... one would have to click on it, and whatever ads they are paid for will show up. Quoting 4 lines of what they say within the context of a story should fall under "fair use", IMHO.
I think it is more of a move to discourage "checking news online" in general, not that potential reader is directed to their website through google...
Yeah, a reply from an AC who jus says what I was saying -- except that it is NOT a p-code language (that name is reserved for the venerable UCSD P-code Pascal system of 80s, one of my first IDEs;-) ). I guess you did mean byte-code...
It seems that if it ain't an interpreted language, it ain't any good.
And Java is NOT??? And LISP can not be compiled??? Maybe it is this, hmm, slight misunderstanding of the basics of Java vocal proponents that turns smarter-than-median people like him off... Maybe not too much to do with language itself, but with the mindset behind it?
Then try file/home/me/image -- if disk was used just to dump data, you might as well see that it is a WAV file.
Then try strings/home/me/image|less and see if you notice anything special. If all your strings will be 4-letter random words, most probably it is encrypted and you are out of luck. Or maybe not, if they used something like XOR -- try building a hystogram of byte values distribution. If it is flat -- well, then you are screwed with a well-encrypted disk, and your best bet is to secretly ship the disk to a TLA of your country's adversary.;-)
Maybe this is why the GP had to "study" this "law", as in, produce some intuitive definition of "the value of a network" and see if the "law" holds with this definition when N increases (and for what range of N). Then produce another "definition of value" (maybe for the different customer/situation/etc.). Rinse and repeat...
Paul B.
Yeah, something that article does not bring up...
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That GCC is the staple in the embedded world. They could've mentioned that most probably it is the compiler used for the proverbias Internet toaster, or maybe even something sexier, like Formula-1 engine-tuning app...;-) Apparently the article is written to educate the "general public", would be nice to put this little tidbit into their minds..
The snag, however with alerting alarms is that after a few "false alarms" it is widely understood that alarms signals will be ignored - people assume it is a technical fault... and the criminals know this too.
Of course we know that Lisp is the only language worth coding in!;-)
"A guy on Slashdot" even made it to Paul Graham's collection of Lisp quotes:
"I have heard more than one LISP advocate state such subjective comments as, "LISP is the most powerful and elegant programming language in the world" and expect such comments to be taken as objective truth. I have never heard a Java, C++, C, Perl, or Python advocate make the same claim about their own language of choice."
Seriously, while newer-generation IDEs might be better for Java/C/C++, the cool thing about Emacs is that it has modes for all languages known to man, and then some. So if you just code in Java/C/C++ -- pick up an IDE, but if you do not know what life will send your way tomorrow -- start customizng your Emacs.
And of course good luck editing LaTeX docs in Eclipse!;-)
I've read the scenarios for the wireless kind of "mesh" which assume that "all devices are created equal", regardless of if they are routers connected to the wall outlet or a (potentially on its last drops of juice) cellphones/PDAs. If such a thing really takes off you will NEVER get "stand-by" power consumption and battery life from your (constantly transmitting other people's data) cellphone.
Please, do not laugh, but I do remember that there was an archtecture department in one of the colleges which relied on Doom engine to visualize walk-through the building. Perhaps now in the 21st century Quake is more appropriate (will give you true 3D view, not 2.5D like Doom did).
Before I realized that 'nm' are "nautical miles" (being a bit confused by 'km' right next to 'em), I thought it stood for nanometers...;-) Would be a REALLY bad range for a plane, but being able to control it down to the third digit IS remarkable;-) ).
I would not even go on the old "Soviet Russian" joke (from real Russia, back in Soviet times) -- "Why, so short? Nope, so RED!" this time;-)
Saw the (slightly faded) pic of similarly-looking plane in one of our department more (way more) senior guy's office and today asked if this is the one which is going to fly. Nope, he said, THAT one was taken long time ago, and it was a non-solo flight, and on an internal combustion engine as well. This one is solo and with a jet engine.
(And yes, he told me how he went to the Desert to see this thing take off and it was so loaded with fuel that its wings were almost touching the runway, it lost a little wing-end stabilizer during take-off and damaged another one, and still was able to fly around the globe and at the end had enough fuel to fly to the east coast!;-) ).
(then he went on to discussing different ways to take off heavy planes when you do not want to have positive lift on the runway, ours being one of the major airospace companies, after all, but we do electronics. I would share some insights if I'd still remember them...)
I have one prescription that I don't take because it costs too much -- I only take it when I have too.
Maybe it is just an American thing (I am not from this country originally), but I'd expect that a normal sane person would take some kind of hard prescription med only if he has too! Who knows what other part of your body can that drug screw up?
It is funny how people here complain about high prices drug companies pay for ads, while falling for the same ads.
At least in my worldview, I would not accept a drug which I'd have to take every day of my life unless it either a) cures me eventually or b) I can literally not live without it (and the hypertension pills my doctor pushes on me for my high blood pressure do not cut it).
Another thing (wanted to mention this in different thread, but forgot): Patent law does not prevent you from replicating the patented invention for your own research or consumption, it only prevents you from _selling_ it. So, technically, you can produce your own (patented) drugs and even give them out to people on the streets (for free) -- as far as I understand it, correct me if I am wrong, IANAL...
The answer is because many foreign governments would not hesitiate to bust a drug company patent and make the drug themselves if the drug companies tried putting the screws to their people like we get it here.
And there are many foreign governments who would not mind just letting old (and young) people starve to death, while taking some of them off with the firing squads (or maybe a good doze of one of those chemical WMDs). And the last thing on their minds would be "drug patents"... Please qualify "foreign governments", OK?
There is a good reason US is a relatively stable and prosperous country, and it is exactly the fact that, while not impossible, it is hard for the government to go after somone "just" for the "public good".
As someone else pointed out in the thread, those patents expire in 20 years, thus you can live a relatively comfortable lifestyle of '85.
Over IP it is "easy" (as in, standards exist) to support Quality of Service bits, and you can bet that police voice chat will get higher priority than some traveler's connection to maps.google.com.
In cell phone network _maybe_ something like this is possible, but it would not be that easy to adjust in real time, I'd guess...
A friend of mine told me that when he was stuck in really bad traffic on I5 (he used to commute LA to San Diego) his cellphone was almost useless exactly because everyone else was also trying to call home...
Otherwise, perfectly described Swiss bank anonymous account... "But think about the CHILDREN!"...
Yes, tehre are technical means, and then there are financial/political "considerations". I wish it would happen ike you describe, but, really, a snowball chance in hell it will, agreed?;-/
Yeah, but supercondutor electronics is not even that much of a "primary research", my story is that it is absolutely ready to be commercialized -- but it would still require more time than "3-6 month time frame". If you'd just find a way to use your chosen technology to... You'd be surprized that even this does not get gov't funding now... (but I do not want to go there).
Yours is an intelligent reply, of the kind that I wanted to see (rather than calling me names;-) ) -- yes, I was a bit provocative in my post, but not a troll -- I'm myself a "bitter old man", who came to this country to make one particular technology a reality, spent like 15 years of my life (both in university and corporate/IR&D environments) trying to nurture this technology, and now, right when we are ready to build something reasonably interesting all funding have dried out (goes to quantum computing and nanotech instead). Well, I do have my job (doing something else), and maybe we will manage to resurrect supercondutor electronics some time again, but this explains a bit of my bitterness.
OK, Cecil, probaly you have not met any of the kind because they are quite dead by now (no, I did not mean the girl in that funny hat in a tiny office in the corner of a shopping mall;-) ). I was just pointing out that in Kepler's time stargazing was quite a popular (and even lucrative!) way to spend one's life and those guys did care about calculating everything as best as they could.
And I used to be a physicist and even used to, hmm, not date, not make love, do that other thing to a real astrophysicist!;-)
Slashdot Mirror
... we did have some REALLY cool gals in our class back then! ;-)
Archaeology, maybe?...
Paul B.
... just blends way too smoothly with the body of your comment! Was it intentional, by any chance? ;-)
Paul B.
... one would have to click on it, and whatever ads they are paid for will show up. Quoting 4 lines of what they say within the context of a story should fall under "fair use", IMHO.
I think it is more of a move to discourage "checking news online" in general, not that potential reader is directed to their website through google...
Paul B.
Yeah, a reply from an AC who jus says what I was saying -- except that it is NOT a p-code language (that name is reserved for the venerable UCSD P-code Pascal system of 80s, one of my first IDEs ;-) ). I guess you did mean byte-code...
Paul B.
It seems that if it ain't an interpreted language, it ain't any good.
And Java is NOT??? And LISP can not be compiled??? Maybe it is this, hmm, slight misunderstanding of the basics of Java vocal proponents that turns smarter-than-median people like him off... Maybe not too much to do with language itself, but with the mindset behind it?
Paul B.
Yeah, I thought about mentioning that too, but take into account that the poster is not in the US and the nearest Fry's might be a bit too far. ;-)
Paul B.
dd if=/dev/hdb of=/home/me/image
/home/me/image -- if disk was
/home/me/image|less and see if you notice anything special. If all your strings will be 4-letter random words, most probably it is encrypted and you are out of luck. Or maybe not, if they used something like XOR -- try building a hystogram of byte values distribution. If it is flat -- well, then you are screwed with a well-encrypted disk, and your best bet is to secretly ship the disk to a TLA of your country's adversary. ;-)
(assuming you have free 20G on your HDD)
Then try file
used just to dump data, you might as well see that it is a WAV file.
Then try strings
Paul B.
Maybe this is why the GP had to "study" this "law", as in, produce some intuitive definition of "the value of a network" and see if the "law" holds with this definition when N increases (and for what range of N). Then produce another "definition of value" (maybe for the different customer/situation/etc.). Rinse and repeat...
Paul B.
That GCC is the staple in the embedded world. They could've mentioned that most probably it is the compiler used for the proverbias Internet toaster, or maybe even something sexier, like Formula-1 engine-tuning app... ;-) Apparently the article is written to educate the "general public", would be nice to put this little tidbit into their minds..
Paul B.
The snag, however with alerting alarms is that after a few "false alarms" it is widely understood that alarms signals will be ignored - people assume it is a technical fault... and the criminals know this too.
;-)
As illustrated in
How to steal a million movie...
Paul B.
Of course we know that Lisp is the only language worth coding in! ;-)
"A guy on Slashdot" even made it to Paul Graham's collection of Lisp quotes:
"I have heard more than one LISP advocate state such subjective comments as, "LISP is the most powerful and elegant programming language in the world" and expect such comments to be taken as objective truth. I have never heard a Java, C++, C, Perl, or Python advocate make the same claim about their own language of choice."
- A guy on Slashdot. What theory fits this data?
Yeah, eat this, all you VI fans! ;-)
;-)
Seriously, while newer-generation IDEs might be better for Java/C/C++, the cool thing about Emacs is that it has modes for all languages known to man, and then some. So if you just code in Java/C/C++ -- pick up an IDE, but if you do not know what life will send your way tomorrow -- start customizng your Emacs.
And of course good luck editing LaTeX docs in Eclipse!
Paul B.
I've read the scenarios for the wireless kind of "mesh" which assume that "all devices are created equal", regardless of if they are routers connected to the wall outlet or a (potentially on its last drops of juice) cellphones/PDAs. If such a thing really takes off you will NEVER get "stand-by" power consumption and battery life from your (constantly transmitting other people's data) cellphone.
Paul B.
Please, do not laugh, but I do remember that there was an archtecture department in one of the colleges which relied on Doom engine to visualize walk-through the building. Perhaps now in the 21st century Quake is more appropriate (will give you true 3D view, not 2.5D like Doom did).
Paul B.
Unfortunately it only had a range of 2,590 nm
;-) Would be a REALLY bad range for a plane, but being able to control it down to the third digit IS remarkable ;-) ).
;-)
Before I realized that 'nm' are "nautical miles" (being a bit confused by 'km' right next to 'em), I thought it stood for nanometers...
I would not even go on the old "Soviet Russian" joke (from real Russia, back in Soviet times) -- "Why, so short? Nope, so RED!" this time
Paul B.
Saw the (slightly faded) pic of similarly-looking plane in one of our department more (way more) senior guy's office and today asked if this is the one which is going to fly. Nope, he said, THAT one was taken long time ago, and it was a non-solo flight, and on an internal combustion engine as well. This one is solo and with a jet engine.
;-) ).
(And yes, he told me how he went to the Desert to see this thing take off and it was so loaded with fuel that its wings were almost touching the runway, it lost a little wing-end stabilizer during take-off and damaged another one, and still was able to fly around the globe and at the end had enough fuel to fly to the east coast!
(then he went on to discussing different ways to take off heavy planes when you do not want to have positive lift on the runway, ours being one of the major airospace companies, after all, but we do electronics. I would share some insights if I'd still remember them...)
Paul B.
I have one prescription that I don't take because it costs too much -- I only take it when I have too.
Maybe it is just an American thing (I am not from this country originally), but I'd expect that a normal sane person would take some kind of hard prescription med only if he has too! Who knows what other part of your body can that drug screw up?
It is funny how people here complain about high prices drug companies pay for ads, while falling for the same ads.
At least in my worldview, I would not accept a drug which I'd have to take every day of my life unless it either a) cures me eventually or b) I can literally not live without it (and the hypertension pills my doctor pushes on me for my high blood pressure do not cut it).
Another thing (wanted to mention this in different thread, but forgot): Patent law does not prevent you from replicating the patented invention for your own research or consumption, it only prevents you from _selling_ it. So, technically, you can produce your own (patented) drugs and even give them out to people on the streets (for free) -- as far as I understand it, correct me if I am wrong, IANAL...
Paul B.
The answer is because many foreign governments would not hesitiate to bust a drug company patent and make the drug themselves if the drug companies tried putting the screws to their people like we get it here.
And there are many foreign governments who would not mind just letting old (and young) people starve to death, while taking some of them off with the firing squads (or maybe a good doze of one of those chemical WMDs). And the last thing on their minds would be "drug patents"... Please qualify "foreign governments", OK?
There is a good reason US is a relatively stable and prosperous country, and it is exactly the fact that, while not impossible, it is hard for the government to go after somone "just" for the "public good".
As someone else pointed out in the thread, those patents expire in 20 years, thus you can live a relatively comfortable lifestyle of '85.
Paul B.
... to charge your phone from your car's battery!
Paul B.
Over IP it is "easy" (as in, standards exist) to support Quality of Service bits, and you can bet that police voice chat will get higher priority than some traveler's connection to maps.google.com.
In cell phone network _maybe_ something like this is possible, but it would not be that easy to adjust in real time, I'd guess...
A friend of mine told me that when he was stuck in really bad traffic on I5 (he used to commute LA to San Diego) his cellphone was almost useless exactly because everyone else was also trying to call home...
Paul B.
It is to keep the people's minds off the absurdity of "god" creating light before he "made" stars.
And you seriously think that in the Big Bang heavy protons and neutrons to build He to build stars were created BEFORE photons/radiation/light?
Paul B.
P.S. But I agree with your "PR plot" idea...
How would THEY take the transaction tax off?
;-/
Otherwise, perfectly described Swiss bank anonymous account... "But think about the CHILDREN!"...
Yes, tehre are technical means, and then there are financial/political "considerations". I wish it would happen ike you describe, but, really, a snowball chance in hell it will, agreed?
Paul
Yeah, but supercondutor electronics is not even that much of a "primary research", my story is that it is absolutely ready to be commercialized -- but it would still require more time than "3-6 month time frame". If you'd just find a way to use your chosen technology to... You'd be surprized that even this does not get gov't funding now... (but I do not want to go there).
Paul B.
Yours is an intelligent reply, of the kind that I wanted to see (rather than calling me names ;-) ) -- yes, I was a bit provocative in my post, but not a troll -- I'm myself a "bitter old man", who came to this country to make one particular technology a reality, spent like 15 years of my life (both in university and corporate/IR&D environments) trying to nurture this technology, and now, right when we are ready to build something reasonably interesting all funding have dried out (goes to quantum computing and nanotech instead). Well, I do have my job (doing something else), and maybe we will manage to resurrect supercondutor electronics some time again, but this explains a bit of my bitterness.
Paul B.
OK, Cecil, probaly you have not met any of the kind because they are quite dead by now (no, I did not mean the girl in that funny hat in a tiny office in the corner of a shopping mall ;-) ). I was just pointing out that in Kepler's time stargazing was quite a popular (and even lucrative!) way to spend one's life and those guys did care about calculating everything as best as they could.
;-)
And I used to be a physicist and even used to, hmm, not date, not make love, do that other thing to a real astrophysicist!
Paul