The movies I enjoy in a real theater tend to be very bad movies. I sometimes go to the Astor in Melbourne and their current calendar has Mothra, The Thing, and Videodrome. They are running a double feature with Wrath of Kahn and Beyond where I expect the audience will be more interesting than what is on the screen. They also do good movies but I'm less likely to go to them but their screening of the Shine might be interesting since there will be a Q&A session with the producer, director and screen writer. The place sells beer and has strict no talking policies for most movies. They also do sing alongs like Meaning of Life and Rocky Horror.
Retirement funds are buying most of the tech stocks. Some of them have the problem that they have another billion dollars every week that they have to invest in tech stocks and there just aren't that many good investments so they dump it into well know tech players. It is even worse in the UK where one type of high growth fund only allows investments into 200 companies that are registered in some government scheme. Some of their stock prices seems to have nothing to do with any type of value.
Richard Feynman wrote in the introduction of one his books that one easy way to find out of a theory is bad is to look at its complexity If it isn't simple, it is most likely wrong. He went on to talk about how strange the orbital mechanisms and mathematics were before Kepler found the correct and simple solution to the problem that disproved nearly everyone in the field. With that he ends the introduction and delves into quantum mechanics.
Put a network snooper on your phone when connected to wifi and tell me someone hasn't sold out. I prefer they sell out to governments (who can tap my stuff anyway) over some random game developer.
Blackberry is running as if telcos are its customers. They aren't and Apple ended that business model and they need to get used to it.
I want the android sandbox to lie to applications. I want a check box next to all the junk an application wants and I want to be able to tell it yes, no, lie.
I want them to fix the bugs on my Q10. The thing likes to reboot after I set it down on its screen after phone calls.
I have no intention of buying one of their Android phones. If I wanted Android, I would buy something else and I haven't.
On the plus side, I had my Q10 for a week before I ever even signed up for an account of any kind. The phone works well and running all the data over a VPN to my server is showing no leaking of data even with a "no data" sim installed. I like that but I've run my own servers for decades.
I would expect that Apple could design a way to hold a headphone jack next to contacts on a phone using a magnet. Then they could make the phones water proof to the point where they can be submerged.
Monopoly cable TV agreements were often for 50 years and any renegotiation resets the time.
The interesting thing about those types of contracts is they involve an "educational programming" requirement. I'm not sure any cable TV company offers that any more because Discovery and The History Channel sure don't. MTV was used to convince towns that they could keep the rebellious kids at hone in front of the TV rather than doing what teenagers do.
Many municipal cable tv contracts can be torn up because they specify content that simply isn't provided anymore.
I would love to see a debugging hack for gcc or clang where you could say sizeof short=3, sizeof int=5 and sizeof char=2. Properly written code shouldn't break but it would find many bugs even if it involved odd wrappers on each line of code.
I worked on one of the 1st editors for Doom. I had written parts of one of the more popular ones for Wolfenstein 3d and was even told to stop by John or John (the one who signed post with something like "the computer is the game"). but at least they changed their minds later when they found out how popular 3rd party levels were. We couldn't figure out a key part of Doom and were talking about it on usenet or fido net and someone sent me a C structure. The names were unlike any of the public editors and there were more details than I had ever seen. I remember it being something like a struct with unions or bitfields or something. After a bit of discussion along the lines of "they can't be doing that", code was written and a great problem solved.
A year or so later I created a level just like work and gave it to a friend who was arguing that he had played that level before since he knew were all the rooms were. In his office was the lamest of lame monster.
The speed warning signs that tell people how fast they are going all have maximum speeds they will display and most of them have switches to set the max for a given road so people don't try to get the high score.
That sets enough precedent that snapchat should have considered a an upper limit and if there are any internal documents even mention "high score" and ways around it, they better have a very good reason not to do it or the jury will award a massive payout.
It would be trivial to find a traffic professional engineer to show up in court and explain this to the jury.
Listening while talking is a major issue for all shared communications links including wireless. Cable TV Internet and *PON based systems all have the problem that they can blind the receiver while transmitting resulting in talking over another speaker resulting in resending packets.
If the Aussie brown coal industry shut down tonight, the natural fires that they have prevented would destroy centuries worth of fuel coal by the next of the next fire season.
If coal isn't a useful resource, it isn't in anyone with money's interest to keep it from burning so natural fires will start and it will burn sometime in the future. That issue must be addressed.
Every year at security conferences, more and more people are showing that once something gets into the secure boot area, it won't ever leave. Nearly every bit of anti-malware in the world won't even detect if something is running in the secure area. Being able to disable it is a security feature. Being able to remove or replace it is even better.
Those numbers make it look like they were using a 32x32 hardware multiplier-adder and the new one uses a 64x64. Multiplying is a great example of how a 2x increase in transistor density from Moore's law can result in something far greater than 2x real speed increase. To do a 64x64 multiply in an 8 bit cpu (like the 6809 which had an 8x8 multiply instruction) you would have to do 56 separate multiplies (for the significand) and then 16 sums before a number of other sums and shifts to get the exponent normalized. Each of those instructions would take 2 to 11 cpu cycles. A 16 bit hardware multiplier would reduce 56 mul operations to 16 and a 32 bit hardware multiplayer would reduce it to 4. The barrel multiplier is often the largest structure in the ALU part of even a modern CPU. They show up on photos of modern chips as the largest rectangle area that isn't cache or memory controllers.
Brute forcing hash based passwords involves getting a program like John the Ripper or one of the versions that supports the bit coin mining hardware and just asking it to try a trillion of the most likely passwords in a few seconds.
I find it entertaining that many security experts are claiming sha-256 hashes are more secure than older weaker hashes yet I can spend less than $1,500 and buy hardware that will try more than 2 trillion sha-256 hashes a second yet the cost do the early md5 based passwords is now significantly higher.
I would like to see a mod of John the Ripper so it could be used as a PAM module to say "Your password would be found in round 4" using the rule 'substitute digits for letters'"
There is a low level but prescient rumor in some area that aliens are damaging windshields in cars. Go look at the windshield of your car and see if there are hundreds of little pits in them.
The pits change the characteristics of the light heating up the inside of the car on a summer day enough that several automotive engineering groups have had to deal with it. Typically it means doing something different with plastic. One example is the plastic covers over those auto belt things in the mid 80s where the plastic was deteriorating faster in cars with more damage to the windshield was mentioned in a an article in an automotive safety journal. The pits also mean the glass gets hotter as it ages so the frame has to compensate.
A vast majority of the pits are caused by tires throwing small bits of rock at an angle to the glass. The small bits of rock also seem to be tracked in from far away and aren't from the local road surface.
So when the light output goes way down, will someone also blame the aliens?
How can you both over sleep and under sleep? And how can you ask that in a survey or get it from other data in a reliable way? I know this can be true but I expect about as many correct answers on a self survey to a question like that as "what color is the last unicorn horn you saw?"
There are people who both under sleep and over sleep but they are very rare and I expect they would be hesitant to answer the question correctly. That doesn't even deal with the issues of having them dropped from the pool of subjects due to other health issues.
Of all participants, 31.2%, 36.9%, 21.4%, and 10.6% reported 0, 1, 2, and 3+ risk factors, respectively. There was a strong relationship between the lifestyle risk index score and all-cause mortality.
31.2+36.9+21.4+10.6= everyone and 1% extras. Did significant significance creep in?
Out of all 96 possible risk combinations, the 30 most commonly occurring combinations accounted for more than 90% of the participants.
Each of 7 factors can be one of two states. That is 2^7 except that two of the conditions are "too much" or "too little" sleep which means a those state can be reduced to one. 2^6 isn't 96 as far as I know.
A problem with Category Theory under a different term was mentioned by W.L. Livingston in The New Plague where he describes what he calls Track A or Track B problems. Track A problems are ones that can be split into smaller problems by one person. Track B problems are complex enough that a single person can't keep enough details in their head to properly split them up into sub-problems. Tack B problems need far more resources and most often a signifignat amount of those resources aren't helping find a good solution. There is also the issue that what might be a Track B problem for me might be a Track A problem for you and I think Category Theory doesn't fix those core problems even as it provides a more formal way to approach a solution.
Fortran, APL and Pascal all have ways of doing pointers and pointer arithmetic. They tend to be ugly but it can be done and it isn't as simple as C (or assemblie's), "Just make it an int and do whatever you want to it". Even early Basic's varptr was mostly used to load assembly code into programs but it was also used for string and floating point number manipulation.
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A friend liked to go to integrated circuit design events so he could point out that he developed one of the most common chips of all time.
It was the AM/FM radio chip used in billions of devices. Does anyone know how many SATA connectors Foxconn has made?
The Olympics are its own type of Intellectual Property covered under different laws than the normal copyright and trademark laws in most countries.
The movies I enjoy in a real theater tend to be very bad movies. I sometimes go to the Astor in Melbourne and their current calendar has Mothra, The Thing, and Videodrome. They are running a double feature with Wrath of Kahn and Beyond where I expect the audience will be more interesting than what is on the screen. They also do good movies but I'm less likely to go to them but their screening of the Shine might be interesting since there will be a Q&A session with the producer, director and screen writer. The place sells beer and has strict no talking policies for most movies. They also do sing alongs like Meaning of Life and Rocky Horror.
Retirement funds are buying most of the tech stocks. Some of them have the problem that they have another billion dollars every week that they have to invest in tech stocks and there just aren't that many good investments so they dump it into well know tech players. It is even worse in the UK where one type of high growth fund only allows investments into 200 companies that are registered in some government scheme. Some of their stock prices seems to have nothing to do with any type of value.
Richard Feynman wrote in the introduction of one his books that one easy way to find out of a theory is bad is to look at its complexity If it isn't simple, it is most likely wrong. He went on to talk about how strange the orbital mechanisms and mathematics were before Kepler found the correct and simple solution to the problem that disproved nearly everyone in the field. With that he ends the introduction and delves into quantum mechanics.
Put a network snooper on your phone when connected to wifi and tell me someone hasn't sold out. I prefer they sell out to governments (who can tap my stuff anyway) over some random game developer.
Blackberry is running as if telcos are its customers. They aren't and Apple ended that business model and they need to get used to it.
I want the android sandbox to lie to applications.
I want a check box next to all the junk an application wants and I want to be able to tell it yes, no, lie.
I want them to fix the bugs on my Q10. The thing likes to reboot after I set it down on its screen after phone calls.
I have no intention of buying one of their Android phones. If I wanted Android, I would buy something else and I haven't.
On the plus side, I had my Q10 for a week before I ever even signed up for an account of any kind. The phone works well and running all the data over a VPN to my server is showing no leaking of data even with a "no data" sim installed. I like that but I've run my own servers for decades.
I would expect that Apple could design a way to hold a headphone jack next to contacts on a phone using a magnet. Then they could make the phones water proof to the point where they can be submerged.
Monopoly cable TV agreements were often for 50 years and any renegotiation resets the time.
The interesting thing about those types of contracts is they involve an "educational programming" requirement. I'm not sure any cable TV company offers that any more because Discovery and The History Channel sure don't. MTV was used to convince towns that they could keep the rebellious kids at hone in front of the TV rather than doing what teenagers do.
Many municipal cable tv contracts can be torn up because they specify content that simply isn't provided anymore.
I would love to see a debugging hack for gcc or clang where you could say sizeof short=3, sizeof int=5 and sizeof char=2. Properly written code shouldn't break but it would find many bugs even if it involved odd wrappers on each line of code.
I worked on one of the 1st editors for Doom. I had written parts of one of the more popular ones for Wolfenstein 3d and was even told to stop by John or John (the one who signed post with something like "the computer is the game"). but at least they changed their minds later when they found out how popular 3rd party levels were. We couldn't figure out a key part of Doom and were talking about it on usenet or fido net and someone sent me a C structure. The names were unlike any of the public editors and there were more details than I had ever seen. I remember it being something like a struct with unions or bitfields or something. After a bit of discussion along the lines of "they can't be doing that", code was written and a great problem solved.
A year or so later I created a level just like work and gave it to a friend who was arguing that he had played that level before since he knew were all the rooms were. In his office was the lamest of lame monster.
The speed warning signs that tell people how fast they are going all have maximum speeds they will display and most of them have switches to set the max for a given road so people don't try to get the high score.
That sets enough precedent that snapchat should have considered a an upper limit and if there are any internal documents even mention "high score" and ways around it, they better have a very good reason not to do it or the jury will award a massive payout.
It would be trivial to find a traffic professional engineer to show up in court and explain this to the jury.
I guess I lucked out. I applied to UCB in 1985 but I was rejected because they were full.
While they were once the global leaders in real world computer science, I wonder what they do today other than this type of drivel.
Listening while talking is a major issue for all shared communications links including wireless. Cable TV Internet and *PON based systems all have the problem that they can blind the receiver while transmitting resulting in talking over another speaker resulting in resending packets.
If the Aussie brown coal industry shut down tonight, the natural fires that they have prevented would destroy centuries worth of fuel coal by the next of the next fire season.
If coal isn't a useful resource, it isn't in anyone with money's interest to keep it from burning so natural fires will start and it will burn sometime in the future. That issue must be addressed.
Every year at security conferences, more and more people are showing that once something gets into the secure boot area, it won't ever leave. Nearly every bit of anti-malware in the world won't even detect if something is running in the secure area. Being able to disable it is a security feature. Being able to remove or replace it is even better.
Those numbers make it look like they were using a 32x32 hardware multiplier-adder and the new one uses a 64x64. Multiplying is a great example of how a 2x increase in transistor density from Moore's law can result in something far greater than 2x real speed increase. To do a 64x64 multiply in an 8 bit cpu (like the 6809 which had an 8x8 multiply instruction) you would have to do 56 separate multiplies (for the significand) and then 16 sums before a number of other sums and shifts to get the exponent normalized. Each of those instructions would take 2 to 11 cpu cycles. A 16 bit hardware multiplier would reduce 56 mul operations to 16 and a 32 bit hardware multiplayer would reduce it to 4. The barrel multiplier is often the largest structure in the ALU part of even a modern CPU. They show up on photos of modern chips as the largest rectangle area that isn't cache or memory controllers.
Brute forcing hash based passwords involves getting a program like John the Ripper or one of the versions that supports the bit coin mining hardware and just asking it to try a trillion of the most likely passwords in a few seconds.
I find it entertaining that many security experts are claiming sha-256 hashes are more secure than older weaker hashes yet I can spend less than $1,500 and buy hardware that will try more than 2 trillion sha-256 hashes a second yet the cost do the early md5 based passwords is now significantly higher.
I would like to see a mod of John the Ripper so it could be used as a PAM module to say "Your password would be found in round 4" using the rule 'substitute digits for letters'"
There is a low level but prescient rumor in some area that aliens are damaging windshields in cars. Go look at the windshield of your car and see if there are hundreds of little pits in them.
The pits change the characteristics of the light heating up the inside of the car on a summer day enough that several automotive engineering groups have had to deal with it. Typically it means doing something different with plastic. One example is the plastic covers over those auto belt things in the mid 80s where the plastic was deteriorating faster in cars with more damage to the windshield was mentioned in a an article in an automotive safety journal. The pits also mean the glass gets hotter as it ages so the frame has to compensate.
A vast majority of the pits are caused by tires throwing small bits of rock at an angle to the glass. The small bits of rock also seem to be tracked in from far away and aren't from the local road surface.
So when the light output goes way down, will someone also blame the aliens?
How can you both over sleep and under sleep? And how can you ask that in a survey or get it from other data in a reliable way? I know this can be true but I expect about as many correct answers on a self survey to a question like that as "what color is the last unicorn horn you saw?"
There are people who both under sleep and over sleep but they are very rare and I expect they would be hesitant to answer the question correctly. That doesn't even deal with the issues of having them dropped from the pool of subjects due to other health issues.
Based on your comment, I'm guessing they are assuming self reporting for both over-sleeping and under-sleeping?
Of all participants, 31.2%, 36.9%, 21.4%, and 10.6% reported 0, 1, 2, and 3+ risk factors, respectively. There was a strong relationship between the lifestyle risk index score and all-cause mortality.
31.2+36.9+21.4+10.6= everyone and 1% extras. Did significant significance creep in?
Out of all 96 possible risk combinations, the 30 most commonly occurring combinations accounted for more than 90% of the participants.
Each of 7 factors can be one of two states. That is 2^7 except that two of the conditions are "too much" or "too little" sleep which means a those state can be reduced to one. 2^6 isn't 96 as far as I know.
A problem with Category Theory under a different term was mentioned by W.L. Livingston in The New Plague where he describes what he calls Track A or Track B problems. Track A problems are ones that can be split into smaller problems by one person. Track B problems are complex enough that a single person can't keep enough details in their head to properly split them up into sub-problems. Tack B problems need far more resources and most often a signifignat amount of those resources aren't helping find a good solution. There is also the issue that what might be a Track B problem for me might be a Track A problem for you and I think Category Theory doesn't fix those core problems even as it provides a more formal way to approach a solution.
I would hope the reason they paid was to track them down seeing that is the job the FBI and CIA keep telling the tax payers they do.
Fortran, APL and Pascal all have ways of doing pointers and pointer arithmetic. They tend to be ugly but it can be done and it isn't as simple as C (or assemblie's), "Just make it an int and do whatever you want to it". Even early Basic's varptr was mostly used to load assembly code into programs but it was also used for string and floating point number manipulation.