Unlike old DVD-Video, HD DVD and BluRay have a bit -- so far not set -- that degrades all output unless it is via an HDCP connection. This means my older Sharp 720p projector will be degraded along with all early adapter's HD gear
This creates a powerful incentive to not just "backup" your HiDef DVD, rather to remove an onerous limitation -- it may violate the DCMA in the USA, but it is morally and legally sound to most of the world.
String theory always seemed to be the most complicated mathematical way you could "force" a unified field theory into existence by adding as many dimensions and undefinable, physically meaningless constants as possible. This is stuff for the likes of Dr. Charlie Eppes from the TV show Numb3rs. Maybe that's why Peter MacNicol aka Dr. Larry Fleinhardt bailed to be a heavy on 24?
Anyway, we may see some very smart guys flipping burgers next Christmas...
| Don't have numbers to back it up, but most things I read say that the Secondary MX is *more* likely to be targeted by spammers on the belief that fewer filters will be in place to prevent spam.
The argument in your favor that says secondary MX's mostly queue and forward, and have fewer "hard", 5xx, rejects. For example, if only the primary MTA was running something like Spamassassin set to reject at certain threshold.
Still, TFA's point is good, and may help quite a bit.
Greylisting still DOES help a lot in 2007. The majority of "zombie" spambots don't bother to requeue the "soft", 4xx, errors; also zombies that relay through their ISP generate a more obvious fingerprint and finally, and perhaps most importantly, the 30 minutes to 1 hour delay allows DCC, Razor2 and other spam signature databases to register hits at the expense of non-greylisters.
In all the noise about Vista, it doesn't run today's Windows app's as fast or as compatibly as XP.
According to Tom's Hardware, DirectX 9 and below will run the GPU at 90 to 95% of XP, even though someday DirectX 10 will be faster; if I was a serious gamer, no Vista until, oh, maybe 2008.
Even before Sarbanes-Oxley (e.g. in the mid-1990's) ethical, conservative CFO's [admitted a rare breed] were very careful about "recognizing revenue" for a product when a newer or better version was in the works. Our "head up the ass" Congress passed Sarbanes-Oxley and now companies have hire many more lawyers to cover their asses. Lots of companies in Apple's situation would simply do NOTHING - no charge, no upgrade: WYSIWYG hardware. Is that in the consumer's best interest? I think not!
It was widely reported (and appears to be confirmed by my experiences) that Apple laid off all personnel that monitored their support forums last summer. This begs the question who deletes posts? I think volunteer Mac geeks have been given administrator rights to the forums and perhaps do whatever they want. Apple screwed up by laying off its forum support staff, but may not have had anything to do with the elimination the nVidia thread.
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"What the hell is a secret military aircraft doing in the middle of the busiest airport in America?"
Well, there's actually little air traffic directly above an airport, to allow for "puddle jumping" aborted landings - further this thing obviously could get of the way of an aircraft going a mere 200 mph. I think they planned to hide in the cloud, a real-world test of stealth and blew it, then got the hell out of there.
It Left a Hole in the Clouds
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The fact observers said it made a hole in the cloud deck for minutes, to me, rules out any purely optical effect. It must have been some physical device, whatever that may be. Further, professional airline pilots saw it and stated it was not familiar to them as a known aircraft.
My take is a new stealth military craft - hence all the coverup by the FAA.
These are brave researchers to challenge the orthodox view of purely auto-immune diabetes. It reminds me of what resistance there was to redefining ulcers as a curable inflection, versus a psychological or personality flaw that was incurable or required surgery removing most of the stomach. In the end Drs. Warren and Marshall won a Nobel prize, but not before enduring years of abuse and almost having their careers destroyed. I hope medicine is more open to radical new ideas today.
I did RTFA but haven't RTFB. I appears it is oriented toward non-UI intensive modules. Java, as others mentioned, handles the UI stuff quite well. The GNU build utilities help a lot if it's a *NIX system, but most true portability problems require more OS's.
I was very surprized given Linux's advantage of the "Viral" GPL license and big development bucks (although Apple puts $ into FeeBSD), that they were so close. Omitted in Linx's favor is its much faster thread implementation. LET COMPETITON RULE!
The guy who made soft cover high quality technical books the norm in Computer Science. I know they're not cheap, but compare with Don Knuth's (admitted classic) hard cover ones. He's got the right idea, the Author's Guild is thinking like the RIAA or the MPAA, and yet their argument is a hundred times weaker - no one is going to P2P their books!
I'd say 90% alternator efficiency, 80% electrolysis efficiency gives 70% conversion of power to H(2) and O(2) - both hydrogen and oxygen increase the efficiency of the engine. And, as you say, it starts out at 30%, up that to 35% and the thing works!
Apple's support alone will keep FreeBSD going. The video chip guys (ATI and nVidia) release object code drivers under closed licenses and anyone who wants can link it into Linux's GPL world. They aren't breaking the GPL, since they don't do the linking. Are the Linux users breaking the GPL? - I don't think so, but who's going to bust them even if they were.
This case is different since these wireless companies want bundle an entire OS. Using non-GPL'ed code seems to be to their advantage. And I mentioned before Linux and the GPL hasn't forced video chip drivers out to the light of day... I don't think the GPL has levered that many hardware vendors.
There is a place for govenment regulation when it is not economically viable to have competition. There is no money to build a second land line phone system, especially in today's cell phone world.
If you know any history, you know "antitrust" laws were passed around 100 years ago to conteract "trusts", huge monopolistic companies that controled all oil (Standard Oil), for example. A Supreme Court much less "activist" than today's upheld this act of Congress.
You can't get very far in today's world by reading a bunch old Ann Rand books...
I saw it at SIGGRAPH and asked one of the researchers what kind of electrical signal was used. He said it was simply a low current D.C. signal between two electrodes behind the ear. The apparratus was built into a pair of hollowed earphones that contained a radio receiver and battery. The controller looked like a stock RC one with a little joy stick to move people left or right.
I didn't ask if the polarity of the D.C. current matters (+ above -, or vice versa), but I think it just stimulates one ear or the other (or neither).
As an EE grad student at Stanford in 1972, Les "unofficially" gave me a key to the building and said I could play late at night (Computer Science and Electrical Engineering weren't on the best of terms; Stanford CS had just stolen McCarthy from MIT and Knuth from Caltech - not to mention Robert Floyd and thought it was pretty hot shit!). Les was in a particularly small group: African-Americans in computing circa 1970. I'll never forget the time I telnet'ed into MIT from SAIL - a journey of 3,000 miles with a few keystrokes. Back then, nearly every ARPANet host had a "guest" telnet account. Sad, isn't it, how warped people have destroyed the trusting, innocent network that was just being invented.
Linus doesn't like Mach, he says it is inheritly slower than "his" kernel. I think he is probably right, but not by an amount that really matters. Apple has been focusing on "micro-locking" critical sections in Mach for Tiger (and I assume even more for the next rev). This trend started as FreeBSD 5 tried to catch up with Linux 2.6, enough though the FreeBSD 5 kernel is unrelated to Mach. Why are they doing this? They are preparing for the day when there will be n cores, for n = 4, 6, 8... I remember an statement (was it Minsky?) that an n-way multiprocessor sysstem has performance of order n/log n. This does not have to be true in the future, and even if it is - we still win.
Also Apple has IOKit and "prebinding" which remove the need to keep multiple old copies of the *nix libraries for every binary you don't want to rebuild with every new release, and every device driver as well. Even Windows has this to some extent, this was an esssential feature for the non-hacker to use MacOS X, and damn nice convenience for hackers, too!
Churhill said, "Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result", not "there's no greater thrill in life than being shot at and missed."
American paraphrasing of Churchill is no thrill to me.
I think he is saying math is completely intuitive to him. He sees the two numbers being multiplied and the product comes to him in a private visual way he can readily translate to base 10 digits.
The human brain is very parallel and associative, but to the WinTel guys it would be a machine with 10,000 cores completely interconnected with a clock rate of 100's to 1000's of Hz. Humans are not at their best when they think sequentially - savants are the postive proof.
For $500 per year anyone who agrees to follow Apple's ADC NDA agreement has access to 5 "Software Seed Keys". Anyone can join can and obtain an ADC account for free and what are called "assets" can be passed to other ADC account holders in the same company. That way a company can have 5 developers directly downloading prerelease software with only 1 membership.
There are other, less secretive assets such as the right to buy a Mac system at a discount, albeit for development purposes and not for resale.
Apple also has much more tightly controlled seeds to key developers, these exist but the procedures and those who are involved are a tightly guarded secret. They used to be only distributed on physical media by private carrier.
The lawsuit involved the regular seeded software only, not the uber-secret stuff. To my knowledge that has rarely, if ever, made it into the wild.
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Unlike old DVD-Video, HD DVD and BluRay have a bit -- so far not set -- that degrades all output unless it is via an HDCP connection. This means my older Sharp 720p projector will be degraded along with all early adapter's HD gear
This creates a powerful incentive to not just "backup" your HiDef DVD, rather to remove an onerous limitation -- it may violate the DCMA in the USA, but it is morally and legally sound to most of the world.
String theory always seemed to be the most complicated mathematical way you could "force" a unified field theory into existence by adding as many dimensions and undefinable, physically meaningless constants as possible. This is stuff for the likes of Dr. Charlie Eppes from the TV show Numb3rs. Maybe that's why Peter MacNicol aka Dr. Larry Fleinhardt bailed to be a heavy on 24?
Anyway, we may see some very smart guys flipping burgers next Christmas...
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| Don't have numbers to back it up, but most things I read say that the Secondary MX is *more* likely to be targeted by spammers on the belief that fewer filters will be in place to prevent spam.
The argument in your favor that says secondary MX's mostly queue and forward, and have fewer "hard", 5xx, rejects. For example, if only the primary MTA was running something like Spamassassin set to reject at certain threshold.
Still, TFA's point is good, and may help quite a bit.
Greylisting still DOES help a lot in 2007. The majority of "zombie" spambots don't bother to requeue the "soft", 4xx, errors; also zombies that relay through their ISP generate a more obvious fingerprint and finally, and perhaps most importantly, the 30 minutes to 1 hour delay allows DCC, Razor2 and other spam signature databases to register hits at the expense of non-greylisters.
In all the noise about Vista, it doesn't run today's Windows app's as fast or as compatibly as XP.
According to Tom's Hardware, DirectX 9 and below will run the GPU at 90 to 95% of XP, even though someday DirectX 10 will be faster; if I was a serious gamer, no Vista until, oh, maybe 2008.
Even before Sarbanes-Oxley (e.g. in the mid-1990's) ethical, conservative CFO's [admitted a rare breed] were very careful about "recognizing revenue" for a product when a newer or better version was in the works. Our "head up the ass" Congress passed Sarbanes-Oxley and now companies have hire many more lawyers to cover their asses. Lots of companies in Apple's situation would simply do NOTHING - no charge, no upgrade: WYSIWYG hardware. Is that in the consumer's best interest? I think not!
It was widely reported (and appears to be confirmed by my experiences) that Apple laid off all personnel that monitored their support forums last summer. This begs the question who deletes posts? I think volunteer Mac geeks have been given administrator rights to the forums and perhaps do whatever they want. Apple screwed up by laying off its forum support staff, but may not have had anything to do with the elimination the nVidia thread.
"What the hell is a secret military aircraft doing in the middle of the busiest airport in America?"
Well, there's actually little air traffic directly above an airport, to allow for "puddle jumping" aborted landings - further this thing obviously could get of the way of an aircraft going a mere 200 mph. I think they planned to hide in the cloud, a real-world test of stealth and blew it, then got the hell out of there.
The fact observers said it made a hole in the cloud deck for minutes, to me, rules out any purely optical effect. It must have been some physical device, whatever that may be. Further, professional airline pilots saw it and stated it was not familiar to them as a known aircraft. My take is a new stealth military craft - hence all the coverup by the FAA.
These are brave researchers to challenge the orthodox view of purely auto-immune diabetes. It reminds me of what resistance there was to redefining ulcers as a curable inflection, versus a psychological or personality flaw that was incurable or required surgery removing most of the stomach. In the end Drs. Warren and Marshall won a Nobel prize, but not before enduring years of abuse and almost having their careers destroyed. I hope medicine is more open to radical new ideas today.
I did RTFA but haven't RTFB. I appears it is oriented toward non-UI intensive modules. Java, as others mentioned, handles the UI stuff quite well. The GNU build utilities help a lot if it's a *NIX system, but most true portability problems require more OS's.
More to the point a dup of /. coverage of SIGGRAPH in August this year!
I was very surprized given Linux's advantage of the "Viral" GPL license and big development bucks (although Apple puts $ into FeeBSD), that they were so close. Omitted in Linx's favor is its much faster thread implementation. LET COMPETITON RULE!
The guy who made soft cover high quality technical books the norm in Computer Science. I know they're not cheap, but compare with Don Knuth's (admitted classic) hard cover ones. He's got the right idea, the Author's Guild is thinking like the RIAA or the MPAA, and yet their argument is a hundred times weaker - no one is going to P2P their books!
I'd say 90% alternator efficiency, 80% electrolysis efficiency gives 70% conversion of power to H(2) and O(2) - both hydrogen and oxygen increase the efficiency of the engine. And, as you say, it starts out at 30%, up that to 35% and the thing works!
Apple's support alone will keep FreeBSD going. The video chip guys (ATI and nVidia) release object code drivers under closed licenses and anyone who wants can link it into Linux's GPL world. They aren't breaking the GPL, since they don't do the linking. Are the Linux users breaking the GPL? - I don't think so, but who's going to bust them even if they were.
This case is different since these wireless companies want bundle an entire OS. Using non-GPL'ed code seems to be to their advantage. And I mentioned before Linux and the GPL hasn't forced video chip drivers out to the light of day... I don't think the GPL has levered that many hardware vendors.
There is a place for govenment regulation when it is not economically viable to have competition. There is no money to build a second land line phone system, especially in today's cell phone world.
If you know any history, you know "antitrust" laws were passed around 100 years ago to conteract "trusts", huge monopolistic companies that controled all oil (Standard Oil), for example. A Supreme Court much less "activist" than today's upheld this act of Congress.
You can't get very far in today's world by reading a bunch old Ann Rand books...
I saw it at SIGGRAPH and asked one of the researchers what kind of electrical signal was used. He said it was simply a low current D.C. signal between two electrodes behind the ear. The apparratus was built into a pair of hollowed earphones that contained a radio receiver and battery. The controller looked like a stock RC one with a little joy stick to move people left or right.
I didn't ask if the polarity of the D.C. current matters (+ above -, or vice versa), but I think it just stimulates one ear or the other (or neither).
As an EE grad student at Stanford in 1972, Les "unofficially" gave me a key to the building and said I could play late at night (Computer Science and Electrical Engineering weren't on the best of terms; Stanford CS had just stolen McCarthy from MIT and Knuth from Caltech - not to mention Robert Floyd and thought it was pretty hot shit!). Les was in a particularly small group: African-Americans in computing circa 1970. I'll never forget the time I telnet'ed into MIT from SAIL - a journey of 3,000 miles with a few keystrokes. Back then, nearly every ARPANet host had a "guest" telnet account. Sad, isn't it, how warped people have destroyed the trusting, innocent network that was just being invented.
Linus doesn't like Mach, he says it is inheritly slower than "his" kernel. I think he is probably right, but not by an amount that really matters. Apple has been focusing on "micro-locking" critical sections in Mach for Tiger (and I assume even more for the next rev). This trend started as FreeBSD 5 tried to catch up with Linux 2.6, enough though the FreeBSD 5 kernel is unrelated to Mach. Why are they doing this? They are preparing for the day when there will be n cores, for n = 4, 6, 8... I remember an statement (was it Minsky?) that an n-way multiprocessor sysstem has performance of order n/log n. This does not have to be true in the future, and even if it is - we still win.
Also Apple has IOKit and "prebinding" which remove the need to keep multiple old copies of the *nix libraries for every binary you don't want to rebuild with every new release, and every device driver as well. Even Windows has this to some extent, this was an esssential feature for the non-hacker to use MacOS X, and damn nice convenience for hackers, too!
Churhill said, "Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result", not "there's no greater thrill in life than being shot at and missed."
American paraphrasing of Churchill is no thrill to me.
I think he is saying math is completely intuitive to him. He sees the two numbers being multiplied and the product comes to him in a private visual way he can readily translate to base 10 digits. The human brain is very parallel and associative, but to the WinTel guys it would be a machine with 10,000 cores completely interconnected with a clock rate of 100's to 1000's of Hz. Humans are not at their best when they think sequentially - savants are the postive proof.
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Have you read KDE'S Konqueror Changelog? No, just a lying rant!
http://konqueror.kde.org/news.php#itemKonqueror33
For $500 per year anyone who agrees to follow Apple's ADC NDA agreement has access to 5 "Software Seed Keys". Anyone can join can and obtain an ADC account for free and what are called "assets" can be passed to other ADC account holders in the same company. That way a company can have 5 developers directly downloading prerelease software with only 1 membership.
There are other, less secretive assets such as the right to buy a Mac system at a discount, albeit for development purposes and not for resale.
Apple also has much more tightly controlled seeds to key developers, these exist but the procedures and those who are involved are a tightly guarded secret. They used to be only distributed on physical media by private carrier.
The lawsuit involved the regular seeded software only, not the uber-secret stuff. To my knowledge that has rarely, if ever, made it into the wild.