A wholehearted agreement from here. My mother prefers not to listen to what I have to say if any of my information came from Slashdot. On the other hand, she doesn't mind at all of I parrot something from NPR.
My great-uncle, on the other hand, claims that my political views have been trashed from listening to too much NPR, yet he thinks of the Washington Times as fair-and-balanced journalism, and calls any political dissent "liberal."
Still, it's fun to argue. It's neat when we suddenly hit on a kernel of information that we agree on, then we can build on that and establish a network of agreed-upon truths..
Me, I tend to shy away from news sources that don't even give lip-service to the fact that the "other guy" is sane, just with a different opinion. That's why I like Slashdot, there are enough differing viewpoints and arguments that I can form my own opinions.
PlayFair is needed to allow us to use the protected work in hardware that does not support the FairPlay encryption scheme. While I might not bet my life on that, it at least is a good place to start in challenging this (as well as in the case for DVD's).
In that case, shouldn't the issue focus on the license agreement that's signed when someone signs up for iTMS?
I can throw my bulk at a small person, and they'll typically get out of my way, just so they don't get knocked down. So it sounds like "throwing their weight around" to me.
That said, I don't see the point of PlayFair, so long you can burn the data to a CD, then rip the CD. The only reason I'd use PlayFair is so I could avoid the time and cost of burning a CD (even on RW media), and avoid the re-encoding quality costs. (which are negligible for someone like me.)
Well, the tests appear to have been done on lone cells. I don't know that the test will be useful for testing cells which are part of a structure.
You'd have to isolate the cells you want to study. If you have a mass of tissue you want to investigate, then it should be easy to scrape off a cell or two to work with. Otherwise, it'd be hit-or-miss, assuming that a diseased cell is present somewhere in the tissue.
It might be useful to apply the tests to cells taken from a blood sample. As for practicality, you'd probably want an array of atomic-force microscopes, to speed up the process. I don't know that anyone's previously had a reason to build such a device.
I'd compare it to having one the pins in the lock getting stuck in the wrong position. Unless you have a reset mechanism (such as a spring), you'll have to reset it manually.
Cool link. A little farther down, where they talk about "Space Drives," they mention the ability to reflect radiation travelling in one direction, yet pass the radiation travelling in the opposite.
That'd make a great self-destruct device, if you created a sphere that reflected all outward radiation, but passed all inward radiation.
There was a Scientific American article on the low notes a while back. It focused on compression/rarefaction of interstellar gasses, and how, as the universe expanded, those waveforms became frozen as patterns of matter in space, leading to the modern distribution of matter.
Darned if I can remember the title, though, or even what the cover of that issue looked like.
When I was in high school, I had this really neat idea for a text-based adventure game that was a lot like the technical aspects of Shadowrun. Here are some of the key thoughts I had (all within a virtual environment, mind you):
You'd rummage through the trash of a target looking for clues like written-down passwords, or website printouts.
You'd get shell access to a machine, and could use a utility to mirror all of the hopefully sensitive data.
You'd be able to blackmail company insiders for useful information, or to take the fall if you were detected, etc.
Basically, it would be an environment where you could pretend to be a black hat. Unfortunately, if I tried to make a game like that, it'd be a political and legal lightning rod in today's climate.
I would think that your binary size would only increase if you statically link with the libraries you need. Otherwise, your executable code should be smaller than your C code.
As liquids go, this stuff is pretty thin. With such a low boiling point, there can't be much in the way of intermolecular forces holding it together. Therefore there can't be much in the way of intermolecular forces preventing it from flowing.
Somewhat faster rendering, anyway. Offload everything but your HTML parsing to the video card. Then all you have left to do is optimize the hell out of your parser.
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A wholehearted agreement from here. My mother prefers not to listen to what I have to say if any of my information came from Slashdot. On the other hand, she doesn't mind at all of I parrot something from NPR.
My great-uncle, on the other hand, claims that my political views have been trashed from listening to too much NPR, yet he thinks of the Washington Times as fair-and-balanced journalism, and calls any political dissent "liberal."
Still, it's fun to argue. It's neat when we suddenly hit on a kernel of information that we agree on, then we can build on that and establish a network of agreed-upon truths..
Me, I tend to shy away from news sources that don't even give lip-service to the fact that the "other guy" is sane, just with a different opinion. That's why I like Slashdot, there are enough differing viewpoints and arguments that I can form my own opinions.
While both are necessary, seeing them individually shouldn't be. What he's referring to is making the individuality of the grains less apparent.
You're not alone.
IF stands for Interactive Fiction.
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Not sure if my sarcasm detector is working up to spec though...
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Whoops. That's the microphone.
PlayFair is needed to allow us to use the protected work in hardware that does not support the FairPlay encryption scheme. While I might not bet my life on that, it at least is a good place to start in challenging this (as well as in the case for DVD's).
In that case, shouldn't the issue focus on the license agreement that's signed when someone signs up for iTMS?
I can throw my bulk at a small person, and they'll typically get out of my way, just so they don't get knocked down. So it sounds like "throwing their weight around" to me.
That said, I don't see the point of PlayFair, so long you can burn the data to a CD, then rip the CD. The only reason I'd use PlayFair is so I could avoid the time and cost of burning a CD (even on RW media), and avoid the re-encoding quality costs. (which are negligible for someone like me.)
What kind of gaming? Pen-and-paper RPGs can be played by just about anyone, so long as everyone has enough tolerance for the least-talented player.
Great...now I've got thoughts of la Cucaracha going through my head. With a new name, it's now el Virus.
Well, the tests appear to have been done on lone cells. I don't know that the test will be useful for testing cells which are part of a structure.
You'd have to isolate the cells you want to study. If you have a mass of tissue you want to investigate, then it should be easy to scrape off a cell or two to work with. Otherwise, it'd be hit-or-miss, assuming that a diseased cell is present somewhere in the tissue.
It might be useful to apply the tests to cells taken from a blood sample. As for practicality, you'd probably want an array of atomic-force microscopes, to speed up the process. I don't know that anyone's previously had a reason to build such a device.
Good point. Conversely, it would work really quickly on a low-latency network. Or a network with gauranteed delivery times+failure notices.
I'd compare it to having one the pins in the lock getting stuck in the wrong position. Unless you have a reset mechanism (such as a spring), you'll have to reset it manually.
Cool link. A little farther down, where they talk about "Space Drives," they mention the ability to reflect radiation travelling in one direction, yet pass the radiation travelling in the opposite.
That'd make a great self-destruct device, if you created a sphere that reflected all outward radiation, but passed all inward radiation.
There was a Scientific American article on the low notes a while back. It focused on compression/rarefaction of interstellar gasses, and how, as the universe expanded, those waveforms became frozen as patterns of matter in space, leading to the modern distribution of matter.
Darned if I can remember the title, though, or even what the cover of that issue looked like.
Set up a couple cheap boxen as a VNC terminal. That way, nearly all your administration goes into one box. :)
Just make sure your host box has some muscle. Or at leasta significant amount of RAM.
When I was in high school, I had this really neat idea for a text-based adventure game that was a lot like the technical aspects of Shadowrun. Here are some of the key thoughts I had (all within a virtual environment, mind you):
You'd rummage through the trash of a target looking for clues like written-down passwords, or website printouts.
You'd get shell access to a machine, and could use a utility to mirror all of the hopefully sensitive data.
You'd be able to blackmail company insiders for useful information, or to take the fall if you were detected, etc.
Basically, it would be an environment where you could pretend to be a black hat. Unfortunately, if I tried to make a game like that, it'd be a political and legal lightning rod in today's climate.
I would think that your binary size would only increase if you statically link with the libraries you need. Otherwise, your executable code should be smaller than your C code.
The funny thing is, the rule benefits the spammers, too. Their target audience will be more likely to click on it.
What do you do if part of the proper sequence is in the initial random garbase? For example, let's say my proper sequence is 6 4 5 4.
4876454877 works fine, but
46496454219 won't, because 649 appears before 6454, and the 9 causes the attempt to be aborted and logged.
Other than that, it sounds like a neat idea.
That brings to mind the possibility of portknocking that depends on delays between knocks, rather than where the knocks are on the port spectrum.
Indeed, a user's knocking sequence could serve as his identification.
Setting up an SSH tunnel from one box to another could easily bring your mail data in from an outside connection.
Other people have mentioned that this runs on UDP. What if you drop a packet? How do you know you need to start over?
As liquids go, this stuff is pretty thin. With such a low boiling point, there can't be much in the way of intermolecular forces holding it together. Therefore there can't be much in the way of intermolecular forces preventing it from flowing.
If its vapor pressure is low enough for it to boil at that temperature, I'd be more concerned about it simply evaporating off from the surface.
Somewhat faster rendering, anyway. Offload everything but your HTML parsing to the video card. Then all you have left to do is optimize the hell out of your parser.