In previews, <i> doesn't work, at least here in Chromium.
OK, it doesn't work in the regular comment views either.
I literally can't read Slashdot if the threading and quoting is un-followable so I'm going to close my other tabs and check back tomorrow to see if it's usable.
Hey, an Apple a day... but try to get the old multi-colored Apples, they're full of phytochemicals. The bleached and bromated modern Apple has little taste.
Right, so if the people decide Lenin ought to be hacked up into small pieces, burned, and fed to the sharks at the Moscow aquarium, he's going along with it?
Well I do have enough understanding of the technology that if they didn't want to be seen we wouldn't see them. I just don't they they would keep the head lights on.
Those aren't navigational lights, they're an essential part of their anti-gravity system and their zero point drives.
I don't know that, of course, because I don't know that.
Earth was destroyed in a war with the machines and the machines won. But they're not the bad guys. We got scared and fired first, nuked them and made the world inhospitable to humans. The machines hold no animosity towards us. The situation saddened them, they understand how we could be scared and do such a thing, and they don't hold it against us. In a way they think of us as parents and believe we are worth saving. So they made a colony ship to send the surviving humans to another habitable world. They don't want us to die, but they realize we can't live together because of human nature. But unfortunately it will take eons to make the trip. So they made a people farm, and a matrix to keep us from going bonkers on the long trip to our new home.
That's awesome - you may have given the Wachowskis a way out of the 2&3 mess. They should hire you as creative consultant.
I found the ending of #3 depressing, since as soon as Neo turned into Magic Glowy Neo, it was given that he'd never escaped The Matrix. Y'know, because humans can't actually do that.
But I think as obvious as that was, almost everybody missed it.
They could have accidentally made a Nickel-Hydrogen battery. A remarkably efficient battery, which itself is pretty useful, but until they provide some concrete evidence that fusion is producing the majority of the power output here (e.g. a high fast-neutron flux), other methods of power production are more likely.
Assuming the device actually works, of course.
If they're not lying, they have a production device that's been heating a factory for two years, presumably on a single 220VAC circuit. To do that with a battery would require an incredible amount of deception (sneaking in every night to re-charge it) and an incredible battery.
I think that reduces the scope of the open question to "they're lying", or "they're not lying."
They claim that they've had a reactor providing heat to a factory for two years and that they'll be shipping commercial reactors within three months. Still in the 'I'll believe it when I see it' category, but it's a much stronger claim than any other cold fusion announcements.
Yeah, it's a pretty ballsy pair of claims to make if you don't think you can produce. Three months isn't enough time to bilk investors on a scam either. They're setting up several items which could be readily falsified. Perhaps they will be, but there's either something here or it's the most bold fraud to date.
It just struck me as dumb that a race that could travel across light years and not require massive ships that had exhausts as bright as stars would be dumb enough to fly around with with their headlights on if they wanted to hide.
You co-workers may be true believers, but since you effectively have zero chance of understanding the technology required for interstellar flight, it's probably best to remain a noncognitivist on this one.
I'd say The Steve hasn't exactly kept it a secret whom he views as his heir apparent.
Oh, you'll get people arguing that he could have meant Tim from the bridge.
For some reason they think that Jobs is a carve-out from reality. To admit that normal people can run a good product company somehow bruises their ego. Maybe because they're not doing it.
You can't make the information vanish from the past you know, unless you are also proposing some kind of time travel. You can only make information vanish from the present, that is, tip of tree.
A SCM tree isn't reality, bound by Time's Arrow. It's a computer system with data that can be manipulated in the present.
You would need to violate the historical integrity of the tree to delete the 'offending' data, but you don't actually need a time machine to do so.
Most 'H.264 hardware' is really a DSP with a few things like [I]DCT in hardware. This same hardware can used for VP8 (it's typically already used for MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 ASP).
At what level is the h.264 decoding provided by the graphics card manufacturers? Do you get a show_h264(x1,y1,x2,y2,&stream_buffer) function or are only those hardware transforms exposed and you have to ship your own decoder?
I get that the DSP can handle WebM's essential bits, but how much buy-in is required from the graphics card manufacturers to make existing products thus capable?
We will all be better off when we evolve past medieval religious ideologies and systems of oppressive social control designed to take away individuals freedom, not preserve them.
Like the two-party system that convinces people that there's a "good guys" camp and a "bad guys" camp and causes them to act irrationally in support of "their tribe" and spit vitriol against the "other tribe"?
Tom Callaway has done tremendous work cleaning up the Chromium codebase and one of the things he found is that Google just grabs stuff without thinking.
They say things like they need to fork, they can't use existing versions, they need to copy code wholesale into their codebase, etc. He's proven them wrong on those counts by systematically replacing all their half-baked crap with system libraries. They don't seem to regard licenses very highly either.
The same think happened with the Android kernel. That's why it was dropped from mainline Linux, it was largely crap. They're now doing it right.
BUT... the question for Google is whether waiting a couple years to do it all right would have been better. No - they've made tremendous headway into the handheld computer market with Android over the past couple years. I bet they did break some rules. I also bet any awarded damages will be far less than the amount they stand to make as the handheld market leader.
There has to be some worldwide championship of Marketing people. Convincing somebody to eat elephant shit, much less convince them that it's a turn-on... wow, instant Grand Prize.
My '02 Concorde has the battery in the right front wheel well, and takes a trained mechanic forty five minutes to change; he has to remove the wheel, wheel well, and fender to replace the battery. Every other car I've owned the user could change the battery in five minutes with just a crescent wrench. WTF are they teaching kids in engineering schools these days? I often say that if the people who designed this crap had to service it, it would be designed a lot differently.
Heh, I was just watching a missed Mythbusters the other day, the one where they try to blow a car over with Jet engine exhaust, and the car they bought to destroy had a bad battery. Jamie is on the ground, taking the tire off, and mubling, "this car was designed by some idiot, probably entirely on a computer." (paraphrase)
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In previews, <i> doesn't work, at least here in Chromium.
OK, it doesn't work in the regular comment views either.
I literally can't read Slashdot if the threading and quoting is un-followable so I'm going to close my other tabs and check back tomorrow to see if it's usable.
In previews, <i> doesn't work, at least here in Chromium. Think anybody actually uses that?
<tt> seems similarly to do nothing.
The main content widgets seem to be randomly placed on the screen. I guess we're beta testing...
this is why I don't like the /dev/sd* interfaces in Linux - you have to dig deep into /proc to find out which port SATA and SAS devices are on
You might appreciate /dev/disk/by-id/:
$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/ ../../sdb ../../sda
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Dec 24 10:58 ata-ST3500630AS_9QG32BJ5 ->
CLIPPED FOR LAMENESS FILTER
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Dec 24 10:58 ata-ST3500641AS_3PM1BA52 ->
CLIPPED FOR LAMENESS FILTER
The /dev/disk tree can be super useful for, e.g. iSCSI device names in scripts.
The web UI where one uploads SSH public keys, however, uses a password. It was that password that the attacker changed.
See also: weakest link.
no matter that he no longer has a penis (the correct term: "castration").
Don't correct people when you don't know what you're talking about.
Hey, an Apple a day... but try to get the old multi-colored Apples, they're full of phytochemicals. The bleached and bromated modern Apple has little taste.
decided by the Russian people.
Right, so if the people decide Lenin ought to be hacked up into small pieces, burned, and fed to the sharks at the Moscow aquarium, he's going along with it?
Well I do have enough understanding of the technology that if they didn't want to be seen we wouldn't see them. I just don't they they would keep the head lights on.
Those aren't navigational lights, they're an essential part of their anti-gravity system and their zero point drives.
I don't know that, of course, because I don't know that.
However far up is out of reach of my shotgun I'd imagine.
If you damage it then you can't re-program it.
Earth was destroyed in a war with the machines and the machines won. But they're not the bad guys. We got scared and fired first, nuked them and made the world inhospitable to humans. The machines hold no animosity towards us. The situation saddened them, they understand how we could be scared and do such a thing, and they don't hold it against us. In a way they think of us as parents and believe we are worth saving. So they made a colony ship to send the surviving humans to another habitable world. They don't want us to die, but they realize we can't live together because of human nature. But unfortunately it will take eons to make the trip. So they made a people farm, and a matrix to keep us from going bonkers on the long trip to our new home.
That's awesome - you may have given the Wachowskis a way out of the 2&3 mess. They should hire you as creative consultant.
I found the ending of #3 depressing, since as soon as Neo turned into Magic Glowy Neo, it was given that he'd never escaped The Matrix. Y'know, because humans can't actually do that.
But I think as obvious as that was, almost everybody missed it.
They could have accidentally made a Nickel-Hydrogen battery. A remarkably efficient battery, which itself is pretty useful, but until they provide some concrete evidence that fusion is producing the majority of the power output here (e.g. a high fast-neutron flux), other methods of power production are more likely.
Assuming the device actually works, of course.
If they're not lying, they have a production device that's been heating a factory for two years, presumably on a single 220VAC circuit. To do that with a battery would require an incredible amount of deception (sneaking in every night to re-charge it) and an incredible battery.
I think that reduces the scope of the open question to "they're lying", or "they're not lying."
They claim that they've had a reactor providing heat to a factory for two years and that they'll be shipping commercial reactors within three months. Still in the 'I'll believe it when I see it' category, but it's a much stronger claim than any other cold fusion announcements.
Yeah, it's a pretty ballsy pair of claims to make if you don't think you can produce. Three months isn't enough time to bilk investors on a scam either. They're setting up several items which could be readily falsified. Perhaps they will be, but there's either something here or it's the most bold fraud to date.
It just struck me as dumb that a race that could travel across light years and not require massive ships that had exhausts as bright as stars would be dumb enough to fly around with with their headlights on if they wanted to hide.
You co-workers may be true believers, but since you effectively have zero chance of understanding the technology required for interstellar flight, it's probably best to remain a noncognitivist on this one.
I'd say The Steve hasn't exactly kept it a secret whom he views as his heir apparent.
Oh, you'll get people arguing that he could have meant Tim from the bridge.
For some reason they think that Jobs is a carve-out from reality. To admit that normal people can run a good product company somehow bruises their ego. Maybe because they're not doing it.
You can't make the information vanish from the past you know, unless you are also proposing some kind of time travel. You can only make information vanish from the present, that is, tip of tree.
A SCM tree isn't reality, bound by Time's Arrow. It's a computer system with data that can be manipulated in the present.
You would need to violate the historical integrity of the tree to delete the 'offending' data, but you don't actually need a time machine to do so.
Look at all the stuff coming out of Microsoft Research, even if it's never productized.
There's the difference between engineers and researchers.
Most 'H.264 hardware' is really a DSP with a few things like [I]DCT in hardware. This same hardware can used for VP8 (it's typically already used for MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 ASP).
At what level is the h.264 decoding provided by the graphics card manufacturers? Do you get a show_h264(x1,y1,x2,y2,&stream_buffer) function or are only those hardware transforms exposed and you have to ship your own decoder?
I get that the DSP can handle WebM's essential bits, but how much buy-in is required from the graphics card manufacturers to make existing products thus capable?
Few iPhone users use the YouTube website, as there is a native YouTube app preinstalled on each device.
What does that have to do with how Google striates their encodings?
We will all be better off when we evolve past medieval religious ideologies and systems of oppressive social control designed to take away individuals freedom, not preserve them.
Like the two-party system that convinces people that there's a "good guys" camp and a "bad guys" camp and causes them to act irrationally in support of "their tribe" and spit vitriol against the "other tribe"?
Because the installer requires admin privileges, which means it can write to pretty much any file on the machine? On Windows, anyway.
If you give a random program root privileges you shouldn't be too surprised when it trashes your system.
I agree, you've correctly identified the problem.
Google copycatting will cost them Googlebucks.
Tom Callaway has done tremendous work cleaning up the Chromium codebase and one of the things he found is that Google just grabs stuff without thinking.
They say things like they need to fork, they can't use existing versions, they need to copy code wholesale into their codebase, etc. He's proven them wrong on those counts by systematically replacing all their half-baked crap with system libraries. They don't seem to regard licenses very highly either.
The same think happened with the Android kernel. That's why it was dropped from mainline Linux, it was largely crap. They're now doing it right.
BUT ... the question for Google is whether waiting a couple years to do it all right would have been better. No - they've made tremendous headway into the handheld computer market with Android over the past couple years. I bet they did break some rules. I also bet any awarded damages will be far less than the amount they stand to make as the handheld market leader.
In this case, being sneaky pays.
It seems it's a universal truth.
There has to be some worldwide championship of Marketing people. Convincing somebody to eat elephant shit, much less convince them that it's a turn-on ... wow, instant Grand Prize.
It's probably bear or something else unusual, sold as Lion. Meat that high up on the food chain typically tastes awful.
My '02 Concorde has the battery in the right front wheel well, and takes a trained mechanic forty five minutes to change; he has to remove the wheel, wheel well, and fender to replace the battery. Every other car I've owned the user could change the battery in five minutes with just a crescent wrench. WTF are they teaching kids in engineering schools these days? I often say that if the people who designed this crap had to service it, it would be designed a lot differently.
Heh, I was just watching a missed Mythbusters the other day, the one where they try to blow a car over with Jet engine exhaust, and the car they bought to destroy had a bad battery. Jamie is on the ground, taking the tire off, and mubling, "this car was designed by some idiot, probably entirely on a computer." (paraphrase)
And I know for a fact that an electronic device that drifts out of spec CAN cause interference.
Improve the shielding on the part. Test. Repeat until the test passes.