1) they fixed
2) Fake Moody helped him so he wouldnt be injured and disqualified from continuing to the rigged round.
3) You havent learned a thing in Evil School have you? Dr Evil would be disappointed in you. If your plans are not diabolically complex you've done it wrong. Also, there *is* a point, and that is that certain magical protections were removed inside the maze (Moody's idea) so they could attack Potter with impunity--Remember Hogwarts has lots of enchantments and charms protecting the students, including one prohibiting teleportation.
You say Isaac Asimov was a "word smith"? He was a horrible hack, and pretty much admitted it too.
Stolen elements? Fantasy has all been stolen since before the days of the Ring stories...and I'm talking about the Ring of the Nibelung here not Tolkien! Mythology goes back before recorded history, and nearly all of the archetypes and formulas used in stories today come from ancient days.
You said it all when you said "The Harry Potter stoires are very fun"...now how many books written in the past decade can you say that about honestly?
I have had weird Hogwarts dreams ever since I read the Harry Potter books 3 months ago. The books arent *that* good but I felt compelled to read them. My sister-in-law says the same thing.
Is it possible that Mrs Rowling (or her nefarious corporate controllers) are putting some sort of subliminal messaging or 'neural linguistic programming' into the book to get readers hooked?
I have 6.1 just to test DHML on it. Its real neat because I can write code that runs on IE 5 and Netscape that works on both, though you have to write it just *so*. NS 6.1 has been stable and error free for me so far.
The problem is, NS 6.x doesnt support most of the DHTML that works on 4.x. This is a ridiculous strategic move move since now it really makes Netscape a pain. You have to detect different versions of Netscape, and run your IE code on the newer Netscape browser. So you start thinking what the hell, just blow off NS 4.x. This of course means that you have to prompt users to upgrade to 6.x if you want to run this page, which will just annoy them. In the end, everyone just ends up mad at Netscape for being so squirrely.
They give 3 samples, rock scissors paper , prisoners dilemma, and cooperation. The only way to gain advantage above random in Rock Scissor Paper is to collude with the other player for wins. The cooperation game gives points if the two players pick numbers sufficiently close to one another--again the only win vs random is to collude with the other player. Finally, the prisoners Dilemma has the odd property that the best score comes from colluding with the enemy.
Can this be a coincidence? What are they aiming for here? See how many people are smart enough to write a bunch of programs that collude with themselves?
When comes right down to it, the reason I left Microsoft was because of rise of Jim Allchin. Now I generally don't agree with the "evil MS" view of the world I do all attribute all the evils at MS to Allchin. This guy is the epitome of the Evil Corporate Executive bent on World Domination. His methods are unethical, his goals nefarious.
Bill Gates, at heart, wants to do good. Brad Silverberg and Ben Slivka were the souls of MS, warts and all. Now all MS has at its core are..well...Evil People.
One bad thing about the threat of injunction is that Microsoft is now scrambling to get Windows XP out the door so they can beat it. This will lead to more bugs and more mistakes being made. Or, its bad for windows users anyway.
My favorite part is the 16 million dollar party featuring the WHO in Las Vegas. Sure they didn't have a product, but they did have a great time while it lasted!
Wasnt a demonstration, it was a video. They played two videos back to back that *implied* two things happened on the same computer, when in fact it was two different computers. Of course, they never claimed that it was one computer, so it was simply an assumption on the part of the viewers that it was....
Having been 'behind the curtain' on Gate's talks before, I can tell you why you dont see blue screens more often. There are about 50 machines and 100 people offstage routing computer signals. If anything goes wrong on one machine, they switch to another. Now, you'd think people would notice, but it turns out that the MS presenters, especially Bill Gates, are extremely adept at making it look like everthing is going smoothly; you'd never know they just had a meltdown backstage.
I remember Richard Crandall from Reed. He was a physics professor who was way into algorithms and number theory. At one time he held the record for highest prime number. He also did a bunch of stuff for Next early on; I think he was Steve Jobs professor while Steve was at Reed. In any event they know each other pretty well.
Main thing I remember about his code was that he was really good at numerical algorithms, but he didnt like to put in spaces or newlines; his code was real hard to read. Somebody had said something about checking the floating point in the code, but I am sure there is no error, just obscure shortcuts being taken.
In theory gyrocopters are safer. However, go get out the statistics (ntsb) and you'll find that it just ain't so in point of fact.
One of the main thing I think that slants the numbers is that most gyros are home-built and flown by amateurs.
However, it would not be prudent to assume that gyrocopters are *really* safer if only they were quality built and flown. No stats show that.
There are easier ways to commit mass destruction for terrorists purposes than biological, nuclear, or even conventional weapons. A similar type of cleverness that is used to hack into secure computer systems can be turned towards the implementation of mass destruction that would be devastating and traceless but requiring no gunpowder or anthrax. It is simply lack of imagination on the destroyer's part (governments or terrorists) that keeps us safe.
I dont want or need to make a super secure network that can't be hacked. I dont have anything that valuable to go to the trouble over. My main fear really is script kiddies who will mess me up just because they can. Thus doing simple things like the article listed are just fine. Yes of course a motivated hacker would find his way around these trivialities. No I'm not fooling myself otherwise. But cost is the issue; I want to spend no additional time or money on security.
General aviation pilots are required to master and use a sort of slide rule called an E6B. E6Bs are usually round and are used to do heading and wind vector addition as well as time and fuel calculations.
Its really stone age stuff, but it has the advantage that they work even after a lightning strike, assuming the pilot is still alive.
And, to be quite honest, once you master the thing it really is faster than a handheld.
I have not seen the FAT32 source linux, but I have for Windows and NT (as I wrote it). I can say that (as another posted has speculated) the quality of the source algorithms has a huge impact on the performance of the filesystem. It is quite surprising to see the write time be so slow for linux, as quite frankly, FAT32 is so simple (no transaction) it *should* be only slightly slower than optimal in medium to large file size cases. NTFS should certainly show slower on writes of larger files, and if it doesnt, you know you have a huge bug somewhere in the FAT32 driver. I dont know enough about the other FSs to comment, but I do suppose they should not be significantly faster.
Another problem nobody ever mentions about the space tower is how long it takes to build. If it grows at one foot an hour it will take 13,000 years to reach geosychronous orbit. One foot a minute gets us down to 200 years. One mile an our is two and a half years. But how are you going to construct a tower that fast?
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1) they fixed
2) Fake Moody helped him so he wouldnt be injured and disqualified from continuing to the rigged round.
3) You havent learned a thing in Evil School have you? Dr Evil would be disappointed in you. If your plans are not diabolically complex you've done it wrong. Also, there *is* a point, and that is that certain magical protections were removed inside the maze (Moody's idea) so they could attack Potter with impunity--Remember Hogwarts has lots of enchantments and charms protecting the students, including one prohibiting teleportation.
You say Isaac Asimov was a "word smith"? He was a horrible hack, and pretty much admitted it too.
Stolen elements? Fantasy has all been stolen since before the days of the Ring stories...and I'm talking about the Ring of the Nibelung here not Tolkien! Mythology goes back before recorded history, and nearly all of the archetypes and formulas used in stories today come from ancient days.
You said it all when you said "The Harry Potter stoires are very fun"...now how many books written in the past decade can you say that about honestly?
I have had weird Hogwarts dreams ever since I read the Harry Potter books 3 months ago. The books arent *that* good but I felt compelled to read them. My sister-in-law says the same thing.
Is it possible that Mrs Rowling (or her nefarious corporate controllers) are putting some sort of subliminal messaging or 'neural linguistic programming' into the book to get readers hooked?
I have 6.1 just to test DHML on it. Its real neat because I can write code that runs on IE 5 and Netscape that works on both, though you have to write it just *so*. NS 6.1 has been stable and error free for me so far. The problem is, NS 6.x doesnt support most of the DHTML that works on 4.x. This is a ridiculous strategic move move since now it really makes Netscape a pain. You have to detect different versions of Netscape, and run your IE code on the newer Netscape browser. So you start thinking what the hell, just blow off NS 4.x. This of course means that you have to prompt users to upgrade to 6.x if you want to run this page, which will just annoy them. In the end, everyone just ends up mad at Netscape for being so squirrely.
They give 3 samples, rock scissors paper , prisoners dilemma, and cooperation. The only way to gain advantage above random in Rock Scissor Paper is to collude with the other player for wins. The cooperation game gives points if the two players pick numbers sufficiently close to one another--again the only win vs random is to collude with the other player. Finally, the prisoners Dilemma has the odd property that the best score comes from colluding with the enemy. Can this be a coincidence? What are they aiming for here? See how many people are smart enough to write a bunch of programs that collude with themselves?
When comes right down to it, the reason I left Microsoft was because of rise of Jim Allchin. Now I generally don't agree with the "evil MS" view of the world I do all attribute all the evils at MS to Allchin. This guy is the epitome of the Evil Corporate Executive bent on World Domination. His methods are unethical, his goals nefarious. Bill Gates, at heart, wants to do good. Brad Silverberg and Ben Slivka were the souls of MS, warts and all. Now all MS has at its core are..well...Evil People.
One bad thing about the threat of injunction is that Microsoft is now scrambling to get Windows XP out the door so they can beat it. This will lead to more bugs and more mistakes being made. Or, its bad for windows users anyway.
My favorite part is the 16 million dollar party featuring the WHO in Las Vegas. Sure they didn't have a product, but they did have a great time while it lasted!
Wasnt a demonstration, it was a video. They played two videos back to back that *implied* two things happened on the same computer, when in fact it was two different computers. Of course, they never claimed that it was one computer, so it was simply an assumption on the part of the viewers that it was....
Having been 'behind the curtain' on Gate's talks before, I can tell you why you dont see blue screens more often. There are about 50 machines and 100 people offstage routing computer signals. If anything goes wrong on one machine, they switch to another. Now, you'd think people would notice, but it turns out that the MS presenters, especially Bill Gates, are extremely adept at making it look like everthing is going smoothly; you'd never know they just had a meltdown backstage.
I remember Richard Crandall from Reed. He was a physics professor who was way into algorithms and number theory. At one time he held the record for highest prime number. He also did a bunch of stuff for Next early on; I think he was Steve Jobs professor while Steve was at Reed. In any event they know each other pretty well. Main thing I remember about his code was that he was really good at numerical algorithms, but he didnt like to put in spaces or newlines; his code was real hard to read. Somebody had said something about checking the floating point in the code, but I am sure there is no error, just obscure shortcuts being taken.
In theory gyrocopters are safer. However, go get out the statistics (ntsb) and you'll find that it just ain't so in point of fact. One of the main thing I think that slants the numbers is that most gyros are home-built and flown by amateurs. However, it would not be prudent to assume that gyrocopters are *really* safer if only they were quality built and flown. No stats show that.
There are easier ways to commit mass destruction for terrorists purposes than biological, nuclear, or even conventional weapons. A similar type of cleverness that is used to hack into secure computer systems can be turned towards the implementation of mass destruction that would be devastating and traceless but requiring no gunpowder or anthrax. It is simply lack of imagination on the destroyer's part (governments or terrorists) that keeps us safe.
I dont want or need to make a super secure network that can't be hacked. I dont have anything that valuable to go to the trouble over. My main fear really is script kiddies who will mess me up just because they can. Thus doing simple things like the article listed are just fine. Yes of course a motivated hacker would find his way around these trivialities. No I'm not fooling myself otherwise. But cost is the issue; I want to spend no additional time or money on security.
General aviation pilots are required to master and use a sort of slide rule called an E6B. E6Bs are usually round and are used to do heading and wind vector addition as well as time and fuel calculations. Its really stone age stuff, but it has the advantage that they work even after a lightning strike, assuming the pilot is still alive. And, to be quite honest, once you master the thing it really is faster than a handheld.
I have not seen the FAT32 source linux, but I have for Windows and NT (as I wrote it). I can say that (as another posted has speculated) the quality of the source algorithms has a huge impact on the performance of the filesystem. It is quite surprising to see the write time be so slow for linux, as quite frankly, FAT32 is so simple (no transaction) it *should* be only slightly slower than optimal in medium to large file size cases. NTFS should certainly show slower on writes of larger files, and if it doesnt, you know you have a huge bug somewhere in the FAT32 driver. I dont know enough about the other FSs to comment, but I do suppose they should not be significantly faster.
Another problem nobody ever mentions about the space tower is how long it takes to build. If it grows at one foot an hour it will take 13,000 years to reach geosychronous orbit. One foot a minute gets us down to 200 years. One mile an our is two and a half years. But how are you going to construct a tower that fast?