Actually, I should say, as a scientist I am fairly sure that there is no such thing - it is impossible to prove a negative, so I can never "know that there is no such thing".
As an internet troll myself (and a relatively "strong" one at that) I wouldn't be surprised to see the same reaction in atheists when they see a picture of Dawkins, a smug and self-satisfied French existential movie or a first edition of Origin of the Species.
*ducks, runs*
This should be Insightful, not Funny. We have an instinctive drive to look for something profound and meaningful in the world. As a scientist, I know that there is intrinsically no such thing, only that which we imbue with meaning or significance, whether that takes the form of religion, science, or shiny gadgets with loads of migs and gigs.
I've got DK2 working on both XP and Win7, but I can't remember what the problems were. I think I had to use an undocumented registry value (rendering mode 3 or 4, or something like that) on Win7 to avoid screen corruption.
I'm not sure what a "newfag" is, but I agree, there's been a lot of people spouting stuff like "Anyone can be Anonymous", "how can anyone deny it was Anonymous, when Anonymous is my cat", etc. recently, clearly they don't know anything about Anonymous.
It's only one order of magnitude. "A centimeter" is something small that everyone can get their head around. "A millionth" is also something that's easy to take in. So he writes, "about a millionth of a centimeter", and he's right. To the general public, it doesn't matter if that's the correct size or if it's actually ten times smaller than that, "about a millionth of a centimeter" is just a way of saying "really, really, really small" in terms that everyone can grasp. "A billionth of a meter", "one ten millionth of a centimeter", and "a millionth of a millimeter" are less easy to grasp.
I guess it's because those items are illegal in enough jurisdictions (e.g. most of them are illegal in the one that I live in) that it's not worth their while taking the adverts and doing regional filtering.
I think there's quite a lot of thorium. I won't say "plenty", because I know how foolish my words will look in 1000 years time when we start running out.
First, try making it a death sentence to drive Somali fishermen to starvation by overfishing Somali territorial waters, and make it a death sentence to dump toxic waste in their waters.
If a people are being exterminated, they will fight.
SpiderOak encrypts and decrypts the data on the client. You can access your data over a web interface which sends the decrypt password to the server but they warn you that you are risking your privacy by doing so. It's a fair bit more slow and complex to set up than Dropbox though.
AutoIt is brilliant, I've had a lot of fun with it. Some people like AutoHotKey, but I can't get used to the syntax. I'm dabbling with MacroMonkey which looks like it can do a lot of the same stuff with a better language (Lua) but not as well-developed a library and nowhere near the same community as AutoIt (although there are some very abrasive personalities on the forum).
So far the messages released by Anonymous have been fairly consistent. I'd like to see some stylistic analysis to see how many different people the releases have come from. Sure you can say "anyone can be or pretend do be Anonymous", but so far it looks to me like they have been acting more as a group than as diverse factions.
They have communication channels that they use to co-ordinate. If there was no mention of it on the Anonymous channels, then it's not an Anonymous activity. According to the article linked, they invite journalists into their channels.
It's probably more accurate to say "x86 architecture doesn't seem to be very good with battery (duh!)". The iPhone won't be switching to an x86 processor.
The company doesn't necessarily own all the rights to all the components. My dad and I wrote a BASIC interpreter for the PC in the 80s, but when we decided we wanted to release the source, we realised that Walter Bright owned the code that we had licensed to do the floating point arithmetic.
If anyone wants to take on an MS-DOS BBC BASIC interpreter written in assembly, and fancies writing a new module to do floating point to replace the code in question, let me know and I'll talk to my dad about it again.
I love bashing Microsoft as much as the next guy, but I disagree. The standard components in the XBox did allow developers to do stuff that wasn't possible on the PC - the minimum spec for Halo 2 on the PC is vastly above the original XBox spec. So they had the combined advantages of a familiar development environment (DirectX) and a standard platform. Innovative? Maybe not, but a damn good idea nonetheless. I guess you could say it's the same thing that the Phantom was supposed to be. Also - Kinect? Innovative? Damn straight! That thing is amazing. I tried it out in an electronics store and I was blown away.
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There are synchronised traffic lights on a road that I use regularly in the West Midlands, UK.
Actually, I should say, as a scientist I am fairly sure that there is no such thing - it is impossible to prove a negative, so I can never "know that there is no such thing".
As an internet troll myself (and a relatively "strong" one at that) I wouldn't be surprised to see the same reaction in atheists when they see a picture of Dawkins, a smug and self-satisfied French existential movie or a first edition of Origin of the Species.
*ducks, runs*
This should be Insightful, not Funny. We have an instinctive drive to look for something profound and meaningful in the world. As a scientist, I know that there is intrinsically no such thing, only that which we imbue with meaning or significance, whether that takes the form of religion, science, or shiny gadgets with loads of migs and gigs.
I've got DK2 working on both XP and Win7, but I can't remember what the problems were. I think I had to use an undocumented registry value (rendering mode 3 or 4, or something like that) on Win7 to avoid screen corruption.
I'm not sure what a "newfag" is, but I agree, there's been a lot of people spouting stuff like "Anyone can be Anonymous", "how can anyone deny it was Anonymous, when Anonymous is my cat", etc. recently, clearly they don't know anything about Anonymous.
It's like the plot to Fight Club, isn't it? You like the fighting, but not Project Mayhem.
It's only one order of magnitude. "A centimeter" is something small that everyone can get their head around. "A millionth" is also something that's easy to take in. So he writes, "about a millionth of a centimeter", and he's right. To the general public, it doesn't matter if that's the correct size or if it's actually ten times smaller than that, "about a millionth of a centimeter" is just a way of saying "really, really, really small" in terms that everyone can grasp. "A billionth of a meter", "one ten millionth of a centimeter", and "a millionth of a millimeter" are less easy to grasp.
I guess it's because those items are illegal in enough jurisdictions (e.g. most of them are illegal in the one that I live in) that it's not worth their while taking the adverts and doing regional filtering.
I think there's quite a lot of thorium. I won't say "plenty", because I know how foolish my words will look in 1000 years time when we start running out.
Their app only has two reviews, and both of them are bad. Maybe they were going to fail anyway.
First, try making it a death sentence to drive Somali fishermen to starvation by overfishing Somali territorial waters, and make it a death sentence to dump toxic waste in their waters.
If a people are being exterminated, they will fight.
I expect that they will extend Skype to XBox Live and WinMo, and will keep the existing platforms as well. Skype will die if it's not universal.
SpiderOak encrypts and decrypts the data on the client. You can access your data over a web interface which sends the decrypt password to the server but they warn you that you are risking your privacy by doing so. It's a fair bit more slow and complex to set up than Dropbox though.
AutoIt is brilliant, I've had a lot of fun with it. Some people like AutoHotKey, but I can't get used to the syntax. I'm dabbling with MacroMonkey which looks like it can do a lot of the same stuff with a better language (Lua) but not as well-developed a library and nowhere near the same community as AutoIt (although there are some very abrasive personalities on the forum).
So far the messages released by Anonymous have been fairly consistent. I'd like to see some stylistic analysis to see how many different people the releases have come from. Sure you can say "anyone can be or pretend do be Anonymous", but so far it looks to me like they have been acting more as a group than as diverse factions.
They have communication channels that they use to co-ordinate. If there was no mention of it on the Anonymous channels, then it's not an Anonymous activity. According to the article linked, they invite journalists into their channels.
I wrote that because "that's what all the fuss is about". There's more to it, but it's a catchy headline that explains the hype.
"Can current 'strong' encryption be cracked by factoring large numbers quickly?"
Do the handset manufacturers buy Android? Isn't it free to use, other than the trademark which has some requirements to qualify for?
It won't be an x86 that Intel makes for Apple, it will be apple's own in-house designed A5/A6/A7 processor.
It's probably more accurate to say "x86 architecture doesn't seem to be very good with battery (duh!)". The iPhone won't be switching to an x86 processor.
The employees OTOH have put a lot more equity into the company than an investor.
Well that was a pretty dumb thing to do.
I don't think MS are suing Google, they are suing Android handset manufacturers.
The company doesn't necessarily own all the rights to all the components. My dad and I wrote a BASIC interpreter for the PC in the 80s, but when we decided we wanted to release the source, we realised that Walter Bright owned the code that we had licensed to do the floating point arithmetic.
If anyone wants to take on an MS-DOS BBC BASIC interpreter written in assembly, and fancies writing a new module to do floating point to replace the code in question, let me know and I'll talk to my dad about it again.
I love bashing Microsoft as much as the next guy, but I disagree. The standard components in the XBox did allow developers to do stuff that wasn't possible on the PC - the minimum spec for Halo 2 on the PC is vastly above the original XBox spec. So they had the combined advantages of a familiar development environment (DirectX) and a standard platform. Innovative? Maybe not, but a damn good idea nonetheless. I guess you could say it's the same thing that the Phantom was supposed to be. Also - Kinect? Innovative? Damn straight! That thing is amazing. I tried it out in an electronics store and I was blown away.