Eeek. That must make it into the top 10 of worst moderations in/. history. The comment is +5, Insightul.
When I submitted that article, I thought I should write about Intel's slowness related to wireless/radio things or not, but then I decided to leave it out. They are behind, it's a fact. But still, I think it's news that they are now entering the game with muscle.
The fact that my and your sense of humour did not intersect.:) To me, it seemed that the clip was like straight from Dilbert mission statement generator. Anyway, the description is very good, but to one like me, who does not use math terms actively, it takes some time to understand what it means in practise and how to use the information. And at first sight it seems like the recipe for Energy Bolt spell. But then again, I am mathematic moron:)
Basically, the attack works by trying to express the entire algorithm as multivariate quadratic polynomials, and then using an innovative technique to treat the terms of those polynomials as individual variables. This gives you a system of linear equations in a quadratically large number of variables, which you have to solve. There are a bunch of minimization techniques, and several other clever tricks you can use to make the solution easier. (This is a gross oversimplification of the paper; read it for more detail.)
Uhm. emm. EZ?:)
I can imagine this could be cool
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LoTR:LEGO Originals
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if you still liked playing with LEGOS and it was a computer case made out of legos by Paul Rea : "I then got the idea to make the entire case out of LEGOS. I had originally intended to make the drives on stilts of LEGOS but that did not work out as well as I had hoped. Over that first month I thought of several concepts and finally decided to build the case you now see in the attached photographs" - this won the mod contest organized by directron.com.
if I gave them $10 million dollars, and the one-paged introduction to Vokon (a reverse-polish-notation based self-cooked programming language by my friend in 1996), will they use it in their attempts to " help prepare high school students to enter the electrical and computer engineering program. "
Like 42 42 * 42 + 1806 eq "that would be great" print
Anyway, I assume they lifted the ban just until they have had time to develop the system so that it is a bit harder to go around it. We might see the blockings again within a few weeks.
Is GPL best license for this purpose
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"Viewers will be free to share and redistribute the shows under the General Public License, which is something no other TV network in the world is doing. So there! "
Or would some else do better, such as the GNU Free Documentation License FDL be better? Or something completely different and maybe new? I just have the feeling that GPL is tailored for software in a way that makes it incomplete or even invalid for licensing a TV show.
Does someone have more insightful input than my "feelings";)
that's much bigger news than some delay - even bigger news is that it is not the first processor they produced:) "C|Net reports that their next processor (Hammer)". How low can you go:)
According to this release by the company which makes the RocketCams: "2002 Aug 21: Two Ecliptic RocketCam(TM) systems have provided launch-to-orbit onboard views during the inaugural launch of the Atlas 5 rocket. The launch was a complete success, taking Eutelsat's Hotbird 6 comsat from Cape Canaveral and placing it into the desired transfer orbit. Both RocketCam(TM) cameras captured dramatic views looking aft: one from outside the Atlas 5's second-stage skin and one from inside the aft end of the second stage. "
Apparently, this is just the first time it can be publicly accessed.
According to IBM, open standards are not only essential to the deployment of autonomic technology, but they also level the playing field for the companies doing the innovating. "We want to sell our middleware based on fair competition with an equal set of standards," says Almaden Research Center director Robert Morris. "People should buy our toaster because it toasts bread the best, not because it has the only plug that fits in the outlet."
This made me look fore more info on this guy (Robert Morris), here is an interview. He seems like a good guy in good position.
[from Australian slang] Yet another approximate synonym for broken. Specifically connotes a malfunction that produces behavior seen as crazy, humorous, or amusingly perverse. "That was the day the printer's font logic went wonky and everybody's listings came out in Tengwar." Also in `wonked out'. See funky, demented, bozotic.
I have been - and still am - in the same position. According to my experience, the best way to complete your studies, is to arrange it so that your work for the company can be turned into study (credits). This naturally requires that someone in your university or whatever is ready to discuss about innovative ideas.
Atleast here, the fact that universites for example get certain amount of government money per graduated student, helps the discussion. The situation in US might completely different - but still: convince a professor about the fact that you learn by doing. Ofcourse you need to (and you should, it's good for you!) complete some theoretical studies as well - but theoretical studies can be interesting as well, if you know it benefits your business. As result, you might see that you can complete your studies by 60% work and 40% extra, for example.
Need to outperform closed source options
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I would think that not all of the benefits of open source are true in education, as in business use for example. Which means that the open source option needs to outperform the commercial option by other criterias (functionality, performance, feature set, reliability) - not price.
As commercial vendors tend to provide schools and universities with cheap or free licenses for educational uses - to make the students familiar with their products so that they would buy them when they finally graduate and enter work-life. So, am I terribly wrong if I assume that there is not the cost benefit or atleast it is not very significant?
> every time I hear the word "Grid" I think of those cheesey laptops which radio shack sold
Yes! For some reason it is immensily hard to adopt that word. Distributed computing was just so much clearer. According to some descriptions (atleast my current explanation:) the "grid" is supposed to point that the system can be built on top of very heterogenic hardware, software and network and to do very heterogenic tasks, and to be able be configured automagically or in adhoc manner. Now, in my mind a grid is something rather fixed. Why don't we change the term to blob computing for example:)
This is alarming! If they continue making progress at current late, it will take only aproximately 42 years until they have created a memory chip so dense, that no bytes can escape, infact the chip sinks through the fabric of space-time. Any data within 42 square kilometers will be suck in through the event horizon. The only escape from being drawn inside is growing a big head, since the Schwarzschild radius is aproximately 30 cm.
- Any programming project that begins well ends badly.
- If a programming task looks easy its tough.
- If a program is useful it will have to be changed.
- Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer who must maintain it.
- The probability that a given program will perform to expectations is inversly proportional to the programmers confidence in his ability to do the job.
- There is always one more bug.
- If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
"But the best part about Mozilla is that it is not just a browser. Scores of developers are now talking about using Mozilla as a "platform" -- that is, using Mozilla's underlying code to build non-browser applications, like calendar programs and e-mail programs"
Law of Software Envelopment jwz edition
``Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.''
Hehe, one more comment on my own comment's comment:) From the licensing page
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1) If you are a content owner and want to protect content, then you need Windows Media Rights Manager SDK. 2) If you are a license clearing house and need to build a license server, then you need Windows Media Rights Manager SDK. 3) If you are an ISV and want to build a player application that can decrypt content protected with Windows Media DRM, you need to license Windows Media Format SDK and a key. "
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Why? We have seen one wheel cars before :)
Eeek. That must make it into the top 10 of worst moderations in /. history. The comment is +5, Insightul.
When I submitted that article, I thought I should write about Intel's slowness related to wireless/radio things or not, but then I decided to leave it out. They are behind, it's a fact. But still, I think it's news that they are now entering the game with muscle.
The fact that my and your sense of humour did not intersect. :) To me, it seemed that the clip was like straight from Dilbert mission statement generator. Anyway, the description is very good, but to one like me, who does not use math terms actively, it takes some time to understand what it means in practise and how to use the information. And at first sight it seems like the recipe for Energy Bolt spell. But then again, I am mathematic moron :)
Uhm. emm. EZ? :)
if you still liked playing with LEGOS and it was a computer case made out of legos by Paul Rea : "I then got the idea to make the entire case out of LEGOS. I had originally intended to make the drives on stilts of LEGOS but that did not work out as well as I had hoped. Over that first month I thought of several concepts and finally decided to build the case you now see in the attached photographs" - this won the mod contest organized by directron.com.
Like 42 42 * 42 + 1806 eq "that would be great" print
China's ban on Google Web search engine lifted
Chinese government backs down on Google
China ends Google block
China lifts Google restrictions
Wall comes down around Google in China
Google back online in China
...this might be 4.2% of the stories
Anyway, I assume they lifted the ban just until they have had time to develop the system so that it is a bit harder to go around it. We might see the blockings again within a few weeks.
Or would some else do better, such as the GNU Free Documentation License FDL be better? Or something completely different and maybe new? I just have the feeling that GPL is tailored for software in a way that makes it incomplete or even invalid for licensing a TV show.
Does someone have more insightful input than my "feelings" ;)
Ohh, the newsvalue of that article was close to zero then :)
that's much bigger news than some delay - even bigger news is that it is not the first processor they produced :) "C|Net reports that their next processor (Hammer)". How low can you go :)
Apparently, this is just the first time it can be publicly accessed.
This made me look fore more info on this guy (Robert Morris), here is an interview. He seems like a good guy in good position.
[from Australian slang] Yet another approximate synonym for broken. Specifically connotes a malfunction that produces behavior seen as crazy, humorous, or amusingly perverse. "That was the day the printer's font logic went wonky and everybody's listings came out in Tengwar." Also in `wonked out'. See funky, demented, bozotic.
Nice sig there :)= Now, you can also violate the DMCA by "cracking" this. ;)
Atleast here, the fact that universites for example get certain amount of government money per graduated student, helps the discussion. The situation in US might completely different - but still: convince a professor about the fact that you learn by doing. Ofcourse you need to (and you should, it's good for you!) complete some theoretical studies as well - but theoretical studies can be interesting as well, if you know it benefits your business. As result, you might see that you can complete your studies by 60% work and 40% extra, for example.
and you are sure to get chicks! To get started, browse to this page about Electricity from wood waste.
As commercial vendors tend to provide schools and universities with cheap or free licenses for educational uses - to make the students familiar with their products so that they would buy them when they finally graduate and enter work-life. So, am I terribly wrong if I assume that there is not the cost benefit or atleast it is not very significant?
Why don't you do Quakeman, the re-incarnation of Pacman, next?
Do you know who's rule (or edition of the rule) was that? Jamie Zawinski's, who was the lead coder of the 'Netscape of Old'. Irony :)
Yes! For some reason it is immensily hard to adopt that word. Distributed computing was just so much clearer. According to some descriptions (atleast my current explanation :) the "grid" is supposed to point that the system can be built on top of very heterogenic hardware, software and network and to do very heterogenic tasks, and to be able be configured automagically or in adhoc manner. Now, in my mind a grid is something rather fixed. Why don't we change the term to blob computing for example :)
Here is a little collection of grid computing related companies, organisations and projects. If there is something crucial missing, let me know :)
This is alarming! If they continue making progress at current late, it will take only aproximately 42 years until they have created a memory chip so dense, that no bytes can escape, infact the chip sinks through the fabric of space-time. Any data within 42 square kilometers will be suck in through the event horizon. The only escape from being drawn inside is growing a big head, since the Schwarzschild radius is aproximately 30 cm.
- Any programming project that begins well ends badly.
- If a programming task looks easy its tough.
- If a program is useful it will have to be changed.
- Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer who must maintain it.
- The probability that a given program will perform to expectations is inversly proportional to the programmers confidence in his ability to do the job.
- There is always one more bug.
- If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Law of Software Envelopment jwz edition
``Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.''
" 1) If you are a content owner and want to protect content, then you need Windows Media Rights Manager SDK. 2) If you are a license clearing house and need to build a license server, then you need Windows Media Rights Manager SDK. 3) If you are an ISV and want to build a player application that can decrypt content protected with Windows Media DRM, you need to license Windows Media Format SDK and a key. "
Does not look very open.