I wonder if this is such a big deal over in Europe where the attitudes towards sexual content are much more relaxed.
I do recall hearing that when GTA 3 was released, the German version had certain "violent" features removed (I think it was the ability to kick or ground stomp NPCs that had been nocked down).
One good example is Carmageddon 1 or 2.
In US: No cuts. In Britain: All the pedestrians (that you can run over) are zombies instead of humans. In Germany: All the pedestrians are robots (and squirt oil when ran over).
Of course, just about the next day of release a patch appeared to restore original content.
Also, in Fallout 2, children are missing from the streets so there isn't any child-killing (actually, they are still there, just invisible, so a stray shot could do some damage...)
So, in US, they cut sexual content, Germany and UK they cut violence. Luckily, these days the Nordic countries are a region of their own in game releases and usually get completely uncut content.
Sounds like those canned trolls my D&D group used to use for emergency rations. Open the can, let it regenerate, and cut off a chunk.
You just have to make sure that you can digest it with your stomach acids faster than it regenerates inside you...
Actually, maybe you could build some sustenance by eating *just* the correct dose of troll..so that it would never die off, but never regenerate too much..
Union for Europe of the Nations Group (Right-wing, nationalistic): - Liam Aylward, Ireland - Brian Crowley, Ireland, http://www.briancrowleymep.ie/ - Gintaras Didziokas, Lithuania - Guntars Krasts, Latvia - Seán Ó Neachtain, Ireland, http://www.oneachtain.com/ - Rolandas Pavilionis, Lithuania - Eoin Ryan, Ireland, http://www.eoinryan.ie/ - Konrad Szymanski, Poland - Roberts Zile, Latvia
Ok, before this the attacker could only attack when the target link was forming.
With this, you can force them to re-form at will.
Even so, you still need to bruteforce the PIN. The "PIN" is really a 16-byte field, and is not really limited to numeric (or even alphanumeric) characters.
So what can be done:
1) Start using long PIN codes (if your device is limited to numbers, at least use the maximum length) 2) Software update that notifies user of the "forced re-pairing" 3) Allow users to use PIN's beyond the numeric space or possibility to use some pre-shared secret keys.
This affects those of you who use "1234" or similar keys for pairing process for convenience.
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I thought that the differing force between various keys has been standard in all keyboards for a very long time. Keytronic has called it Ergoforce.
The Russians have built lots of things. A carrier(Kuznetsov), a shuttle like space craft(Buran, it might be even better than the shuttle), and a lunar rocket(N1). What they haven't done is actually use those things more than a few times.
I was visiting the Avionics Institute in Moscow two weeks ago, and saw a lots of things. One of the most interesting ones was a lecture given us by a professor that had originally been designing Buran's automatic landing system.
He drew some comparisons to the american shuttle, and told that they had (obviously) taken a look at the american design. Anyway, he pretty much made it clear that Columbia accident couldn't have happened with Buran - heat tile configuration was different. Include that and the fully-automatic landing system then you have a better craft - of course it was designed 10 years later than the original.
After the lecture we visited the hull sitting in Gorky park, and noticed the things pointed out of the tile configuration - tiles change direction in mid-wing, distributing heat-load more evenly, and tiles in the front of the wing were laid partially on top of each other and they had a tunnel undereath to make heat flow out of the wing even in case one of them would have broken.
For this one thing, I wish that the Soviet Union would have collapsed a few years later so that they could have flown more than the maiden flight.
The results? So far I have tested SuSE, Fedora, Mandrake, Slackware, Ubuntu and yes even Gentoo and in ALL cases, Windows XP was able to access Google faster than Linux on the same machine.
In Gentoo, switch on parallel initscript processing in/etc/conf.d/rc. Might help quite a bit.
You know what they do in Western Europe? They shoot film @ 25fps and PAL video is 25fps: A helluva lost easier!
No...we don't. We just convert the frames directly with 1:1 mapping (or, 1 frame becomes two fields). Easier, but also shifts voice pitch even more - half a note, actually. With NTSC and 2:3 pulldown the pitch shift is negligible, with PAL's rate it usually does not matter but if you are watching a musical it will sound a bit strage.
Some DVD's are pitch corrected, examples include at least Lord of the Rings.
This fixes one of the problems I've had with my Thinkpad 600E ACPI. (So far I could fix it by switching between X and console (Ctrl+alt+f1 && alt+f7), but this is easier).
How does this relate to Ximianized Openoffice that I've been using all the time?
The reason I prefer ooo-ximian are the native widgets (KDE/Gnome), including stuff like file selection boxes. I'm noting that OOO 2.0 includes them too - and however, OOO-Ximians news file indicates ongoing development...
How do these two relate in 2.0? Are the "new widgets" in 2.0 merged from ooo-ximian, and in effect, which version should I choose once the 2.0 is released?
MPEG-2 has nothing to do with wavelets, MPEG-2 is based on DCT. In general, there are four methods for compression, discrete cosine transform (DCT), vector quantization (VQ), fractal compression, and discrete wavelet transform (DWT).
MPEG codecs (1, 2, 4, H.26x) all use DCT. Have a nice day.
Okay, so JPEG 2000 uses wavelets and is therefore quite advanced, but as I have understood, it's still geared for still images (ok, there is probably some form of motion jpeg 2000?).
I would think that most optimal method would be to use something like DIRAC instead (or Ogg Theora). DIRAC uses wavelets and adaptive arithmetic coding, so it should be "on par" with JPEG 2000 - and should also be free of patent encumberance.
JPEG 2000 has one feature that might make it better in "archival" purposes - there is a lossless mode which still achieves higher compression ratios than PNG.
There's a fallacy in imagining a world where a particular person never completed a particular invention. In short, it skips the notion that someone else would have invented it instead.
Wheel and rest of your examples are valid. However, I think that there *are* certain things that wouldn't have been invented by someone else.
Consider Einstein. In 1905, he published his special relativity theory. Now, for this, all the pieces were pretty much there - somebody else would have come up with that sooner or later.
However, general relativity, in 1915, is something that probably would have not been realized even by today if it were not for Albert. Even if we had gravity probe B I think scientists would be pretty dumbfounded by results - there is not really any "reasonable" explanation. You need to think outside the box - and I think that even though Newton's "standing on the shoulder of giants" applies to lots of things, there were no shoulders to stand upon regarding general relativity.
Of course, this point is rather irrelevant because we are talking about developing an OS..
What really makes it a great documentary is that it's as entertaining as it is interesting. Not an easy thing at all to do given the subject matter but Cringely pulls it off in spades.
The only bad thing about is that there, IMHO, should be a chapter about "home computing", maybe alongside part 2 or as an additional notice. Now it only touches Apple I and II - but it really does not take note of the mad rush when *everyone* and his dog had their own home computer. Survivors were Commodore Vic-20 and C64, Amstrad, Spectrum and (in Japan and Finland:)) MSX. Last "home computers" before PC took over were Atari ST and Amiga, but Cringely missed them all.
I think the main impediment is the degradation of the solar panels. They generate less and less power, and eventualy there is not enough juice to run the rover.
The solar panels are getting cleaned for some reason, at least for opportunity. Anyway, Martian winter is now behind and they are heading into spring.
The Voyagers had a similar problem with their thermonuclear batteries; it got to a point where they were generating less than 100 Watts (I think), and the JPL guys were (and are) doing miracles to keep the craft functional.
The voyagers are doing just fine. Note the report date. And the output is near 300W. Maybe you confused it with Pioneer 10?
...all sporting events 'will be split up to accommodate enhanced and unenhanced athletes.'"
Judging by the number of athletes that get caught for using different kinds of doping substances at every major event, this is reality right now.
I have been wondering if we should do a split now; ie. have separate races for "boosted" athletes and another series for "traditional". The boosted version could have all kinds of medical companies as sponsors...Think of that bodybuilder with Pfizer tattooed on his muscles. Of course, life expectancy drops to around 30 years until the heart explodes, but at least you get famous.
Maybe they could even have separate points for "athletes" and "teams" like in motorsports. Teams would have loads of MDs coming up with better and more powerful stuff...
Since I really don't care about traditional sporting events at all, but this version might be fun to watch from an (bio-)engineering point of view.
Seriously, if you like Gentoo as a Linux user, look at NetBSD. The elegance will strike you.
I actually used FreeBSD for a quite a long time. When I learned of Gentoo I switched over immediately. I really liked FreeBSD as a system (ports, neat/etc, configurability), but hated the lack of hardware support. (Sound, ACPI, Network cards...) With Linux kernel I could better utilize my hardware. With Gentoo around it, I could keep to my habits from the FreeBSD. And I'm loving it.
Granted, when I used FreeBSD actively, the stable was still going at something like 4.7...5.0 provided better support (like Cardbus PCMCIA cards...), but it was far too unstable. With 5.3 just out I might want to check it out but I really lack the incentive. Gentoo works like a charm.
Check out those little notices with 2 pt font on the bottles...more than a few of them say somewhere "Water source: Municipal water plant of Detroit".
Actually, there are multiple results on various research projects that state that your standard tapwater is usually better than any of those bottled ones. Some study stated that the municipal tap water of New York was cleaner (fewer bacteria, fewer toxins) than something like 95% of the bottled water products...
Also, check out the Penn&Teller's Bullshit episode on bottled water.
Seven is the maximum number of Bluetooth devices in a "piconet", so that's where the limit comes from. Multicasting in this context means being able to transmit some data to all the other devices in the piconet ON THE RADIO INTERFACE.
Simple, but not necessarily practical (or even truthful, not sure) example: You have seven devices connected to a bluetooth basestation using BNEP (Bluetooth Ethernet Emulation). The BS is connected to Internet with some wire. Somebody from "outside world" decides to ping somebody in the Piconet.
The nearest router sends a broadcast ARP request asking who has IP Address x.x.x.x. Since there is no Bluetooth multicast at the moment, the basestation has to replicate the ARP request for each and every one of the devices. With multicast, it could just send the request once and everyone would receive it (with the right one replying).
In wireless LAN (802.11) you can broad- and multicast on the link layer just like in traditional wired net; Now they are just adding this functionality to BT.
Oh, and the limit of seven can be extended; A device can belong to multiple piconets.
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I wonder if this is such a big deal over in Europe where the attitudes towards sexual content are much more relaxed.
I do recall hearing that when GTA 3 was released, the German version had certain "violent" features removed (I think it was the ability to kick or ground stomp NPCs that had been nocked down).
One good example is Carmageddon 1 or 2.
In US: No cuts.
In Britain: All the pedestrians (that you can run over) are zombies instead of humans.
In Germany: All the pedestrians are robots (and squirt oil when ran over).
Of course, just about the next day of release a patch appeared to restore original content.
Also, in Fallout 2, children are missing from the streets so there isn't any child-killing (actually, they are still there, just invisible, so a stray shot could do some damage...)
So, in US, they cut sexual content, Germany and UK they cut violence. Luckily, these days the Nordic countries are a region of their own in game releases and usually get completely uncut content.
Sounds like those canned trolls my D&D group used to use for emergency rations. Open the can, let it regenerate, and cut off a chunk.
You just have to make sure that you can digest it with your stomach acids faster than it regenerates inside you...
Actually, maybe you could build some sustenance by eating *just* the correct dose of troll..so that it would never die off, but never regenerate too much..
Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats:
- Zuzana Roithová, Czech, http://www.roithova.cz/
Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe:
- Sarah Ludford, UK http://www.sarahludfordmep.org.uk/
- Bill Newton Dunn, UK, http://www.newton-dunn.com/
Socialist Group in the European Parliament
- Emanuel Vasconcelos Jardim Fernandes, Portugal
Independence/Democracy Group (Against EU):
- Nils Lundgren, Sweden, http://www.junilistan.nu/view.asp?id=43
Union for Europe of the Nations Group (Right-wing, nationalistic):
- Liam Aylward, Ireland
- Brian Crowley, Ireland, http://www.briancrowleymep.ie/
- Gintaras Didziokas, Lithuania
- Guntars Krasts, Latvia
- Seán Ó Neachtain, Ireland, http://www.oneachtain.com/
- Rolandas Pavilionis, Lithuania
- Eoin Ryan, Ireland, http://www.eoinryan.ie/
- Konrad Szymanski, Poland
- Roberts Zile, Latvia
Credits to usenet group finet.toiminta.effi.
The program is at http://www.mathsci.appstate.edu/~sjg/futurama/near miss.html
And yes, the later version checks for parity.
Ok, before this the attacker could only attack when the target link was forming.
With this, you can force them to re-form at will.
Even so, you still need to bruteforce the PIN. The "PIN" is really a 16-byte field, and is not really limited to numeric (or even alphanumeric) characters.
So what can be done:
1) Start using long PIN codes (if your device is limited to numbers, at least use the maximum length)
2) Software update that notifies user of the "forced re-pairing"
3) Allow users to use PIN's beyond the numeric space or possibility to use some pre-shared secret keys.
This affects those of you who use "1234" or similar keys for pairing process for convenience.
I thought that the differing force between various keys has been standard in all keyboards for a very long time. Keytronic has called it Ergoforce.
Works for me - both with IE6 + Acrobat 6 earlier at work and Firefox + Acrobat 5 (On Linux) at home.
in pdf form
Note the claims section and references - they keep talking about Napster and Kazaa - nothing about anything that use hashes.
The Russians have built lots of things. A carrier(Kuznetsov), a shuttle like space craft(Buran, it might be even better than the shuttle), and a lunar rocket(N1). What they haven't done is actually use those things more than a few times.
I was visiting the Avionics Institute in Moscow two weeks ago, and saw a lots of things. One of the most interesting ones was a lecture given us by a professor that had originally been designing Buran's automatic landing system.
He drew some comparisons to the american shuttle, and told that they had (obviously) taken a look at the american design. Anyway, he pretty much made it clear that Columbia accident couldn't have happened with Buran - heat tile configuration was different. Include that and the fully-automatic landing system then you have a better craft - of course it was designed 10 years later than the original.
After the lecture we visited the hull sitting in Gorky park, and noticed the things pointed out of the tile configuration - tiles change direction in mid-wing, distributing heat-load more evenly, and tiles in the front of the wing were laid partially on top of each other and they had a tunnel undereath to make heat flow out of the wing even in case one of them would have broken.
For this one thing, I wish that the Soviet Union would have collapsed a few years later so that they could have flown more than the maiden flight.
The results? So far I have tested SuSE, Fedora, Mandrake, Slackware, Ubuntu and yes even Gentoo and in ALL cases, Windows XP was able to access Google faster than Linux on the same machine.
/etc/conf.d/rc. Might help quite a bit.
In Gentoo, switch on parallel initscript processing in
In windows, there's the other quickload option. In Linux, use the script at the bottom of this thread. You'll get your faster loading times.
You know what they do in Western Europe? They shoot film @ 25fps and PAL video is 25fps: A helluva lost easier!
No...we don't. We just convert the frames directly with 1:1 mapping (or, 1 frame becomes two fields). Easier, but also shifts voice pitch even more - half a note, actually. With NTSC and 2:3 pulldown the pitch shift is negligible, with PAL's rate it usually does not matter but if you are watching a musical it will sound a bit strage.
Some DVD's are pitch corrected, examples include at least Lord of the Rings.
THANK YOU!
This fixes one of the problems I've had with my Thinkpad 600E ACPI. (So far I could fix it by switching between X and console (Ctrl+alt+f1 && alt+f7), but this is easier).
How does this relate to Ximianized Openoffice that I've been using all the time?
The reason I prefer ooo-ximian are the native widgets (KDE/Gnome), including stuff like file selection boxes. I'm noting that OOO 2.0 includes them too - and however, OOO-Ximians news file indicates ongoing development...
How do these two relate in 2.0? Are the "new widgets" in 2.0 merged from ooo-ximian, and in effect, which version should I choose once the 2.0 is released?
Dear kind AC,
MPEG-2 has nothing to do with wavelets, MPEG-2 is based on DCT. In general, there are four methods for compression, discrete cosine transform (DCT), vector quantization (VQ), fractal compression, and discrete wavelet transform (DWT).
MPEG codecs (1, 2, 4, H.26x) all use DCT. Have a nice day.
Okay, so JPEG 2000 uses wavelets and is therefore quite advanced, but as I have understood, it's still geared for still images (ok, there is probably some form of motion jpeg 2000?).
I would think that most optimal method would be to use something like DIRAC instead (or Ogg Theora). DIRAC uses wavelets and adaptive arithmetic coding, so it should be "on par" with JPEG 2000 - and should also be free of patent encumberance.
JPEG 2000 has one feature that might make it better in "archival" purposes - there is a lossless mode which still achieves higher compression ratios than PNG.
There's a fallacy in imagining a world where a particular person never completed a particular invention. In short, it skips the notion that someone else would have invented it instead.
Wheel and rest of your examples are valid. However, I think that there *are* certain things that wouldn't have been invented by someone else.
Consider Einstein. In 1905, he published his special relativity theory. Now, for this, all the pieces were pretty much there - somebody else would have come up with that sooner or later.
However, general relativity, in 1915, is something that probably would have not been realized even by today if it were not for Albert. Even if we had gravity probe B I think scientists would be pretty dumbfounded by results - there is not really any "reasonable" explanation. You need to think outside the box - and I think that even though Newton's "standing on the shoulder of giants" applies to lots of things, there were no shoulders to stand upon regarding general relativity.
Of course, this point is rather irrelevant because we are talking about developing an OS..
What really makes it a great documentary is that it's as entertaining as it is interesting. Not an easy thing at all to do given the subject matter but Cringely pulls it off in spades.
:)) MSX. Last "home computers" before PC took over were Atari ST and Amiga, but Cringely missed them all.
The only bad thing about is that there, IMHO, should be a chapter about "home computing", maybe alongside part 2 or as an additional notice. Now it only touches Apple I and II - but it really does not take note of the mad rush when *everyone* and his dog had their own home computer. Survivors were Commodore Vic-20 and C64, Amstrad, Spectrum and (in Japan and Finland
I think the main impediment is the degradation of the solar panels. They generate less and less power, and eventualy there is not enough juice to run the rover.
The solar panels are getting cleaned for some reason, at least for opportunity. Anyway, Martian winter is now behind and they are heading into spring.
The Voyagers had a similar problem with their thermonuclear batteries; it got to a point where they were generating less than 100 Watts (I think), and the JPL guys were (and are) doing miracles to keep the craft functional.
The voyagers are doing just fine. Note the report date. And the output is near 300W. Maybe you confused it with Pioneer 10?
...all sporting events 'will be split up to accommodate enhanced and unenhanced athletes.'"
Judging by the number of athletes that get caught for using different kinds of doping substances at every major event, this is reality right now.
I have been wondering if we should do a split now; ie. have separate races for "boosted" athletes and another series for "traditional". The boosted version could have all kinds of medical companies as sponsors...Think of that bodybuilder with Pfizer tattooed on his muscles. Of course, life expectancy drops to around 30 years until the heart explodes, but at least you get famous.
Maybe they could even have separate points for "athletes" and "teams" like in motorsports. Teams would have loads of MDs coming up with better and more powerful stuff...
Since I really don't care about traditional sporting events at all, but this version might be fun to watch from an (bio-)engineering point of view.
it's not perfect (emerge search packagename is slower than apt-cache search)
:)
Try emerging esearch. The index creation will take a while of course, but then you can find packages at the speed of grep
Seriously, if you like Gentoo as a Linux user, look at NetBSD. The elegance will strike you.
/etc, configurability), but hated the lack of hardware support. (Sound, ACPI, Network cards...) With Linux kernel I could better utilize my hardware. With Gentoo around it, I could keep to my habits from the FreeBSD. And I'm loving it.
I actually used FreeBSD for a quite a long time. When I learned of Gentoo I switched over immediately. I really liked FreeBSD as a system (ports, neat
Granted, when I used FreeBSD actively, the stable was still going at something like 4.7...5.0 provided better support (like Cardbus PCMCIA cards...), but it was far too unstable. With 5.3 just out I might want to check it out but I really lack the incentive. Gentoo works like a charm.
Offtopic, but..
Some of us like our water clean.
So, you'll instead have BOTTLED tapwater?
Check out those little notices with 2 pt font on the bottles...more than a few of them say somewhere "Water source: Municipal water plant of Detroit".
Actually, there are multiple results on various research projects that state that your standard tapwater is usually better than any of those bottled ones. Some study stated that the municipal tap water of New York was cleaner (fewer bacteria, fewer toxins) than something like 95% of the bottled water products...
Also, check out the Penn&Teller's Bullshit episode on bottled water.
Seven is the maximum number of Bluetooth devices in a "piconet", so that's where the limit comes from. Multicasting in this context means being able to transmit some data to all the other devices in the piconet ON THE RADIO INTERFACE.
Simple, but not necessarily practical (or even truthful, not sure) example: You have seven devices connected to a bluetooth basestation using BNEP (Bluetooth Ethernet Emulation). The BS is connected to Internet with some wire. Somebody from "outside world" decides to ping somebody in the Piconet.
The nearest router sends a broadcast ARP request asking who has IP Address x.x.x.x. Since there is no Bluetooth multicast at the moment, the basestation has to replicate the ARP request for each and every one of the devices. With multicast, it could just send the request once and everyone would receive it (with the right one replying).
In wireless LAN (802.11) you can broad- and multicast on the link layer just like in traditional wired net; Now they are just adding this functionality to BT.
Oh, and the limit of seven can be extended; A device can belong to multiple piconets.
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/etienne.aubert/sshock/ssho ck_rebirth.htm is a nice little project that aims to update the aging graphics with better textures.
Unfortunately, it has kind of died (latest update in 2003...), but the downloadable Beta 1 works fine.