Microsoft demonstrated several times that US's antitrust measures have no teeth. It's ironic that the one company that's so clearly demonstrated that, now hopes the regulators will change their approach.
It looks like this. Pictures like that bring a tear to my eye. If you have even a small subset of those capacitors, you can do some seriously cool shit.
Because at the moment, there are less than 10 in existence? Yeah, but how long does it take a RepRap to reproduce? A week? If so, then in one week, we'll have 20 RepRaps. A week later 40, then 80, 160,... In half a year, we'll have 671,088,640 RepRaps.
Hardware firewalls don't prevent employees bringing laptops / USB drives home and infecting them there. Hardware firewalls don't totally cut off outbound connections, so once the code gets inside, it has a chance to be able to communicate out.
Yep. The law wasn't written to put Yahoo (or any other company) in the position of being final arbiters of what's fair use and what isn't. That's what the penalty of perjury is for, and the fact that the step after the counternotice is for the original person to file a lawsuit and have a judge make a ruling.
Asteroids come with retroreflectors preinstalled? Asteroids provide such a predictable environment that the exact same approach can be rehearsed countless times in a lab beforehand?
IMHO, the DARPA Urban Grand Challenge moved the science closer to unpredictable real-world mining than this. (though admittedly, both relied heavily on laser rangefinders)
That's an ad hominem, and an unnecessary one at that. A proposal to change something so important as TCP is bound to fail unless it has significant technical merit. To make things simple, let's just assume that the proposer openly admits they were motivated by self-interest to make the proposal. And the result is: nothing changes. Heck, Al Gore could make this proposal, and it wouldn't change the fact that proposals that are deeply technical will be evaluated on a technical basis.
Long before that happens though, customers will collect their own information and post it online.
If there was a program that kept track of when you max out your upstream or downstream, and tried to characterize what might be triggering any throttling, that'd be very useful information to post online.
Then, if you could set up a DOCSIS sniffer and collect similar data from everyone in your neighborhood, you'd have heaps of useful data.
2) Get a decent RF remote control (eg. the Gyration one) or RF keyboard, and make those keystrokes control your music apps via AutoHotkey. This is the DIY route, but AutoHotkey is fast, light, and can do almost everything.
There's a bunch of things that end up degrading the usefulness of 1080 unfortunately:
half the stations broadcast in 720p instead
it can be hard to tell the difference between a 720p station and a 1080i station except when the source material has been done really well
the distance from your couch to your TV can limit the resolution you can see (for instance, I had *one* dead pixel on my 1080p TV, and I decided to not return it because even when I knew exactly where to look, and had a white motionless feed, I still couldn't see it from the couch)
If you're ever thinking of hooking your computer up to it though, then 1080i/p can be great.
Okay, okay, we admit it. ISA isn't a port at all, it's a bus.
Was this intentional humor? If Kryten's groin counts, then all of the items mentioned after ISA are buses, and two mentioned before (SCSI and Firewire) were as well.
Nitpick: It's explicitly acknowledged to be only a partial creation story. People ask "what came before the big-bang, what caused it to happen?", and science responds "we currently believe that no evidence could have survived from that time, so we can't possibly know". The big-bang theory doesn't try to answer the ultimate question "what happened at the very very beginning, and why?".
(though when some creationists answer with "$diety is infinite, he/she always was and always will be, and thus didn't need to be created", that's a cop-out too. Although it attempts to answer deeper questions, it's not much more useful than saying "we don't know")
We've been doing the water thing for at least 45,000 years, aviation for perhaps 250 years, spaceflight for ~60 years. Next would be... Interstellar travel? Spelunking about the mantle?
Note that the site mentions that comScore is part of the Windows Feedback Program. ("Microsoft, comScore, and MarketTools employees are not eligible to participate.") Also note that comScore has in the past been involved in very pernicious man-in-the-middle HTTPS attacks that have allowed them to sniff bank passwords (and everything else, of course) by installing a special certificate in end-user's browsers. If it were me, I wouldn't install any executables that may have been authored by comScore until there's been enough time for them to be thoroughly vetted by independent third parties.
Even compiled python retains the ability to eval(), no? Granted, even C can do this at times (C-Interp, XCoral), and in my mind at least, eval() isn't at the core of what defines "scripting languages" (as you mentioned, garbage collection (making memory management go away) and robust introspection (making serialization and debug-dumping brain-dead easy) are the defining features for me).
And why don't the brick-and-mortars open up at midnight, with 3 times the normal cash registers open? Because the near riot is good for business when it gets covered in the local news. There's a reason that each store stocks 12 units of the best deal, and most of the other prices are just normal sale prices... that generates an aura of crazed shopping, and a line of 200 people who are willing to stand hours in the cold -- 188 of whom will be buying products at a profit.
That's a distracting tangent. So rephrase the original question to "Is there more knowledge that's useful today, compared to the amount of knowledge that was useful at some previous time x?" For instance, compare the size of the Library of Alexandria to one of the largest libraries of today. Of course there are other influencing factors -- today's books don't have to be copied by hand -- but that also means that it's easier for modern academics to build on all existing knowledge, rather than having to recreate existing knowledge as sometimes happened back then.
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It can be rephrased as a non-ad-hominem:
Microsoft demonstrated several times that US's antitrust measures have no teeth. It's ironic that the one company that's so clearly demonstrated that, now hopes the regulators will change their approach.
It looks like this. Pictures like that bring a tear to my eye. If you have even a small subset of those capacitors, you can do some seriously cool shit.
Mmmm, knobs. Mind you, that $480 doesn't go towards any ultra-high-tolerance electronics either. Nope, $480 just for pure wholesome knobby wood.
Hardware firewalls don't prevent employees bringing laptops / USB drives home and infecting them there. Hardware firewalls don't totally cut off outbound connections, so once the code gets inside, it has a chance to be able to communicate out.
Yep. The law wasn't written to put Yahoo (or any other company) in the position of being final arbiters of what's fair use and what isn't. That's what the penalty of perjury is for, and the fact that the step after the counternotice is for the original person to file a lawsuit and have a judge make a ruling.
Asteroids come with retroreflectors preinstalled? Asteroids provide such a predictable environment that the exact same approach can be rehearsed countless times in a lab beforehand?
IMHO, the DARPA Urban Grand Challenge moved the science closer to unpredictable real-world mining than this. (though admittedly, both relied heavily on laser rangefinders)
Wrong RFC. That would be RFC4366,
That's an ad hominem, and an unnecessary one at that. A proposal to change something so important as TCP is bound to fail unless it has significant technical merit. To make things simple, let's just assume that the proposer openly admits they were motivated by self-interest to make the proposal. And the result is: nothing changes. Heck, Al Gore could make this proposal, and it wouldn't change the fact that proposals that are deeply technical will be evaluated on a technical basis.
Long before that happens though, customers will collect their own information and post it online.
If there was a program that kept track of when you max out your upstream or downstream, and tried to characterize what might be triggering any throttling, that'd be very useful information to post online.
Then, if you could set up a DOCSIS sniffer and collect similar data from everyone in your neighborhood, you'd have heaps of useful data.
Yup. Once a mass becomes smaller than its Schwarzschild radius, it collapses down to a single point (or possibly a ring?)
1) Route sound around with cat5. Seriously. It transmits signals up to 100mhz, so audio frequencies are a cinch. I don't know though if you need differential drivers at each end or not.
2) Get a decent RF remote control (eg. the Gyration one) or RF keyboard, and make those keystrokes control your music apps via AutoHotkey. This is the DIY route, but AutoHotkey is fast, light, and can do almost everything.
yes.
- half the stations broadcast in 720p instead
- it can be hard to tell the difference between a 720p station and a 1080i station except when the source material has been done really well
- the distance from your couch to your TV can limit the resolution you can see (for instance, I had *one* dead pixel on my 1080p TV, and I decided to not return it because even when I knew exactly where to look, and had a white motionless feed, I still couldn't see it from the couch)
If you're ever thinking of hooking your computer up to it though, then 1080i/p can be great.Was this intentional humor? If Kryten's groin counts, then all of the items mentioned after ISA are buses, and two mentioned before (SCSI and Firewire) were as well.
That's precisely what they did for the last 15 months (a pretty reasonable amount of time):
DNS and the mailing lists will vanish today, December 18, 2006.I don't know... do they still own a machine that responds to DNS requests, and are therefore paying for bandwidth? Probably not.
Do they want to sell the domain to someone, who wouldn't want to get hit with a bandwidth bill as soon as they throw some servers up? More likely.
Nitpick: It's explicitly acknowledged to be only a partial creation story. People ask "what came before the big-bang, what caused it to happen?", and science responds "we currently believe that no evidence could have survived from that time, so we can't possibly know". The big-bang theory doesn't try to answer the ultimate question "what happened at the very very beginning, and why?".
(though when some creationists answer with "$diety is infinite, he/she always was and always will be, and thus didn't need to be created", that's a cop-out too. Although it attempts to answer deeper questions, it's not much more useful than saying "we don't know")
I'm sure the electric universe guys will have a field day with this...
We've been doing the water thing for at least 45,000 years, aviation for perhaps 250 years, spaceflight for ~60 years. Next would be... Interstellar travel? Spelunking about the mantle?
Note that the site mentions that comScore is part of the Windows Feedback Program. ("Microsoft, comScore, and MarketTools employees are not eligible to participate.") Also note that comScore has in the past been involved in very pernicious man-in-the-middle HTTPS attacks that have allowed them to sniff bank passwords (and everything else, of course) by installing a special certificate in end-user's browsers. If it were me, I wouldn't install any executables that may have been authored by comScore until there's been enough time for them to be thoroughly vetted by independent third parties.
See that "Cite this article" link on the left column of Wikipedia?
Click on it.
Even compiled python retains the ability to eval(), no? Granted, even C can do this at times (C-Interp, XCoral), and in my mind at least, eval() isn't at the core of what defines "scripting languages" (as you mentioned, garbage collection (making memory management go away) and robust introspection (making serialization and debug-dumping brain-dead easy) are the defining features for me).
I think we have a winner for the most reasonable explanation for this otherwise implausible story.
And why don't the brick-and-mortars open up at midnight, with 3 times the normal cash registers open? Because the near riot is good for business when it gets covered in the local news. There's a reason that each store stocks 12 units of the best deal, and most of the other prices are just normal sale prices... that generates an aura of crazed shopping, and a line of 200 people who are willing to stand hours in the cold -- 188 of whom will be buying products at a profit.
That's a distracting tangent. So rephrase the original question to "Is there more knowledge that's useful today, compared to the amount of knowledge that was useful at some previous time x?" For instance, compare the size of the Library of Alexandria to one of the largest libraries of today. Of course there are other influencing factors -- today's books don't have to be copied by hand -- but that also means that it's easier for modern academics to build on all existing knowledge, rather than having to recreate existing knowledge as sometimes happened back then.