]++
Wouldn't it be almost as effective as just incrementing boobie-jiggle for every male user ? That's got to be around 90% accurate...
This is why I'm perfectly happy for TiVo to collect my anonymized viewing habits. If the networks and advertisers know that I like boobies, and that results in more boobies on TV, how can that be a bad thing ?
OK, that's two rhetorical questions I asked, so remember there is no such thing as a rhetorical question on Slashdot.
Actually that would be a drink Bond is supposed to have invented and named the "Vesper." No one whose experience of Martinis extends beyond James Bond would call that recipe a classic Martini.
Mind you, you should drink whatever you want to whatever recipe you choose. The "traditional" Martini has one measure of vermouth to 3 of Gin, which is how I like it. But most people I know prefer the "classic" recipe which involves little more vermouth than is needed to wet the inside of the glass.
A lush, moi ?
You don't need special gas
We'll, not exactly. Every BMW I've driven "requires" 91 octane gas which is 10-20c/gal more "special" than regular.
And, frankly, if you want to make the BMW do what it was designed to do best, then you do need to be on an Autobahn or private racetrack.
You are correct. I had not realized just how low the air pressure was on Mars: it can be around 0.006 atm which is exactly the point where ice will sublimate.
Cool. Thanks !
Why the f*ck was I moderated troll ? I was wrong, but trolling ? Sheesh, get a life.
You see, you had a splendid joke there, and then you went and spoiled it.
Any truly civilized individual knows that a Martini is made with gin, not vodka.
Sheesh, when will these damn colonials ever learn ?
Well now we understand why he announced the pre-emptive strike:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn4551-bush-to-announce-manned-mission-to-mars.html
Since CO2 sublimates, and water does not. (It shouldn't even melt at these temperatures,) I assume that they mean CO2.
Maybe someone should sew Denon for abuseing people's limited intellectual capability's
You can't make that a crime. At least not in the US. How else would they ever elect another president ?
Oh God no. You'll just have greater clarity in the upper octaves and your porn will be more nuanced.
You're forgetting the signal direction markings: who knew that electrical signals could read ?
I know that before I put little arrows on my cat5 a lot of my ethernet packets were getting lost.
Now I'm going to see if I can do traffic shaping by putting "Slashdot, this way ->" on them.
I'm sorry, but isn't this simply racism ? If a product is outsourced (which we know is a euphemism for "made in China") do we have to assume that it is crap ?
The damn thing sat in a particle accelerator for three years and presumably still worked. Perhaps the Chinese can actually build these things ?
You point about MIL-SPEC is taken, however, presumably if HP were claiming it was MIL-SPEC they would have done the certification themselves.
They didn't and NASA did some certification themselves. I don't doubt for a minute that with sufficient financial incentive HP would be perfectly happy to deliver MIL_SPEC switches hand built by union workers in the Good 'Ol USA. Except of course the only unionized workers for HP, as for Walmart, live in China.
Isn't this basically the plot to A Clockwork Orange ?
Eh ? have several email addresses and non of them get this stuff sent to them. Sure my gmail account get a metric f*ckton of filtered spam but 90% of it is in Chinese, and the rest are adverts for some strange drug that appears to be called "\/1aqra" While my tastes are far more tame and quotidian than the honorable Judge's I'd know if someone was sending me pictures of nekkid ladies.
Yup, that worked in 2004...
Both statements are correct. In the former, however, one of the inputs may be some function of time: time since power on, date, etc... Actually hash functions encoded in this manner, are intended to be unique and are equivalent to GUIDs.
Actually there's a little bit of loose terminology. I expect that Wikipedia is talking about true hash functions which are really short cuts to otherwise complex algorithms. LimeWire on the otherhand is really using GUIDs and the main requirement is that they are globally unique. Determinism is a consequence of being globally unique. Being fast is desirable, but by no means necessary for GUIDs.
Hash functions and GUIDs are related, but not the same thing.
A type of Hypercard extension called an XCMD could indeed do anything, it was just compiled C or Pascal. In fairness, the Mac of that era lacked memory protection, and that was a much bigger security issue than a lack of sandboxing, so this was not a problem limited to Hypercard. Sneakernet suffered from very real security issues: I've never gotten a virus over the internet, I did through casual disk swapping.
I dunno. I'm no MBA but I would imagine that the rating of any composite
security should be the lowest rating of the most risky component.
Nope. That's precisely the opposite purpose of a composite security. Think about a mutual fund: the risk of one component is mitigated by the risk of all the other components.
You'd have no possibility of retiring if your pension was predicated on the risk of your riskiest investment.
OK, so a shiny metal and black PS3 then ?!?
The data density on an 8" floppy is so low that you can pretty much recover the data with a good quality 4800dpi scanner.
Yup, your Gf is unlikely to complain if I buy one also
I know it is hard to keep up with prevailing slashdot wisdom, but, strictly speaking, I think that the line of reasoning is that it's not stealing, since you're only duplicating bits.
>> Will Time Machine do differential backups now?
>Well, it has been for the last two months and I doubt they disabled it.
If the unit of back up is the entire file system, then you are of course correct. I suspect the parent poster was looking for differences within files...that is, only backing up the 'diff' between two files, not the entire file when it changes.
I doubt we'll see this until zfs.
Why did Microsoft have to start making things that I actually want and use ?
Sheesh, if they can add Divx playback to the XBXO 360, anything is possible.
If I had mod points, you'd get them. This is a good point. There are a lot of .NET programmers out there, and anything to encourage coding for a platform has to be a good thing.
On the otherhand, I doubt this is the full story. I'd bet on "you can run your windows apps without running windows" before I'd bet on, ".NET programmers wanted, no Mac experience necessary."