At least I hope they do have the backup *before* they started the digital recovery process. We all knew something was lost when you just loaded stuff digitally - it's called quantisation.
Anyway, I just think the clarity of the cartoon never mattered. There's this theory that says that the closer the look gets to humans the lesser the real human-ness we feel. Which could explain why most of the cartoons involve talking animals:)
But I don't think Picasson should've used finer brushes either... It's Original - it's the way it should be.
Well, I guess it's about time you gave up that HotChick66 nick and got off those channels. Also I think all those spam companies just gave up on enlarging yours too:)
PowerPC CPU is a cool design - not only does it deliver great performance at lower clock speeds, but the entire design is great for compiler devs.
For one, they have true 3 register operations. Which means that every binary operation has a src1, src2, and dst. Also all opcodes are 32 bit - no exceptions (jmp offsets are easy to check for).
Because of 32 registers (not a measly 8), most of the code can run very fast off them , especially those tight loops. Also the cache touch instructions which do not segfault for invalid addresses helps you fetch arrays before their indexes are validated.
All in all, I prefer PPC to x86 on any day. Now if only they'd have a common FPU opcode set.
Secure authentication is based on Something _______
You know
You have
You are
Theoretically fingerprints belong in #3.. But the current detection schemes are easy to cheat so it turns into #2, and very weak one at that. You cannot reset/discard your fingerprint and you leave it everywhere you go on your surroundings.
So explain to me again how having a library access card with PIN numbers don't work. Hell, I'm still signing on a register to take books out - which works pretty well for the library.
other possibilites are coming to mind... wonder how many happy girlfriends there will be once people start getting second.... nevermind.
I absolutely refuse to get another head.. or toungue for that matter.
And I don't need two heads - my brain is already a dual core.. you know, left - right with a corpus collusum high speed interconnect. One is for multimedia, other's for number crunching (apparently).
I believe the market will continue to speak and decide on the best browser, which right now judging from my logs appears to be Google.
Scary... really scary , considering that Google has hired a bunch of IE and Firefox devels recently.. Or is your site that pathetic that the only thing that hits is the Google Bot ?.
Google is THE cool company NOW. I remember a past where Yahoo took that spot. Netscape, Microsoft and Apple have all been there. Five years down the line, there'll be something better , with a totally different name gathering the same sort of crowd google draws now.
At least they based Netscape 8.0 on Gecko (with an IE rendering option). Earlier rumours said that 8.0 was going to be based on Internet Explorer. It would have been the ultimate irony.
Browser is the The Platform - expect new IE versions to have a.NET controls integration built into. (integrating that in Mozilla - either mono or dotgnu would be inviting a patent lawsuit).
The biggest pain I have is getting a single font (yeah, I don't mind a 20 MB font that works) which will work uniformly well with unicode text in different languages.
Why the hell don't these people build a single one that really, truly works ?. Until then I'll be using ArialUni.ttf and suffering badly. (texmf is not bad, but the world just doesn't have enough Hellingman).
"I'd be really surprised if somebody is actually able to get a real-world attack on a real-world pgp key usage or similar out of it"
Being able to read arbitrary memory from another process is a big security flaw, as illustrated by the Minesweeper Hacking sample. But for a kernel programmer it's a minor deal for server security as it needs a local/remote exploit to run code on your box. Even then it is a readonly exploit, which decreases exploitability unless we're talking about stuff like SSL certs or GPG keys - which are pretty hard to find in 1 Gb of data:)
So to really exploit this, your thread should be running the CPU practically or 100% CPU. That should be an easy enough warning sign:)
Do you know that.NET binaries have headers which were designed for a 8 bit OS in seventies called the CP/M. Yeah, we still carry that around in the revolutionary peice of shit called the CLR. Ah, and look at how many USB driver APIs windows has.
A clean slate can sometimes be a good thing for progress. But it might make a lot less money in the short run. (thinks linux 2.4 -> 2.6 and kernel drivers).
Expect no less of XBox 360, Longhorn or anything. I pity Microsoft - they just can't afford to change.
Isn't that what companies do? If they see trends in the market shift towards certain features/needs/wants of consumers, they respond with providing consumers with what they want.
If you think the lack of Tabbed browsing is reducing IE's popularity, then I want whatever you are smoking. IE is getting unpopular due to spyware and drive-by-installs of malware. Why people are switching to firefox is to avoid those porn popups and phishing sites.
Security and geeks tired of fixing their in-law's PC's is the reason for IE's market share dipping. Oh, and faster PC's capable of rendering XUL fast.
More interesting question is - Why apple flopped .
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Apple had a sort of adolscent crisis when the compan y got to a stage when the hormones took over (this might look like a metaphor, but most companies have a childhood, youth and middle age like the people who run it). The business side started leaning on the creative side and sort of screwed each other. Apple had a bunch of cool people coding for them (I wish... Amiga...). But the business was more concerned about sellability than the raw coolness of the app in mind (see Google right now, it's going through the same loss of innocence).
Here's my list of top apple flops :
Apple Pippin (nice name !!)
OpenDoc
Lisa
copland (no, not the movie)
eWorld (what ?)
Dalmatian Imacs
Mac Portable
Btw, if it hadn't been for iMac and it appearing EVERY other commercial - apple might have just gone down silently. Now Ipod is bringing back the original proprietary wizards (Apple > Sun > Microsoft in this attitude... they're no angels).
But they stand a lot to lose, with these diamonds made in a lab. They'll probably try to say that unless a diamond came from the ground, it isn't real...
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Lallafa had lived in the forests of the Long Lands of Effa. He lived there, and he wrote his poems there. He wrote them on pages made of dried habra leaves, without the benefit of education or correcting fluid. ....
Then, shortly after the invention of time travel, some major correcting fluid manufacturers wondered whether his poems might have been better still if he had had access to some high-quality correcting fluid, and whether he might be persuaded to say a few words on that effect. ....
He never got around to writing the poems, of course, which was a problem, but an easily solved one. The manufacturers of correcting fluid simply packed him off for a week somewhere with a copy of a later edition of his book and a stack of dried habra leaves to copy them out on to, making the odd deliberate mistake and correction on the way.
Many people now say that the poems are suddenly worthless. Others argue that they are exactly the same as they always were, so what's changed? The first people say that that isn't the point. They aren't quite sure what the point is, but they are quite sure that that isn't it.
All of which illustrates the point... umm.. I'm sure it does.. A diamond is just a container of the I'm rich attitude (or if you see enough DeBeers ads that is translated as I love/care about you ). Lose the content and it's just an empty box.
Come on !. Think about it. They're precious because they are rare, exclusive and pretty much a freak of nature - clear diamonds more so still (probability, my dear watson).
If this will end up producing indistinguishable diamonds , then the market will collapse. IIRC, the artificial rubies made always contain a peice of metal embedded to make sure they are not sold as the real one - it's a question of business ethics for the people who make them (also good old plain advertisement).
To quote Scott Adams: if rabbits were rare and endagered, we'd be buying rabbit shit necklaces for our girlfriends.
Ok, the worst meal related accident I had with a keyboard involved a laptop, a liquid lunch and a couple of rubber bands. (I wish I was joking)
Imagine this, you have your father's office laptop (very costly IBM Thinkpad in 1999) on the coffee table running HellBender at a grainy 640x480 (I'm in that grotto with the ceiling guns). You have a small jar of payasam sitting there on the table. It was wrapped in a plastic bag with a couple of rubber bands (it was made the day before and kept in the fridge). I take the jar, open the plastic without looking up from the game. You know , the rubber band snapped and next thing you know the laptop keyboard is coated in sticky COLD payasam with vermicelli sticking to the padded keyboard bottom.
I still get teased by my sister whenever I take any food near her PC when I visit my parents.
It's a path of self destruction - there's a price people are willing to pay for entertainment. Cross the line and they'll become pirates. The real challenge of capitalism is to make sure that it works out fine for EVERYONE. For socialism the challenge is induvidual incentive. Neither works, if they don't try to address these challenges.
Scott Adams: If the capitalists don't like capitalism, they shouldn't have named it after themselves.
Also, while tritium isn't all that dangerous, it IS radioactive
So is Carbon-14.. the real question is how concetrated it is. Also about paranoia about this power source, I'd like to quote -
Well, the total melt-down of your laptop could be a disaster for the sotrage and use of your DNA.
Which is exactly why UserFriendly advises you to use it as a Nucular powered UPS - but it is adivsable to use real lead Shielding rather than make your dog and co-workers drink heavy water. The only downside is that the American army is likely to invade your backyard (or maybe they won't because you have nukes).
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Anyway, I just think the clarity of the cartoon never mattered. There's this theory that says that the closer the look gets to humans the lesser the real human-ness we feel. Which could explain why most of the cartoons involve talking animals :)
But I don't think Picasson should've used finer brushes either... It's Original - it's the way it should be.I'm an Indian in Bangalore.. Guys like us would LOVE to have something like OSDL here ..
Also Opensource should be world wide - based on the distribution of intelligence rather than $$$.
Btw, it's not an isolated phenomenon - #les..mm..miserables ?, I'm sure
PowerPC CPU is a cool design - not only does it deliver great performance at lower clock speeds, but the entire design is great for compiler devs .
For one, they have true 3 register operations. Which means that every binary operation has a src1, src2, and dst. Also all opcodes are 32 bit - no exceptions (jmp offsets are easy to check for).
Because of 32 registers (not a measly 8), most of the code can run very fast off them , especially those tight loops. Also the cache touch instructions which do not segfault for invalid addresses helps you fetch arrays before their indexes are validated.
All in all, I prefer PPC to x86 on any day. Now if only they'd have a common FPU opcode set.
- You know
- You have
- You are
Theoretically fingerprints belong in #3So explain to me again how having a library access card with PIN numbers don't work. Hell, I'm still signing on a register to take books out - which works pretty well for the library.
I absolutely refuse to get another head .. or toungue for that matter.
And I don't need two heads - my brain is already a dual coreScary... really scary , considering that Google has hired a bunch of IE and Firefox devels recently.. Or is your site that pathetic that the only thing that hits is the Google Bot ?.
Google is THE cool company NOW. I remember a past where Yahoo took that spot. Netscape, Microsoft and Apple have all been there. Five years down the line, there'll be something better , with a totally different name gathering the same sort of crowd google draws now.Browser is the The Platform - expect new IE versions to have a .NET controls integration built into. (integrating that in Mozilla - either mono or dotgnu would be inviting a patent lawsuit).
The biggest pain I have is getting a single font (yeah, I don't mind a 20 MB font that works) which will work uniformly well with unicode text in different languages.
Why the hell don't these people build a single one that really, truly works ?. Until then I'll be using ArialUni.ttf and suffering badly. (texmf is not bad, but the world just doesn't have enough Hellingman).
Being able to read arbitrary memory from another process is a big security flaw, as illustrated by the Minesweeper Hacking sample. But for a kernel programmer it's a minor deal for server security as it needs a local/remote exploit to run code on your box. Even then it is a readonly exploit, which decreases exploitability unless we're talking about stuff like SSL certs or GPG keys - which are pretty hard to find in 1 Gb of data :)
So to really exploit this, your thread should be running the CPU practically or 100% CPU. That should be an easy enough warning signLet me do some math here folks,
Get my point ?.I quote Mark Twain : Honesty is the best policy, when there's money in it.
A clean slate can sometimes be a good thing for progress. But it might make a lot less money in the short run. (thinks linux 2.4 -> 2.6 and kernel drivers).
Expect no less of XBox 360, Longhorn or anything. I pity Microsoft - they just can't afford to change.If you think the lack of Tabbed browsing is reducing IE's popularity, then I want whatever you are smoking. IE is getting unpopular due to spyware and drive-by-installs of malware. Why people are switching to firefox is to avoid those porn popups and phishing sites.
Security and geeks tired of fixing their in-law's PC's is the reason for IE's market share dipping. Oh, and faster PC's capable of rendering XUL fast.Apple had a sort of adolscent crisis when the compan y got to a stage when the hormones took over (this might look like a metaphor, but most companies have a childhood, youth and middle age like the people who run it). The business side started leaning on the creative side and sort of screwed each other. Apple had a bunch of cool people coding for them (I wish ... Amiga...). But the business was more concerned about sellability than the raw coolness of the app in mind (see Google right now, it's going through the same loss of innocence).
Here's my list of top apple flops :- Apple Pippin (nice name !!)
- OpenDoc
- Lisa
- copland (no, not the movie)
- eWorld (what ?)
- Dalmatian Imacs
- Mac Portable
Btw, if it hadn't been for iMac and it appearing EVERY other commercial - apple might have just gone down silently. Now Ipod is bringing back the original proprietary wizards (Apple > Sun > Microsoft in this attitudeTo Quote
Come on !. Think about it. They're precious because they are rare, exclusive and pretty much a freak of nature - clear diamonds more so still (probability, my dear watson).
If this will end up producing indistinguishable diamonds , then the market will collapse. IIRC, the artificial rubies made always contain a peice of metal embedded to make sure they are not sold as the real one - it's a question of business ethics for the people who make them (also good old plain advertisement).
To quote Scott Adams: if rabbits were rare and endagered, we'd be buying rabbit shit necklaces for our girlfriends.
Imagine this, you have your father's office laptop (very costly IBM Thinkpad in 1999) on the coffee table running HellBender at a grainy 640x480 (I'm in that grotto with the ceiling guns). You have a small jar of payasam sitting there on the table. It was wrapped in a plastic bag with a couple of rubber bands (it was made the day before and kept in the fridge). I take the jar, open the plastic without looking up from the game. You know , the rubber band snapped and next thing you know the laptop keyboard is coated in sticky COLD payasam with vermicelli sticking to the padded keyboard bottom.
I still get teased by my sister whenever I take any food near her PC when I visit my parents.If you are a left hand typist you might end up with a .uh... Orange dick too...
Slow Light is around 1.6 Kms per hour
didn't you read this ?. Talks about the same thing - but is patented shit (lots of prior art anyway).
It's a path of self destruction - there's a price people are willing to pay for entertainment. Cross the line and they'll become pirates. The real challenge of capitalism is to make sure that it works out fine for EVERYONE. For socialism the challenge is induvidual incentive. Neither works, if they don't try to address these challenges.
Scott Adams: If the capitalists don't like capitalism, they shouldn't have named it after themselves.
Truthfully, they killed the show - almost. Let it die in peace
The show suckedWhich is exactly why UserFriendly advises you to use it as a Nucular powered UPS - but it is adivsable to use real lead Shielding rather than make your dog and co-workers drink heavy water. The only downside is that the American army is likely to invade your backyard (or maybe they won't because you have nukes).