How many people on this thread are going to confuse network latency with input latency... hint: you have no experience that prepares you to understand these numbers.. just play the god damn game and quit the service if you don't enjoy it.
Genetically modified foods are just foods. There's nothing "natural" about selectively bred crops. Unless you're going into the woodlands and picking wild berries for breakfast you're eating unnatural food. Welcome to the modern world.
Individuals making economic decisions based on their own personal preferences is a feature of both systems.. It's so hard to have a conversation with Americans about Socialism because they're just so indoctrinated with false information. Moore exploits this rather than try to educate.
The clumsy sleight-of-hand that Capitalism: A Love Story tries to pull off, is to frame the issue as Capitalism vs Democracy.
If there was any lesson of the cold war it was that economic systems and political systems are orthogonal. You can have Democratic Socialism. You can have Democratic Capitalism. You can have a Socialist Dictatorship. You can have a Capitalist Dictatorship. Mike Moore wants Democratic Socialism, all the way down to the individual business.. but just saying that would be giving his audience too much credit, so he has to demonize Capitalism and declare that it is incompatible with Democracy. You want Democracy? Oh, well you can't have Capitalism then, so sorry.
Folks, what they've done is make Xenon Octa-fluoride, which is an order of magnitude harder than the previously created Xenon Tera-fluoride.
As cool as it is that some chemists have managed to make a new compound that had only been theorized before, it's not enough for the drooling media. So they try to explain why it is remotely relevant and interesting, and the media replies with this sort of gross stupidity.
Although I'm sure that's a popular diagnosis, I think I prefer the complete lack of leadership thesis. Why is it so difficult to take some of the fantastic study work that is done at NASA and elsewhere and turn it into public policy? For example, why is it so hard to say that NASA needs to go further into space, beyond the Earth-Moon system and demonstrate that humanity has the technology to colonize the solar system? Why is it so hard for our political leadership to understand that punting on the return to the Moon isn't about the fact that humanity has "been there" and that trivial soundbites like that do more to hurt the debate than they do to help?
Right. So imagine there was a commenting system that actually demonstrated the wisdom of the crowds, what would it look like?
Diversity of opinionEach person should have private information even if it's just an eccentric interpretation of the known facts.
The whole "present an article and then comment on it" thing undermines this a little, but let's continue assuming that's the model we want to optimize. People have different opinions on articles and that's the diversity we want to capture.
IndependencePeople's opinions aren't determined by the opinions of those around them.
This is the biggest problem with current internet forums. People bounce off each other. "Group think", trolling and feeding of said trolls follows. So really, people shouldn't be able to read the comments until they've commented.. obviously this will result in duplication of opinion.
DecentralizationPeople are able to specialize and draw on local knowledge.
We get it for free on the Internet, and really it's probably the reason why we're even talking about The Wisdom Of Crowds.
AggregationSome mechanism exists for turning private judgments into a collective decision.
Imagine we having a commenting system where people can submit their comments without having first read the existing comments and the inevitable duplication of opinion follows.. we need some mechanism to flag a comment as a duplicate. I imagine a button that lets you read comments one at a time and mark them as duplicates.. but how creatively you do that will determine the success of your system.
In short, balancing such a system so that it is both effective at acquiring "wisdom" and actually something people on a web forum would want to use is a difficult proposition.
Yup, there's so many of them that only want your credit card number and will sell you just about any domain except maybe Microsoft.com or Facebook, etc.
Your view of both sniffing and TCP hijacking seems to come from the mid-90s. I recommend reading up on both the improvements of switched networking and on the active techniques developed to defeat them. But yes, MITM is harder to get right, just as these techniques were harder to develop than just turning the network adapter to promiscuous mode.. but once they're developed, it's just a tool that anyone (or bot) can wield.. and they have been already.
Umm.. I'm not aware of any browser that will warn you of a changed certificate if the cert is signed by a valid authority. So if I can convince the drooling morons at the SSL cert authority to give me a cert for your domain, the game is over.
So you want defense against snooping but don't care about defense against MITM attacks. Fair enough, I'm all for raising the bar, but don't be lured into thinking your communication is secure.
I believe Boeing has said that they're taking the "taxi" model over the "rental car" model. As in, there's a pilot who stays with the vehicle and returns it. The major difficulty of long duration stays is not just power, it's making sure the propellants and other descent systems stay operational over that long haul. It is hard, and I don't know how anyone can say it isn't, considering that there's only one vehicle in the world that has ever done it.
Soyuz TMA? See, the Soviets actually do a little thing called "continuous improvement"..
In any case, its the stuff that is being built now that the Shuttle is being retired, and the Constellation zombie is being shot in the head, that you should check out. Quite a few vehicles are under development: http://quantumg.blogspot.com/2010/06/lifeboat-politics.html
Because that's a NASA requirement that most people think is just babying the astronauts. With a station in a sensible inclination it's a lot easier to just leave a rocket on standby to do a rescue mission if needed.
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Everything I've seen so far has been "hey look what I can do". It's not the domain of cottage industry game developers, yet.
Just today I was looking at WebGL which will allow hardware accelerated 3d in the browser.
I just hope someone, eventually, figures out that the "full screen" button we have in web video can also be used in web games.
Please read the sibling comment directly above yours.
"Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she has no intention of pretending to believe in God to attract religiously-inclined voters."
Now if only she would denounce the filter she'd get my vote.
Who ya gunna put first? It's not like Liberal has a different policy on the filter.
How many people on this thread are going to confuse network latency with input latency... hint: you have no experience that prepares you to understand these numbers.. just play the god damn game and quit the service if you don't enjoy it.
That's why they're handing out 12 month trials.
Normally, you experience very little input lag (less than 5 ms) on your own computer.
And you measured this how?
Genetically modified foods are just foods. There's nothing "natural" about selectively bred crops. Unless you're going into the woodlands and picking wild berries for breakfast you're eating unnatural food. Welcome to the modern world.
Unfortunately "artists" provide their own reasons for us to want them dead.. often: nagging about copyright.
Individuals making economic decisions based on their own personal preferences is a feature of both systems.. It's so hard to have a conversation with Americans about Socialism because they're just so indoctrinated with false information. Moore exploits this rather than try to educate.
Seen a Mike Moore film recently have we?
The clumsy sleight-of-hand that Capitalism: A Love Story tries to pull off, is to frame the issue as Capitalism vs Democracy.
If there was any lesson of the cold war it was that economic systems and political systems are orthogonal. You can have Democratic Socialism. You can have Democratic Capitalism. You can have a Socialist Dictatorship. You can have a Capitalist Dictatorship. Mike Moore wants Democratic Socialism, all the way down to the individual business.. but just saying that would be giving his audience too much credit, so he has to demonize Capitalism and declare that it is incompatible with Democracy. You want Democracy? Oh, well you can't have Capitalism then, so sorry.
wow.. shame no-one actually answered your question..
Short answer:
http://quantumg.blogspot.com/2010/07/jeff-greason-answers-why-humans-in.html
Longer answer:
http://quantumg.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-space.html
give. it. time.
Well, it's a metal... so I'm gunna take a wild guess and say electricity might flow through it.. that's all I've got.
Hahaha.. this so reminds me of this.
Folks, what they've done is make Xenon Octa-fluoride, which is an order of magnitude harder than the previously created Xenon Tera-fluoride.
As cool as it is that some chemists have managed to make a new compound that had only been theorized before, it's not enough for the drooling media. So they try to explain why it is remotely relevant and interesting, and the media replies with this sort of gross stupidity.
Science reporting at its finest.
Although I'm sure that's a popular diagnosis, I think I prefer the complete lack of leadership thesis. Why is it so difficult to take some of the fantastic study work that is done at NASA and elsewhere and turn it into public policy? For example, why is it so hard to say that NASA needs to go further into space, beyond the Earth-Moon system and demonstrate that humanity has the technology to colonize the solar system? Why is it so hard for our political leadership to understand that punting on the return to the Moon isn't about the fact that humanity has "been there" and that trivial soundbites like that do more to hurt the debate than they do to help?
It's a prototype, that particular vehicle won't be going to the Moon.
Right. So imagine there was a commenting system that actually demonstrated the wisdom of the crowds, what would it look like?
Diversity of opinion Each person should have private information even if it's just an eccentric interpretation of the known facts.
The whole "present an article and then comment on it" thing undermines this a little, but let's continue assuming that's the model we want to optimize. People have different opinions on articles and that's the diversity we want to capture.
Independence People's opinions aren't determined by the opinions of those around them.
This is the biggest problem with current internet forums. People bounce off each other. "Group think", trolling and feeding of said trolls follows. So really, people shouldn't be able to read the comments until they've commented.. obviously this will result in duplication of opinion.
Decentralization People are able to specialize and draw on local knowledge.
We get it for free on the Internet, and really it's probably the reason why we're even talking about The Wisdom Of Crowds.
Aggregation Some mechanism exists for turning private judgments into a collective decision.
Imagine we having a commenting system where people can submit their comments without having first read the existing comments and the inevitable duplication of opinion follows.. we need some mechanism to flag a comment as a duplicate. I imagine a button that lets you read comments one at a time and mark them as duplicates.. but how creatively you do that will determine the success of your system.
In short, balancing such a system so that it is both effective at acquiring "wisdom" and actually something people on a web forum would want to use is a difficult proposition.
Yup, there's so many of them that only want your credit card number and will sell you just about any domain except maybe Microsoft.com or Facebook, etc.
Umm.. if they can sniff unencrypted traffic on your subnet then you're screwed too right?
Your view of both sniffing and TCP hijacking seems to come from the mid-90s. I recommend reading up on both the improvements of switched networking and on the active techniques developed to defeat them. But yes, MITM is harder to get right, just as these techniques were harder to develop than just turning the network adapter to promiscuous mode.. but once they're developed, it's just a tool that anyone (or bot) can wield.. and they have been already.
Umm.. I'm not aware of any browser that will warn you of a changed certificate if the cert is signed by a valid authority. So if I can convince the drooling morons at the SSL cert authority to give me a cert for your domain, the game is over.
So you want defense against snooping but don't care about defense against MITM attacks. Fair enough, I'm all for raising the bar, but don't be lured into thinking your communication is secure.
I believe Boeing has said that they're taking the "taxi" model over the "rental car" model. As in, there's a pilot who stays with the vehicle and returns it. The major difficulty of long duration stays is not just power, it's making sure the propellants and other descent systems stay operational over that long haul. It is hard, and I don't know how anyone can say it isn't, considering that there's only one vehicle in the world that has ever done it.
Soyuz TMA? See, the Soviets actually do a little thing called "continuous improvement"..
In any case, its the stuff that is being built now that the Shuttle is being retired, and the Constellation zombie is being shot in the head, that you should check out. Quite a few vehicles are under development: http://quantumg.blogspot.com/2010/06/lifeboat-politics.html
Because that's a NASA requirement that most people think is just babying the astronauts. With a station in a sensible inclination it's a lot easier to just leave a rocket on standby to do a rescue mission if needed.