You have to convert them down to text or octet streams I think.
I tried Powershell a few times, but it seems like if you're not already up to your nose in.NET it is pretty hard to use and wildly verbose. It also seems like it was a little painful on the commandline, more of a scripting language than a shell. I felt like I would need an IDE with autocomplete to really get anywhere in it.
Because once a religion reaches critical mass in an area, nonbelievers are forcibly converted, either to the religion or to fine ash as they are burned at the stake. That's pretty strong selection pressure right there.
Maybe. It's entirely possible that whatever evolves there, if it even uses anything similar to DNA, will not have as robust of a damage repair mechanism as life on Earth. We really don't know. It's basically impossible to speculate at what "life" might be like on other planets, because we have literally only one example to go on at the moment.
I could only read that article with the late night salesguy's "These collector coins can only go up in value!" voice, but the content of the article was all about how it's clearly a scam and the author is obviously in on it.
To be fair, nonsensical plots are not exactly uncommon in the FF series. FFX was a huge hit and a big seller and it didn't make a lick of sense by the time you got to the end of it.
When you sell your car and the next person reports the mileage to the government as part of the normal registration process you're going to have the tax man knocking at your door, probably with a penalty for under-reporting.
Cripes, it wants the government to buy and install a bazillion fancy devices and install them on every car in the country? Well, I know one company that would like to see it pass...
Why is it this stupid idea reappears every 6 months or so? Every time it involves some expensive piece of hardware (GPS receivers for instance) that needs to be bought and installed on all umpteen million cars in the country, instead of the far more sensible solution of just having the yearly inspection guy write down the mileage off of the odometer every time you bring your car in and report that along with your results to the government. It won't work in states that don't do safety inspections, but they could work something out (owner just self reports for instance) that's about a billion times cheaper than whatever technological solution someone is trying to create a market for.
Hypercard is really not the same. I don't know about AmigaVision. When you got down to it, Hypercard still required you to enter text to get anything done.
The problem with these visual programming languages is that they make the easy stuff super easy, but never figure out a way to make the hard stuff possible, so you run into roadblocks almost immediately when you start trying to use it for real.
Because it's cheap as hell. Do you investigate the working conditions at the manufacturer for every product you buy? How about your toothbrush? Your underwear? Your ballpoint pen?
Or do you just pick the cheapest one that meets your minimum critera? It's not like manufacturers put "Made with Slave Labor!" on the package.
[blockquote]1. Prove that the problem has been recognized for some time;[/blockquote]
This is the big one for me. So many outrageous patents are just people slightly ahead of the industry trying combinations of everything they can think of that's not quite practical yet and applying for a patent on the most straightforward solution.
Hmm, my cell phone can't broadcast a picture over wireless to my TV or other screens yet, but it would be simple enough to set up with a dongle on the TV and some wifi. Lets apply for the patent on that, wait out all of the deadlines to make sure it doesn't show up in patent searches in the near term, and wait for someone to actually build it. Then, wait a few years and BAM, profits.
So maybe the cellphone screen pusher doesn't pan out. It's certainly a lot easier to think up near term inventions and write up patent applications than it is to build and market devices. I can do this all day.
Not to mention all of the time he would have lost sitting in courtrooms instead of developing the Apple II. Apple was a little garage operation back then, it's not like they had the resources to fight against RCA.
Hmm, it should be easy for someone to build a Thunderbolt->PCIe bridge then. Downside is that Thunderbolt is only about two and a half lanes worth, so running high power graphics off of it is a bad idea, but you could do a lot of other stuff with it.
Because you can't get a LightPeak capture card, or 10GB Ethernet, or pretty much anything yet? Heck, I don't think they even have 1GB Ethernet NICs for Lightpeak yet, and when someone does finally get around to making it they'll obviously put the worst (cheapest) chipset they can find on the card and sell it for four times as much as the good PCIe ones.
Honestly, when I see a police statement that says they got the guy's machine and it had 300,000 child porn images on it, my first thought is always "They caught a guy who trades in the stuff, then added up all of the jpegs they found on his system to have a number for the press". They didn't actually look to see what the images were. The general hysteria you get around this subject only amplifies the effect and there are a lot of bogus statistics made up by people with an agenda.
It's a problem, but I don't think it's nearly as large as some people might lead you to believe. This is true of a lot of other crimes as well by the way.
"Sticks" was just slang for 2x4s with siding on the outside, standard insulation, etc... Normal houses. To be fair, if the builder isn't cutting corners left and right, a house built that way and maintained will last for a hundred years or more too, but the "and maintained" part is more important than it is on homes made out of sturdier materials. If you get a termite infestation that you don't take care of, the house is not going to last that long. If your roof starts leaking and you don't take care of it the house will be trash. With a house made from concrete and stacked stones you could neglect it for years and when someone comes back all they would have to do is maybe knock the mold out (admittedly not easy) and spruce up the paint.
You could build a house to last 200 years today if you wanted. It would cost considerably more than a regular house made out of sticks, but it certainly could be done. You also wouldn't be able to sell it for anything like what you paid to build it because nobody factors in the durability of the house very much when considering what price they would pay for it. Even if you did find someone interested, their bank would just tell them that what you're asking is grossly more than the equivalent (and they're not to picky about what is "equivalent") homes in the area.
Cyber attacks are real. The Advanced Persistent Threat has been targeting government contractors for some time now with varying degrees of success. The reason it works is because the APT is very smart and very good at what they do, and the people on the defense are mostly just wage slaves that don't really understand security. That's also how a country can be so good at attack and so poor at defense at the same time. It is of no surprise at all to me that random government ministries in China are vulnerable to attack, because that's true of pretty much every country in the world. The Department of Parks and Recreation doesn't patch zero-day vulnerabilities as fast as they should, and have administrators that are likely to fall victim to social engineering attacks. It's just not something they're good at.
If you're curious what hackers can do given (likely) state sponsorship and (probably) good people working in a team, just read the report on Stuxnet. That's the sort of thing countries all around the world are doing or trying to do to one another right now. The only problem I have with the "Cold war" characterization is that it's really more of a hot war. People are actively attacking and being attacked.
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I assumed it was made up by the Bitcoin guys to get them some more publicity and to make it look like people actually took them seriously.
You have to convert them down to text or octet streams I think.
.NET it is pretty hard to use and wildly verbose. It also seems like it was a little painful on the commandline, more of a scripting language than a shell. I felt like I would need an IDE with autocomplete to really get anywhere in it.
I tried Powershell a few times, but it seems like if you're not already up to your nose in
If you want Linux run Slackware.
Because once a religion reaches critical mass in an area, nonbelievers are forcibly converted, either to the religion or to fine ash as they are burned at the stake. That's pretty strong selection pressure right there.
Maybe. It's entirely possible that whatever evolves there, if it even uses anything similar to DNA, will not have as robust of a damage repair mechanism as life on Earth. We really don't know. It's basically impossible to speculate at what "life" might be like on other planets, because we have literally only one example to go on at the moment.
I could only read that article with the late night salesguy's "These collector coins can only go up in value!" voice, but the content of the article was all about how it's clearly a scam and the author is obviously in on it.
The article was (is?) completely slashdotted as far as I can tell. I couldn't even resolve the domain it was on.
16 years old and the kid is doing drug trials? Back when I was in school we had to share Bunsen burners because there wasn't enough to go around.
I dare you to explain to me if Sin is/was real, or just a dream, or a ghost, or what. Or for that matter, explain exactly what Tidus was.
To be fair, nonsensical plots are not exactly uncommon in the FF series. FFX was a huge hit and a big seller and it didn't make a lick of sense by the time you got to the end of it.
Eve Online?
The MACHOs were too mean to them.
When you sell your car and the next person reports the mileage to the government as part of the normal registration process you're going to have the tax man knocking at your door, probably with a penalty for under-reporting.
Cripes, it wants the government to buy and install a bazillion fancy devices and install them on every car in the country? Well, I know one company that would like to see it pass...
Why is it this stupid idea reappears every 6 months or so? Every time it involves some expensive piece of hardware (GPS receivers for instance) that needs to be bought and installed on all umpteen million cars in the country, instead of the far more sensible solution of just having the yearly inspection guy write down the mileage off of the odometer every time you bring your car in and report that along with your results to the government. It won't work in states that don't do safety inspections, but they could work something out (owner just self reports for instance) that's about a billion times cheaper than whatever technological solution someone is trying to create a market for.
Hypercard is really not the same. I don't know about AmigaVision. When you got down to it, Hypercard still required you to enter text to get anything done.
The problem with these visual programming languages is that they make the easy stuff super easy, but never figure out a way to make the hard stuff possible, so you run into roadblocks almost immediately when you start trying to use it for real.
Because it's cheap as hell. Do you investigate the working conditions at the manufacturer for every product you buy? How about your toothbrush? Your underwear? Your ballpoint pen?
Or do you just pick the cheapest one that meets your minimum critera? It's not like manufacturers put "Made with Slave Labor!" on the package.
[blockquote]1. Prove that the problem has been recognized for some time;[/blockquote] This is the big one for me. So many outrageous patents are just people slightly ahead of the industry trying combinations of everything they can think of that's not quite practical yet and applying for a patent on the most straightforward solution.
Hmm, my cell phone can't broadcast a picture over wireless to my TV or other screens yet, but it would be simple enough to set up with a dongle on the TV and some wifi. Lets apply for the patent on that, wait out all of the deadlines to make sure it doesn't show up in patent searches in the near term, and wait for someone to actually build it. Then, wait a few years and BAM, profits.
So maybe the cellphone screen pusher doesn't pan out. It's certainly a lot easier to think up near term inventions and write up patent applications than it is to build and market devices. I can do this all day.
Not to mention all of the time he would have lost sitting in courtrooms instead of developing the Apple II. Apple was a little garage operation back then, it's not like they had the resources to fight against RCA.
Hmm, it should be easy for someone to build a Thunderbolt->PCIe bridge then. Downside is that Thunderbolt is only about two and a half lanes worth, so running high power graphics off of it is a bad idea, but you could do a lot of other stuff with it.
Because you can't get a LightPeak capture card, or 10GB Ethernet, or pretty much anything yet? Heck, I don't think they even have 1GB Ethernet NICs for Lightpeak yet, and when someone does finally get around to making it they'll obviously put the worst (cheapest) chipset they can find on the card and sell it for four times as much as the good PCIe ones.
Nevada pretty much doesn't have any cities outside of Las Vegas. Reno is the only thing close, and it's still under a quarter million residents IIRC.
Honestly, when I see a police statement that says they got the guy's machine and it had 300,000 child porn images on it, my first thought is always "They caught a guy who trades in the stuff, then added up all of the jpegs they found on his system to have a number for the press". They didn't actually look to see what the images were. The general hysteria you get around this subject only amplifies the effect and there are a lot of bogus statistics made up by people with an agenda.
It's a problem, but I don't think it's nearly as large as some people might lead you to believe. This is true of a lot of other crimes as well by the way.
"Sticks" was just slang for 2x4s with siding on the outside, standard insulation, etc... Normal houses. To be fair, if the builder isn't cutting corners left and right, a house built that way and maintained will last for a hundred years or more too, but the "and maintained" part is more important than it is on homes made out of sturdier materials. If you get a termite infestation that you don't take care of, the house is not going to last that long. If your roof starts leaking and you don't take care of it the house will be trash. With a house made from concrete and stacked stones you could neglect it for years and when someone comes back all they would have to do is maybe knock the mold out (admittedly not easy) and spruce up the paint.
You could build a house to last 200 years today if you wanted. It would cost considerably more than a regular house made out of sticks, but it certainly could be done. You also wouldn't be able to sell it for anything like what you paid to build it because nobody factors in the durability of the house very much when considering what price they would pay for it. Even if you did find someone interested, their bank would just tell them that what you're asking is grossly more than the equivalent (and they're not to picky about what is "equivalent") homes in the area.
Cyber attacks are real. The Advanced Persistent Threat has been targeting government contractors for some time now with varying degrees of success. The reason it works is because the APT is very smart and very good at what they do, and the people on the defense are mostly just wage slaves that don't really understand security. That's also how a country can be so good at attack and so poor at defense at the same time. It is of no surprise at all to me that random government ministries in China are vulnerable to attack, because that's true of pretty much every country in the world. The Department of Parks and Recreation doesn't patch zero-day vulnerabilities as fast as they should, and have administrators that are likely to fall victim to social engineering attacks. It's just not something they're good at.
If you're curious what hackers can do given (likely) state sponsorship and (probably) good people working in a team, just read the report on Stuxnet. That's the sort of thing countries all around the world are doing or trying to do to one another right now. The only problem I have with the "Cold war" characterization is that it's really more of a hot war. People are actively attacking and being attacked.