This strikes me as a smart move. How many here discovered Linux while looking for a development platform as a student?
All the fellow students I know who do programming in VS have a pirated copy. The price isn't really an issue when it comes to the decision of whether using Windows or Linux as development platform.
He didn't seem to realise that the "Idle" entry isn't actually a process...
What would you call it instead? It is kind of a process. It just doesn't take part in the normal scheduling process as it is running at DPC/dispatch level. It also doesn't have a normal priority but is ranked as lowest-prio process just below the zero page thread (has priority of 0). Articles and tools saying that the idle thread runs at priority 0 are wrong.
For a tad more information look at this explanation of its functionality.
During a visit to a pumping station buffering natural gas from a pipeline in an old gas "mine" we had to leave all our mobile phones at the place where we put on the working suits and helmets. They told us that sparks inside the phone could ignite the gas which might possibly be in the air.
This was also where they mix the typical gas stench into the normally odourless natural gas.
At one time we were in a sealed cabin built around the point where the pipes enter the mine. The cabin wasn't all that big and was pretty cramped with all my classmates. The guide told us that should a fire break out we would have 30 seconds to get out of the cabin before the doors closed and it was filled with carbon dioxide to extinguish the fire.
The next 5 minutes while he was explaining what each machine does one could feel everybody's anxious looks at the door. I nearly freaked out when suddenly his mobile started ringing. He later explained that his phone was specially designed not to create any sparks.
(Repeat until BUGS = 0) Which presumably happens when the bug count wraps around from 2^31 to -2^31+1 then up to zero...
Maybe this is the basis for Microsoft release schedules?
That watch may come in handy for lab workers. At some of my university's labs chemistry/physicist students have to wear a radiation detection device that doesn't immediately show the amount of radation received. Rather it has to be sent to a lab every month or so and they then measure if you've been exposed too much and therefore have to stay out of the lab for some time. With this device the procedure seems to be much more safe and hassle free. Something like an immediate children/no children display.
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Also, if biodiesel gets off the ground all those poor whining farmers can grow fuel instead of having to survive on subsidies. It is corn oil based so we can grow our own and forget the middle east !!! That is ecologically and economically sound.
I hope you understand the environmental problems that will arise if "all those poor whining farmers" start growing fuel:
monocropping (easy spread of pests and diseases)
soil degradation
destroying of unique biotopes
Brazil, the world's largest producer of sugarcane, uses the sugar mainly to produce alcohol which is used as fuel. This paper from the University of Sao Paolo discusses the problems that arise from the massive growing of sugarcane: mainly the destroying of large parts of the rain forest, soil degradation and erosion.
If oil runs out, fuel crops (or fuel cells) may well be the sole chance of keeping our current habits of driving. Nevertheless we will have to deal with the new problems that arise from monocropping and the massive cropping of fuel producing plants in general.
This month NASA tried to put an end to the controversy by commissioning a definitive account of the evidence for the landings. Days later it dropped the idea after criticism that it was wasting money by taking on the lunatic fringe: naturally, this only boosted claims that the agency was trying to hide something.
As some comments have already pointed out configuration changes on different Unices will be a pain. You need scripts which distinguish between them and this can be quite messy with all the clauses. cfengine makes this a lot easier and also keeps the configuration files readable. In addition it has some nice file mangament (moving, archiving, deleting, permissions) and text editing functionality. It also allows you to deploy changes from a central workstation to hundreds of clients with ease.
If anybody is interested, here is an article which explains how the KDE component model works. I'm not familiar with the topic so you've got to see yourself if the article is worth reading.
Although watching films in their original language is much more fun and convincing, I have to say that the dubbers for German do a pretty good job. To be honest, I don't really look at the movement of the lips and they have scriptwriters and professional actors to snyc with the body movement anyway. I don't know how crappy US dubbing is but in German it's not really disturbing.
Much worse for quality, though, are subtitles. Not only because they overlap some parts of the screen but also because they convey only a small percentage of the meaning. Think of IRCing with somebody. Why do you need all those emoticons? Right, because he/she can't hear the subtle differences in your voice that you use to express feelings and put some meaning into the sentence.
So while dubbbing is not perfect, it's definitely the most advanced technique, also because the dubbers nowadays work together with the film producers. Although it might be cool and technically possible to sync the lip movement with the characters in FF, I think it's hardly worth the trouble. If they developed a device so that it could be done easily in the future, I'd be absolutely for it but they are already late and I want to see that film soon.
Do you think a PIII 600 with 128 MB RAM is good enough to get it going fast over 100 MBit? That's what we have and apparently it isn't quite sufficient. Perhaps something is misconfigured. Any ideas?
I think the real issue is that X isn't well designed for low bandwidth use - try something like MS (ick, I know) terminal services, and it's quite useable over 128k isdn, or even over 56k if neccesary. It can be done - it just needs a more efficient use of bandwidth than X currently does.
I completely agree with you on the first point, but the statement about the Windows Terminal service shows that you don't seem to have it used once. In our school we've got 100 MBit LAN and Terminal Server is still slow as a snail. I can't imagine running it over ISDN, let alone modem.
So the CSIS says there is a security risk because someone could gain insight into the code:
"Whoever stole proprietary secrets at the heart of the ubiquitous Windows program can hack into any PC in the world that uses it and is connected to the Internet".
They seem to hold the view that security can only be preserved by keeping the code closed. This statement implies that open source software is inherently insecure. The good thing is that nobody can verify that Microsoft has actually done some work to improve the security of it's products whereas in open source projects it's not that of a problem to admit having security issues much less showing the solution to the problem. Let's hope this fact will convince people to be wary when using closed source products in production use.
In my physics class I've learned that it's exactly those high frequencies the human ear can't hear that make the sound more vivid and rich. Our teacher told us that they aren't percepted by the ear itself but by the bones next to the ear. This seems to somehow stimulate the ear's nerves, just in a different way. The effect of vibrating bones of the head is for example used by the Aboriginees when they play the didgeridoo for meditation.
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This strikes me as a smart move. How many here discovered Linux while looking for a development platform as a student?
All the fellow students I know who do programming in VS have a pirated copy. The price isn't really an issue when it comes to the decision of whether using Windows or Linux as development platform.
He didn't seem to realise that the "Idle" entry isn't actually a process...
What would you call it instead? It is kind of a process. It just doesn't take part in the normal scheduling process as it is running at DPC/dispatch level. It also doesn't have a normal priority but is ranked as lowest-prio process just below the zero page thread (has priority of 0). Articles and tools saying that the idle thread runs at priority 0 are wrong. For a tad more information look at this explanation of its functionality.
During a visit to a pumping station buffering natural gas from a pipeline in an old gas "mine" we had to leave all our mobile phones at the place where we put on the working suits and helmets. They told us that sparks inside the phone could ignite the gas which might possibly be in the air.
This was also where they mix the typical gas stench into the normally odourless natural gas.
At one time we were in a sealed cabin built around the point where the pipes enter the mine. The cabin wasn't all that big and was pretty cramped with all my classmates. The guide told us that should a fire break out we would have 30 seconds to get out of the cabin before the doors closed and it was filled with carbon dioxide to extinguish the fire.
The next 5 minutes while he was explaining what each machine does one could feel everybody's anxious looks at the door. I nearly freaked out when suddenly his mobile started ringing. He later explained that his phone was specially designed not to create any sparks.
Could this be any easier than
1) Open source
2) ????
3) Profit
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Already slashdotted.
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According to this article (Windows 2000 Has 65,000+ Bugs) Microsoft must be using unsigned short ints. They wrap at 65,000+ (more exactly at 65535).
That watch may come in handy for lab workers. At some of my university's labs chemistry/physicist students have to wear a radiation detection device that doesn't immediately show the amount of radation received. Rather it has to be sent to a lab every month or so and they then measure if you've been exposed too much and therefore have to stay out of the lab for some time.
With this device the procedure seems to be much more safe and hassle free. Something like an immediate children/no children display.
I hope you understand the environmental problems that will arise if "all those poor whining farmers" start growing fuel:
- monocropping (easy spread of pests and diseases)
- soil degradation
- destroying of unique biotopes
Brazil, the world's largest producer of sugarcane, uses the sugar mainly to produce alcohol which is used as fuel. This paper from the University of Sao Paolo discusses the problems that arise from the massive growing of sugarcane: mainly the destroying of large parts of the rain forest, soil degradation and erosion.Scientists from Australia (the third largest producer of sugarcane) also see problems with large-scale monocropping.
If oil runs out, fuel crops (or fuel cells) may well be the sole chance of keeping our current habits of driving. Nevertheless we will have to deal with the new problems that arise from monocropping and the massive cropping of fuel producing plants in general.
This month NASA tried to put an end to the controversy by commissioning a definitive account of the evidence for the landings. Days later it dropped the idea after criticism that it was wasting money by taking on the lunatic fringe: naturally, this only boosted claims that the agency was trying to hide something.
Do you think the Russians have a veneratic fringe?
The specifications say:
Recording
- 64-160 kbps
- MP3 format
on an executive level can be seen quite clearly when looking at this page and choosing "Load Map" and "Microsoft and HP shake hands".
If you want to know more about the connections of the most powerful people to various companies you should look at the project They rule.
As some comments have already pointed out configuration changes on different Unices will be a pain. You need scripts which distinguish between them and this can be quite messy with all the clauses. cfengine makes this a lot easier and also keeps the configuration files readable. In addition it has some nice file mangament (moving, archiving, deleting, permissions) and text editing functionality. It also allows you to deploy changes from a central workstation to hundreds of clients with ease.
If anybody is interested, here is an article which explains how the KDE component model works. I'm not familiar with the topic so you've got to see yourself if the article is worth reading.
Although watching films in their original language is much more fun and convincing, I have to say that the dubbers for German do a pretty good job. To be honest, I don't really look at the movement of the lips and they have scriptwriters and professional actors to snyc with the body movement anyway. I don't know how crappy US dubbing is but in German it's not really disturbing.
Much worse for quality, though, are subtitles. Not only because they overlap some parts of the screen but also because they convey only a small percentage of the meaning. Think of IRCing with somebody. Why do you need all those emoticons? Right, because he/she can't hear the subtle differences in your voice that you use to express feelings and put some meaning into the sentence.
So while dubbbing is not perfect, it's definitely the most advanced technique, also because the dubbers nowadays work together with the film producers. Although it might be cool and technically possible to sync the lip movement with the characters in FF, I think it's hardly worth the trouble. If they developed a device so that it could be done easily in the future, I'd be absolutely for it but they are already late and I want to see that film soon.
Do you think a PIII 600 with 128 MB RAM is good enough to get it going fast over 100 MBit? That's what we have and apparently it isn't quite sufficient. Perhaps something is misconfigured. Any ideas?
I completely agree with you on the first point, but the statement about the Windows Terminal service shows that you don't seem to have it used once. In our school we've got 100 MBit LAN and Terminal Server is still slow as a snail. I can't imagine running it over ISDN, let alone modem.
floki
So the CSIS says there is a security risk because someone could gain insight into the code:
"Whoever stole proprietary secrets at the heart of the ubiquitous Windows program can hack into any PC in the world that uses it and is connected to the Internet".
They seem to hold the view that security can only be preserved by keeping the code closed. This statement implies that open source software is inherently insecure. The good thing is that nobody can verify that Microsoft has actually done some work to improve the security of it's products whereas in open source projects it's not that of a problem to admit having security issues much less showing the solution to the problem. Let's hope this fact will convince people to be wary when using closed source products in production use.
floki
You could have won one in the morning on Live! Radio ;-)
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In my physics class I've learned that it's exactly those high frequencies the human ear can't hear that make the sound more vivid and rich. Our teacher told us that they aren't percepted by the ear itself but by the bones next to the ear. This seems to somehow stimulate the ear's nerves, just in a different way. The effect of vibrating bones of the head is for example used by the Aboriginees when they play the didgeridoo for meditation.