Not to be confused with interpretive language which is what 90% of John Katz's work is written in. You know you've switched over when code like my $wild_speculation = "..." starts cropping up in your code.
Of course, from a distance, Perl and Katz look just as unintelligible. At least Perl makes sense close up.
Wow, that's a neat hack. I mean, my uncle once connected his 8088 to a microbee, which controlled a c64 which was set up as his sprinkler system controller, but this beats that hands-down:)
(A founding moment in my programming career was watching him sitting on the floor reading long rolls of asm printouts, and asking him what the funny words were)
Reminds me of when Skylab fell to earth, dumping pieces of itself over Western Australia.
The local president of the town council, Mervin Andre, gave the Director of NASA a littering ticket when chunks of the disintegrating space station dropped over the area southeast of Perth. The ticket remains unpaid to this day, although the council later waived the fine anyway.
Pedantic comments aside, the Japanese Kanji script not only originated in china, but continues to be semantically compatible with the Chinese character set. (e.g. the "sword" character in Kanji is the same character that means "sword" in Chinese)
Hmm, it seems to me that physical protection would be better than laser defense systems if a missile was coming straight at you. (If the missile was tangential, then the laser with its faster speed would be better)
Not being anything remotely resembling a kernal hacker, it was great to see and compare some of the (proposed) changes between 2.4.x and the new 2.5 fork at the recent linux.conf.au. The speaker, Rusty Russell, took us through the netfilter and scheduler code (2.4.13 vs 2.5.3) and it was a real eye-opener. I don't claim to be a C wizard, but I can tell elegance when I see it, and some of the code overhauls certainly have that ring to them.
Seems to me that the first vehicles you'd see this used offensively on would be tanks. Armor columns already need large supply trains for fuel, spare parts and ammo, so swapping out your shells for chemicals isn't a problem.
Why tanks? Well, tanks are designed to blow up other tanks. (You use artillery to nuke static emplacements) They shoot projectiles, which are unguided, so you must lead the target (by up to 30 m, depending on range and velocities). If you instead have a mounted laser, you can reduce the lead by at least 90%, leaving you an almost certain kill. If your laser isn't powerful enough for a one-shot kill, then keep training the laser on them.
The delivery platform exists, and the reason is there. All that is needed is an opportunity.
When Hasbro bought out Wizards of the Coast and sold off their rights to D&D computer games, you could see something like this eventually happening. Wizards had a 'Mastertools' program under development which was designed to remove all the bookkeeping tedium of handling a campaign. Once the license was transferred to Interplay, WotC had to gut the project to ensure compliance.
I wish them all the best against Interplay.
The CCC also get a mention in the online book called The Underground: the story of the Australian hacker scene during the 80's and 90's. It's an eye-opening read.
Dave Winer (co-creator of SOAP among other things, so he has dealt and continues to deal with MS on the interoperability front) has a few things to say about what Microsoft stands to gain, what it stood to lose from the settlement but didn't, and a (plausible, and hopefully incorrect) prediction of what the Government stands to gain from Microsoft controlling the greater Internet. (think Hailstorm/XP plus Carnivore)
I think Dave would be a good person to provide suitably knowledgable 'public comment' for this bill. Read his blog; he's a decent guy to boot:)
...when Professor Simmons gave a lecture to the Engineering students in the first week of our course in '95. During the speech, he held up a strange cone-shaped nozzle which he explained was a prototype of the amazing scramjet research being conducted in the windtunnel under the complex run by the Mech Eng. department. He stressed the UQ did not stint on its research projects; the nozzle he was holding cost over AUD$10,000 to create. He then placed the scramjet piece on the table next to the podium.
Where is promptly rolled off and fell onto the floor.
Some of the students in the front row tried to dive and catch it, but they were too slow. The tip of the nozzle had hit first, and bent to a 30 degree angle, ruining it.
Professor Simmons was not a popular figure in Mech Eng. for a long time afterwards.
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Also, have the Slash crew explored Apache's on-the-fly zip compression abilities (it's a separate module, I don't know the name)? It eats CPU power, obviously, but HTML can be compressed by 90% or more when zipped. The cost of more web boxen would be more than paid for by the bandwidth savings, I'd wager... especially if Slashdot is getting free hosting from it's parent company.
You are probably remembering mod_gzip. It's pretty nice as far as savings go (approx 80% savings on text/html, equating to about 20-25% on the typical image-heavy page), but it does slow your server down somewhat. Without tweaking, it cut my apache server(1.3.x) down to about 130 flat html pages per second from the IIRC 750 or so it was pushing out. (Was an old processor, so YMMV) You could do better than that if you spent some effort on it (putting tempdir into ramdisk, etc) but the point is that most of the work is CPU-intensive, which doesn't impact your speed much if your bottleneck is your I/O. Besides, CPUs are cheap.
I recommend mod_gzip; it's a simple way to cut your bandwidth on 90% of sites without shooting yourself in the foot. I can't vouch for/. though: I'm pretty sure their kung foo is stronger than mine:)
Good on the EU for this action. As history attests (Standard Oil, Bell, de Beers et c.) cartels and monopolies screw over their customers in the interest of continued profits. Not always tremendous profits, but a steady, large supply of money.
What I can't work out is why any cartel whose monopoly depends on controlling the distribution channel can hope to retain control in the zero-cost-of-entry distribution network that is the Internet. Maybe it's like the de Beers diamond consortium: it's branding over substance (in de Beers' case: the whole 'diamonds are forever' spiel; in the RIAA's case: get your legal MP3s here, or we'll wipe your hard drive:)
Excellent. One of the reasons my company decided to hold off on porting to mysql was the lack of stored procedures. A pity; now they've moved to DB2 and the moment is lost.
Alan Cox: continued merging (drivers, license tags)
I'm not a very technical person, so I'm glad that after Mr Cox completes his merging, I can just open up my box and ask him directly when I have problems compiling.
At least in this release I have an excuse for speeding. "Officer, I wasn't the driver, so ask my linux box for its license tags."
When you look at the specs of (or the hype, if you hold that opinion) the crusoe chips, it boggles the mind why they didn't push this this sooner. 'Runs on one AA battery', goes the sales pitch - perfect for the embedded systems which need a half-decent chip but need to conserve battery life (i.e. practically all of them)
A friend of mine was so hoping to use a Crusoe in his embedded web browser tablet thesis project back in 2000. Pity it was released too late for him:)
Not sure any of this is much comfort -- the lesser of two evils is still evil.
There is quite a difference between Carnivore's 'log everything on the server and ask questions later' approach and that of NetWitness. If you are an ISP and forced to comply with the Feds, I know which program your other users would rather have on their pipe.
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Not to be confused with interpretive language which is what 90% of John Katz's work is written in. You know you've switched over when code like
my $wild_speculation = "..." starts cropping up in your code.
Of course, from a distance, Perl and Katz look just as unintelligible. At least Perl makes sense close up.
Don't Perl scripts get compiled every time they are run?
I suppose you could say that. In programmerspeak, we call Perl "an interpreted language."
Wow, that's a neat hack. I mean, my uncle once connected his 8088 to a microbee, which controlled a c64 which was set up as his sprinkler system controller, but this beats that hands-down :)
(A founding moment in my programming career was watching him sitting on the floor reading long rolls of asm printouts, and asking him what the funny words were)
You know, sometimes, reporters just have to get a grip.
Reminds me of when Skylab fell to earth, dumping pieces of itself over Western Australia. The local president of the town council, Mervin Andre, gave the Director of NASA a littering ticket when chunks of the disintegrating space station dropped over the area southeast of Perth. The ticket remains unpaid to this day, although the council later waived the fine anyway.
I think my prayers have just been answered.
First thing they must learn is the correct usage of begging the question. Sheesh
Encoding DNA into music isn't that hard. Here's a sample of my DNA, in music format:
G, A, C, A, T, T, T, G, A, C, A, T.
(and that's just a small part of my lameness gene)
Pedantic comments aside, the Japanese Kanji script not only originated in china, but continues to be semantically compatible with the Chinese character set. (e.g. the "sword" character in Kanji is the same character that means "sword" in Chinese)
Hmm, it seems to me that physical protection would be better than laser defense systems if a missile was coming straight at you. (If the missile was tangential, then the laser with its faster speed would be better)
If I were in, say, a warship, I'd much rather have a solid wall of bullets to stop an incoming missile. You can't argue with a million rounds a minute :)
Not being anything remotely resembling a kernal hacker, it was great to see and compare some of the (proposed) changes between 2.4.x and the new 2.5 fork at the recent linux.conf.au. The speaker, Rusty Russell, took us through the netfilter and scheduler code (2.4.13 vs 2.5.3) and it was a real eye-opener. I don't claim to be a C wizard, but I can tell elegance when I see it, and some of the code overhauls certainly have that ring to them.
Brand loyalty is nothing against the power of 10X.
X10's brand loyalty isn't too crash-hot either.
Here's a suggestion :)
... the first virus with a 'skip' option?
Seems to me that the first vehicles you'd see this used offensively on would be tanks. Armor columns already need large supply trains for fuel, spare parts and ammo, so swapping out your shells for chemicals isn't a problem.
Why tanks? Well, tanks are designed to blow up other tanks. (You use artillery to nuke static emplacements) They shoot projectiles, which are unguided, so you must lead the target (by up to 30 m, depending on range and velocities). If you instead have a mounted laser, you can reduce the lead by at least 90%, leaving you an almost certain kill. If your laser isn't powerful enough for a one-shot kill, then keep training the laser on them.
The delivery platform exists, and the reason is there. All that is needed is an opportunity.
When Hasbro bought out Wizards of the Coast and sold off their rights to D&D computer games, you could see something like this eventually happening. Wizards had a 'Mastertools' program under development which was designed to remove all the bookkeeping tedium of handling a campaign. Once the license was transferred to Interplay, WotC had to gut the project to ensure compliance. I wish them all the best against Interplay.
The CCC also get a mention in the online book called The Underground: the story of the Australian hacker scene during the 80's and 90's. It's an eye-opening read.
Dave Winer (co-creator of SOAP among other things, so he has dealt and continues to deal with MS on the interoperability front) has a few things to say about what Microsoft stands to gain, what it stood to lose from the settlement but didn't, and a (plausible, and hopefully incorrect) prediction of what the Government stands to gain from Microsoft controlling the greater Internet. (think Hailstorm/XP plus Carnivore)
I think Dave would be a good person to provide suitably knowledgable 'public comment' for this bill. Read his blog; he's a decent guy to boot :)
...when Professor Simmons gave a lecture to the Engineering students in the first week of our course in '95. During the speech, he held up a strange cone-shaped nozzle which he explained was a prototype of the amazing scramjet research being conducted in the windtunnel under the complex run by the Mech Eng. department. He stressed the UQ did not stint on its research projects; the nozzle he was holding cost over AUD$10,000 to create. He then placed the scramjet piece on the table next to the podium.
Where is promptly rolled off and fell onto the floor.
Some of the students in the front row tried to dive and catch it, but they were too slow. The tip of the nozzle had hit first, and bent to a 30 degree angle, ruining it.
Professor Simmons was not a popular figure in Mech Eng. for a long time afterwards.
You are probably remembering mod_gzip. It's pretty nice as far as savings go (approx 80% savings on text/html, equating to about 20-25% on the typical image-heavy page), but it does slow your server down somewhat. Without tweaking, it cut my apache server(1.3.x) down to about 130 flat html pages per second from the IIRC 750 or so it was pushing out. (Was an old processor, so YMMV) You could do better than that if you spent some effort on it (putting tempdir into ramdisk, etc) but the point is that most of the work is CPU-intensive, which doesn't impact your speed much if your bottleneck is your I/O. Besides, CPUs are cheap.
I recommend mod_gzip; it's a simple way to cut your bandwidth on 90% of sites without shooting yourself in the foot. I can't vouch for /. though: I'm pretty sure their kung foo is stronger than mine :)
Good on the EU for this action. As history attests (Standard Oil, Bell, de Beers et c.) cartels and monopolies screw over their customers in the interest of continued profits. Not always tremendous profits, but a steady, large supply of money. What I can't work out is why any cartel whose monopoly depends on controlling the distribution channel can hope to retain control in the zero-cost-of-entry distribution network that is the Internet. Maybe it's like the de Beers diamond consortium: it's branding over substance (in de Beers' case: the whole 'diamonds are forever' spiel; in the RIAA's case: get your legal MP3s here, or we'll wipe your hard drive :)
Excellent. One of the reasons my company decided to hold off on porting to mysql was the lack of stored procedures. A pity; now they've moved to DB2 and the moment is lost.
I'm not a very technical person, so I'm glad that after Mr Cox completes his merging, I can just open up my box and ask him directly when I have problems compiling.
At least in this release I have an excuse for speeding. "Officer, I wasn't the driver, so ask my linux box for its license tags."
When you look at the specs of (or the hype, if you hold that opinion) the crusoe chips, it boggles the mind why they didn't push this this sooner. 'Runs on one AA battery', goes the sales pitch - perfect for the embedded systems which need a half-decent chip but need to conserve battery life (i.e. practically all of them)
A friend of mine was so hoping to use a Crusoe in his embedded web browser tablet thesis project back in 2000. Pity it was released too late for him :)