The problem with humans, IMHO, is that humans, for the most part, are a just billions and billions of neurons. You'll never have real, true intelligence because humans don't 'know' anything except on and off. You can try to simulate that, but so far simulation consists of what amounts to a gazillion 'if' tests, which is how any program works, really. All humans are is a larger, more complex set of 'if' tests than your average program.
> Is this a good thing? Do you know how much O2 a > 5-liter Uh-mer-kin muscle car chews up just from > driving to and from work on a semi-daily basis?
Uh, that's not exactly an appropriate comparison; the emissions from a typical "muscle" car (which accounts for maybe 1% of the total cars on the road here) are often *lower* than many sedans and certainly a LOT lower than SUVs which currently account for nearly have of all new vehicles sold in the US and get half the gas mileage and much higher emissions than the "muscle" car which is governed by much stricter emission controls and mileage regulation.
I drive a Firebird, and I get about 22MPG in the city and 32 on the highway - better than many sedans and twice what many SUVs get!
I got a "pocket" AM/FM radio for my 8th birthday that is still going strong; I keep it for emergencies since it only needs a 9V battery and takes a beating...
Um, that really depends on *which* version of Direct3D (which is the only comparable part of DirectX to OpenGL) you are using; for the most part, Direct3D's only advantage over OpenGL is shader support, and that advantage will soon vanish in the standard implementation of OpenGL (shader support is already available as an extension from a couple vendors)
Um, except that the relative velocity (that's the important one) isn't going to be that high, so the actual force of the impact will be substantially lower. Remember, orbiting space junk is still moving at orbital velocity (or close to it as the orbit decays), so unless you are accellerating *through* the debris field there should be little difference in velocity between you and the debris.
IIRC, incoming solar debris (i.e. not in Earth orbit) represents the greatest risk, with orbiting debris only representing a significant threat when the orbit decays enough to increase the relative velocity to the "danger" level (at which point you have an object falling "down" on you...)
Oh, yeah, like bad video is restricted to females! Whenever I've used a camcorder the video always ends up looking like it was recorded from a Frankenstein-cam!:)
thump thump thump thump. Here is my house. thump thump thump thump. This is my backyard. thump thump thump...:)
FWIW, FLTK provides the same advantages as Qt but is provided under the LGPL and is a lot smaller and faster.
The 2.0 release (currently in development) will take us beyond what most of the current toolkits can do, and is the basis of the Equinox Desktop Environment. At the same time, 2.0 retains the same goal of small size, high speed, and portability/cross-platform programming.
> Apple is blowing it. My next buy if this is true, > will be a wintel machine. I don't give a shit how > bad MS is, at least they have never pulled a bait > and switch on me.
You mean, like future versions of MS Windows/Office being subscription-based?
Here in the US, it is fairly uncommon for a shop to *not* take cards, and many of the local stores now have "self check-out" lines where you can scan the items you want to purchase and then pay with cash or card. The situation is similar in Canada - my former brother in law owns a pharmacy and most of his sales are now done via cards (and thus he sometimes has trouble making change for cash sales now...)
So, just because you don't have a market for cards right now, I would be surprised if over the next 10 years or so you don't see more stores taking cards and using new technologies for automatic payment/checkout. It's not necessarily progress, but consumers like convenience...
Check out the CUPS download page - it has MD5 sums that you can validate against your downloaded copies (no sense putting them in files on the FTP server, now is there?:)
Um, CUPS has been audited about a dozen times now by various vendors. The last such audit was conducted almost a year and a half ago and was the source of the last security advisory for CUPS. Yes, that's right, no advisories in a year and a half...
We take security very seriously, and as soon as something comes to our attention (either internally or externally), we release a fix ASAP. This latest advisory exposed some integer overflows (previous ones were buffer overflow/DoS only) which could be used to gain access to the (unpriviledged) "lp" account, and in one case root access (but that required a local attack or a change in the default configuration for a remote attack...
After the report we went through all of the related code as well to determine if there were any other problem spots like those reported; we found and fixed a few in the image file filters (which could only get you "lp" access anyways, one of the reasons we don't run everything as root like old LPD did...)
Security advisories like this only improve the quality and "safety" of the CUPS code, and we welcome all reviews, criticisms, etc. - user/developer feedback has been the driving force behind CUPS development.
OK, for folks that haven't read the advisory, a "slew" is apparently 9.
Of those 9, only *1* of the issues could possibly be used to gain root access, and it depends entirely on the CUPS release, compiler, etc. you use, and for the exploit to work remotely you have to change the default CUPS configuration.
Issue 6 was fixed back in CUPS 1.1.15 (released in June) and is old news.
All but one issue was fixed within a few hours of the report, and the current CUPS release (1.1.18) does not have any of these vulnerabilities.
Yes, but there are plenty of *free* OSS and lower-cost commercial software packages available that allow you to generate PDFs without paying a dime to Adobe.
A lot of the increase might be explained by information overload as well - since the 70's, the amount of information you are exposed to has increased dramatically, and even adult brains are not able to handle it!
These folks have been doing a somewhat radical program for Autistic children (and their parents) for a while now, with impressive results!
So can FLTK, which also supports MacOS X and is a lot smaller.
Mind you, the look-n-feel isn't identical like Qt's (as a free software project, we can't buy Aqua like Trolltech did), but the "plastic" scheme is similar enough.
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The problem with humans, IMHO, is that humans, for the most part, are a just billions and billions of neurons. You'll never have real, true intelligence because humans don't 'know' anything except on and off. You can try to simulate that, but so far simulation consists of what amounts to a gazillion 'if' tests, which is how any program works, really. All humans are is a larger, more complex set of 'if' tests than your average program.
Actually, we already know what the 90% of the "missing" Universe is - socks!
> Is this a good thing? Do you know how much O2 a
> 5-liter Uh-mer-kin muscle car chews up just from
> driving to and from work on a semi-daily basis?
Uh, that's not exactly an appropriate comparison; the emissions from a typical "muscle" car (which accounts for maybe 1% of the total cars on the road here) are often *lower* than many sedans and certainly a LOT lower than SUVs which currently account for nearly have of all new vehicles sold in the US and get half the gas mileage and much higher emissions than the "muscle" car which is governed by much stricter emission controls and mileage regulation.
I drive a Firebird, and I get about 22MPG in the city and 32 on the highway - better than many sedans and twice what many SUVs get!
I got a "pocket" AM/FM radio for my 8th birthday that is still going strong; I keep it for emergencies since it only needs a 9V battery and takes a beating...
Um, that really depends on *which* version of Direct3D (which is the only comparable part of DirectX to OpenGL) you are using; for the most part, Direct3D's only advantage over OpenGL is shader support, and that advantage will soon vanish in the standard implementation of OpenGL (shader support is already available as an extension from a couple vendors)
It would be if you took money for the results of your studying...
Um, except that the relative velocity (that's the important one) isn't going to be that high, so the actual force of the impact will be substantially lower. Remember, orbiting space junk is still moving at orbital velocity (or close to it as the orbit decays), so unless you are accellerating *through* the debris field there should be little difference in velocity between you and the debris.
IIRC, incoming solar debris (i.e. not in Earth orbit) represents the greatest risk, with orbiting debris only representing a significant threat when the orbit decays enough to increase the relative velocity to the "danger" level (at which point you have an object falling "down" on you...)
Mine (from the one where Homer is King Kong):
:)
Mr. Burns: "What do you think, Smithers?"
Smithers: "I think women and sea men don't mix."
Oh, yeah, like bad video is restricted to females! Whenever I've used a camcorder the video always ends up looking like it was recorded from a Frankenstein-cam! :)
:)
thump thump thump thump. Here is my house. thump thump thump thump. This is my backyard. thump thump thump...
Yes, you get GST back which is a federal tax, but not PST which is a provincial tax.
IIRC (and I'm no expert), VAT is a federal (country-wide) tax as well...
The plastic scheme gets you closer, and assuming that Apple doesn't jump all over us the 2.0 release will have an Aqua scheme as well.
As for the menubar at the top of the screen, you just have to use the Fl_Sys_Menu_Bar widget.
FLTK also works on MacOS X, and the current development branch will soon add support for several embedded interfaces as well...
FWIW, FLTK provides the same advantages as Qt but is provided under the LGPL and is a lot smaller and faster.
The 2.0 release (currently in development) will take us beyond what most of the current toolkits can do, and is the basis of the Equinox Desktop Environment. At the same time, 2.0 retains the same goal of small size, high speed, and portability/cross-platform programming.
This is a dup and was on Slashdot last year...
> Apple is blowing it. My next buy if this is true,
> will be a wintel machine. I don't give a shit how
> bad MS is, at least they have never pulled a bait
> and switch on me.
You mean, like future versions of MS Windows/Office being subscription-based?
Here in the US, it is fairly uncommon for a shop to *not* take cards, and many of the local stores now have "self check-out" lines where you can scan the items you want to purchase and then pay with cash or card. The situation is similar in Canada - my former brother in law owns a pharmacy and most of his sales are now done via cards (and thus he sometimes has trouble making change for cash sales now...)
So, just because you don't have a market for cards right now, I would be surprised if over the next 10 years or so you don't see more stores taking cards and using new technologies for automatic payment/checkout. It's not necessarily progress, but consumers like convenience...
I can see these being used for cookbooks; you can get some that are water/stain/food resistant, but a book made of this stuff would be better.
Check out the CUPS download page - it has MD5 sums that you can validate against your downloaded copies (no sense putting them in files on the FTP server, now is there? :)
Um, CUPS has been audited about a dozen times now by various vendors. The last such audit was conducted almost a year and a half ago and was the source of the last security advisory for CUPS. Yes, that's right, no advisories in a year and a half...
We take security very seriously, and as soon as something comes to our attention (either internally or externally), we release a fix ASAP. This latest advisory exposed some integer overflows (previous ones were buffer overflow/DoS only) which could be used to gain access to the (unpriviledged) "lp" account, and in one case root access (but that required a local attack or a change in the default configuration for a remote attack...
After the report we went through all of the related code as well to determine if there were any other problem spots like those reported; we found and fixed a few in the image file filters (which could only get you "lp" access anyways, one of the reasons we don't run everything as root like old LPD did...)
Security advisories like this only improve the quality and "safety" of the CUPS code, and we welcome all reviews, criticisms, etc. - user/developer feedback has been the driving force behind CUPS development.
OK, for folks that haven't read the advisory, a "slew" is apparently 9.
Of those 9, only *1* of the issues could possibly be used to gain root access, and it depends entirely on the CUPS release, compiler, etc. you use, and for the exploit to work remotely you have to change the default CUPS configuration.
Issue 6 was fixed back in CUPS 1.1.15 (released in June) and is old news.
All but one issue was fixed within a few hours of the report, and the current CUPS release (1.1.18) does not have any of these vulnerabilities.
Yeah, that's right, it was the "cellular static" that we hear about in all those Sprint commercials here in the US...
Definitely check out:
FLTK - http://www.fltk.org/ - light-weight
cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit with
OpenGL support, etc.
Boost - Portable, peer-reviewed C++ libraries
including threading support, etc.
Yes, but there are plenty of *free* OSS and lower-cost commercial software packages available that allow you to generate PDFs without paying a dime to Adobe.
A lot of the increase might be explained by information overload as well - since the 70's, the amount of information you are exposed to has increased dramatically, and even adult brains are not able to handle it!
These folks have been doing a somewhat radical program for Autistic children (and their parents) for a while now, with impressive results!
So can FLTK, which also supports MacOS X and is a lot smaller.
Mind you, the look-n-feel isn't identical like Qt's (as a free software project, we can't buy Aqua like Trolltech did), but the "plastic" scheme is similar enough.