ok. I want to quality myself as an expert. I have used Photoshop since it was Barney Scan XP. I have been certified twice to teach photoshop, and have taught classes on expert photshop. ( Color models, the layers interface and channels ). I had a hand in the design of the UI for a photoshop competitor, and worked for a year doing UI design/QA on it. ( and compairing to how photoshop worked and/or didnt work. )
The interface for photoshop has devolved to the point that when they bring out a new version, You NEED to buy the help book. Hell, I do! Things just are so far from being intuitivly obivious, and the guys doing UI design, they used to be good. The early versions from 1.0.7 to 5.5.1 were all fine, but 5.5.1 started to get a bit messy. By CS1(PS8) they were a bit cleaner, but you spent most of your time, thinking that the tool was somewhere else. I remember that I put a note on my wall, as to where I would find things just to rememind me how they had changed. Dont forget that Photoshop 6s color models were extrodinarlly powerfull. You can still do wonders with color control though the workflow, but again, they missed on the UI/explaination. Integration of ImageReady was a tragic mistake.
So many things could have been made easier, and now a simpler UI is a feature? Sucks Less? Suck how much less? Why did tney screw it up in the first place? FEATURE BLOAT, just like Microsoft word. How hard is it to manage a system of alacarte appliations? Its like Linux trying to integrade the webserver into everything, Like I.E.s integration into windows. Im going to stop here, beause I feel like smashing my computer.
You want to see simple? Look at Coyote Linux. Simple, small does its job well. a 4k web server!
Adobe get a CLUE! But the only way they make money is to redecorate the feature list...exactly how car companies sell new cars with diffrent tail lights. every year... diffrent tail lights.
The reason to run multiple copies is to scan and work at the same time. ( Scan, Edit, Print ). I run multiple copies at the same time, on diffrent machines. ( image production stations are set ups as ( fast littke hD space for scanning( I used the bunduled scanner softwarem, but there is also an educational versions there, from when I was a studient), EDIT is the fastest( 1st copy of photoshop upgraded from 1.0.7, Medium HD space, Print is slowest( Second copy of Photoshop purchased new ver 5.0.4), and a slow machine with an increadible amount of space for versions, backups, and FTP. ( No copy ).
I can scan and print while Im editing. and clients can browse the FTP site and can see work in progress.
Set yourself up right, and you can do a lot. ( Oh.. btw, the scanbox, printbox and server are all 1U sustems. They all fit under the 10/100 hub. ) The EDIT station is a 4U unit, and its all rack mounted. My Main screen is a SONY 21" and my tools pallette is some old bezarre IBM flat screen.
I am thinking of upgradeing to Photoshop CS2, but they want a lot for the upgrade, and I figure that IF I need to do raw color work, more than I am, I can get CS2 for like $250.
Did you ver think to scan into Photoshop Elements? or have ImageReady still installed?
Oh.. The reason you cannot run multiple copies of Photoshop at the same time? Two actually, 1. When its running it has to have full access to the graphic drivers for performance reasons. You want Photoshop to run as fast as possible right? When you switch it to backround, it freezes the GDI, and realeases its exclusive hold. Same with the file system your swap drive is on. It takes almost direct control of the filesystem on the swap drive, again for performance reasons.
Also scanning. Oh Jeez this is going to get technical...ok...There are two types of Photoshop Plugins, PIMI and PITI. The PIMI plugins all run inside of Photoshops memory space. A PITI plug in can allocate memory space outside photoshos memory space. It used to be that KPT powertools, and Mr Sa'ki's plugins were the only PITI plugins besides... ready? Scanner plugins. Scanner Plugins and the TWAIN interface have to be PITI plugins because when an image is being scanned, photoshop cannot allocate the memory for it from its space beforehand. Its left for the PITI plugin to allocate memory dynamically while its scanning. Ever notice how scanning a file, and saving it is a LOT slower than opening a file and saving it? And its not just the scanning part thats slower. its because a PITI plugin does not have full access to the filesystem. Did you get all that? There are now 4 plugin types. but its not pertinant to this discussion.
BTW, everything I know about this technology I learned from the author of Mr Sa'ki's plugins.
You are running a seperate HD for swap space arent you? Yes?
"THE CONTINUING MYTHOLOGY ABOUT ACID RAIN (8/31/1989)"
If Acid rain was called a Myth in 1989, and its an accept fact now. ( Shuddap you no holocost guys.) It tool 28 years to be accepted as on general principal to be true.
It took at least 5 years for the existance of HIV/AIDS to impact the screening of blood.
What do you think the acceptance rate for global warming will be?
How long before we ban the flying of airplanes in the stratosphere?
Rather than poke much fun at the Yale researchers, I want to cite the work of Drew Schindell. The latest ideas regarding planetary ozone destruction is a sequence of 10 counter intuitive steps. Most of which have led to the complete dismissal of the ideas, and preventing it from being accepted. After years of study, it is slowly becoming an acute area of study.
Three of the most counter intuitive parts are: 1. Most ozone gets destroyed in years of STABILITY of the polar stratospheric clouds. 2. Most ozone gets destroyed as the STABILITY produces COLDER temperatures. 3. Its INDIRECT sunlight, during the first light of the Antarctic spring that the most ozone loss is observed.
What does your intuition say? Mine said INSTABILITY, HEAT and DIRECT light. These counter intuitive ideas, and the fact that planetary atmospheric modeling moves very slowly in terms of scientific acceptance may prove to be catastrophic.
How long was the flat earth theory accepted fact? Again, counter-intuitive ideas in a scientific perspective.
Lastly, isnt spelling in the english language counter-intuitive?
"This experiment shows that there isn't always much conscious thought going on," said one researcher." Would this, perhaps be self-referental?
Dealing with multiple conflicting thoughts, in more simpler terms, grocking paradox, and actually looking and accepting counter intuitive thoughts, is not an inntely mamillian phenomonon. ( Lord knows how much I wish good spelling was inately mamillian.)
Look at how cats and mice behaive in the wild in dealing with fear. They sence the danger, access the situation, and in the face of fear, can act anyway. From this perspective, it is not a language/intelligence phenomon. Where as, denyl, and deception... Hmm... Can puffer fish be accused of deception? Leopard spots?
There is HUGE amount of anthropomorphizing going on here. After RTFA, their defintion of Cognitive Dissonance, albet dated, now encompasses a lot more types of language/thought based processes. I wouldn't give these YALE researchers a grade of C. As always, there is much, much more research to be done. ( Their scientific method is good, but the concolusions...The thing that this study definatly proves... Eddie VanHalen is NOT a monkey. ( He chooses BLUE M&Ms )). Pffft
Of course Mr Torvalds didnt write a kernel himself. He looked at Minux, though he could do better and he did. He used the work of GNU, and Richard Stallmans project. "In 1990, A finnish student by name Linus Torvalds studying in the University of Helsinki came into contact with Andy Tanenbaum's OS, Minix. Linus wanted to upgrade Minix by putting in more features and improvements."
Have you read Linus's first post? I did. WHEN IT WAS FIRST POSTED. We had the source uuencoded, chopped into 6k emails and forwarded from uwasa.fi. We looked at it, got it actually to compile, and CURSED LIKE HELL ABOUT MISSING THE FINNISH KEYBOARD. ( we 'overlooked' that part ).
"Also, modding a 8088 motherboard to accept a second 8088 on the 8087 socket was definitely fun. There was no cache coherency problems at that time. You just had to invert A19 to make the second one boot at 512 kB and the bus arbiter let them work in parallel. It was really cool to have an 8088-SMP:-)"
The second 8808 would boot ROM BIOS, and start spitting up on the default monitor, copy the intrupt table to 08000, but would only have 128k to work with, the first intrrupt it hit, to load from a disk, would start both processors running on return from the INT. In fact you could just easyly hang this box with INT-20. both processors would be executing the same code at the same time. It would only be a matter of seconds before some interlock hung the machine. It would be a really fun thing to watch. But WORK? NIFMY.
Do you catch a lot of people with this one? OR
Do you catch more people with the Sanyo BIOS rewrite? 8k certainly isnt enough room to fix the video card IO problem.
"Years later, 1961, Hebb published an introductory note in the book, "Sensory Deprivation" which shed light on the true original purpose..."the work we have done at McGill University began, actually, with the problem of "brainwashing".We were not permitted to say so in the first publishing. What we did say however was true-"
Wbat the found is for the unwitting subjects, the amount of time spent in sensory deprivation, the more personality changed. Most of those subjects who spent more then 3 days, deprived of only the minumum of senses, had experenced a complete change of personality. Almost all long term subjects dropeed out of school.
"That's the whole point. If half of the effort that some people put into finding articles to mark for deletion, deliberating and discussing deletion, checking, verifying and then finally deleting the article - if half of the effort people put into destroying content were instead put into creating or improving content, Wikipedia would be so much better."
I am an editor of wikipedia. I have written a few hundered articles, and edited a few thoursand more. I read/. because of brilliance like this. You will know who I am on wikipedia, becuase this quote will appear on my user page.
Even on laptops, I turn of ALL APCI junk, ( They are turned off in the bios of the Sony Vio, I am typing this on. )
The APCI needs to be completely rethough from the concept on. I have never seen a good implementation of it, and its the thing most often fixed in BIOS updates. Starting from that level, no operating system can overcome the crippleware that APCI is, except by bypassing BIOS. Mac OS 8.6 thru 9.2.2 handled the interface amd program control the best, but the OS was so power-saving unfriendly that it made little diffrence in the long run. ( i.e. shortly after a spindown or unload cycle, it would powerup...after about 4 or 5 of these, it would stop powering the drive up, and you could run fast and long without HD spinnign up, the screen semi-dim, and the CPU flying away. )
Its sad that so few users experence the actualy design and implementation of good power saving. Mabye when the cost of electric power is 10x what it is today, the issue will be revisited as something vagely inportant...
I typed in a domain to search, next day it was registered. Now its owned by someone in Oregon(lisalisalisa), and managed by a bogus domain name called 'mws.net'
This is SCARY, apparently there is a 'domaintools.com' website with all kind of nifty 'were tracking your Domain interest' type of tools. If you want to find out how unscrupulus DNS or who is providers try seeking out 'BMUG.COM' I used to volunteer at 'bmug.org' and listened to the sheer number of problems they had with 'BMUG.COM' ( now, I think owned by tucows.com ).
" The domain name www.bmug.com is for sale Prices in the region of US$4625" ( this from Get On The Web Limited ) It gets better...much better "Get On The Web Limited registered for its own websites, portals and client projects a number of generic domain names (including this one) some years ago, "
Hmmm since BMUG.ORG is about 23 years old...it would have this statemake a COMPLETE AND TOTAL LIE: "Get On The Web Limited does not knowingly register and/or offer for sale domain names which are registered trade marks."
http://www.dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm 'By Ron Jackson' "The AfternicDLS targets small and medium sized businesses, selling the majority of their domains in the four-figure range, but despite that tight focus every now and then they reel in a whale."
http://www.afternicdls.com/ The aftermarket trading in your domain names. with bmug.net Bid: 700 Ask:972 No Reserve Bid Now!!! We dont need no stenkin trademarks...
The domain name industry is where all those used car salesmen ended up.
"2. Storm is designed like an ant colony, with separation of duties. Only a small fraction of infected hosts spread the worm. A much smaller fraction are C2: command-and-control servers. The rest stand by to receive orders. By only allowing a small number of hosts to propagate the virus and act as command-and-control servers, Storm is resilient against attack. Even if those hosts shut down, the network remains largely intact, and other hosts can take over those duties."
The botnet can be partitioned into sub-nets by the use of keys, (i.e. unique digital identifiers) so that ( simplified ), a command can be sent to a distribution point in the form
To: Section Three, high communication rate hosts
From: Command Key 4
Re: Reconfiguration
Command: Flip a coin and divide yourself into two more botnets called S3A S3B. Those in group A, go into which communication mode, and get more serfs. ( and command classify them to either hide out or join group S3A, and follow what they do) Those in group B, Await payload contents from This list of servers and distribute accordingly ).
All written in encrypted command language the author designed.
I have no idea of the actual mechanism, and if I did, I wouldn't be posting it in a public forum. Much easier to post change machine hacks to get the FBI a knockin...
Bruce Schneier is great as his description of what the worm does.
He, by nessesity has to keep some details secret, otherwise two things might happen: Someone could subvert the botnet network, and make it more hostile, (Its still a bit wimply by virulent standards), or tip off the author to hidden detection mechenims.
I get about 2 or 3 botnet emails a day, and its rather obivious how to control them, and mitigate them, if you read the messages. ( i.e. look at the both the human plausibility factor and the tiny technical tidbits. )
DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINKS WITHOUT FULL VIRUS PROTECTION, AND THE ABILITY TO AUDIT PROCESSES, DLL AND ACTIVE X CONTROLS.
ok. Your gonna need a tutor or teacher to correct your work. But here is my two cents. ( Umm BA Math Analisys )
I did these things:
1. Work out EVERY PROPBLEM. ( No royal road, just practice )... Do the examples, the simple problems, the good problems, and tackle the tough problems. ( and you will notice your correcting other mistakes...like the teachers::)) I had large binders full of paper left from courses. ( and you know that thing...Show Your Work, start with showing everything, and you'll soon get to the point where you can do an increadible amount in your head...I fixed my addtion problems and my multiplication problems that plagued me from elementry school, and actually started liking trigonometery )( too bad my spelling still needs work. )
2. Mark your work up in RED INK for mistakes, BLUE INK for the corrections, missing formulas, etc. You also start to learn tricks that allow you to check your work faster.
3. Set aside 3-3 hours sessions a week. Mine were Teu, Thu, Sat or Sun, and READ Ahead, review, and look over your past work. ( This has a basis in psychology, called prograde/retrograde interference )
Since I have also tutored math, I have several sucess stories. All this because I failed Trig. 2nd time, I got more As then Bs, and Aced the class. Got As from then on until my degree was done.
Ummm... 'You have friends' Excellent. You provide refrences. Excellent How about some quotes from those friends. Hi Drew:)
Dr. Drew Shindell is an ozone specialist and climatologist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. >
"In the past 30 to 40 years it's really, you can see the global warming distinctly, the planetary temperature is just going steadily and sharply up,"
You have to answer the question: How many people have to die before global warming is real? How many people have to die from AIDS before the blood suppy is suspect? How many people have to die before school violence becomes a 'Problem'?
and of course, the one almost no one is looking at: How many people have to die of carconoma, before the ozone hole becomes real? Dr Jamie Abarca's paper was accepted for publicaion by a refreed journal
Who do you know at Argoone?
A team of researchers led by Rao Kotamarthi of Argonne's Environmental Sciences Division (EVS) is starting a five-year program funded by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research in the DOE Office of Science. The goal is to develop a uniform set of software tools for evaluating high-end climate models. Professor Michael Stein of The University of Chicago will collaborate with Argonne in this program. Other members of the Argonne team include Jay Larson and Rob Jacob of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division and Rich Coulter of EVS.
Sorry, I clicked on Post instead of preview. The track-pad on my Sony Vio is crap. I usually use Yahoo to spell check, but the whole damn machine froze due to two unresolved links not working in FireFox. Quite a cascade of problems...
Here is a link to my buddie, the guy who had my hair standing on end during first semester calculus.
"I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing."
Hilbert curves are special cases of a Weinerstrauss Monster, so named, because Weinerstrauss worked on curves that were continious, and diffrentiable nowhere.
Please call these curves, Weierstrass Monsters.
So, a bit of History, Weinerstrauss was looking at the curves in the 1870s, Hilbert came along around 1890, and Maldenbront with the help of computers looked at them in the 1970s.
The point at which water and steam are the same is a line, actulally of pressure, that goes down to its 'Triple' point. Where without a change in potential, H2O can exist in all three phases. If you increase its pressure/temprature way up, like you say to 340^o C, then all the electrons cannot attach themselves to the molicules, and the electrical properties are lost, and the gas enters the fouth state of matter called... get ready star trek fans... PLAZMA...
Seems that some gases when exposed to electrical current, at room tempretures, when they strip their electrons off, give off diffrent wavelengths of light... so if you can arrainge them in a matrix, you have a Plazma TV/Display.
Uhh.. There is a problem with Heavy water. Really bad to drink... Particularly hard-hit by heavy water are the delicate assemblies of mitotic spindle formation necessary for cell division in eukaryotes. Regular tap water gives off neutrons too, but not in any sufficent quantity to be dangerous. Almost undetectible from the backround radiation. A molocule of heavy water is about 1 in 41 Million. so to get a gallon of heavy water, you need to process at least 4 times that amount. Think 10 days of clean mississippi flow.
(And you did guess right about the number of types of ice. Of course there is a S.F. Book called Ice-9, but its fictional)
If you take water, as steam, and swril it around a cylinder, the heaver molocules will move to the sides, where you can siphon them off. Turns out that 90cm are about right for this. SO when a county like Iraq starts ordering up a storm of 90cm alumium tubes...
BUT, inorder to get enough water to seperate out the heavy molocules, you need an enoumus water source. In Germany, they used alpine rivers as the water source. In Iraq, you would need an extrodinarly large amount of fresh water to putify out the heavy water, and by the time the Tigrus and Euprhaties rivers reach Bagdad... the water is sufficently polluted to make it unusable for heavy water production. Now, if you had a place with heavy rainfall, little air pollution, like North Korea, you can make lots of heavy water, and of course sell it to the Iraqis.
It realy doesnt take much to figure this stuff out.
1. It completes with the oil companines/car companies. They will block you with safty ledgslation and lobby you back to the dark ages. ( Note: NO such system has ever been built to full scale. Think about the Oakland Airport to BART? LAX to Downtown or LA to Palm Springs. )
2. The US DOT is NOT interested in small scale systems. They only are interested in trains that can carry 100+ passingers at commute hour. That is THEIR definition of efficency. I would suppose from reviewing both the wikipedia article, the SI article, and the US Dept of commerce, that the system only works in small scale light vehicles. perfect for Airports. Hmm. NO mention of any airports in US adopting them.
That leaves the casinos in NV and Disney. Wait until gasoline is $30/gal, and then you may see some progress.
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ok. I want to quality myself as an expert. I have used Photoshop since it was Barney Scan XP. I have been certified twice to teach photoshop, and have taught classes on expert photshop. ( Color models, the layers interface and channels ). I had a hand in the design of the UI for a photoshop competitor, and worked for a year doing UI design/QA on it. ( and compairing to how photoshop worked and/or didnt work. )
The interface for photoshop has devolved to the point that when they bring out a new version, You NEED to buy the help book. Hell, I do! Things just are so far from being intuitivly obivious, and the guys doing UI design, they used to be good. The early versions from 1.0.7 to 5.5.1 were all fine, but 5.5.1 started to get a bit messy. By CS1(PS8) they were a bit cleaner, but you spent most of your time, thinking that the tool was somewhere else. I remember that I put a note on my wall, as to where I would find things just to rememind me how they had changed. Dont forget that Photoshop 6s color models were extrodinarlly powerfull. You can still do wonders with color control though the workflow, but again, they missed on the UI/explaination. Integration of ImageReady was a tragic mistake.
So many things could have been made easier, and now a simpler UI is a feature? Sucks Less? Suck how much less? Why did tney screw it up in the first place? FEATURE BLOAT, just like Microsoft word. How hard is it to manage a system of alacarte appliations? Its like Linux trying to integrade the webserver into everything, Like I.E.s integration into windows. Im going to stop here, beause I feel like smashing my computer.
You want to see simple? Look at Coyote Linux. Simple, small does its job well. a 4k web server!
Adobe get a CLUE! But the only way they make money is to redecorate the feature list...exactly how car companies sell new cars with diffrent tail lights. every year... diffrent tail lights.
The reason to run multiple copies is to scan and work at the same time. ( Scan, Edit, Print ). I run multiple copies at the same time, on diffrent machines. ( image production stations are set ups as ( fast littke hD space for scanning( I used the bunduled scanner softwarem, but there is also an educational versions there, from when I was a studient), EDIT is the fastest( 1st copy of photoshop upgraded from 1.0.7, Medium HD space, Print is slowest( Second copy of Photoshop purchased new ver 5.0.4), and a slow machine with an increadible amount of space for versions, backups, and FTP. ( No copy ).
I can scan and print while Im editing. and clients can browse the FTP site and can see work in progress.
Set yourself up right, and you can do a lot. ( Oh.. btw, the scanbox, printbox and server are all 1U sustems. They all fit under the 10/100 hub. ) The EDIT station is a 4U unit, and its all rack mounted. My Main screen is a SONY 21" and my tools pallette is some old bezarre IBM flat screen.
I am thinking of upgradeing to Photoshop CS2, but they want a lot for the upgrade, and I figure that IF I need to do raw color work, more than I am, I can get CS2 for like $250.
Did you ver think to scan into Photoshop Elements? or have ImageReady still installed?
Oh.. The reason you cannot run multiple copies of Photoshop at the same time? Two actually, 1. When its running it has to have full access to the graphic drivers for performance reasons. You want Photoshop to run as fast as possible right? When you switch it to backround, it freezes the GDI, and realeases its exclusive hold. Same with the file system your swap drive is on. It takes almost direct control of the filesystem on the swap drive, again for performance reasons.
Also scanning. Oh Jeez this is going to get technical...ok...There are two types of Photoshop Plugins, PIMI and PITI. The PIMI plugins all run inside of Photoshops memory space. A PITI plug in can allocate memory space outside photoshos memory space. It used to be that KPT powertools, and Mr Sa'ki's plugins were the only PITI plugins besides... ready? Scanner plugins. Scanner Plugins and the TWAIN interface have to be PITI plugins because when an image is being scanned, photoshop cannot allocate the memory for it from its space beforehand. Its left for the PITI plugin to allocate memory dynamically while its scanning. Ever notice how scanning a file, and saving it is a LOT slower than opening a file and saving it? And its not just the scanning part thats slower. its because a PITI plugin does not have full access to the filesystem. Did you get all that?
There are now 4 plugin types. but its not pertinant to this discussion.
BTW, everything I know about this technology I learned from the author of Mr Sa'ki's plugins.
You are running a seperate HD for swap space arent you? Yes?
Nick Nolte has volunteered to personally pick up every toy bead set at your home...
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/nolte1.html
He claims that he personally knows of the dangers of GBH...
I finally figured out why 'virtualization' bugs me so much.
Its TIMESHARING! Duh! ( Not timeslicing! )
Check it out: Google search for Acid Rain MYTH:
http://www.fortfreedom.org/n15.htm
"THE CONTINUING MYTHOLOGY ABOUT ACID RAIN (8/31/1989)"
If Acid rain was called a Myth in 1989, and its an accept fact now. ( Shuddap you no holocost guys.)
It tool 28 years to be accepted as on general principal to be true.
It took at least 5 years for the existance of HIV/AIDS to impact the screening of blood.
What do you think the acceptance rate for global warming will be?
How long before we ban the flying of airplanes in the stratosphere?
Your call
had a Masspar MP-2, ( actually 5 of them linked together ).
Would that comparison be to what schools are using on a desktop machine, or compared to what is availble to most bioinformatic facilities?
No mention of folding at home.
( love the Canadian Bacon comment!!!)
Rather than poke much fun at the Yale researchers, I want to cite the work of Drew Schindell. The latest ideas regarding planetary ozone destruction is a sequence of 10 counter intuitive steps. Most of which have led to the complete dismissal of the ideas, and preventing it from being accepted. After years of study, it is slowly becoming an acute area of study.
Three of the most counter intuitive parts are:
1. Most ozone gets destroyed in years of STABILITY of the polar stratospheric clouds.
2. Most ozone gets destroyed as the STABILITY produces COLDER temperatures.
3. Its INDIRECT sunlight, during the first light of the Antarctic spring that the most ozone loss is observed.
What does your intuition say? Mine said INSTABILITY, HEAT and DIRECT light.
These counter intuitive ideas, and the fact that planetary atmospheric modeling moves very slowly in terms of scientific acceptance may prove to be catastrophic.
How long was the flat earth theory accepted fact? Again, counter-intuitive ideas in a scientific perspective.
Lastly, isnt spelling in the english language counter-intuitive?
"This experiment shows that there isn't always much conscious thought going on," said one researcher." Would this, perhaps be self-referental?
Dealing with multiple conflicting thoughts, in more simpler terms, grocking paradox, and actually looking and accepting counter intuitive thoughts, is not an inntely mamillian phenomonon.
( Lord knows how much I wish good spelling was inately mamillian.)
Look at how cats and mice behaive in the wild in dealing with fear. They sence the danger, access the situation, and in the face of fear, can act anyway. From this perspective, it is not a language/intelligence phenomon. Where as, denyl, and deception... Hmm... Can puffer fish be accused of deception? Leopard spots?
There is HUGE amount of anthropomorphizing going on here. After RTFA, their defintion of Cognitive Dissonance, albet dated, now encompasses a lot more types of language/thought based processes. I wouldn't give these YALE researchers a grade of C. As always, there is much, much more research to be done. ( Their scientific method is good, but the concolusions...The thing that this study definatly proves... Eddie VanHalen is NOT a monkey. ( He chooses BLUE M&Ms )). Pffft
Of course the next version of the XBox 360, the XBox 361, is going to have a Parental Unit shutdown feature.
Of course Mr Torvalds didnt write a kernel himself. He looked at Minux, though he could do better and he did. He used the work of GNU, and Richard Stallmans project. "In 1990, A finnish student by name Linus Torvalds studying in the University of Helsinki came into contact with Andy Tanenbaum's OS, Minix. Linus wanted to upgrade Minix by putting in more features and improvements."
Have you read Linus's first post? I did. WHEN IT WAS FIRST POSTED. We had the source uuencoded, chopped into 6k emails and forwarded from uwasa.fi. We looked at it, got it actually to compile, and CURSED LIKE HELL ABOUT MISSING THE FINNISH KEYBOARD. ( we 'overlooked' that part ).
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.minix/browse_thread/thread/e3df794a2bce97da/2194d253268b0a1b?lnk=gst&q=linus#2194d253268b0a1b
I know who Willy Tarreau is. He is the Linux Kernel maintainer, for Kernel 2.4. Ill talk to him personally thanks.
I met Mr Bushnell. He said Diablo II looked cute, and that his grandson played it.
::))
What about...nethack/SpaceInvaders/SpaceWar(PrePong)/Doom/Marathon?
Shoudn't we be arguing about best of breed? ( Hmm... I do like that comment about Portal
I really think your blowing smoke on this one:
:-)"
"Also, modding a 8088 motherboard to accept a second 8088 on the 8087 socket
was definitely fun. There was no cache coherency problems at that time. You
just had to invert A19 to make the second one boot at 512 kB and the bus arbiter
let them work in parallel. It was really cool to have an 8088-SMP
The second 8808 would boot ROM BIOS, and start spitting up on the default monitor, copy the intrupt table to 08000, but would only have 128k to work with, the first intrrupt it hit, to load from a disk, would start both processors running on return from the INT. In fact you could just easyly hang this box with INT-20. both processors would be executing the same code at the same time. It would only be a matter of seconds before some interlock hung the machine. It would be a really fun thing to watch. But WORK? NIFMY.
Do you catch a lot of people with this one? OR
Do you catch more people with the Sanyo BIOS rewrite? 8k certainly isnt enough room to fix the video card IO problem.
In 1951, at McGill University, in Canada, a group of grad students were put in a dark chamber.
http://www.samadhitank.com/sensorydep.html
"Years later, 1961, Hebb published an introductory note in the book, "Sensory Deprivation" which shed light on the true original purpose..."the work we have done at McGill University began, actually, with the problem of "brainwashing".We were not permitted to say so in the first publishing. What we did say however was true-"
Wbat the found is for the unwitting subjects, the amount of time spent in sensory deprivation, the more personality changed. Most of those subjects who spent more then 3 days, deprived of only the minumum of senses, had experenced a complete change of personality. Almost all long term subjects dropeed out of school.
The subjects earned about $5/day as a stipend.
can you Mod parent +11"
/. because of brilliance like this. You will know who I am on wikipedia, becuase this quote will appear on my user page.
"That's the whole point. If half of the effort that some people put into finding articles to mark for deletion, deliberating and discussing deletion, checking, verifying and then finally deleting the article - if half of the effort people put into destroying content were instead put into creating or improving content, Wikipedia would be so much better."
I am an editor of wikipedia. I have written a few hundered articles, and edited a few thoursand more. I read
Even on laptops, I turn of ALL APCI junk, ( They are turned off in the bios of the Sony Vio, I am typing this on. )
The APCI needs to be completely rethough from the concept on. I have never seen a good implementation of it, and its the thing most often fixed in BIOS updates. Starting from that level, no operating system can overcome the crippleware that APCI is, except by bypassing BIOS. Mac OS 8.6 thru 9.2.2 handled the interface amd program control the best, but the OS was so power-saving unfriendly that it made little diffrence in the long run. ( i.e. shortly after a spindown or unload cycle, it would powerup...after about 4 or 5 of these, it would stop powering the drive up, and you could run fast and long without HD spinnign up, the screen semi-dim, and the CPU flying away. )
Its sad that so few users experence the actualy design and implementation of good power saving.
Mabye when the cost of electric power is 10x what it is today, the issue will be revisited as something vagely inportant...
This is the company who front-ran me:
http://srsplus.com/en-def-417bf0e62ada/en/srsplus/about_srsplus.shtml
I typed in a domain to search, next day it was registered.
Now its owned by someone in Oregon(lisalisalisa), and managed by a bogus
domain name called 'mws.net'
This is SCARY, apparently there is a 'domaintools.com' website with all kind of nifty 'were tracking your Domain interest' type of tools. If you want to find out how unscrupulus DNS or who is providers try seeking out 'BMUG.COM' I used to volunteer at 'bmug.org' and listened to the sheer number of problems they had with 'BMUG.COM' ( now, I think owned by tucows.com ).
" The domain name www.bmug.com is for sale Prices in the region of US$4625" ( this from Get On The Web Limited ) It gets better...much better "Get On The Web Limited registered for its own websites, portals and client projects a number of generic domain names (including this one) some years ago, "
Hmmm since BMUG.ORG is about 23 years old...it would have this statemake a COMPLETE AND TOTAL LIE:
"Get On The Web Limited does not knowingly register and/or offer for sale domain names which are registered trade marks."
http://www.dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm 'By Ron Jackson'
"The AfternicDLS targets small and medium sized businesses, selling the majority of their domains in the four-figure range, but despite that tight focus every now and then they reel in a whale."
http://www.afternicdls.com/ The aftermarket trading in your domain names.
with bmug.net Bid: 700 Ask:972 No Reserve Bid Now!!!
We dont need no stenkin trademarks...
The domain name industry is where all those used car salesmen ended up.
Distributed command function:
"2. Storm is designed like an ant colony, with separation of duties. Only a small fraction of infected hosts spread the worm. A much smaller fraction are C2: command-and-control servers. The rest stand by to receive orders. By only allowing a small number of hosts to propagate the virus and act as command-and-control servers, Storm is resilient against attack. Even if those hosts shut down, the network remains largely intact, and other hosts can take over those duties."
The botnet can be partitioned into sub-nets by the use of keys, (i.e. unique digital identifiers)
so that ( simplified ), a command can be sent to a distribution point in the form
To: Section Three, high communication rate hosts
From: Command Key 4
Re: Reconfiguration
Command:
Flip a coin and divide yourself into two more botnets called S3A S3B.
Those in group A, go into which communication mode, and get more serfs.
( and command classify them to either hide out or join group S3A, and follow what they do)
Those in group B,
Await payload contents from This list of servers and distribute accordingly ).
All written in encrypted command language the author designed.
I have no idea of the actual mechanism, and if I did, I wouldn't be posting it in a public forum.
Much easier to post change machine hacks to get the FBI a knockin...
Bruce Schneier is great as his description of what the worm does.
He, by nessesity has to keep some details secret, otherwise two things might happen:
Someone could subvert the botnet network, and make it more hostile,
(Its still a bit wimply by virulent standards),
or tip off the author to hidden detection mechenims.
I get about 2 or 3 botnet emails a day,
and its rather obivious how to control them,
and mitigate them, if you read the messages.
( i.e. look at the both the human plausibility factor
and the tiny technical tidbits. )
DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINKS WITHOUT FULL VIRUS PROTECTION,
AND THE ABILITY TO AUDIT PROCESSES, DLL AND ACTIVE X CONTROLS.
ok. Your gonna need a tutor or teacher to correct your work.
::))
But here is my two cents. ( Umm BA Math Analisys )
I did these things:
1. Work out EVERY PROPBLEM. ( No royal road, just practice )...
Do the examples, the simple problems, the good problems, and tackle the tough problems.
( and you will notice your correcting other mistakes...like the teachers
I had large binders full of paper left from courses. ( and you know that thing...Show Your Work, start with showing everything, and you'll soon get to the point where you can do an increadible amount in your head...I fixed my addtion problems and my multiplication problems that plagued me from elementry school, and actually started liking trigonometery )( too bad my spelling still needs work. )
2. Mark your work up in RED INK for mistakes, BLUE INK for the corrections, missing formulas, etc.
You also start to learn tricks that allow you to check your work faster.
3. Set aside 3-3 hours sessions a week. Mine were Teu, Thu, Sat or Sun,
and READ Ahead, review, and look over your past work.
( This has a basis in psychology, called prograde/retrograde interference )
Since I have also tutored math, I have several sucess stories. All this because I failed Trig. 2nd time, I got more As then Bs, and Aced the class. Got As from then on until my degree was done.
Dr. Drew Shindell is an ozone specialist and climatologist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. >
You have to answer the question: How many people have to die before global warming is real?
How many people have to die from AIDS before the blood suppy is suspect?
How many people have to die before school violence becomes a 'Problem'?
and of course, the one almost no one is looking at:
How many people have to die of carconoma, before the ozone hole becomes real?
Dr Jamie Abarca's paper was accepted for publicaion by a refreed journal
Who do you know at Argoone?
Here is a link to my buddie, the guy who had my hair standing on end during first semester calculus.
Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass (Weierstraß)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Weierstrass
Mark Twain wrote:
Hilbert curves are special cases of a Weinerstrauss Monster, so named, because Weinerstrauss worked on curves that were continious, and diffrentiable nowhere.
Please call these curves, Weierstrass Monsters.
So, a bit of History, Weinerstrauss was looking at the curves in the 1870s, Hilbert came along around 1890, and Maldenbront with the help of computers looked at them in the 1970s.
http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/61209.html ( text, but excellent refrence for Math )
Good one. Very Insightfull.
... get ready star trek fans... PLAZMA...
The point at which water and steam are the same is a line, actulally of pressure, that goes down to its 'Triple' point. Where without a change in potential, H2O can exist in all three phases. If you increase its pressure/temprature way up, like you say to 340^o C, then all the electrons cannot attach themselves to the molicules, and the electrical properties are lost, and the gas enters the fouth state of matter called
Seems that some gases when exposed to electrical current, at room tempretures, when they strip their electrons off, give off diffrent wavelengths of light... so if you can arrainge them in a matrix, you have a Plazma TV/Display.
Uhh.. There is a problem with Heavy water. Really bad to drink... Particularly hard-hit by heavy water are the delicate assemblies of mitotic spindle formation necessary for cell division in eukaryotes. Regular tap water gives off neutrons too, but not in any sufficent quantity to be dangerous. Almost undetectible from the backround radiation. A molocule of heavy water is about 1 in 41 Million. so to get a gallon of heavy water, you need to process at least 4 times that amount.
Think 10 days of clean mississippi flow.
(And you did guess right about the number of types of ice. Of course there is a S.F. Book called Ice-9, but its fictional)
If you take water, as steam, and swril it around a cylinder, the heaver molocules will move to the sides, where you can siphon them off. Turns out that 90cm are about right for this. SO when a county like Iraq starts ordering up a storm of 90cm alumium tubes...
BUT, inorder to get enough water to seperate out the heavy molocules, you need an enoumus water source. In Germany, they used alpine rivers as the water source. In Iraq, you would need an extrodinarly large amount of fresh water to putify out the heavy water, and by the time the Tigrus and Euprhaties rivers reach Bagdad... the water is sufficently polluted to make it unusable for heavy water production. Now, if you had a place with heavy rainfall, little air pollution, like North Korea, you can make lots of heavy water, and of course sell it to the Iraqis.
It realy doesnt take much to figure this stuff out.
Does any one see the connection?
Novell Makes Linux Driver Project a Reality?
AMD Releases Register Specs For R5xx And R6xx?
Does this mean that the "Novell have released a first alpha quality Open Source drivers"
will go to beta, and then GM?
The combination of these two ideas, only two days apart.
I would *LOVE* to see 2D acceleration on my X1300 in Linux.
That would be so cool!
Never happen in these United States:
Two very prodominate reasons:
1. It completes with the oil companines/car companies. They will block you with safty ledgslation and lobby you back to the dark ages. ( Note: NO such system has ever been built to full scale. Think about the Oakland Airport to BART? LAX to Downtown or LA to Palm Springs. )
2. The US DOT is NOT interested in small scale systems. They only are interested in trains that can carry 100+ passingers at commute hour. That is THEIR definition of efficency. I would suppose from reviewing both the wikipedia article, the SI article, and the US Dept of commerce, that the system only works in small scale light vehicles. perfect for Airports. Hmm. NO mention of any airports in US adopting them.
That leaves the casinos in NV and Disney. Wait until gasoline is $30/gal, and then you may see some progress.