I did not mean to give the impression I felt it was unimportant it is, people lost their lives, this is devisting for their families. I live in london, I love living here. I was more trying to convay the attitude that i would not let it break my spirit.
Indeed it does not, who said it was a suicide bomber, in Madrid it was bags left on the train. It also does allow them to track done who as been on the bus, and what there prior movements were, even if stolen you might get to see a group of stolen cards traving from the same place etc, or where they were stolen, it produces leads to try to stop these (paricular) people doing it again.
It probably did, while to do believe the war in Iraq was a mistake, I do feel the attack on Afganistan was not a mistake, and an appropriately tough response after 911. If Iraq had never happened, the UK would still have been labeled as a target for the support for the invasion of Afganistan, so I don't think this was avoidable, and I do live in London so do care about not being bombed!
People now will line up to sign up for them too. Of course if it WERE to make any difference we would need the system now not in 3 years time, seeing as all attacks were on public transport, I do think we will see Ken requiring registered Oyster cards to allow tracking of everyones journerys.
You are right compaired to the City of London blast the IRA did, these were small. Also compaired to the level of the attack on America this is nothing, just a bit of frustation for people like my gf who will be walking home tonight. I guess everyone will have to have registered oyster cards* to travel on public transport in London soon, so they can track all of our movements.
James
* Oyster Cards are electronic payment cards for public transport used in London.
I do have to admit I am starting to wonder if we in Europe are all to willing to give sancuary to extremists that don't like the (general) values of our country. They may are at risk at home why should it be our problem? People who are guests here (foreign nationals) who don't like are values perhaps should ask them to leave. If they cannot find somewhere else to go then they should be detained until they go, I would not want to send anyone to their deaths, but I don't see why we should provide open access to the country until people leave.
So you think all work on the kernel should stop until a good revision control system is written to organise it? Yes perhaps we all should help out, but peoples time is limited and some peoples time is better spent on what they are currently doing, and they need a stock gap. If RMS has take this approach he could have never written any GPL software due to lake of GPL tools/kernel. Personally I want GPL to win, not because its GPL but because its better, better tool and better life time support.
It makes a real difference though when you print, laser printers are 300dpi your screen is only 75dpi also if you crop and resave having a larger picture to work from makes a better quality result, particularly when you reduce the resolution at the same time. Film is only about 9 Mega pixels so actually digital cameras will outclass them in a few years. Now if only the lenses on SLR versions would use all the glass in the lense that a 35mm would do. Many more specialist lenses really don't do quite what you expect, like a fish eye.
Its not just the cheap stuff, I had a 1 speed 1400 dollar Sun cdrom drive fail on me after 6+ years service, I also had a toshiba DVD rom drive stop reading CDs after 4 years, and a Yamaha CD Writer start burning costers after 2.5 years. I have also put other drives out of use because of upgrades which is the one silver lining, my DVD writer is only single layer, so it dies it will be a good reason to buy a dual layer:-)
The reason why some drives work with only CDs or DVDs, is because oftain use different lasers and one has died, it happened to a toshiba dvd rom drive I had, it read DVDs not CDs!
People aways did noted inventors like James Watt, Thomas Edison and Alexander Bell, they all had very large patent portfolios. Infact Henry Ford was unable to produce his model T, because it was blocked by a patent, the owner would only grant use to his "Club", and didn't like the masses having access to cars. So Ford waited it out. Bell is also interesting because in is thought by many that his application was modified and used information stolen from another application, being checked by the same examiner. Many believe the examiner was paid by Bell.
While he might look pissed because he didn't solve the problem and looked like an ass (quite rightly). He should thank you because he did make a sale of the encloser you used it. It was not like you stole the customer right out the store, you even asked permission however i expect they did lose future business from her.
Actually one of the parts of the GPL states that for the software to be GPL, it must be patent free or have non exclusive grants for the patent to be used in GPL software so the company in question must grant the use of the patent for all GPL software for it to be useful. You cannot have a GPL program that has patent duties to pay.
There are good reasons for doing if (!ptr) paticularly if your using c++. NULL is a void * typedef and normal comes from a 32 bit type, this can produce unexpected problems. It is considered better these days to let the compiler to any type conversion for you, and to not use NULL at all. So the use of (ptr==0) or (!ptr) is better.
better example is for code use is...
++c or c++ the former oftain saves a store and return from the stack, as c++ require the orginal value to be returned to the lhs rather than the post increment value, bet most people write c++!
Not much, which was rather my point, it is also attached to a big explosive charge (like people think a dirty bomb should be). Yet only causes a relatively localised cotaminated area to clean up. Notice I didn't say radioactive. Producing a dirty bomb as effective as the planes on 911 is just media invention.
While Pu is a neutron emitter, daughter products like americium are very high gamma emitters. So assuming the stuff they used had been left to rot for a while, it would be quite contaminated. Of course Dirty bombs themselves are kind of a media invension, after all we have been using depleted unanimum shells for a long time, and they do have a contamination problem, but only a local one not a city wide one.
Originally horses pulled charots because their backs were not strong enough to bare the weight of a person, it did infact that many uears to breed horses that were able to carry people and break them in so they could be ridden and controlled. The introduction of the stirrup was another great invention that you might over look, as it allow someone to fight and control control the horse at the same time as well as reduce the chance of becomming unseated. So I could see that horseback riding and fighting as we know it could take 200 years.
I saw a very interesting Horizon based on a similar study. It found that men and women on average where the same for IQ, however with men there are alot more variability that women that ment that the very brightest were normally men and also the thickest! This was put in some way related to the XY and XX natures, meaning in men the very best or worst could come out of the X gene, where as in women it was more consistant.
Yes they want to, that way they can protect audio as well as the video from you. Even better for them would be for you to get a media PC adding DRM to everything you pass through it.
The problem with all encryption algorithms is they must be usable "now" with the power we currently have so there is a limit on the sofisication any available. However standards can takes years to approve speed of computing increases, so "old" cypers become trivial to break even by brute force. This is why security services keep old messages even if they can't read them now, because give a little time and they will.
It was nice to see easy access to front fans as mounting one in front of a harddisk seems a must these days. However why can't they fit air filters for blowing in fans to try an help keep all the rubish out of the case. This results in me still having to mod the case before I can use it. If they are trying to sell a premium case it should come with air filters, lian-li ones do. Atleast akasa now sell fan air filters! On the plus side it was nice to see lots of holes in the front of the case to allow the air to flow.
The thing about voip to voip is the servers tend to hand over the routing to the internet in general, the packets go from the sender to the reciever and not via the "phone company". Only when terminating with a PSTN or vocal mail do the calls normally go to the phone service. The phone only gives status information to the "server". To intercept a voip call, you have to decide to tap it before its being made and the call will be routined to your service first. Of course this means you can tell by the packet destination if you could be being tapped.
In colder climates, combined heat and power makes alot of sence, during the winter you can use the "waste" heat to keep you warm, in the summer solar panels can keep you cool.
You JUST looked at the economics of it? Combining energy sources aways makes sence! Your far to used to power just being there when you turn on the switch. However it takes time for a power station to be switched on. Nuke plants have a very slow power up cycle and almost all cannot be run 24/7 (roll on pebble bed). So for a Nuke based system you would require enough plants running for your peek needs plus 10% extra for shutdowns. Think of the wasted energy think of the wasted resorces.
Now if we combine that with a other sources, pump storage. Generates no "new" power gives back 1/3 of the power used to pump the water up (over night) limited capacity very fast to turn on, hydrogen is the same, its better to burn fuel ONE time not TWICE.
Combine that with Gas for peek loads. Gas is the next most fast to turn on. Solar, pretty good, it delivers power during the daytime peek usage period for the US (air con in the day), so reduces the peek load level. Wind, rather unpredicable generally there is however more wind in the day than at night so it works well witht eh law of averages.
Its all about an intergated power policy, use each fuel for this best. Nuke plants would be great for the "average" load but sucks for peek and all your "economics" will go out the window with 100% nuke.
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I did not mean to give the impression I felt it was unimportant it is, people lost their lives, this is devisting for their families. I live in london, I love living here. I was more trying to convay the attitude that i would not let it break my spirit.
James
Indeed it does not, who said it was a suicide bomber, in Madrid it was bags left on the train. It also does allow them to track done who as been on the bus, and what there prior movements were, even if stolen you might get to see a group of stolen cards traving from the same place etc, or where they were stolen, it produces leads to try to stop these (paricular) people doing it again.
James
It probably did, while to do believe the war in Iraq was a mistake, I do feel the attack on Afganistan was not a mistake, and an appropriately tough response after 911. If Iraq had never happened, the UK would still have been labeled as a target for the support for the invasion of Afganistan, so I don't think this was avoidable, and I do live in London so do care about not being bombed!
James
People now will line up to sign up for them too. Of course if it WERE to make any difference we would need the system now not in 3 years time, seeing as all attacks were on public transport, I do think we will see Ken requiring registered Oyster cards to allow tracking of everyones journerys.
James
You are right compaired to the City of London blast the IRA did, these were small. Also compaired to the level of the attack on America this is nothing, just a bit of frustation for people like my gf who will be walking home tonight. I guess everyone will have to have registered oyster cards* to travel on public transport in London soon, so they can track all of our movements.
James
* Oyster Cards are electronic payment cards for public transport used in London.
I do have to admit I am starting to wonder if we in Europe are all to willing to give sancuary to extremists that don't like the (general) values of our country. They may are at risk at home why should it be our problem? People who are guests here (foreign nationals) who don't like are values perhaps should ask them to leave. If they cannot find somewhere else to go then they should be detained until they go, I would not want to send anyone to their deaths, but I don't see why we should provide open access to the country until people leave.
James
So you think all work on the kernel should stop until a good revision control system is written to organise it? Yes perhaps we all should help out, but peoples time is limited and some peoples time is better spent on what they are currently doing, and they need a stock gap. If RMS has take this approach he could have never written any GPL software due to lake of GPL tools/kernel. Personally I want GPL to win, not because its GPL but because its better, better tool and better life time support.
James
It makes a real difference though when you print, laser printers are 300dpi your screen is only 75dpi also if you crop and resave having a larger picture to work from makes a better quality result, particularly when you reduce the resolution at the same time. Film is only about 9 Mega pixels so actually digital cameras will outclass them in a few years. Now if only the lenses on SLR versions would use all the glass in the lense that a 35mm would do. Many more specialist lenses really don't do quite what you expect, like a fish eye.
James
James
Its not just the cheap stuff, I had a 1 speed 1400 dollar Sun cdrom drive fail on me after 6+ years service, I also had a toshiba DVD rom drive stop reading CDs after 4 years, and a Yamaha CD Writer start burning costers after 2.5 years. I have also put other drives out of use because of upgrades which is the one silver lining, my DVD writer is only single layer, so it dies it will be a good reason to buy a dual layer :-)
James
The reason why some drives work with only CDs or DVDs, is because oftain use different lasers and one has died, it happened to a toshiba dvd rom drive I had, it read DVDs not CDs!
James
People aways did noted inventors like James Watt, Thomas Edison and Alexander Bell, they all had very large patent portfolios. Infact Henry Ford was unable to produce his model T, because it was blocked by a patent, the owner would only grant use to his "Club", and didn't like the masses having access to cars. So Ford waited it out. Bell is also interesting because in is thought by many that his application was modified and used information stolen from another application, being checked by the same examiner. Many believe the examiner was paid by Bell.
James
While he might look pissed because he didn't solve the problem and looked like an ass (quite rightly). He should thank you because he did make a sale of the encloser you used it. It was not like you stole the customer right out the store, you even asked permission however i expect they did lose future business from her.
James
Actually one of the parts of the GPL states that for the software to be GPL, it must be patent free or have non exclusive grants for the patent to be used in GPL software so the company in question must grant the use of the patent for all GPL software for it to be useful. You cannot have a GPL program that has patent duties to pay.
James
There are good reasons for doing if (!ptr) paticularly if your using c++. NULL is a void * typedef and normal comes from a 32 bit type, this can produce unexpected problems. It is considered better these days to let the compiler to any type conversion for you, and to not use NULL at all. So the use of (ptr==0) or (!ptr) is better.
better example is for code use is...
++c or c++ the former oftain saves a store and return from the stack, as c++ require the orginal value to be returned to the lhs rather than the post increment value, bet most people write c++!
James
Not much, which was rather my point, it is also attached to a big explosive charge (like people think a dirty bomb should be). Yet only causes a relatively localised cotaminated area to clean up. Notice I didn't say radioactive. Producing a dirty bomb as effective as the planes on 911 is just media invention.
James
While Pu is a neutron emitter, daughter products like americium are very high gamma emitters. So assuming the stuff they used had been left to rot for a while, it would be quite contaminated. Of course Dirty bombs themselves are kind of a media invension, after all we have been using depleted unanimum shells for a long time, and they do have a contamination problem, but only a local one not a city wide one.
james
Originally horses pulled charots because their backs were not strong enough to bare the weight of a person, it did infact that many uears to breed horses that were able to carry people and break them in so they could be ridden and controlled. The introduction of the stirrup was another great invention that you might over look, as it allow someone to fight and control control the horse at the same time as well as reduce the chance of becomming unseated. So I could see that horseback riding and fighting as we know it could take 200 years.
James
I saw a very interesting Horizon based on a similar study. It found that men and women on average where the same for IQ, however with men there are alot more variability that women that ment that the very brightest were normally men and also the thickest! This was put in some way related to the XY and XX natures, meaning in men the very best or worst could come out of the X gene, where as in women it was more consistant.
James
Yes they want to, that way they can protect audio as well as the video from you. Even better for them would be for you to get a media PC adding DRM to everything you pass through it.
James
The problem with all encryption algorithms is they must be usable "now" with the power we currently have so there is a limit on the sofisication any available. However standards can takes years to approve speed of computing increases, so "old" cypers become trivial to break even by brute force. This is why security services keep old messages even if they can't read them now, because give a little time and they will.
James
It was nice to see easy access to front fans as mounting one in front of a harddisk seems a must these days. However why can't they fit air filters for blowing in fans to try an help keep all the rubish out of the case. This results in me still having to mod the case before I can use it. If they are trying to sell a premium case it should come with air filters, lian-li ones do. Atleast akasa now sell fan air filters! On the plus side it was nice to see lots of holes in the front of the case to allow the air to flow.
James
The thing about voip to voip is the servers tend to hand over the routing to the internet in general, the packets go from the sender to the reciever and not via the "phone company". Only when terminating with a PSTN or vocal mail do the calls normally go to the phone service. The phone only gives status information to the "server". To intercept a voip call, you have to decide to tap it before its being made and the call will be routined to your service first. Of course this means you can tell by the packet destination if you could be being tapped.
James
You needed to catch the guy when he was online so the car was turned on for you! You could also upload and change the music he was listening too!
James
In colder climates, combined heat and power makes alot of sence, during the winter you can use the "waste" heat to keep you warm, in the summer solar panels can keep you cool.
James
You JUST looked at the economics of it? Combining energy sources aways makes sence! Your far to used to power just being there when you turn on the switch. However it takes time for a power station to be switched on. Nuke plants have a very slow power up cycle and almost all cannot be run 24/7 (roll on pebble bed). So for a Nuke based system you would require enough plants running for your peek needs plus 10% extra for shutdowns. Think of the wasted energy think of the wasted resorces.
Now if we combine that with a other sources, pump storage. Generates no "new" power gives back 1/3 of the power used to pump the water up (over night) limited capacity very fast to turn on, hydrogen is the same, its better to burn fuel ONE time not TWICE.
Combine that with Gas for peek loads. Gas is the next most fast to turn on. Solar, pretty good, it delivers power during the daytime peek usage period for the US (air con in the day), so reduces the peek load level. Wind, rather unpredicable generally there is however more wind in the day than at night so it works well witht eh law of averages.
Its all about an intergated power policy, use each fuel for this best. Nuke plants would be great for the "average" load but sucks for peek and all your "economics" will go out the window with 100% nuke.
James