I doubt layering OpenGL over directX will make a 50% slowdown; all the time processing is in the GPU and the amount of time spent in an API is insignificant. The whole blurb sounds like a scare tactic to me. The article of course is/.ed
I was a developer on the MSDOS team for many years. That statement is indeed a myth. All effort was to make all programs remain compatible from version to version. Major products like Lotus 123 were especially important to get working because they were what the customers used. Sometimes this was very difficult, as in those days, applications commonly edited system data structures and sometimes even the code.
Are you implying that you wouldn't reimage a laptop before giving it to another student? You would leave whatever they left behind on the computer for the other students to see?
Any compentent tech would always reimage a laptop before giving it to another person. This shouldnt take more than 1 minute of work and about 5 minutes of waiting.
This paper conjectures a new device called a Quantum Chaos Amplifier that magically pull an expremely small signal out of a superpositon. There is also a bit about it not being unitary which is a requirment for quantum circuits. I'm not sure this paper is anything but speculation.
Quantum computers can be used to get approximate solutions to large NP-complete optimization problems much more quickly than the best known methods running on any supercomputer.
Did someone invent a quantum algorithm that makes a dent in NP-complete? News to me.
Virus scanners/blockers are a scam; they have caused more problems in my network of tech-unsavy users than viruses have by a long way. Just last night my sister's McAffee took her harddrive out back for a thrashing. Another person I know runs 3 firewalls and 2 virus blockers at the same time, computer is practically useless.
There is a better way people! Either boot from a read only media or restore an image of the system every few boots--much faster and practically invulnerable. Put your documents (non executable formats only!) onto removable media and leave them removed except for saving.
This way even if an internet worm exploits a hole in your OS or email, its gone the next boot--even if it is undetectable!
Not only is this more effective and faster, you don't have to pay for pattern updates.
I use a Nokia camera phone as a phone and a bluetooth wireless internet uplink. I use a handheld Sony Vaio u750 as my screen and memory. I have a jabra bluetooth earpiece/microphone that works both with the phone and the handheld. Its all covered, and fits in my pocket.
I've always been a fan of boring out a station in the asteroid Eros, and spinning it up like the picture shows to create 1g artificial gravity at the ends of the asteroid. Seems like the only way to get a large colony in space is to use materials already there. Eros is attractive because we have already landed a craft on it.
I started at Reed just as the Macintosh came out. Steve Jobs donated a bunch to Reed.
My experience at Reed was very eye opening, but mostly in a very bad way. A hard working student from the sticks, I had a very difficult time coming to grips with the lifestyles of the east coast kids and the professors there. Drugs everywhere. Students sleeping with teachers. A certain type of faux socialist snobbishness which left me outcast being from "nowhere".
The one thing that saved me were the computers in every nook and crany. Steve Jobs saves the day. I taught myself how to program and eventually left Reed without a degree to go on to a very successful software career.
Dropping out of that hell-hole was the best thing that I ever did.
Its nice to think about how games can break down cultural, national and racial barriers. However, they can also amplify them.
Case in point: the popular new game Guildwars.
For reasons that might have been innocuous at the time, the designers decided to pit region against region in battles for the "Hall of Heroes". The 3 main regions are America, Korea, and Europe. Whichever region has the most wins on its side has the 'favor of the gods' and this is announced after every battle.
This decision has engendered incredible racism and nationalism. Spouting of slurs is incessant. American teams gang up on Korean teams to keep them from getting the favor of the Gods. They accuse the Koreans of cheating [belied by the fact the America is always in favor], and the Europeans of being cheese eating wimps. They fling hate like a frisbee, and they rationalize their horrible behavior because, I suppose, the Gods are on America's side.
It's an ugly sight. With the only basis being an artificial division in a made up game for the favor of made up gods.
The paper explicitely states that the phone's owner has to type in a new password manually for this attack to work. All the 'forgot password' function does is make it so the target can't use their headset without repairing, thus tricking them into typing in their code in public.
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There are a lot of assumptions with this idea. One is that the mind/brain can be perfectly encoded or simulated using bits. This is a broad assumption. Consider this: a computer program and its data being a string of bits is in the end the representation of a single, very large integer. Is the mind an integer? Would it be a stretch to imagine that there are physical parts of the brain that are physical embodiements of real numbers like PI that cannot be represented by an integer?
Searching the nasa and related web sites, I was unable to find anything more specific than the article provides. All I found was an email list you can sign up for. When you subscribe, what you get is commands you can send to the server to fetch files. This is slow going, this is the second day, and all I've got back so far is a "list". Anyway to sign up, you send an email with no subject and containing only the word "subscribe" to "majordomo@spinoza.public.hq.nasa.gov". Here is the result of the list command I got back today. >>>> lists majordomo@spinoza.public.hq.nasa.gov serves the following lists:
Y6Y
berlin Readjustment and Recovery
bookshelf NASA Headquarters Library Bookshelf list
centennialchallenges centennialchallenges
code-m-0-supplement
code-m-1-supplement
code-m-2-supplement
code-m-3-supplement
code-m-4-supplement
code-m-7-supplement
code-m-supplement
geo-internationalcoop
haha
heads-up NASA Headquarters Heads-Up Mailing List
history NASA Headquarters History Mailing List
murep-announcements Subscription List for MUREP Announcements
nasa-adv-cncl-alert NASA Advisory Council Alert Mailing List
nasafirst NASA FIRST Robotics Project
press-release NASA Headquarters Press Release Mailing List
v49
I have no idea what those file names mean...and I'm not sure why there is one name 'haha'.
We aren't really talking about 'contactless credit cards' here. Yes, we are talking about credit cards. The article is about a bank that is issuing touchless credit cards. The rest of your 'argument' is rendered moot, since the problem is that thieves may be able to route the cards I/O to a credit card reader and thus make fraudulent charges to a card in someone pocket. Its a man in the middle attack where the sender doesn't even know a transaction happened.
If you can't see why contactless credit cards are a terrible idea, then congratulations, you don't have a criminal mind! Does all that talk about encryption make you feel warm and fuzzy? Don't let it. Encryption gives ZERO protection in this case, doesn't even need to be cracked. The criminal doesn't need to understand the information he is stealing, he just needs to route it to a card reader that does. The difference here is that a person who keeps control of their swipeable credit card has the assurance that only businesses they trust has access to the card. The odds that a traceable employee (with a job!) steals the card while in the backroom is much smaller than an anonymous person in the crowd at the mall.
A lot of people seem to be saying that kids should be taught Microsoft so they wont need to be retrained when then get jobs. This is inflexible old-think espoused by people who really don't understand how computers work.
It is only people who lack much experience with a diversity of technology who think you need to be trained how to use each specific task keystroke by keystroke.
Young people who have grown up in a technological enviroment have much more powerful mental paradigms relating to computers. Truly proficient computer users do not need to know specific details about what menu to use or what button to press. They have a higher level understanding of the general design of user interfaces and can jump with little effort from windows to mac to linux to xbox to ps2 to nokia to motorola and so on.
Increasing exposure to more types of technology is in the end a better education than intensive study on one particular (soon to be obselescent) technology.
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I doubt layering OpenGL over directX will make a 50% slowdown; all the time processing is in the GPU and the amount of time spent in an API is insignificant. /.ed
The whole blurb sounds like a scare tactic to me. The article of course is
What in the hell do the department of agriculture scanners they force all your baggage through at the Honolulu airport do?
I was a developer on the MSDOS team for many years. That statement is indeed a myth. All effort was to make all programs remain compatible from version to version. Major products like Lotus 123 were especially important to get working because they were what the customers used. Sometimes this was very difficult, as in those days, applications commonly edited system data structures and sometimes even the code.
Are you implying that you wouldn't reimage a laptop before giving it to another student? You would leave whatever they left behind on the computer for the other students to see?
Any compentent tech would always reimage a laptop before giving it to another person. This shouldnt take more than 1 minute of work and about 5 minutes of waiting.
This paper conjectures a new device called a Quantum Chaos Amplifier that magically pull an expremely small signal out of a superpositon. There is also a bit about it not being unitary which is a requirment for quantum circuits. I'm not sure this paper is anything but speculation.
Their site says
Quantum computers can be used to get approximate solutions to large NP-complete optimization problems much more quickly than the best known methods running on any supercomputer.
Did someone invent a quantum algorithm that makes a dent in NP-complete? News to me.
I swear I remember this happening before.
Dictionary definition of Gotham.
Vast ignorance indeed.
Virus scanners/blockers are a scam; they have caused more problems in my network of tech-unsavy users than viruses have by a long way. Just last night my sister's McAffee took her harddrive out back for a thrashing. Another person I know runs 3 firewalls and 2 virus blockers at the same time, computer is practically useless.
There is a better way people! Either boot from a read only media or restore an image of the system every few boots--much faster and practically invulnerable. Put your documents (non executable formats only!) onto removable media and leave them removed except for saving.
This way even if an internet worm exploits a hole in your OS or email, its gone the next boot--even if it is undetectable!
Not only is this more effective and faster, you don't have to pay for pattern updates.
I use a Nokia camera phone as a phone and a bluetooth wireless internet uplink. I use a handheld Sony Vaio u750 as my screen and memory. I have a jabra bluetooth earpiece/microphone that works both with the phone and the handheld. Its all covered, and fits in my pocket.
1) Take old idea
2) Pull some nano-clay out of your ass.
3) Profit!!
I've always been a fan of boring out a station in the asteroid Eros, and spinning it up like the picture shows to create 1g artificial gravity at the ends of the asteroid.
Seems like the only way to get a large colony in space is to use materials already there.
Eros is attractive because we have already landed a craft on it.
I started at Reed just as the Macintosh came out. Steve Jobs donated a bunch to Reed.
My experience at Reed was very eye opening, but mostly in a very bad way. A hard working student from the sticks, I had a very difficult time coming to grips with the lifestyles of the east coast kids and the professors there. Drugs everywhere. Students sleeping with teachers. A certain type of faux socialist snobbishness which left me outcast being from "nowhere".
The one thing that saved me were the computers in every nook and crany. Steve Jobs saves the day.
I taught myself how to program and eventually left Reed without a degree to go on to a very successful software career.
Dropping out of that hell-hole was the best thing that I ever did.
Guildwars doesnt have servers like other games, thats why its possible to pit europe vs america vs korea. Everyone is in the same gigantic world.
Quake was not the first true 3D game. Descent was fully 3d 2 years before Quake.
Its nice to think about how games can break down cultural, national and racial barriers. However, they can also amplify them.
Case in point: the popular new game Guildwars.
For reasons that might have been innocuous at the time, the designers decided to pit region against region in battles for the "Hall of Heroes". The 3 main regions are America, Korea, and Europe. Whichever region has the most wins on its side has the 'favor of the gods' and this is announced after every battle.
This decision has engendered incredible racism and nationalism. Spouting of slurs is incessant. American teams gang up on Korean teams to keep them from getting the favor of the Gods. They accuse the Koreans of cheating [belied by the fact the America is always in favor], and the Europeans of being cheese eating wimps. They fling hate like a frisbee, and they rationalize their horrible behavior because, I suppose, the Gods are on America's side.
It's an ugly sight. With the only basis being an artificial division in a made up game for the favor of made up gods.
The paper explicitely states that the phone's owner has to type in a new password manually for this attack to work. All the 'forgot password' function does is make it so the target can't use their headset without repairing, thus tricking them into typing in their code in public.
There are a lot of assumptions with this idea. One is that the mind/brain can be perfectly encoded or simulated using bits. This is a broad assumption.
Consider this: a computer program and its data being a string of bits is in the end the representation of a single, very large integer.
Is the mind an integer?
Would it be a stretch to imagine that there are physical parts of the brain that are physical embodiements of real numbers like PI that cannot be represented by an integer?
Actually, this is an "index" command, you have to do it before the "list" files command, so I havent even made it to list yet :(
ok they are list names, not file names, but whatever
Searching the nasa and related web sites, I was unable to find anything more specific than the article provides. All I found was an email list you can sign up for. When you subscribe, what you get is commands you can send to the server to fetch files. This is slow going, this is the second day, and all I've got back so far is a "list".
Anyway to sign up, you send an email with no subject and containing only the word "subscribe" to "majordomo@spinoza.public.hq.nasa.gov".
Here is the result of the list command I got back today.
>>>> lists
majordomo@spinoza.public.hq.nasa.gov serves the following lists:
Y6Y
berlin Readjustment and Recovery
bookshelf NASA Headquarters Library Bookshelf list
centennialchallenges centennialchallenges
code-m-0-supplement
code-m-1-supplement
code-m-2-supplement
code-m-3-supplement
code-m-4-supplement
code-m-7-supplement
code-m-supplement
geo-internationalcoop
haha
heads-up NASA Headquarters Heads-Up Mailing List
history NASA Headquarters History Mailing List
murep-announcements Subscription List for MUREP Announcements
nasa-adv-cncl-alert NASA Advisory Council Alert Mailing List
nasafirst NASA FIRST Robotics Project
press-release NASA Headquarters Press Release Mailing List
v49
I have no idea what those file names mean...and I'm not sure why there is one name 'haha'.
We aren't really talking about 'contactless credit cards' here.
Yes, we are talking about credit cards. The article is about a bank that is issuing touchless credit cards.
The rest of your 'argument' is rendered moot, since the problem is that thieves may be able to route the cards I/O to a credit card reader and thus make fraudulent charges to a card in someone pocket. Its a man in the middle attack where the sender doesn't even know a transaction happened.
If you can't see why contactless credit cards are a terrible idea, then congratulations, you don't have a criminal mind!
Does all that talk about encryption make you feel warm and fuzzy? Don't let it. Encryption gives ZERO protection in this case, doesn't even need to be cracked. The criminal doesn't need to understand the information he is stealing, he just needs to route it to a card reader that does.
The difference here is that a person who keeps control of their swipeable credit card has the assurance that only businesses they trust has access to the card.
The odds that a traceable employee (with a job!) steals the card while in the backroom is much smaller than an anonymous person in the crowd at the mall.
A lot of people seem to be saying that kids should be taught Microsoft so they wont need to be retrained when then get jobs. This is inflexible old-think espoused by people who really don't understand how computers work.
It is only people who lack much experience with a diversity of technology who think you need to be trained how to use each specific task keystroke by keystroke.
Young people who have grown up in a technological enviroment have much more powerful mental paradigms relating to computers. Truly proficient computer users do not need to know specific details about what menu to use or what button to press. They have a higher level understanding of the general design of user interfaces and can jump with little effort from windows to mac to linux to xbox to ps2 to nokia to motorola and so on.
Increasing exposure to more types of technology is in the end a better education than intensive study on one particular (soon to be obselescent) technology.
As noted above, there is also a trademark on the word "Tiger" by the parent company filed on January 27 200.