Some people have argued that in a particular library/program compiling for -march= with gcc (as opposed to most of the binary distros -mcpu=) only leads to a 2-3% improvement in speed per program/libary. If true (and only that much), that adds up, X is 3% faster, Qt is 3% faster, kdelibs is 3% faster, konqueror is 3% faster= 112.6% faster, which is better than the change between any of the Pentium 4 Extremely expensive edition, and Athlon 64 (of which I have not seen ONE mainstream benchmark site running in 64-bit mode...Windows (beta) or Linux) Many over clockers don't get that much performance increase stablily.
What?!?!
Are you implying that by adding libraries, your program will run faster? Hmm. My program is running slow today, better link in libz, that will give me a 3% performance boost!
Rather, what you meant to say is that you will only see a 3% performance improvement if every single library that your program uses is also compiled with -march=... otherwise the performance won't even be that much better...
the french were the only ones who actively aided the nazis in rounding up jews and sending them to the ovensBullshit!
Read your history on Poland, Latvia, Austria, Lithuania, and Romania.
Or, if books are too much work, try watching the film "The Pianist". Roman Polanski, the director, is Polish, and that really helps to add the realistic feel of the film.
This is the guy who refuses to follow the proper procedures laid out hundreds of years ago by the French revolutionaries (you all know what I mean), etc
I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
What I think he meant is that we are meant to chop off the kings head. I guess the analogy would extend to Bill Gates, but I'm not sure...
When I first read it I missed the "."s and read it as:
Complete rewrite will support Atomic writing, 2-5 times faster File corruption
Eek! Thankfully on re-reading, I saw that "Complete rewrite will support Atomic writing *and* 2-5 times faster *and* File corruption will be a thing of the past":-)
First up, don't get me wrong. Genetic research is incredibly useful, and as a tool in the modern medical warchest has paid great dividends. However, from the article "The emergence of these strains should pose no risk to humans, [Dr Morici] said." He goes on to say that these strains probably already exist, or have existed in the wild, but, for whatever reason, they are not viable.
Now imagine, for sake of argument, that we create a similar problem with wheat or rice, common non-human subjects of genetic manipulation. Further, assume that we don't catch it in the lab. It might not kill us directly, but by wiping out our "natural"* crops it may well starve us to death...
* "natural" since farmers have been selectively breeding grains and livestock for many centuries, it is just that recently we have improved on the technique.
Actually there is a third reason that many of us are uneasy about biometrics. You can't change, unlike, for example, passwords or some "secure token" type of device.
That means, once your identity is compromised, it stays compromised... and there is little to nothing that you can do about it.
So this is then meant to mean that you would never want to send private e-mails to friends and family then... The case in point here was Claire Swire... she was sending an e-mail to a friend.
Microsoft says a free viewing program will be available for those who receive a protected document but are not using Office 2003.
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But the programs will only run on a PC with Windows XP or 2000.
So, what happens when you want to send the e-mail to your family, who run Mac/Win 95/Win 98/Linux/Other Unix Variant?
Platform lockin anyone?
Having said that, it is a good idea. But totally non-enforceable without community buyin, and when you have community buyin it is easily circumventible...
This is just a small sample. The point is that your freedoms are being taken away, just on a small scale. A little piece at a time. Eventually, they will all be gone, and like a frog in slowly warmed water most people will never even realise...
Sorry, I had to do a doubletake on that one. What do you mean, exactly? A friend of mine constantly remarks (and she's not alone in this by far) that she can't understand why girl-on-girl is so accepted in the porn industry, but not guy-on-guy. It seems more socially acceptable, somehow, for girls to be lesbian/bisexual than for guys to be gay.
If only all life were as interesting as a porn film;-)
Seriously though... There are actually two classes of "lesbian porn" that aimed at guys, and that aimed at girls. Admittedly, the girls market is probably smaller, but there is a lot less of it. Female-Female porn for females is significantly different than it is for men... for one thing it involves a lot less strap on equipment.
In the non-porn world the discrimination against female gays is significant. Partly, I think, because we have been dealing with the issue for a much shorter period of time. The lesbian movement is somewhere about 10-15 years behind the male gay movement in terms social attitudes towards them.
No... I think you're being a bit overly serious here.
Perhaps I am being overly serious, however I think that there is a serious danger in the tendency to trivialise that which we currently take for granted. In trivialising these things we make them less valuable.
It's funny (as in odd or strange to ponder) that at the time this was a huge issue, yet now we take it for granted. It is strange for the current generation to ponder that there ever was a time where women's right to vote could have ever been questioned.
You say that we take it for granted, yet check out these statistics:
Comparison of society attitudes to homosexual men and women. (sorry can't find a link for this one, but lesbian women are by far more discriminated against than gay men)
Admittedly the situation is 1000% better than it used to be. They do have the right to vote, but Suffrage was about more than just the vote. It was about equal rights in all aspects of society. You are right that many people just take the current situation for granted, that is why I compared it to the aprtheid regime... many people still find that outrageous.
It is a subject worth examining. It wasn't that long ago, really. Looking at the parallels between surveillance then and surveillance now should make us question why we are still watching dissidents today, and are today's dissidents tomorrow's heroes? And if that's so, why aren't they today's heroes?
As another poster wrote, todays terrorists are tomorrows heroes. Yes, the women in the Suffrage movement were considered to be terrorists... and indeed many of their actions would get them labelled as terrorists today.
The blahblah chronicle has an article, funny because [of] the time that has passed, but extremely serious at the time, about the efforts of the South African government to keep an eye on black rights advocates.
What?!?
How could that possibly be not funny?!?
Oh I get it... we're still meant to laugh at women and their attempts to get equal rights. Doh! I should of guessed earlier!!!
I'm sorry, but this is just as serious now, as it was back then... and a timely reminder that the government cannot be trusted to respect the privacy of the citizens that make their constituency. Think about it...
You know the one... your computer would freeze up as the C64 used every last ounce of its power to pump out the immortal words:
"Another Visitor, Stay a while.... STAY FOREVER!!!"
*sigh*
Thanks for the good memories!
Actually, it's neither micro, nor soft, but it's a mighty fine keyboard. Unfortuanately, it is discontinued, but it was widely available, which is also a plus. I don't know about it's successor, the natural multimedia keyboard, but apart from a lot of colors it looks the same.
The Microsoft natural multimedia is quite nice, but suffers from the exact same problem that the author mentioned above... that is it has a "F lock" key which turns the keys from their normal useful function key status into a retarded totally non-standard configuration. By default it runs in retarded mode.
In the future I can see that XFree will have an option to just ignore the "F lock" and turn both sets of keycodes into normal sane function keys.
For small inventors, it argues, the cost of globalizing the rights for their invention are just unbearable. For example, in Europe it costs about $7,000 per country to file a patent application.
The EPO, when it grants a patent, grants a patent to cover all of the EU. I don't know what the costs are, but I am fairly certain that it is less than $84,000...
There does seem to be one clever thing they are doing. From their web page:
..The next time you visit the Amazon home page (which may have changed since the last visit), the following events occur:
Your request for the Web page is automatically routed by the Propel Client to the Propel Network.
The Propel Network retrieves the requested Web page from the Amazon Web site. Having identified the page elements that had previously been retrieved in a prior visit, the Propel Network only compresses and transmits those components that changed.
Data already stored on your PC - plus any new decoded page elements - are assembled locally by the Propel Client and delivered to the Web browser.
Diffs! That's actually a good idea and it really would work.
RProxy also does this... Monash University in Australia used to offer this as a service to their students. Apparently made dialup browsing acceptable. Especially if you consider sites like Slashdot which only change a little at a time...
The only quote that comes close to asserting what the punchline claims is this:
The new law, precipitated by the EU's Information Society Directive, makes it an offence to "communicate to the public" copyright works, such as software, if the person knew or had reason to believe that this would infringe copyright.
Nowhere do I see where it says that if your machine is hacked and someone steals office from your machine that you are liable. Everything in the article clearly states that this only applies to people who allow people to download copyright material.
Licences for macromedia (that control app was made legally, right?)
A Foosball table...
If I had all that lying around I am sure that I could of done it for $50 as well.... If not... well the licence for W2K alone would break that budget. And that is the cheapest item on the list!
Not trying to take anything away from the hack, it was very cool, but saying that it cost $50 strikes me as a bit rich....
BUT if you think about the bandwidth requirements of streaming then it becomes hard for the mobile infrastructure to support.
20 million phones, say only 1% active at a time means 200,000 phones active, each streaming at 256 kilobits means 6400000 kilo bytes of bandwidth required. In other words that is 6.4 GigaBYTES of bandwith required by the mobile network.
Yes, but if we assume that this 1% usage rate is true, then that means that each person would be viewing (on average) 1 minute of video, every 100 minutes, or 15 minutes of video per day!
Further, lets assume that this is true, and that the 256kbs thing is also true, that is 480 Kilobytes in traffic per person per day. Looking at current plans that is around 50Euro cents per person per day (at the cheapest rates), or in other words we are talking a 10 million Euro revenue stream per day.
If this was possible, then you can be sure that the phone companies would ensure that the bandwidth was there!
Dude, the whole idea with the Pringles-can's is that you DON'T use more power, rather you use a bigger antenna. Everyone I know doing the Pringles can setup is staying below the 1w power limit.
This is not entirely true, the "bigger antenna" as you put it, is actually a directional antenna. The card may well be putting out the same power, but in the direction that your can is facing you have a much stronger signal. Strictly speaking, if the antenna is good, it is illegal.
Think of it this way, it is not how pwerful the card is, but rather how "visible" the signal is. With the normal omnidirectional antenna the signal is quite dull, but with a directional antenna the signal is brighter, which is why you can "see" it further away, but only on the line of direction of the signal.
This is not really on the topic of the story, but it is important that people realise this...
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Are you implying that by adding libraries, your program will run faster? Hmm. My program is running slow today, better link in libz, that will give me a 3% performance boost!
Rather, what you meant to say is that you will only see a 3% performance improvement if every single library that your program uses is also compiled with -march=... otherwise the performance won't even be that much better...
They have a pre2 release candidate already as well...
Complete rewrite will support Atomic writing, 2-5 times faster File corruption
Eek! Thankfully on re-reading, I saw that "Complete rewrite will support Atomic writing *and* 2-5 times faster *and* File corruption will be a thing of the past" :-)
Now imagine, for sake of argument, that we create a similar problem with wheat or rice, common non-human subjects of genetic manipulation. Further, assume that we don't catch it in the lab. It might not kill us directly, but by wiping out our "natural"* crops it may well starve us to death... * "natural" since farmers have been selectively breeding grains and livestock for many centuries, it is just that recently we have improved on the technique.
That means, once your identity is compromised, it stays compromised... and there is little to nothing that you can do about it.
That is why I don't like biometrics...
*sigh*
I know, I know... I'm a luddite...
How would this of helped her?
+1!
:-\
I hate to do it... but I am posting a ME TOO
Anyway, I would definitely recommend Gandi to anyone (and have done so in the past...)
Platform lockin anyone?
Having said that, it is a good idea. But totally non-enforceable without community buyin, and when you have community buyin it is easily circumventible...
- CAPPS is not a state program... it is federal.
- The FBI is federal
This is just a small sample. The point is that your freedoms are being taken away, just on a small scale. A little piece at a time. Eventually, they will all be gone, and like a frog in slowly warmed water most people will never even realise...Seriously though... There are actually two classes of "lesbian porn" that aimed at guys, and that aimed at girls. Admittedly, the girls market is probably smaller, but there is a lot less of it. Female-Female porn for females is significantly different than it is for men... for one thing it involves a lot less strap on equipment.
In the non-porn world the discrimination against female gays is significant. Partly, I think, because we have been dealing with the issue for a much shorter period of time. The lesbian movement is somewhere about 10-15 years behind the male gay movement in terms social attitudes towards them.
- Women's Salaries in Life Sciences One-Third Less
- A Comparison of the Career Attainments
of Men and Women Healthcare Executives
- Comparison of society attitudes to homosexual men and women. (sorry can't find a link for this one, but lesbian women are by far more discriminated against than gay men)
Admittedly the situation is 1000% better than it used to be. They do have the right to vote, but Suffrage was about more than just the vote. It was about equal rights in all aspects of society. You are right that many people just take the current situation for granted, that is why I compared it to the aprtheid regime... many people still find that outrageous. As another poster wrote, todays terrorists are tomorrows heroes. Yes, the women in the Suffrage movement were considered to be terrorists... and indeed many of their actions would get them labelled as terrorists today.How could that possibly be not funny?!?
Oh I get it... we're still meant to laugh at women and their attempts to get equal rights. Doh! I should of guessed earlier!!!
I'm sorry, but this is just as serious now, as it was back then... and a timely reminder that the government cannot be trusted to respect the privacy of the citizens that make their constituency. Think about it...
You know the one... your computer would freeze up as the C64 used every last ounce of its power to pump out the immortal words: "Another Visitor, Stay a while.... STAY FOREVER!!!" *sigh* Thanks for the good memories!
Of course, only the most notable were included :-)
- A large flat screen plasma TV "lieing around"
- A spare box running W2K
- Licences for MSQL (it was legal, right?)
- Licences for macromedia (that control app was made legally, right?)
- A Foosball table...
If I had all that lying around I am sure that I could of done it for $50 as well.... If not... well the licence for W2K alone would break that budget. And that is the cheapest item on the list!Not trying to take anything away from the hack, it was very cool, but saying that it cost $50 strikes me as a bit rich....
Further, lets assume that this is true, and that the 256kbs thing is also true, that is 480 Kilobytes in traffic per person per day. Looking at current plans that is around 50Euro cents per person per day (at the cheapest rates), or in other words we are talking a 10 million Euro revenue stream per day.
If this was possible, then you can be sure that the phone companies would ensure that the bandwidth was there!
Think of it this way, it is not how pwerful the card is, but rather how "visible" the signal is. With the normal omnidirectional antenna the signal is quite dull, but with a directional antenna the signal is brighter, which is why you can "see" it further away, but only on the line of direction of the signal.
This is not really on the topic of the story, but it is important that people realise this...