It's tricky to shield from ionizing radiation, and unfortunately your layers of gold and lead are not terribly effective at neutron shielding. For example Pb is transparent to neutrons below 0.57 MeV. In addition to poor attenuation, when heavy shielding for neutrons does work, it often does so by becoming radioactive itself, over time creating a gamma emitter right next to your junk!
For ultimate protection, you will find lighter H-rich materials to be much better at attenuating neutrons. I think you should make a wax cast over your genitals (keep the Pb shielding there) or wrap the entire area in many layers of duct tape.
"It is not just a refer. How about if it queries what fonts you support? Any of them not standard? How about media support? What java and flash are you on? What is your screen resolution? Browser window size if not full screen? There is a lot to catch..."
HTTP is request based. The client asks for what it needs: the server does not push out what it thinks the client needs.
Font support: the server has no need to know about my fonts. The CSS should suggest the preferred fonts, but if I don't have their preferred font installed then my browser will substitute. The server never needs to know this.
Media: my browser will ask for the media it wants to display. If it can't display media it won't ask for it. If it asks for something complex, like a movie file (for example) and the file downloads and then it is unable to handle the file, then surely this should have been managed my correctly identifying the MIME type of the file. The browser can then terminate the download, knowing that it won't be able to play it. Yes, I appreciate codecs make this trickier than it has to be: HTML5 should have fixed this. Comments?
Screen Resolution: none of the server's business.
Window Size: again, none of the server's business. If your website is so crappy that it must autosize in some stupid [yes, there are **few** caveats] way then this should be done using local JavaScript.
So, provided I haven't pissed everyone off: assuming all clients implement the HTTP standards correctly and uniformly, please remind me why the server needs to know anything about the client?
Don't want to ruin it (and I'm probably wrong anyway, speculation isn't a spoiler) but I think everything Elliot is doing right now is inside a fantasy world. Just like in the first season I think there's going to be some big reveal soon that will "blow our minds"(TM) but unfortunately I'm expecting it to be too little too late: they need to do something now!!
Is anyone else a little disappointed with season 2 so far? We're four episodes in and absolutely nothing has happened!! If Elliot spend most of this season pissing about inside his head then I'm afraid all the groove set up in season 1 will be lost:(
I second this. Cash is much much easier. Everyone claiming cash-less is simpler have been conned and are riding a wave of fear and hate: violent crime has decreased over the past 20 years. The chance of being mugged is very slim. What are you going to accept? The risk of a mugging and losing a little cash (compare to cost of cell-phone) vs the daylight robbery of credit/debit card transaction fees. Over ten years they will easily add up to a thousand dollars: or the price of a mugging every twenty years...
What I mean is I can't get a price for a single Win10 Enterprise license to use on my system. The Microsoft website redirects you to volume resellers. Can anyone point to an online store to buy a single Win10 enterprise license? What's the price? And is it a single one-time cost? My customers will not tolerate having to continue to pay every year to use their $1m instrument.
TPM will allow Microsoft complete control over what hardware can talk to the computer, as well as what software is run on the computer. Some more criticism here.
As for what hardware, I'm talking about the world of instrument control that includes CNC lathes, digital microscopes, mass spectrometers, radars, etc.. These applications require a decent computer that does a mixture of data processing and storage, as well as providing the GUI for the user to operate the instrument. While Windows was never ideal for this role, it was often the best of a bad bunch due to the confluence of requirements. It also means that the manufacturer could use Windows as a selling point as part of the spin on "easy to use" and "minimal training" that actually carries some weight when selling a rather complex piece of instrumentation.
Can Windows 10 Enterprise be used in this role? I am unsure, but it is difficult to assess. I can't even get a price on Win10 enterprise. Say I build a machine and need a PC to control it. I need my customer to have complete control over that PC, but I need to buy the PC (say with Win10 enterprise license) at my factory, set up the instrument, test everything, and then ship it to my customer. At their end the PC may or may not go on their local network, depending on their local policy and what they wish to achieve. This was all very simple with Win7 pro. But Win10 pro is not a good fit, due to the lack of control over updates and, as we just saw in the latest updates, Microsoft's ability to add/remove key features without warning. See the problem?
Any comments from readers will be most appreciated, thanks.
The iPhone was marketed very well by Apple and it was a combination of marketing, advertising, timing, and technical aptitude that resulted in its success. It was not successful because it was "better". Everyone copied it because they simply wanted similar success.
However you are right that that success left a mark. The number of BS product development meetings I've had to sit through where the CEO or Sales Executive would say something like "how can we be as successful as Apple with the iPhone?" And then expect us to come up with something relevant for products and market segments that are *entirely* different to a consumer-grade touch-screen computer-phone. Idiots.
I second that. Most of my clients are in the research and development fields and they are absolutely fuming about Windows 10. Everyone I know is moving everything over to Linux as well, including projects for my own clients.
While we may be wrong about this, I think that once everyone who actually use computers to "get things done" have made the switch, the momentum will be considerable and I agree with you entirely, Microsoft are going to kill themselves.
I can tell you there is an entire field being dumped on by Microsoft right now: instrument control PCs. Of course it's a small market compared to Enterprise and Home, but maybe it's comparable to small business users in the say 3-10 seat range. Windows 10 is entirely inappropriate for instrument control, and those of us with perfectly workable Windows 7 systems are now facing a real dilemma. My shop is looking to Linux and will migrate away from Windows entirely, but our vendors are dragging their heels a little bit. I think the new TPM will be the nail in the coffin: anyone wanting to do anything interesting or custom with software or hardware will absolutely have to work on Linux as Windows is no longer suitable. Overall I think this is a pretty good thing for Linux.
I understand what you're saying about VR experiences, and yes, they sound really cool.
But you overlook why a large number of people enjoy movies: it's escapism. And it's relaxing, you switch off, and you don't have to think.
I'm pretty sure that if you put me in a VR movie then yes I'd do all those cool things you mention for about the first 15 minutes, and then I'll calm down, relax, and just look forwards and enjoy the show.
VR is a gimmick that will find some niche applications, but it will never replace conventional 2D cinema.
It's social for kids because it's an "event" for them and they can talk before hand about how excited they are to see the movie and they can talk afterwards about how excited they are to have seen the movie...etc...it's also a relatively safe environment so their parents let them go there by themselves, which is "exciting".
Adults don't "socialise" at the movies: we go to bars and coffee shops and have actual conversations with people. If anything, movies for adults are about escapism and getting a min-break from the drudgery of life for an hour or so.
Drinking beer during a movie at home is great because you can pause it.
At the theater it's actually a bit of a distraction, since if drinking beer then I *know* I'll have to piss at least once, probably twice, before the movie is over. Bit of a quandary really...
"Movie theaters are going the way of phone booths and doodoo birds."
Even if phone booths have to become public services like drinking fountains and libraries, please let us keep some phone booths about. Sure, we no longer need them on every corner, but in general urban areas a person on the street should not be more than a 15 minute walk (I'll negotiate up to 30) from a public pay phone. Heck, even if these things cost more to maintain than they can ever make back on calls: just make the calls free (up to 2 mins per call, no more than three redials to same number in 15 mins, for example) and let people use them when they need them.
You may scoff, but the next time your phone is out of battery, stolen, lost, or you are simply new to an area and haven't worked out a phone yet (or chose not to) then I think you'll be thanking me for this suggestion.
"Also, I assume the big rig driver is being taken to task in all this? He was essentially at fault for the whole incident, lets not forget."
Jesus Christ!
No!
When you drive a vehicle you do not have some fundamental "right of way" down the road. There could be *any* obstruction caused at any time, and as such, you simply must drive appropriately. What if the car in front suddenly breaks down, or suddenly breaks? With or without reason. What I will support is that any vehicle has a fundamental right to stop itself at any time. If driving on an open road, if you can't see around the corner with an appropriate response time to stop your vehicle then you are going too fast.
Was this not taught during your drivers education program? Is it not even common sense to you?
Once you adopt this attitude everything becomes much safer.
Hang on, sorry to keep posting, but there is another Chinese amphibious plane that is bigger than this one. So in no way, shape, or form, is this plane the "largest" of anything by any stretch.
Harbin SH-5 Origin: China Length: 127 ft 7 in (38.9 m) Amphibious, still in operation, 7 built.
Actually, reviewing the comments posted there seem to actually be some nice aircraft listed. Here's a summary, from longest to shortest fuselage length:
"its API keys and third party keys and secrets." -PCP
But who cares? That's just an administrative issue.
Those API keys are their own, yes? So they can just change them and update all of their clients/users.
If the keys are for other third party services then they can have them reissued - and of course they are probably only talking about some video encoding service as well as the gob loads of advertising 3rd parties, and who cares about them anyway?
The source code is probably a hodge-podge mish-mash of crap, and anyone would do better writing their own from scratch.
The only legitimate risk will be that the code probably contains all kinds of stupid backdoors and special features activated by using GET parameters. I know how these kinds of projects are run and they are usually crapper than you can possibly imagine...
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It's tricky to shield from ionizing radiation, and unfortunately your layers of gold and lead are not terribly effective at neutron shielding. For example Pb is transparent to neutrons below 0.57 MeV. In addition to poor attenuation, when heavy shielding for neutrons does work, it often does so by becoming radioactive itself, over time creating a gamma emitter right next to your junk!
For ultimate protection, you will find lighter H-rich materials to be much better at attenuating neutrons. I think you should make a wax cast over your genitals (keep the Pb shielding there) or wrap the entire area in many layers of duct tape.
Good luck brave sir!!
"It is not just a refer. How about if it queries what fonts you support? Any of them not standard? How about media support? What java and flash are you on? What is your screen resolution? Browser window size if not full screen? There is a lot to catch..."
HTTP is request based. The client asks for what it needs: the server does not push out what it thinks the client needs.
Font support: the server has no need to know about my fonts. The CSS should suggest the preferred fonts, but if I don't have their preferred font installed then my browser will substitute. The server never needs to know this.
Media: my browser will ask for the media it wants to display. If it can't display media it won't ask for it. If it asks for something complex, like a movie file (for example) and the file downloads and then it is unable to handle the file, then surely this should have been managed my correctly identifying the MIME type of the file. The browser can then terminate the download, knowing that it won't be able to play it. Yes, I appreciate codecs make this trickier than it has to be: HTML5 should have fixed this. Comments?
Screen Resolution: none of the server's business.
Window Size: again, none of the server's business. If your website is so crappy that it must autosize in some stupid [yes, there are **few** caveats] way then this should be done using local JavaScript.
So, provided I haven't pissed everyone off: assuming all clients implement the HTTP standards correctly and uniformly, please remind me why the server needs to know anything about the client?
Absolutely agree.
Don't want to ruin it (and I'm probably wrong anyway, speculation isn't a spoiler) but I think everything Elliot is doing right now is inside a fantasy world. Just like in the first season I think there's going to be some big reveal soon that will "blow our minds"(TM) but unfortunately I'm expecting it to be too little too late: they need to do something now!!
Is anyone else a little disappointed with season 2 so far? We're four episodes in and absolutely nothing has happened!! If Elliot spend most of this season pissing about inside his head then I'm afraid all the groove set up in season 1 will be lost :(
I second this. Cash is much much easier. Everyone claiming cash-less is simpler have been conned and are riding a wave of fear and hate: violent crime has decreased over the past 20 years. The chance of being mugged is very slim. What are you going to accept? The risk of a mugging and losing a little cash (compare to cost of cell-phone) vs the daylight robbery of credit/debit card transaction fees. Over ten years they will easily add up to a thousand dollars: or the price of a mugging every twenty years...
"American politics should stop at the border. No government should be permitted to influence them."
The USA should definitely stay within its own border, and leave other governments well enough alone.
I think this shit needs to end.
I hope you're joking.
WTF is "inappropriate software" or "Bad Apps"?
"I can't even get a price on Win10 enterprise."
What I mean is I can't get a price for a single Win10 Enterprise license to use on my system. The Microsoft website redirects you to volume resellers. Can anyone point to an online store to buy a single Win10 enterprise license? What's the price? And is it a single one-time cost? My customers will not tolerate having to continue to pay every year to use their $1m instrument.
TPM will allow Microsoft complete control over what hardware can talk to the computer, as well as what software is run on the computer. Some more criticism here.
As for what hardware, I'm talking about the world of instrument control that includes CNC lathes, digital microscopes, mass spectrometers, radars, etc.. These applications require a decent computer that does a mixture of data processing and storage, as well as providing the GUI for the user to operate the instrument. While Windows was never ideal for this role, it was often the best of a bad bunch due to the confluence of requirements. It also means that the manufacturer could use Windows as a selling point as part of the spin on "easy to use" and "minimal training" that actually carries some weight when selling a rather complex piece of instrumentation.
Can Windows 10 Enterprise be used in this role? I am unsure, but it is difficult to assess. I can't even get a price on Win10 enterprise. Say I build a machine and need a PC to control it. I need my customer to have complete control over that PC, but I need to buy the PC (say with Win10 enterprise license) at my factory, set up the instrument, test everything, and then ship it to my customer. At their end the PC may or may not go on their local network, depending on their local policy and what they wish to achieve. This was all very simple with Win7 pro. But Win10 pro is not a good fit, due to the lack of control over updates and, as we just saw in the latest updates, Microsoft's ability to add/remove key features without warning. See the problem?
Any comments from readers will be most appreciated, thanks.
The iPhone was marketed very well by Apple and it was a combination of marketing, advertising, timing, and technical aptitude that resulted in its success. It was not successful because it was "better". Everyone copied it because they simply wanted similar success.
However you are right that that success left a mark. The number of BS product development meetings I've had to sit through where the CEO or Sales Executive would say something like "how can we be as successful as Apple with the iPhone?" And then expect us to come up with something relevant for products and market segments that are *entirely* different to a consumer-grade touch-screen computer-phone. Idiots.
Does anyone know if this will apply to use of VPNs while at the Dubai or Abu Dhabi airports?
I fly through there regularly and as part of my standard policy I always use a VPN on unknown networks.
It would really suck to be laying over for a couple of hours and being picked up by the cops while surfing the net.
I also wonder how this will impact the many foreign contractors who must visit regularly and need VPN access back to head office.
Any thoughts? Or is this just another pointless unenforceable law?
I second that. Most of my clients are in the research and development fields and they are absolutely fuming about Windows 10. Everyone I know is moving everything over to Linux as well, including projects for my own clients.
While we may be wrong about this, I think that once everyone who actually use computers to "get things done" have made the switch, the momentum will be considerable and I agree with you entirely, Microsoft are going to kill themselves.
I can tell you there is an entire field being dumped on by Microsoft right now: instrument control PCs. Of course it's a small market compared to Enterprise and Home, but maybe it's comparable to small business users in the say 3-10 seat range. Windows 10 is entirely inappropriate for instrument control, and those of us with perfectly workable Windows 7 systems are now facing a real dilemma. My shop is looking to Linux and will migrate away from Windows entirely, but our vendors are dragging their heels a little bit. I think the new TPM will be the nail in the coffin: anyone wanting to do anything interesting or custom with software or hardware will absolutely have to work on Linux as Windows is no longer suitable. Overall I think this is a pretty good thing for Linux.
"you can still legally buy Windows 7."
Can you? Can you post a link?
Our vendor told us that they can no longer sell Windows 7, either on new PCs or as a license we can install ourselves.
I understand what you're saying about VR experiences, and yes, they sound really cool.
But you overlook why a large number of people enjoy movies: it's escapism. And it's relaxing, you switch off, and you don't have to think.
I'm pretty sure that if you put me in a VR movie then yes I'd do all those cool things you mention for about the first 15 minutes, and then I'll calm down, relax, and just look forwards and enjoy the show.
VR is a gimmick that will find some niche applications, but it will never replace conventional 2D cinema.
It's social for kids because it's an "event" for them and they can talk before hand about how excited they are to see the movie and they can talk afterwards about how excited they are to have seen the movie...etc...it's also a relatively safe environment so their parents let them go there by themselves, which is "exciting".
Adults don't "socialise" at the movies: we go to bars and coffee shops and have actual conversations with people. If anything, movies for adults are about escapism and getting a min-break from the drudgery of life for an hour or so.
"alcohol brought out during the movie"
Drinking beer during a movie at home is great because you can pause it.
At the theater it's actually a bit of a distraction, since if drinking beer then I *know* I'll have to piss at least once, probably twice, before the movie is over. Bit of a quandary really...
Everyone would just fuck in them. ...not saying it like it's a bad thing.
"Movie theaters are going the way of phone booths and doodoo birds."
Even if phone booths have to become public services like drinking fountains and libraries, please let us keep some phone booths about. Sure, we no longer need them on every corner, but in general urban areas a person on the street should not be more than a 15 minute walk (I'll negotiate up to 30) from a public pay phone. Heck, even if these things cost more to maintain than they can ever make back on calls: just make the calls free (up to 2 mins per call, no more than three redials to same number in 15 mins, for example) and let people use them when they need them.
You may scoff, but the next time your phone is out of battery, stolen, lost, or you are simply new to an area and haven't worked out a phone yet (or chose not to) then I think you'll be thanking me for this suggestion.
"just end it. boycott it, interfere with them, cause them annoyance."
I think the best thing is for everyone to just ignore it.
"Also, I assume the big rig driver is being taken to task in all this? He was essentially at fault for the whole incident, lets not forget."
Jesus Christ!
No!
When you drive a vehicle you do not have some fundamental "right of way" down the road. There could be *any* obstruction caused at any time, and as such, you simply must drive appropriately. What if the car in front suddenly breaks down, or suddenly breaks? With or without reason. What I will support is that any vehicle has a fundamental right to stop itself at any time. If driving on an open road, if you can't see around the corner with an appropriate response time to stop your vehicle then you are going too fast.
Was this not taught during your drivers education program? Is it not even common sense to you?
Once you adopt this attitude everything becomes much safer.
Hang on, sorry to keep posting, but there is another Chinese amphibious plane that is bigger than this one. So in no way, shape, or form, is this plane the "largest" of anything by any stretch.
Harbin SH-5
Origin: China
Length: 127 ft 7 in (38.9 m)
Amphibious, still in operation, 7 built.
Sorry, forgot the Dornier:
Dornier DO X
Origin: Germany
Length: 131 ft 4 in (40 m) X2 model was supposed to be "larger"
Seaplane only, not amphibious.
He he, nice one!
Actually, reviewing the comments posted there seem to actually be some nice aircraft listed. Here's a summary, from longest to shortest fuselage length:
Hughes H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose"
Origin: USA
Length: 218 ft 8 in (66.65 m)
Seaplane only, not amphibious, not in production.
Saunders Row Princess
Origin: UK
Length: 148 ft (45 m)
Seaplane only, not amphibious, not in production.
Beriev A-40
Origin: Russia
Length: 143 ft 10in (43.84 m)
Amphibious, not in production, though production may be re-started.
AVIC TA-600 [THIS STORY'S SUBJECT]
Origin: China
Length: 121 ft 1 in (36.9 m)
Amphibious, in production.
Martin Mars
Origin: USA
Length: 117 ft 3 in (35.74 m)
Seaplane only, not amphibious, not in production.
Beriev Be-200
Origin: Russia
Length: 105 ft (32.0 m)
Amphibious, in production
"its API keys and third party keys and secrets." -PCP
But who cares? That's just an administrative issue.
Those API keys are their own, yes? So they can just change them and update all of their clients/users.
If the keys are for other third party services then they can have them reissued - and of course they are probably only talking about some video encoding service as well as the gob loads of advertising 3rd parties, and who cares about them anyway?
The source code is probably a hodge-podge mish-mash of crap, and anyone would do better writing their own from scratch.
The only legitimate risk will be that the code probably contains all kinds of stupid backdoors and special features activated by using GET parameters. I know how these kinds of projects are run and they are usually crapper than you can possibly imagine...