Thankfully the group of people who commit premeditated murder and people with the geeky skills to kill over the Internet rarely overlap. It's the same with terrorism, people who commit those acts aren't exactly the brightest bulbs in the room, just imagine what a bunch of brilliant, well funded engineers could do. Think invisible flying death bots.
I though you where supposed to enforce longer passwords instead The math is clear, if a 8 character alphanumeric password takes a second to break then a 20 char password takes about 15.000.000.000.000 years to crack or 110 times the age of the universe.
So the point is : why keep a perfectly working calendar thats accurate to 1 day in 3000 years for one in which we have to introduce a leap week every couple of years.
Yea, why not. Though why stop there when you can just label the days 1-365, add a leap day every 4 years as usual and then just split the days up in chunks of 25 days and give them new names, then organize new weeks with 10 days in them of which 3 are weekend days, two in the end and one in the fourth day, . And yea the weekdays need new names as well, we are keeping fridays cause i like fridays, but it's now on day 8, also thursday, cause it's named after thor and who can argue with the god of thunder. Sundays, mondays and thuresdays are definitely gone, humpday need to be given a suggestive name and finally one of the days need to be named after the currently hottest girl at the time of it's adoption, i vote for Bianca Beauchamp. The whole thing gets reset every day 1, so all the weekdays end up at the same place every time. however 365 isn't evenly divisible by 25, so this means that the 15:th month is tiny (only 15-16 days), but it's the holiday month after all in where you place Christmas (or at least a version of it) on day 9 which is coincidentally right on the start of a weekend (you could even make it a 3 day weekend) it's Christmas after all.
$27.63 seems oddly specific But with the amount of overtime pay in the IT community someone will pretty soon realize that unless people actually sometime work overtime to fix problems it won't be long before people start cutting up old tires to make body armour.
I have a self propelled lawnmower so as long as i hold a lever an just calmly walk behind it mowing is not an issue. That is until i try to turn which requires me to use a comparatively large amount of force, it also takes a lot of time as you sort of have to stop, turn then go. And this is where i think the algorithm is flawed, as it doesn't consider turns but only area covered. I find just keeping to the outer edge of the unmoved area works best while straightening out curves as best as possible, then just mowing it sector by sector (as ours is not exactly convex in shape)
You can sort of already do this on android, just set the wifi to shut down when the screen is off. Before i did it it my SGS could just about manage a day, now it's at least 3 maybe 4 if i don't play any games on it.
If i understand the design correctly then it might just be able to sort of autorotate, if the rotors have enough inertia built in. In case of engine failure it would configure the blades so that air rushing by would turn the rotors and then just before impact it would reconfigure the blades again for maximum lift and use that rotor speed to dampen the fall, just like a helicopter. Though i would probably still prefer to use a parachute and an extra engine just in case.
if the law was enacted it would take a whole 45 seconds for someone to find an instance in where Microsoft did something with pirated software and then sue them relentlessly. in fact pretty much everyone could sue everyone, even i with the microscopic amounts of software i made could sue everyone that sells everything from apple products to jet fighters, so no this is a non issue, it will never pass and if it did the courts would trow every case out the window for being really unpractical. there are pirated software on every computer and i think in a lot of those cases Microsoft put it there.
I can still judge people pretty accuratly on how much people know and care about their zodiac. If they know anything more than what their sign is and if they care more than nothing about it then it's best to give them a wide berth for when they inevitably explode from drinking rocket fuel and colloidal silver.
Actually that link has mostly just tonemapped images with saturation turned up really high, some of those weren't even HDR from the beginning, while some of them use the double exposure manual cropping method, in which you expose the sky and the rest separately and photoshop them together. True hdr should look like a normal image on a normal screen, perhaps the dynamic range can get compressed or tonemapped a little bit, but not totally. ON an HDR display though it's another issue as it should have areas that are really dark and ones that are blindingly bright.
Actually the eye is more sensitive to yellows than reds if you look at that wikipedia page you cited. As it is now there is a slight dip in the yellow part of the color spectrum on displays because they use a pretty narrow band of red. Cameras on the other hand for the red color uses a filter that basically takes all light between yellow and infrared. So the input is both yellow an red combined while the output is just red, by adding yellow the display can correct some of that loss.
Though i would like to see cameras/displays combos that use more natural light spectrum's than just adding yellow.
Mostly because the source engine is a piece of crap, it was designed with only DX9 on the pc in mind, that generally produces really deeply nested rendering code, which gets progressively harder to port the more nested it is. But now that they added openGL for the mac version a PS3 version can't be far away because all the hard stuff has been untangled. It might just be a new major version of the source engine.
That or Microsoft just paid them lots of $$$ to ignore the PS3.
I have to agree, though personally i don't mind the slightly animated ones.
They started it (not specifically Ars Technica), they got greedy in wanting to maximize ad exposure and now they have to pay the price, it's that simple. I mean i am not against advertising as i am myself trying to start something up that is partially ad supported, but until something can be done about this i have to block everything, and so should everyone else.
I have a suggestion, lets introduce a new html tag called noadblock (or possibly a CSS value) within it the browser and relevant plug-in will make sure that content cant be alowed to *make a sound *change size, visibility or position *expand past it's set borders *be transparent *have a total area larger than half a screen or something like that *take long to load (in addition they also have to load last) *interact with the user except for normal linking
but in return all adblockers will respect that tag and show it
Time of flight cameras such as the one in natal should be able to detect perfect cloaks due to the fact that light has to travel a longer distance, it would show up as a dent in the wall behind it. Interferometry would also work as well by changing the interference patterns
Seriously, lasers rule. I bought a cheap laser printer for less than $200, it's nice, networked, fast, excellent B&W quality, good for 2000-4000 copies and will probably never dry up. It also prints decent photos, but if you really need that high quality glossy stuff then have someone professional print it out for you. They have the proper hardware, paper, cheap ink and knowledge to use it, and you basically don't have to pay anything but paper, ink, markup and taxes. So if you're not printing huge amounts of photos then in the end it's not that much more expensive to order them on-line.
And the printer, send it back to the store, they sell the crap now they get to recycle it (just make sure it doesn't work first so they can't resell it). If they won't accept it then just start quoting fake paragraphs to them and make a big loud fuzz about it, usually they will just give in to make you shut up.
Well as long as UPnP is activated at the router it should work.
also they didn't shut down thepiratebay.org only the tracker, so people still has access to the files. And with magnet links you could use any web cache service to get the old files even if they shut down TPB all together.
"The mouse always wins in this battle and we need to be careful that politicians do not get talked into putting legislation in place that, in the end, ends up looking stupid."
yea, the thing that politicians has yet to understand is that piracy is not a behavior created for it's own self fulfillment, but rather a function of how parts of the surrounding society firmly and grossly overestimates the value of their product. In these cases people say "if you won't sell me the thing i desperately need that you have a gazzilion of for a fair price, and if i take one you won't actually loose one, then i guess I'll just have to take it for free without you knowing".
It wasn't long ago where a single track was worth a couple of bucks, likewise a album, and even i paid for that since it was worth it, but now they are basically worthless, the music is still great but i can get is anywhere for free whether i want to or not, so it shouldn't take a years salary to fill an ipod, but rather like $50.
It's the same with almost anything though, so if i where them i wouldn't count pirates as a problem but as a competitor, especially if i already am in a monopoly situation, which most recordlabels and move studios are.
Well not exactly, it does try to find local users, but that is more or less useless on anything larger than any single localized network, like a university, which is all good and well. But i seriously doubt that it optimizes this in a way that takes the network infrastructure in consideration. Even though the local peer your downloading from may be your neighbor you might just end up being routed trough Zimbabwe for all utorrent cares at this moment, especially if net neutrality is destroyed. And that is not good for anyone.
well in that case windows 7 is the just really windows 6.1, since it's just a evolution of vista.
From what i have read they just added a few parts that where originally intended for vista + the usual upgrades.
so in a sense windows 7 is to vista as win98 was to win 95, only less crappier.
Why don't they do like apple and just increment by.1 cause that is so much more logical.
If i where them i would just name it in an arbitrary way like "Windows 7.15 bullhorn BTX3".
It's been done already a few times in Sweden (being it's usual overly sensitive, rational and anal retentive self) against this and other various electric fields, even ones at several magnitudes above recommended safe levels.
You know what they found, nada, nothing, zilch, apparently they only have the reaction if they know about it.
I recommend putting a sticker on all wifi products that says "new allergy free design".
There is nothing quite like an ineffective solution to an nonexistant problem.
Which is interesting, if there are only minor financial drawbacks to blocking firefox users, then what do they have to gain to balance that out, besides a bad rep.
As i see it it's their own fault, i once accepted a banner or two, but no they had to go add some really intrusive ones, the ones that make sounds, those that sort of pop in your face and the ones that takes forever to load. That meant war to me, and i always stand on the side that know what they are doing. How long would it take until there comes a addon that uses a blacklist to fool the sites doing this? how long would it take for adblock to gain this feature? I say, not long. (adblockblockunblock anyone)
Mental note: check if there already is such a addon.
No, texture resolution can be whatever you want it to be and still be viable using methods like mega texturing, the reason ps2 games take up more than 1 dvd is because of liberal use of in game movies. Oblivion only takes up one dvd because it is purposefully fitted within the medium(on the xbox360 that is), it reuses a lot of data and it doesn't have that many videos in it, and those that are there are compressed with mpeg4(which isn't avaible on the ps2).
Slashdot Mirror
Thankfully the group of people who commit premeditated murder and people with the geeky skills to kill over the Internet rarely overlap.
It's the same with terrorism, people who commit those acts aren't exactly the brightest bulbs in the room, just imagine what a bunch of brilliant, well funded engineers could do.
Think invisible flying death bots.
O, we already got those, never mind then. :)
I though you where supposed to enforce longer passwords instead
The math is clear, if a 8 character alphanumeric password takes a second to break then a 20 char password takes about 15.000.000.000.000 years to crack or 110 times the age of the universe.
Or better yet, make one that would allow me to put it in my dishwasher once a week, that would both clean it really well and keep the germs away.
So the point is : why keep a perfectly working calendar thats accurate to 1 day in 3000 years for one in which we have to introduce a leap week every couple of years.
Yea, why not.
Though why stop there when you can just label the days 1-365, add a leap day every 4 years as usual and then just split the days up in chunks of 25 days and give them new names, then organize new weeks with 10 days in them of which 3 are weekend days, two in the end and one in the fourth day, .
And yea the weekdays need new names as well, we are keeping fridays cause i like fridays, but it's now on day 8, also thursday, cause it's named after thor and who can argue with the god of thunder.
Sundays, mondays and thuresdays are definitely gone, humpday need to be given a suggestive name and finally one of the days need to be named after the currently hottest girl at the time of it's adoption, i vote for Bianca Beauchamp.
The whole thing gets reset every day 1, so all the weekdays end up at the same place every time.
however 365 isn't evenly divisible by 25, so this means that the 15:th month is tiny (only 15-16 days), but it's the holiday month after all in where you place Christmas (or at least a version of it) on day 9 which is coincidentally right on the start of a weekend (you could even make it a 3 day weekend) it's Christmas after all.
$27.63 seems oddly specific
But with the amount of overtime pay in the IT community someone will pretty soon realize that unless people actually sometime work overtime to fix problems it won't be long before people start cutting up old tires to make body armour.
I have a self propelled lawnmower so as long as i hold a lever an just calmly walk behind it mowing is not an issue.
That is until i try to turn which requires me to use a comparatively large amount of force, it also takes a lot of time as you sort of have to stop, turn then go.
And this is where i think the algorithm is flawed, as it doesn't consider turns but only area covered.
I find just keeping to the outer edge of the unmoved area works best while straightening out curves as best as possible, then just mowing it sector by sector (as ours is not exactly convex in shape)
You can sort of already do this on android, just set the wifi to shut down when the screen is off.
Before i did it it my SGS could just about manage a day, now it's at least 3 maybe 4 if i don't play any games on it.
If i understand the design correctly then it might just be able to sort of autorotate, if the rotors have enough inertia built in.
In case of engine failure it would configure the blades so that air rushing by would turn the rotors and then just before impact it would reconfigure the blades again for maximum lift and use that rotor speed to dampen the fall, just like a helicopter.
Though i would probably still prefer to use a parachute and an extra engine just in case.
if the law was enacted it would take a whole 45 seconds for someone to find an instance in where Microsoft did something with pirated software and then sue them relentlessly.
in fact pretty much everyone could sue everyone, even i with the microscopic amounts of software i made could sue everyone that sells everything from apple products to jet fighters, so no this is a non issue, it will never pass and if it did the courts would trow every case out the window for being really unpractical.
there are pirated software on every computer and i think in a lot of those cases Microsoft put it there.
I can still judge people pretty accuratly on how much people know and care about their zodiac.
If they know anything more than what their sign is and if they care more than nothing about it then it's best to give them a wide berth for when they inevitably explode from drinking rocket fuel and colloidal silver.
Actually that link has mostly just tonemapped images with saturation turned up really high, some of those weren't even HDR from the beginning, while some of them use the double exposure manual cropping method, in which you expose the sky and the rest separately and photoshop them together.
True hdr should look like a normal image on a normal screen, perhaps the dynamic range can get compressed or tonemapped a little bit, but not totally.
ON an HDR display though it's another issue as it should have areas that are really dark and ones that are blindingly bright.
Actually the eye is more sensitive to yellows than reds if you look at that wikipedia page you cited.
As it is now there is a slight dip in the yellow part of the color spectrum on displays because they use a pretty narrow band of red.
Cameras on the other hand for the red color uses a filter that basically takes all light between yellow and infrared.
So the input is both yellow an red combined while the output is just red, by adding yellow the display can correct some of that loss.
Though i would like to see cameras/displays combos that use more natural light spectrum's than just adding yellow.
Mostly because the source engine is a piece of crap, it was designed with only DX9 on the pc in mind, that generally produces really deeply nested rendering code, which gets progressively harder to port the more nested it is.
But now that they added openGL for the mac version a PS3 version can't be far away because all the hard stuff has been untangled.
It might just be a new major version of the source engine.
That or Microsoft just paid them lots of $$$ to ignore the PS3.
I have to agree, though personally i don't mind the slightly animated ones.
They started it (not specifically Ars Technica), they got greedy in wanting to maximize ad exposure and now they have to pay the price, it's that simple.
I mean i am not against advertising as i am myself trying to start something up that is partially ad supported, but until something can be done about this i have to block everything, and so should everyone else.
I have a suggestion, lets introduce a new html tag called noadblock (or possibly a CSS value)
within it the browser and relevant plug-in will make sure that content cant be alowed to
*make a sound
*change size, visibility or position
*expand past it's set borders
*be transparent
*have a total area larger than half a screen or something like that
*take long to load (in addition they also have to load last)
*interact with the user except for normal linking
but in return all adblockers will respect that tag and show it
Time of flight cameras such as the one in natal should be able to detect perfect cloaks due to the fact that light has to travel a longer distance, it would show up as a dent in the wall behind it.
Interferometry would also work as well by changing the interference patterns
Seriously, lasers rule.
I bought a cheap laser printer for less than $200, it's nice, networked, fast, excellent B&W quality, good for 2000-4000 copies and will probably never dry up.
It also prints decent photos, but if you really need that high quality glossy stuff then have someone professional print it out for you.
They have the proper hardware, paper, cheap ink and knowledge to use it, and you basically don't have to pay anything but paper, ink, markup and taxes.
So if you're not printing huge amounts of photos then in the end it's not that much more expensive to order them on-line.
And the printer, send it back to the store, they sell the crap now they get to recycle it (just make sure it doesn't work first so they can't resell it).
If they won't accept it then just start quoting fake paragraphs to them and make a big loud fuzz about it, usually they will just give in to make you shut up.
Well as long as UPnP is activated at the router it should work.
also they didn't shut down thepiratebay.org only the tracker, so people still has access to the files.
And with magnet links you could use any web cache service to get the old files even if they shut down TPB all together.
"The mouse always wins in this battle and we need to be careful that politicians do not get talked into putting legislation in place that, in the end, ends up looking stupid."
yea, the thing that politicians has yet to understand is that piracy is not a behavior created for it's own self fulfillment, but rather a function of how parts of the surrounding society firmly and grossly overestimates the value of their product.
In these cases people say "if you won't sell me the thing i desperately need that you have a gazzilion of for a fair price, and if i take one you won't actually loose one, then i guess I'll just have to take it for free without you knowing".
It wasn't long ago where a single track was worth a couple of bucks, likewise a album, and even i paid for that since it was worth it, but now they are basically worthless, the music is still great but i can get is anywhere for free whether i want to or not, so it shouldn't take a years salary to fill an ipod, but rather like $50.
It's the same with almost anything though, so if i where them i wouldn't count pirates as a problem but as a competitor, especially if i already am in a monopoly situation, which most recordlabels and move studios are.
true
Well not exactly, it does try to find local users, but that is more or less useless on anything larger than any single localized network, like a university, which is all good and well.
But i seriously doubt that it optimizes this in a way that takes the network infrastructure in consideration.
Even though the local peer your downloading from may be your neighbor you might just end up being routed trough Zimbabwe for all utorrent cares at this moment, especially if net neutrality is destroyed.
And that is not good for anyone.
well in that case windows 7 is the just really windows 6.1, since it's just a evolution of vista. From what i have read they just added a few parts that where originally intended for vista + the usual upgrades.
.1 cause that is so much more logical.
so in a sense windows 7 is to vista as win98 was to win 95, only less crappier.
Why don't they do like apple and just increment by
If i where them i would just name it in an arbitrary way like "Windows 7.15 bullhorn BTX3".
It's been done already a few times in Sweden (being it's usual overly sensitive, rational and anal retentive self) against this and other various electric fields, even ones at several magnitudes above recommended safe levels.
You know what they found, nada, nothing, zilch, apparently they only have the reaction if they know about it.
I recommend putting a sticker on all wifi products that says "new allergy free design".
There is nothing quite like an ineffective solution to an nonexistant problem.
Actually it sounds exactly like the SEP developed by hägglunds in sweden
http://www.army-technology.com/projects/sep/
Which is interesting, if there are only minor financial drawbacks to blocking firefox users, then what do they have to gain to balance that out, besides a bad rep.
As i see it it's their own fault, i once accepted a banner or two, but no they had to go add some really intrusive ones, the ones that make sounds, those that sort of pop in your face and the ones that takes forever to load.
That meant war to me, and i always stand on the side that know what they are doing.
How long would it take until there comes a addon that uses a blacklist to fool the sites doing this? how long would it take for adblock to gain this feature?
I say, not long. (adblockblockunblock anyone)
Mental note: check if there already is such a addon.
No, texture resolution can be whatever you want it to be and still be viable using methods like mega texturing, the reason ps2 games take up more than 1 dvd is because of liberal use of in game movies.
Oblivion only takes up one dvd because it is purposefully fitted within the medium(on the xbox360 that is), it reuses a lot of data and it doesn't have that many videos in it, and those that are there are compressed with mpeg4(which isn't avaible on the ps2).