It's also worth noting that it's possible to run Java un-sandboxed with a proper certificate. This is what the Java SSH and SCP applets do. Thus, it's all a matter of policy. It just happens that Microsoft doesn't have the best track record for implementing the most secure policies...
The editorial comment makes it sound like the 65,000 pounds was a waste of money, but I'm sure that, had the child died, the parents would have parted with that much to have her back.
Seriously, 65,000 pounds for a life ain't bad. Look at the Vioxx lawsuit...
And it also buys you complete incompatibility with GCC, which makes your chip act slower for anyone who uses software compiled with GCC. For example, if Intel licensed their ISA under an NDA but AMD made theirs freely available, anyone with half a mind would use an AMD chip in their server, since GCC would be much better optimized for it.
As long as there are commonly used open source compilers, it's necessary that chip vendors release their specs for free. Otherwise, other chip vendors will.
The database is FileMaker Pro, which is made by FileMaker, a subsidiary of Apple. I suppose it's not a part of iLife, but Access isn't a part of the basic version of Office either.
Agreed. Except it's not impossible for us to realize we're in it. That's the whole point of the Simulation Argument. Of course, it's probabilistic, but everything is probabilistic. It's truly impossible to know anything for certain, because the human mind is an imperfect mechanism. The Simulation Argument proves that, if it is possible simulate life, it is extremely probable that we are ourselves simulated.
You also say it's impossible to leave it. If our simulation were perfectly designed, then yes, this is true. But you also mention the possibility that QM is a memory leak, so perhaps our simulation is not perfectly designed.
I'd love to chat for longer, but I'm afraid I must get back to auditing the universe for buffer overflows.
Nick Bostrom's Simulation Argument offers pretty good proof for this idea. According to Bostrom, if simulation is indeed possible, then the odds that we're not already running in thousands of layers of simulation is next to nil.
What's the point beyond the coolness factor? Palm devices can already sync via 802.11b or Bluetooth. Wireless technologies can already go faster than 10 mbps, and are cheap and well-tested. If we can transmit data through the air, why do we need to transmit it through our bodies?
How's the compression with 256 channels? It seems like Thomson's solution has been optimized for surround. Without such optimization, you'd probably need much higher bitrates.
If there were a beggar on your way to work, and you went out of your way to avoid him, it would be fine. If there were a beggar on your way to work, and you surrounded him with some walls so no one would see him, that would be unethical.
I have a great Eastpak laptop bag that has a padded laptop pocket, but was very inexpensive and is relatively well-built. I use it to bring things to school every day, whether I have my laptop with me or not. It doesn't look at all like a laptop bag (it's bright red and says "Eastpak") so there's very little chance of getting mugged. It also cost $25 when I bought it. I don't remember the model but a quick glance at Amazon shows the Eastpak Unplugged, which looks similar but perhaps a little larger, and costs $30.
Use a web server (OS X has simple personal web sharing) and Flash (or LiveMotion, if you prefer it). It'll save stress on your school network, and it's easy to create crisp-looking presentations.
Look at it this way. You're at a supermarket. At the meat counter, there is one of those machines with tags, so they can call a number to ask the next person to come to the counter, rather than making everyone wait in line.
Do you not use this system because it's a loss in privacy? They could link the tag number with the meat you're buying! And they could link the tag number with your face! So they'd know what meat you were buying...wait...nevermind.
Unless you redistribute the Transgaming binary, the only effect of this is upon Gentoo and the MD5 hash. There are no privacy ramifications whatsoever. The MD5 problem has already been resolved in one line of code, and thus is a non-issue. As to the Gentoo problem, it could be completely resolved by making a package which executed a script to install Transgaming after verifying the non-unique bytes of the tgz.
Apple Lossless wasn't really created by Apple. It's actually called ALS and is an open standard. Apple just happens to be the first to create a (high-profile) implementation of it.
A determined attacker can break your WEP network, but 128-bit WEP requires quite a few packets to break. It takes hours, even days. Someone driving by your house isn't going to have the time to do that; unless it's a member of covert ops, you'd see them before they got a chance to get onto your network.
Nevertheless, WPA is a much better alternative, when it is possible.
That would mean 1996 was your start, which means you STARTED after Myst was completed with QuickTime and HyperCard on a Quadra, at the same time Flash was crashing everyone's browser left and right.
Yeah. Try rewriting Myst using only QuickTime. The only reason it would be at all possible is that QuickTime now has Flash built into it.
Flash is an open SPECIFICATION, meaning Macromedia will tell you how to read and write them. IT IS NOT AN OPEN FORMAT. Changes and enhancements from other companies/indivuduals are not accepted. That's like saying JAVA is an open format.
Or like saying C++ is an open format. I can't get any of the changes to the C++ standard I submit accepted. That doesn't mean it's not open.
There's NOTHING special about what any Macromedia product produces that cannot be replicated by a competing or open product.
This is probably true, but now you're just proving the point that the Flash format has become a standard in the industry. Also, try using one of these competing or open products, and you'll realize why people use Flash MX. They're all either impossible to use or complete pieces of shit in terms of functionality. Flash is an awkward-feeling app, but it's easy to learn and it has all the functionality you could need.
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It's also worth noting that it's possible to run Java un-sandboxed with a proper certificate. This is what the Java SSH and SCP applets do. Thus, it's all a matter of policy. It just happens that Microsoft doesn't have the best track record for implementing the most secure policies...
Dude,
A single laptop hard drive will not max out a laptop power supply, unless it's spinning as fast as the fucking Earth.
And a properly designed power supply should never allow anything to burst into flames...
The editorial comment makes it sound like the 65,000 pounds was a waste of money, but I'm sure that, had the child died, the parents would have parted with that much to have her back.
Seriously, 65,000 pounds for a life ain't bad. Look at the Vioxx lawsuit...
Well, you could Just start each paper with:
<html><title>My Paper</title><body><pre>
And end with:
</pre></body></html>
But that kind of defeats the purpose.
And it also buys you complete incompatibility with GCC, which makes your chip act slower for anyone who uses software compiled with GCC. For example, if Intel licensed their ISA under an NDA but AMD made theirs freely available, anyone with half a mind would use an AMD chip in their server, since GCC would be much better optimized for it.
As long as there are commonly used open source compilers, it's necessary that chip vendors release their specs for free. Otherwise, other chip vendors will.
The database is FileMaker Pro, which is made by FileMaker, a subsidiary of Apple. I suppose it's not a part of iLife, but Access isn't a part of the basic version of Office either.
So really, all Apple is missing is a spreadsheet.
Agreed. Except it's not impossible for us to realize we're in it. That's the whole point of the Simulation Argument. Of course, it's probabilistic, but everything is probabilistic. It's truly impossible to know anything for certain, because the human mind is an imperfect mechanism. The Simulation Argument proves that, if it is possible simulate life, it is extremely probable that we are ourselves simulated.
You also say it's impossible to leave it. If our simulation were perfectly designed, then yes, this is true. But you also mention the possibility that QM is a memory leak, so perhaps our simulation is not perfectly designed.
I'd love to chat for longer, but I'm afraid I must get back to auditing the universe for buffer overflows.
Nick Bostrom's Simulation Argument offers pretty good proof for this idea. According to Bostrom, if simulation is indeed possible, then the odds that we're not already running in thousands of layers of simulation is next to nil.
Check it out. It's cool.
Shuttle are is correct if you're British. In UK English, collective nouns normally take a plural verb.
On the other hand, "syystem" is only correct if you have a speech impediment.
What's the point beyond the coolness factor? Palm devices can already sync via 802.11b or Bluetooth. Wireless technologies can already go faster than 10 mbps, and are cheap and well-tested. If we can transmit data through the air, why do we need to transmit it through our bodies?
This website seems to have a list of places that will give you a free shell account, which you can use to compile your code using gcc or the like.
How's the compression with 256 channels? It seems like Thomson's solution has been optimized for surround. Without such optimization, you'd probably need much higher bitrates.
If there were a beggar on your way to work, and you went out of your way to avoid him, it would be fine. If there were a beggar on your way to work, and you surrounded him with some walls so no one would see him, that would be unethical.
Same thing goes here.
There are plenty of open source implementations...
I have a great Eastpak laptop bag that has a padded laptop pocket, but was very inexpensive and is relatively well-built. I use it to bring things to school every day, whether I have my laptop with me or not. It doesn't look at all like a laptop bag (it's bright red and says "Eastpak") so there's very little chance of getting mugged. It also cost $25 when I bought it. I don't remember the model but a quick glance at Amazon shows the Eastpak Unplugged, which looks similar but perhaps a little larger, and costs $30.
It's not supposed to be unbreakable. It's supposed to be protection equivalent to what standard print has. At this, I think, it succeeds.
Use a web server (OS X has simple personal web sharing) and Flash (or LiveMotion, if you prefer it). It'll save stress on your school network, and it's easy to create crisp-looking presentations.
Look at it this way. You're at a supermarket. At the meat counter, there is one of those machines with tags, so they can call a number to ask the next person to come to the counter, rather than making everyone wait in line.
Do you not use this system because it's a loss in privacy? They could link the tag number with the meat you're buying! And they could link the tag number with your face! So they'd know what meat you were buying...wait...nevermind.
Unless you redistribute the Transgaming binary, the only effect of this is upon Gentoo and the MD5 hash. There are no privacy ramifications whatsoever. The MD5 problem has already been resolved in one line of code, and thus is a non-issue. As to the Gentoo problem, it could be completely resolved by making a package which executed a script to install Transgaming after verifying the non-unique bytes of the tgz.
Apple Lossless wasn't really created by Apple. It's actually called ALS and is an open standard. Apple just happens to be the first to create a (high-profile) implementation of it.
I don't think we have to do no imagining anymore.
Well, I guess Slashdot, while serving millions of pages a day, doesn't run on a real database then.
WEP isn't completely worthless.
A determined attacker can break your WEP network, but 128-bit WEP requires quite a few packets to break. It takes hours, even days. Someone driving by your house isn't going to have the time to do that; unless it's a member of covert ops, you'd see them before they got a chance to get onto your network.
Nevertheless, WPA is a much better alternative, when it is possible.
That would mean 1996 was your start, which means you STARTED after Myst was completed with QuickTime and HyperCard on a Quadra, at the same time Flash was crashing everyone's browser left and right.
Yeah. Try rewriting Myst using only QuickTime. The only reason it would be at all possible is that QuickTime now has Flash built into it.
Flash is an open SPECIFICATION, meaning Macromedia will tell you how to read and write them. IT IS NOT AN OPEN FORMAT. Changes and enhancements from other companies/indivuduals are not accepted. That's like saying JAVA is an open format.
Or like saying C++ is an open format. I can't get any of the changes to the C++ standard I submit accepted. That doesn't mean it's not open.
There's NOTHING special about what any Macromedia product produces that cannot be replicated by a competing or open product.
This is probably true, but now you're just proving the point that the Flash format has become a standard in the industry. Also, try using one of these competing or open products, and you'll realize why people use Flash MX. They're all either impossible to use or complete pieces of shit in terms of functionality. Flash is an awkward-feeling app, but it's easy to learn and it has all the functionality you could need.
Yes, I am.
PNG transparency works just fine in Internet Explorer. It's just a pain in the ass.
This website will tell you how to turn it on. You can see it working on my website.
No idea why it's not on by default, but if it works...