They even say that the 24 bit mode shares nothing in common with the 15/16 bit modes except pure black and white. I'm guessing they didn't verify much of their results. Most video cards have 8 bit DACs and the 5/5/5 or 5/6/5 or 8/8/8 systems just set unusedlow bits to 0. Thats why pure white will be slightly brighter on 24 bit mode than 16 bit mode but at that intensity you most likly won't see the difference.
Your statement about perceiving green most strongly is not quite true. We tend to perceive high inensity red strongest, followed by most of green and then blue. If you look at real landscapes, the sky blues are quite constant compared to green plants but small amoutns of red stand out. I seem to remember seeing where out blue sensitvity is something like 1/3 to 1/10 of the red/green while red and green are about the same but have different gamma curves.
I don't know who you talked to but I haven't found anyone that liked them that wasn't pusshing them. They take forever compared to cash. The only places I've ever seen that take Mondex just happen to be very close to MasterCards offices. There is also the issue of what happens when the card gets broken. I can still spend broken cash, a broken Mondex card is worhtless along with all the money stored on it.
US banks tend to verify it but many banks world wide don't. I do know that lots of system had the date check rejecting turned off for y2k and I suspect its been turned back on my now but maybe not.
The first 6 are the BIN number. These are assinged to the banks or creditcard companies in major lots (so MasterCard gets only 5.* and Visa gets 4.*) but there are other 5's that have been assgned to non MasterCards. The short answer is that two cards with the same first 6 number will be issued by the same bank. Currently a given BIN range is also used to tell if its a "gold" as well.
Different countries tend to use different number schemes. The US tends to use nice blocks of well defined numbers which makes scanning trivial. Other banks have even used fully random assignements.
There is no check digit. The "mod 10" system used simply says the sum of the even digits plus the sum of the odd digits x 2 will be a nice mod 10 number. Go look at some of the perl code that does the check and then write the routine in assembly on a machine with BCD instructions. One is about 5 lines and the other isn't. The system was designed to catch transposed digits. if the card is 1234 then the system will catch 1324 and 2134 but not 3214 or 1432. These is also a 1 in 10 chance that bad card number will correctly checksum. Keep in mind that there are still places where those numbers are routinely hand keyd.
Even though ever web designer in the world seems to think that a credit card number is 16 digits, the specs say they are 19. Take that and stuff it in your database:-)
Who needs smartcards? I've been telling people for years that the best solution to the "stolen card number" problem is a one time pad. Its a trivial change to exisiting system. You just include a 10 or so digit number in the "address 2" field of most software and have the bank look for it with their address verification system. Then you print 5 to 20 large randomish numbers on a statement and let the cardholder enter that in a special box.
This requires no new hardware, very little new software and most of that lives on about 7 main computers for MasterCard or Visa.
Too bad they have been blinded by SET and since they have dumped so much money in that technobable system they aren't going to trash it even though it adds no real security to the payment system. Before I get flamed for flaming it, keep in mind that with most real strong crypto, if you can guess the content, you don't need to guess they key.
It used to be true but somewhere in the kernel docs, I read where the i586 stuff will no longer work on lower end machines. It may have been 2.3.99ish or maybe even as early as 2.2.14+.
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I think he is using deep linking in the context of using an tag that pulls the image from some other server.
Its still polite to link to a page on another server to allow the other person some control.
Most states have a "use" tax if you buy something from anohter state. Missouri has a box on its state income tax form asking you to put down the value of all out of state purchases that were tax free and then you get taxed on that.
The solution is for a bunch of states to get to gether and build an online system to track these sorts of things. Then when you order somethign out of state, the details go to the database and that gets reported to your state just like income so it can't be hidden.
The side effect of this is the goverments can sell the marketing data for even more profit.
How about "Bribes Accepted" with the logo:-)
Too bad that will get you sued.
How about "No scandals Today!"
Unless what you say is very neutral, it won't be seen on TV. Support for a team member is always good and will get shown. If it has other words that take a few minutes "to get it", it will be out on the TV before the control ops think about it.
I would love to get one of these toys but my closest radio shack is something like 10,000 miles away. If the RS computer system had a place for a country in their DB, I would have no problem with someone claiming to be me:-)
Australian Post Codes are 4 digits, US ones are 5 (ok 9). Giving a non local one has broken more than one system.
But for the patent office this isn't "public". The patent office can't even do a simple google search to see look for prior art since that could reveal details.
This is why IBM sends the patent office a copy of their journal. Any pubilc format would still need to send the patent office a hardcopy (as well as a softcopy so they might have a hope to search). There may be some problem that a patent attorney may be required to review the publication before that patent office would accept it. They have some very funny rules.
I suspect there are several things that would help classify a computer as vintage.
I'm guessing the most importaint factor is that it has been abaondoned by its maker. Things like a Sun 3 are vintage while a sparcstation 1 isn't (yet). A PDP-11 and most vaxen are but the Microvax isn't yet at least till the end of the month.
I also expect that a minium of 5 years (or should it be 10) is needed. My web server is running on a Sparcstation 1 that is now over 11 years old and its not vintage yet so maybe 10 years should be the cut-off.
GSM works great in Europe. It tends to suck real bad if you can't put towers up every 10km or so. Thats a real problem for lots of parts of the US, Canada and Australia.
Different standards were chosen for different reasons. Of course Au picked GSM which basicly works for almost 2% of the land area but it covers nearly 85% of the population. The just pulled the plug on the US analog style system which covered an additional 5% of the population that isn't covered now and about 2% more of the land as well as all the touristy areas along the reef which isn't covered at all now. Just for a simple compairson, the reef is 345,000 sq km while the entire UK is almost 245,000 sq km.
The Moscow Times special report has a few stories that mention another sub in the area. There are lots of other storys off the main pages.
In todays terms (I've even heard the US navy cliam it) flagship has been reduced to the marketing term. Its like which ship is more importaint, the USS New Jersy or the USS Missouri? Both are mostly pointless agasint a real navy but there was a reason that Japan surrendered on the deck of a battleship and not elsewhere.
Did the Kursk carry nukes? According to Janes it could carry 24.5mT ones. Did it have any at the time? Aparently not. Besides you don't take out a carrier fleet with conventional weapons if your in the middle of a nuke war. Remember thats why these subs exists. They are all part of the "I can nuke you better than you can nuke me" game and part of that is the ability to take out ships that can carry nukes (like big carriers).
Who said anything about an international conspiracy? Every military likes to hide things. Thats as much a fact of life as testing new stuff can go very wrong. I kind of like the pr spin on things. Add that to the buring infastructure pr spin (just as soon as the TVs are back on) and you've got a spin doctors wet dream.
The facts about this case (from sources that all have something to hide)
1) The Kursk didn't have any nukes on board.
This is damn rare. The only time you don't have a nuke sub armed is if you think it might sink in your backyard. Things like inital testing and say testing a new weapon that your not sure about.
2) New stuff tends to be added to flagships first. This sub was the about the same as the US Navy sees the USS Enterprise, its a flagship being the first in its class. The flag ship also tends to play with all the cool new stuff. (Enterprise, Bismark, Titanic). Its amazing how many didn't work out so well.
3) The Russian Navy was hunting for another sub in the area. It had been spotted a short distance from the Kursk just after the accident. There were 3 US subs in the area according to the US Navy.
4) The Russian goverment as well as the US goverment only did the rescue thing in a half assed PR way. I think the US govt knew there was no one alive very quicly. A sub a few hundred meters away can hear the water leaking into another sub. We heard reports about the morse code but what did they say? No one is talking. I suspect it was something like "compartments 1-4 full, leaks into 5,6,7. reactor locked down".
5) In a case where a sub is not going to come back up, the sub crew will distory all sensitve things. This includes codebooks and the like. They use termite which makes it very hard to breath.
6) Don't underestimate a sub crews willingness to go down with the ship. These people are selected for that ability. Its very difficult to find someone smart enough to understand a sub and be willing to die for a patrotic cause at the drop of the hat.
How long has IBM been doing this? I think their order system has been doing all this for international mainframe ordders for a long time but their system also send the DOD a letter showing who is ordering what and why for some countries.
Also Didn't Apollo have a completely automated ordering system and I know they did internatnal order. They went away before this clown invented his stuff. I know I could dig up lots of similar piror art from 1990 on since I was writing such a system for a client.
I wonder if this is an attempt by someone in the Patent office it kick congress into fixing the patent laws. Most of what we bitch about invovling the Patent office, may be based on stuff that congress has done.
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You would think a judge could read about past precients. This arument isn't new. Its the old Telex name arument applied to dns names.
Not only do we not know how it works, the current theorys about it are breaking down. For example all the GPS sats are slowing down differently than expected. Same with pioneer and voyager. There is hope to acutally measure this as the next ones have GPS recivers on them so we know exactly where they are. Another problem is that "realivitvty" keeps getting in the way of real science. One example is if you put a good atomic clock on a rocket and launch it, it slows down. Funny bit is that if you just start the engines but don't go anywhere, the clock also slows down. opps. The only real result I see out of any of the decent gravity expirments is that we are missing something critical.
Years ago I looked into tring to see if a model of gravity pushing would reduce to the same formula we all knows controls newtownian motion. Simple modeling seemed to show that it does happen but my caclulus was much to poor to pull of the proof. I don't feel so bad because Newton was tring the same thing and failed.
Speech in court is protected but I'm in Australia and they slandered me here even though they were in the US. Here doesn't give a damn about US court rules.
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They even say that the 24 bit mode shares nothing in common with the 15/16 bit modes except pure black and white. I'm guessing they didn't verify much of their results. Most video cards have 8 bit DACs and the 5/5/5 or 5/6/5 or 8/8/8 systems just set unusedlow bits to 0. Thats why pure white will be slightly brighter on 24 bit mode than 16 bit mode but at that intensity you most likly won't see the difference.
Just don't forget everyone that installs a new video card in their windows box without the proper driver and ends up in 640x480x16.
Your statement about perceiving green most strongly is not quite true. We tend to perceive high inensity red strongest, followed by most of green and then blue. If you look at real landscapes, the sky blues are quite constant compared to green plants but small amoutns of red stand out. I seem to remember seeing where out blue sensitvity is something like 1/3 to 1/10 of the red/green while red and green are about the same but have different gamma curves.
I don't know who you talked to but I haven't found anyone that liked them that wasn't pusshing them. They take forever compared to cash. The only places I've ever seen that take Mondex just happen to be very close to MasterCards offices. There is also the issue of what happens when the card gets broken. I can still spend broken cash, a broken Mondex card is worhtless along with all the money stored on it.
US banks tend to verify it but many banks world wide don't. I do know that lots of system had the date check rejecting turned off for y2k and I suspect its been turned back on my now but maybe not.
The first 6 are the BIN number. These are assinged to the banks or creditcard companies in major lots (so MasterCard gets only 5.* and Visa gets 4.*) but there are other 5's that have been assgned to non MasterCards. The short answer is that two cards with the same first 6 number will be issued by the same bank. Currently a given BIN range is also used to tell if its a "gold" as well.
Different countries tend to use different number schemes. The US tends to use nice blocks of well defined numbers which makes scanning trivial. Other banks have even used fully random assignements.
There is no check digit. The "mod 10" system used simply says the sum of the even digits plus the sum of the odd digits x 2 will be a nice mod 10 number. Go look at some of the perl code that does the check and then write the routine in assembly on a machine with BCD instructions. One is about 5 lines and the other isn't. The system was designed to catch transposed digits. if the card is 1234 then the system will catch 1324 and 2134 but not 3214 or 1432. These is also a 1 in 10 chance that bad card number will correctly checksum. Keep in mind that there are still places where those numbers are routinely hand keyd.
Even though ever web designer in the world seems to think that a credit card number is 16 digits, the specs say they are 19. Take that and stuff it in your database :-)
Who needs smartcards? I've been telling people for years that the best solution to the "stolen card number" problem is a one time pad. Its a trivial change to exisiting system. You just include a 10 or so digit number in the "address 2" field of most software and have the bank look for it with their address verification system. Then you print 5 to 20 large randomish numbers on a statement and let the cardholder enter that in a special box.
This requires no new hardware, very little new software and most of that lives on about 7 main computers for MasterCard or Visa.
Too bad they have been blinded by SET and since they have dumped so much money in that technobable system they aren't going to trash it even though it adds no real security to the payment system. Before I get flamed for flaming it, keep in mind that with most real strong crypto, if you can guess the content, you don't need to guess they key.
It used to be true but somewhere in the kernel docs, I read where the i586 stuff will no longer work on lower end machines. It may have been 2.3.99ish or maybe even as early as 2.2.14+.
I think he is using deep linking in the context of using an tag that pulls the image from some other server.
Its still polite to link to a page on another server to allow the other person some control.
Most states have a "use" tax if you buy something from anohter state. Missouri has a box on its state income tax form asking you to put down the value of all out of state purchases that were tax free and then you get taxed on that.
The solution is for a bunch of states to get to gether and build an online system to track these sorts of things. Then when you order somethign out of state, the details go to the database and that gets reported to your state just like income so it can't be hidden.
The side effect of this is the goverments can sell the marketing data for even more profit.
How about "Bribes Accepted" with the logo :-)
Too bad that will get you sued.
How about "No scandals Today!"
Unless what you say is very neutral, it won't be seen on TV. Support for a team member is always good and will get shown. If it has other words that take a few minutes "to get it", it will be out on the TV before the control ops think about it.
This should be a follow up to the "Vintage Computer Festival" thread from yesterday.
> So how does the patent office define 'public'?
I suspect they are limited to their own library as well as the contents of the Library of Congress.
I would love to get one of these toys but my closest radio shack is something like 10,000 miles away. If the RS computer system had a place for a country in their DB, I would have no problem with someone claiming to be me :-)
Australian Post Codes are 4 digits, US ones are 5 (ok 9). Giving a non local one has broken more than one system.
But for the patent office this isn't "public". The patent office can't even do a simple google search to see look for prior art since that could reveal details.
This is why IBM sends the patent office a copy of their journal. Any pubilc format would still need to send the patent office a hardcopy (as well as a softcopy so they might have a hope to search). There may be some problem that a patent attorney may be required to review the publication before that patent office would accept it. They have some very funny rules.
I suspect there are several things that would help classify a computer as vintage.
I'm guessing the most importaint factor is that it has been abaondoned by its maker. Things like a Sun 3 are vintage while a sparcstation 1 isn't (yet). A PDP-11 and most vaxen are but the Microvax isn't yet at least till the end of the month.
I also expect that a minium of 5 years (or should it be 10) is needed. My web server is running on a Sparcstation 1 that is now over 11 years old and its not vintage yet so maybe 10 years should be the cut-off.
I do know the the first computer to do music that they are installing accross the street from my house counts as vintage since its now 50 years old.
GSM works great in Europe. It tends to suck real bad if you can't put towers up every 10km or so. Thats a real problem for lots of parts of the US, Canada and Australia.
Different standards were chosen for different reasons. Of course Au picked GSM which basicly works for almost 2% of the land area but it covers nearly 85% of the population. The just pulled the plug on the US analog style system which covered an additional 5% of the population that isn't covered now and about 2% more of the land as well as all the touristy areas along the reef which isn't covered at all now. Just for a simple compairson, the reef is 345,000 sq km while the entire UK is almost 245,000 sq km.
The Moscow Times special report has a few stories that mention another sub in the area. There are lots of other storys off the main pages.
.5mT ones. Did it have any at the time? Aparently not. Besides you don't take out a carrier fleet with conventional weapons if your in the middle of a nuke war. Remember thats why these subs exists. They are all part of the "I can nuke you better than you can nuke me" game and part of that is the ability to take out ships that can carry nukes (like big carriers).
In todays terms (I've even heard the US navy cliam it) flagship has been reduced to the marketing term. Its like which ship is more importaint, the USS New Jersy or the USS Missouri? Both are mostly pointless agasint a real navy but there was a reason that Japan surrendered on the deck of a battleship and not elsewhere.
Did the Kursk carry nukes? According to Janes it could carry 24
Who said anything about an international conspiracy? Every military likes to hide things. Thats as much a fact of life as testing new stuff can go very wrong. I kind of like the pr spin on things. Add that to the buring infastructure pr spin (just as soon as the TVs are back on) and you've got a spin doctors wet dream.
The facts about this case (from sources that all have something to hide)
1) The Kursk didn't have any nukes on board.
This is damn rare. The only time you don't have a nuke sub armed is if you think it might sink in your backyard. Things like inital testing and say testing a new weapon that your not sure about.
2) New stuff tends to be added to flagships first. This sub was the about the same as the US Navy sees the USS Enterprise, its a flagship being the first in its class. The flag ship also tends to play with all the cool new stuff. (Enterprise, Bismark, Titanic). Its amazing how many didn't work out so well.
3) The Russian Navy was hunting for another sub in the area. It had been spotted a short distance from the Kursk just after the accident. There were 3 US subs in the area according to the US Navy.
4) The Russian goverment as well as the US goverment only did the rescue thing in a half assed PR way. I think the US govt knew there was no one alive very quicly. A sub a few hundred meters away can hear the water leaking into another sub. We heard reports about the morse code but what did they say? No one is talking. I suspect it was something like "compartments 1-4 full, leaks into 5,6,7. reactor locked down".
5) In a case where a sub is not going to come back up, the sub crew will distory all sensitve things. This includes codebooks and the like. They use termite which makes it very hard to breath.
6) Don't underestimate a sub crews willingness to go down with the ship. These people are selected for that ability. Its very difficult to find someone smart enough to understand a sub and be willing to die for a patrotic cause at the drop of the hat.
If napster is killing any sales, its sales of the cassette since its a bitch to rip a cassette.
How long has IBM been doing this? I think their order system has been doing all this for international mainframe ordders for a long time but their system also send the DOD a letter showing who is ordering what and why for some countries.
Also Didn't Apollo have a completely automated ordering system and I know they did internatnal order. They went away before this clown invented his stuff. I know I could dig up lots of similar piror art from 1990 on since I was writing such a system for a client.
I wonder if this is an attempt by someone in the Patent office it kick congress into fixing the patent laws. Most of what we bitch about invovling the Patent office, may be based on stuff that congress has done.
You would think a judge could read about past precients. This arument isn't new. Its the old Telex name arument applied to dns names.
History is doomed to ummmm something...
Not only do we not know how it works, the current theorys about it are breaking down. For example all the GPS sats are slowing down differently than expected. Same with pioneer and voyager. There is hope to acutally measure this as the next ones have GPS recivers on them so we know exactly where they are. Another problem is that "realivitvty" keeps getting in the way of real science. One example is if you put a good atomic clock on a rocket and launch it, it slows down. Funny bit is that if you just start the engines but don't go anywhere, the clock also slows down. opps. The only real result I see out of any of the decent gravity expirments is that we are missing something critical.
Years ago I looked into tring to see if a model of gravity pushing would reduce to the same formula we all knows controls newtownian motion. Simple modeling seemed to show that it does happen but my caclulus was much to poor to pull of the proof. I don't feel so bad because Newton was tring the same thing and failed.
Speech in court is protected but I'm in Australia and they slandered me here even though they were in the US. Here doesn't give a damn about US court rules.
Anyone want to contribute to an offense?