It's true that the chance of either team winning this game is 50/50 assuming that they are of equal skill level, however I think the parent was differentiating the odds of this happening so many times in a row. Certainly if you started flipping a penny it would be highly unusual to see heads come up 17 times in a row, and there is a certain probability to how often this occurs if the penny is flipped continually.
If I read the article correctly, I counted 17 correct predictions, so that adds another couple powers of two to the odds.
Also I think its significant that this is a Washington DC team, and there certainly aren't that many pro sports teams in DC
Still, I think its just a big coincidence. Interestingly, both teams are at the bottom of their division with only 1 win since the start of the season, so it should be interesting to see if the rumor holds true.
DNS was designed in the lat 70's, with RFC's appearing in the early 80's. The computational power today is vastly greater than what the routers of the 80's could contend with. I'm sure they would not implement this change if they had not thoroughly outweighed the costs and benefits.
Window System Design: If I had it to do over again in 2002. James Gosling December 9, 2002 In the deep dark past I have been involved in building window systems. I did the original design and implementation of both the Andrew and NeWS window systems. Both of which predated X11. They shared with X11 the architectural feature of being networked: clients sent messages to the server over TCP connections. I occasionally get asked "if you had to do it over again, what would you do? Would you do the same thing". The answer is a strong no. It's now 20 years later, and the technological landscape is totally different. So here is what I would do. But first... The term "window system" is somewhat loose. It generally refers to the mechanism by which applications share access to the screen(s), keyboard and mouse. Beyond this it generally contains facilities for inter-application messages such as support for cutand- paste, and drag-and-drop. It also often contains support for the decorations surrounding windows that provide the user interface for resizing, opening and closing windows; although in some systems this has been left up to the application. Sometimes the window system provides higher level abstractions like menus. When a system is designed, there are always tradeoffs made that reflect the technology of the day. In the case of Andrew and NeWS, these tradeoffs were based on the state of the art 15 to 20 years ago (this probably applies to X11 too, but I wasn't involved in the design analysis behind it). There were a number of things that were very different between then and now. 1) The most significant is the relative performance of graphics rendering and network communication. Back then, rendering was relatively slow. The overhead of network communication was significantly overshadowed by the overhead of rendering. 2) Back then, there were no shared libraries. This seems odd, looked back at from today, but back then no version of Unix had the ability to have a library like libc or OpenGL that was shared between processes. All applications had to be "statically linked". There was a primitive segment Background History sharing facility that allowed one segment per process to be shared, that was at the beginning of the address space; but it wasn't powerful enough for this purpose. 3) Putting large things, like windowing libraries, into the kernel is generally a bad idea. It has a significant negative impact on the reliability and testability of the system. 4) When hardware acceleration was available, it generally had no interlocking mechanisms for arbitrating amongst independent threads that were trying to use it. This generally meant that either the accelerator was permanently allocated to a thread (very common, since acceleration was normally 3D hardware used exclusively for CAD), or there was an software interlock mechanism that added some cost to each operation. So, given these, where do you put all of the code that is involved in the window system - including the graphics rendering library? Remember that rendering libraries tended to be large, since hardware acceleration was almost non-existent. They couldn't be in each user process, since without being shared, they would take up an unacceptable amount of RAM. So the only way to get one copy of the code, and have it outside of the kernel, was to have it in one process, and to have applications communicate with this "window server". But today, while putting large amounts of code into the kernel is still a bad idea, rendering performance has improved dramatically, and most operating systems have shared libraries. The increase in rendering performance has outstripped Moore's law, which in turn has outstripped the increase in generally available bandwidth, making the overhead of shipping requests through the network an unacceptable burden. High performance 3D rendering
At my university if there is a student that may be unable to take notes for a class due to a disability then all he/she needs to do is inform the dean of students. They get in contact with the professor and the prof makes an announcement in class that they are looking for someone with good hand writing to take detailed notes. They make copies of the notes for the person with the disability and pay the note taker a small fee for their extra work. You may want to check to see if your college provides this, it beats spending hundreds or thousands on some piece of equipment.
Any given torrent must have a tracker to coordinate all the peers. If the tracker goes down then new people trying to download the file won't know what peers are available to download from. Usually it doesn't take much resources at all to run the tracker, however it is possible to slashdot it.
It may just be down temporarily, so I would recommend waiting a while.
If I recall correctly the data sent over the network was encrypted using a very long key generated by asking you to move the mouse randomly for a period of time. Doing this for a minute or so ensures that you get a unique key.
Flight QF10, carrying 400 passengers, went from 39,000ft to a standing stop on the tarmac without the pilots or tower talking.
Isn't the point of testing to determine if the system works before you start using it in critical real world applications?
What if the virtual-pilot system malfunctioned and the pilots were unable to gain control before the plane crashed and killed everyone. Mass criticism would ensue for using 400 passengers as genie pigs.
Of course, rockets launched into space have to travel at least 11.18 km/s to reach escape velocity, which is a lot faster than mach 7. This isnt a speed record, really more of a design change in that the engine doesn't need to carry its own oxygen.
"Zelenshchikov said Energiya engineers were also working on a huge spaceship for a flight to Mars, set to weigh 660 tons, the Interfax news agency reported."
Maybe this is just the thing we need to start another space race? Competition is good, and I don't think Americans will sit around while the Russians start testing a Mars spacecraft..
I don't know if your trying to be funny or not, but FYI they are using fish-eye lenses on the navigation cameras that allow them to have a 120 degree field of view.
I'm absolutly positive if Gates helped buy 130,000 laptops for someone he would make damn sure the contract says they will use Windows and only Windows.
Slashdot Mirror
It's true that the chance of either team winning this game is 50/50 assuming that they are of equal skill level, however I think the parent was differentiating the odds of this happening so many times in a row. Certainly if you started flipping a penny it would be highly unusual to see heads come up 17 times in a row, and there is a certain probability to how often this occurs if the penny is flipped continually.
If I read the article correctly, I counted 17 correct predictions, so that adds another couple powers of two to the odds.
Also I think its significant that this is a Washington DC team, and there certainly aren't that many pro sports teams in DC
Still, I think its just a big coincidence. Interestingly, both teams are at the bottom of their division with only 1 win since the start of the season, so it should be interesting to see if the rumor holds true.
Salon allows you to view the site for 24 hours as long as you watch a ~1 minute ad. Just click on "free day pass". No registration is required.
:(
Also, I am a starving college student as well, I do not work for salon, or any place else for that matter.
Salon is reporting that Bush may have been wearing a device that would allow him to receive sound from someone offstage.
Here is the article
Here is the image
DNS was designed in the lat 70's, with RFC's appearing in the early 80's. The computational power today is vastly greater than what the routers of the 80's could contend with. I'm sure they would not implement this change if they had not thoroughly outweighed the costs and benefits.
Oh wait, VeriSign? We're all doomed.
Window System Design:
If I had it to do over again in 2002.
James Gosling
December 9, 2002
In the deep dark past I have been involved in building window
systems. I did the original design and implementation of both the
Andrew and NeWS window systems. Both of which predated
X11. They shared with X11 the architectural feature of being
networked: clients sent messages to the server over TCP
connections. I occasionally get asked "if you had to do it over
again, what would you do? Would you do the same thing". The
answer is a strong no. It's now 20 years later, and the
technological landscape is totally different. So here is what I
would do. But first...
The term "window system" is somewhat loose. It generally refers
to the mechanism by which applications share access to the
screen(s), keyboard and mouse. Beyond this it generally contains
facilities for inter-application messages such as support for cutand-
paste, and drag-and-drop. It also often contains support for the
decorations surrounding windows that provide the user interface
for resizing, opening and closing windows; although in some
systems this has been left up to the application. Sometimes the
window system provides higher level abstractions like menus.
When a system is designed, there are always tradeoffs made that
reflect the technology of the day. In the case of Andrew and
NeWS, these tradeoffs were based on the state of the art 15 to 20
years ago (this probably applies to X11 too, but I wasn't involved
in the design analysis behind it). There were a number of things
that were very different between then and now.
1) The most significant is the relative performance of graphics
rendering and network communication. Back then,
rendering was relatively slow. The overhead of network
communication was significantly overshadowed by the
overhead of rendering.
2) Back then, there were no shared libraries. This seems odd,
looked back at from today, but back then no version of
Unix had the ability to have a library like libc or OpenGL
that was shared between processes. All applications had to
be "statically linked". There was a primitive segment
Background
History
sharing facility that allowed one segment per process to be
shared, that was at the beginning of the address space; but it
wasn't powerful enough for this purpose.
3) Putting large things, like windowing libraries, into the
kernel is generally a bad idea. It has a significant negative
impact on the reliability and testability of the system.
4) When hardware acceleration was available, it generally had
no interlocking mechanisms for arbitrating amongst
independent threads that were trying to use it. This
generally meant that either the accelerator was permanently
allocated to a thread (very common, since acceleration was
normally 3D hardware used exclusively for CAD), or there
was an software interlock mechanism that added some cost
to each operation.
So, given these, where do you put all of the code that is involved in
the window system - including the graphics rendering library?
Remember that rendering libraries tended to be large, since
hardware acceleration was almost non-existent.
They couldn't be in each user process, since without being shared,
they would take up an unacceptable amount of RAM. So the only
way to get one copy of the code, and have it outside of the kernel,
was to have it in one process, and to have applications
communicate with this "window server".
But today, while putting large amounts of code into the kernel is
still a bad idea, rendering performance has improved dramatically,
and most operating systems have shared libraries. The increase in
rendering performance has outstripped Moore's law, which in turn
has outstripped the increase in generally available bandwidth,
making the overhead of shipping requests through the network an
unacceptable burden.
High performance 3D rendering
At my university if there is a student that may be unable to take notes for a class due to a disability then all he/she needs to do is inform the dean of students. They get in contact with the professor and the prof makes an announcement in class that they are looking for someone with good hand writing to take detailed notes. They make copies of the notes for the person with the disability and pay the note taker a small fee for their extra work. You may want to check to see if your college provides this, it beats spending hundreds or thousands on some piece of equipment.
Any given torrent must have a tracker to coordinate all the peers. If the tracker goes down then new people trying to download the file won't know what peers are available to download from. Usually it doesn't take much resources at all to run the tracker, however it is possible to slashdot it.
It may just be down temporarily, so I would recommend waiting a while.
"IED" bring up 262 matches on cnn.com (mostly from the Iraq war)
& sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&o e=utf-8/
http://www.google.com/search?q=ied+site%3Acnn.com
Here is another article (along with a huge picture!) at the official JPL NASA website.
I tried this on several people, all saying they got either blank or server error pages.
:/
Puzzled I fired up Internet Exploder and sure enough the URLs give "Invalid Syntax errors".
Apparently that recent patch that blocked URL spoofing disallows all addresses with username:password@domain.
I guess I will have to convince all of my gullible friends to upgrade to firefox before I can trick them.
Strange how the post 3 minutes after mine pointing out spymac gets +4 but I get modded down to -1.
Spymac already has a free 1 GB web email service.
Click here
If I recall correctly the data sent over the network was encrypted using a very long key generated by asking you to move the mouse randomly for a period of time. Doing this for a minute or so ensures that you get a unique key.
Flight QF10, carrying 400 passengers, went from 39,000ft to a standing stop on the tarmac without the pilots or tower talking.
Isn't the point of testing to determine if the system works before you start using it in critical real world applications?
What if the virtual-pilot system malfunctioned and the pilots were unable to gain control before the plane crashed and killed everyone. Mass criticism would ensue for using 400 passengers as genie pigs.
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I think I'll stick with the cross platform iTunes..
Of course, rockets launched into space have to travel at least 11.18 km/s to reach escape velocity, which is a lot faster than mach 7. This isnt a speed record, really more of a design change in that the engine doesn't need to carry its own oxygen.
Congrats to NASA though.
I don't know if your trying to be funny or not, but FYI they are using fish-eye lenses on the navigation cameras that allow them to have a 120 degree field of view.
If you had RTFA you would have noticed that the first word is "snow"
I'm sure many
This is really going to screw up the Library of Congress data storage unit.
;)
Now the Library of Congress will be holding many Libraries of Congress. It's a conundrum!
Especially considering yesterday was his birthday
More screenshots can be found here.
I'm absolutly positive if Gates helped buy 130,000 laptops for someone he would make damn sure the contract says they will use Windows and only Windows.