Here in Paris we have a group of people who vandalize advertisements; That is illegal, but they revnedicate their actions and don't act anonymously. Their trials so far have been odd : even prosecutors found them sympathetic (it was a public prosecutor, not a lawyer from a billboard-owning company)
Such speakers would just be asking for vandalism (or clever hacks).
The one thing I know is that DirectX also includes DirectShow : a video acquisition lib. To my deepest regret, I have to admit that it is more efficient than any OSS alternative I know of.
About the OpenGL vs Direct3D however, I wholeheartedly agree
And, if I may give an opinion on a troll-generating subject, this entity is well know for its repeated abuses of dominant position in the telephone market. I would be very careful about their specification.
Care to elaborate ? It has never been done before but the fuel saved by starting from high altitude seems to have a lot of sense to me even in the case of an orbital spacecraft.
Ok, my bad, I should have talked about CO2 emitted by human activities, the kind we are worried about. I don't know what Al Gore is pretending in his film, but according to this other non-authoritative source, oil and coal make up for more than 5 billion tons of emission on a total of 7 billions.
Well, you are right to correct this poorly written argument but I stand on my conclusions : planting trees can not be a sufficient carbon sink to reduce the CO2 atmospheric level to a pre-industrial level. We need to stockpile carbon somewhere in order to compensate for the huge quantity of old forests that were burnt.
Well, it all boils down to the "don't tell secrets to people who can't keep a secret". And also : "People who are not good at IT don't know how to hide things from a court of law". So don't do unlawful things with them.
You are right. Most of the CO2 in atmosphere comes from oil and coal which are ancient forest that have undergone a long process of transformation. So not only do we need to plant trees to absorb CO2, we also need to cut down these and store the CO2 the fixated somehow by burying them and let other trees grow in their place. I don't see that happening today alas.
He doesn't put his name, his age is 27, he is from the United States and is the user number 15512 to prove that Slashdot doesn't do any kind of source checking.
It looks like an hoax to me.
First, is it too ironic to be moronic
Second, I have already seen spoof ads like that on youtube that seems to be made by the same guy.
Third, the video is hosted on youtube
Fourth, the website works fine on Firefox in Linux. That's not something Fox would actually be able to do.
And I'm sure it's imperfect and prone to false alarms and such, but that's why you put human beings behind it instead of machine guns, no? Of course, because human policemen never make errors that is why we use them.
Oh and Slashdot... please stop with the non-sense. Most of you are software or hardware nerds. You're not lawyers, doctors or surgeons. Leave the arm-chair medicine to someone more qualified such as my colleagues. Honestly, some of these comments are embarrassing. Comments made by competent people usually end up at +5 informative or insightful down here. Like yours. Communication between specialized fields is important, as a medical professional this must be obvious to you. I am strongly against the idea that no one must interest himself to stuff outside his own field. Even area as different as medicine and IT cross sometimes. From the whole "cell phone antennas give cancer" thing to the "another hospital published its patients data on internet by mistake", there are problems in the world that would have benefited from a little cross-knowledge between two fields. If only to be able to say "ok, there is a problem here but I am not competent to solve it, let's ask a specialist".
Perls, Pythons, and Rubys are interpreted languages as opposed to compiled languages. A.pyc is not an executable file.
Every people use the term differently. Here is mine : I am doing a script when I give directives to launch programs or functions written in another language. When the CPU spends 90% of its time outside my program, I consider that this is a script.
Python's philosophy is that it is a scripting language in the sense that if you spend more than 10% of your CPU time interpreting some python code, you are doing something wrong. They encourage you to rewrite these image processing functions in C/C++ if you are serious about performances.
And yes, given this definition, one can write scripts in C.
This should be in every interplanetary hitch-hiker guide : Delta-V budget
The energy budget to go from Low-Earth Orbit to the moon is half of the one to go from earth to LEO. So I would say that the reward is surprisingly on-spot. Of course this is not taking into consideration the fact that the weight of a spacecraft increase exponentially the closer it comes to escape velocity, and the fact that lunar landing, lunar-earth telecommunications, space travel are a different kind of challenge than in the Ansari X-prize, but I think that 15 millions are quite fair for this.
Powers That Be don't read SF. They saw AI R&D as mostly useless because robots don't exist and (as a researcher on the field pointed out to me in 2001) "drones will never be used in real combat operations". Now robots exist, drones are a strategical tool that strategists failed to identify quickly.
Now robots exist, they play violins but are too dumb to identify a target or even their own position in a changing environment. Now our Powers That Be realize that AI R&D may very well be the next big thing. But even today they are limited in their thinking (you will see a lot of such thinking even here on/.) that "robots cannot match human abilities". They will continue to claim that even after a chess grandmaster has been beaten by a computer or after a robot will be able to juggle with 20 items or play violin at 100 notes a second.
... forward some hilarious videos about people claiming that the earth is expanding or that the moon landing are a hoax. Youtube is about fun. True information, I usually get that somewhere else (often from Wikipedia links). I believe that people who watch videos, just want fun. Information transmission is better done through text.
There are of course the Masses of the Dumb, who take Youtube as an authoritative source but that just proves that it becomes closer to a regular media. (I kid you not, some people think that Fox News is an authoritative source)
Sorry, the figure I had in mind was about on-air collisions. "Human error" was supposed to include only pilots and air controllers, not control technicians. Thinking about it, maybe it was higher than 50%...
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There may be room for a remote, encrypted, backup filesystem. Nothing more, nothing less.
You probably meant this
Here in Paris we have a group of people who vandalize advertisements; That is illegal, but they revnedicate their actions and don't act anonymously. Their trials so far have been odd : even prosecutors found them sympathetic (it was a public prosecutor, not a lawyer from a billboard-owning company)
Such speakers would just be asking for vandalism (or clever hacks).
The one thing I know is that DirectX also includes DirectShow : a video acquisition lib. To my deepest regret, I have to admit that it is more efficient than any OSS alternative I know of.
About the OpenGL vs Direct3D however, I wholeheartedly agree
And, if I may give an opinion on a troll-generating subject, this entity is well know for its repeated abuses of dominant position in the telephone market. I would be very careful about their specification.
Care to elaborate ? It has never been done before but the fuel saved by starting from high altitude seems to have a lot of sense to me even in the case of an orbital spacecraft.
Ok, my bad, I should have talked about CO2 emitted by human activities, the kind we are worried about. I don't know what Al Gore is pretending in his film, but according to this other non-authoritative source, oil and coal make up for more than 5 billion tons of emission on a total of 7 billions.
Well, you are right to correct this poorly written argument but I stand on my conclusions : planting trees can not be a sufficient carbon sink to reduce the CO2 atmospheric level to a pre-industrial level. We need to stockpile carbon somewhere in order to compensate for the huge quantity of old forests that were burnt.
Well, it all boils down to the "don't tell secrets to people who can't keep a secret". And also : "People who are not good at IT don't know how to hide things from a court of law". So don't do unlawful things with them.
You are right. Most of the CO2 in atmosphere comes from oil and coal which are ancient forest that have undergone a long process of transformation. So not only do we need to plant trees to absorb CO2, we also need to cut down these and store the CO2 the fixated somehow by burying them and let other trees grow in their place. I don't see that happening today alas.
Every African is skinny and hungry
Every Asian is a judo master
Every American is a cowboy
Hey, thinking about it : Putin is a judo master, GWB is a cowboy and... uh... damn, I can't find a country leader that is skinny and hungry...
Oh, and the video is from this user : http://www.youtube.com/user/pcloadletter42
He doesn't put his name, his age is 27, he is from the United States and is the user number 15512 to prove that Slashdot doesn't do any kind of source checking.
Oh, and it is registered on godaddy.com as pointed in another post
It looks like an hoax to me.
First, is it too ironic to be moronic
Second, I have already seen spoof ads like that on youtube that seems to be made by the same guy.
Third, the video is hosted on youtube
Fourth, the website works fine on Firefox in Linux. That's not something Fox would actually be able to do.
Praise the botkind !
Maybe including IEtab in the Chinese version of Firefox will be a way to workaround the problem until Chinese geeks unite ?
So that a lot of democratic leader could conveniently pretend that Russia is "almost a democracy" instead of a genuine dictatorship.
Perls, Pythons, and Rubys are interpreted languages as opposed to compiled languages. A .pyc is not an executable file.
Every people use the term differently. Here is mine : I am doing a script when I give directives to launch programs or functions written in another language. When the CPU spends 90% of its time outside my program, I consider that this is a script.
Python's philosophy is that it is a scripting language in the sense that if you spend more than 10% of your CPU time interpreting some python code, you are doing something wrong. They encourage you to rewrite these image processing functions in C/C++ if you are serious about performances.
And yes, given this definition, one can write scripts in C.
I am living in Europe, which congressman should I write to to tell them I don't want these in my country ?
This should be in every interplanetary hitch-hiker guide : Delta-V budget
The energy budget to go from Low-Earth Orbit to the moon is half of the one to go from earth to LEO. So I would say that the reward is surprisingly on-spot. Of course this is not taking into consideration the fact that the weight of a spacecraft increase exponentially the closer it comes to escape velocity, and the fact that lunar landing, lunar-earth telecommunications, space travel are a different kind of challenge than in the Ansari X-prize, but I think that 15 millions are quite fair for this.
Powers That Be don't read SF. They saw AI R&D as mostly useless because robots don't exist and (as a researcher on the field pointed out to me in 2001) "drones will never be used in real combat operations". Now robots exist, drones are a strategical tool that strategists failed to identify quickly.
/.) that "robots cannot match human abilities". They will continue to claim that even after a chess grandmaster has been beaten by a computer or after a robot will be able to juggle with 20 items or play violin at 100 notes a second.
Now robots exist, they play violins but are too dumb to identify a target or even their own position in a changing environment. Now our Powers That Be realize that AI R&D may very well be the next big thing. But even today they are limited in their thinking (you will see a lot of such thinking even here on
... forward some hilarious videos about people claiming that the earth is expanding or that the moon landing are a hoax. Youtube is about fun. True information, I usually get that somewhere else (often from Wikipedia links). I believe that people who watch videos, just want fun. Information transmission is better done through text.
There are of course the Masses of the Dumb, who take Youtube as an authoritative source but that just proves that it becomes closer to a regular media. (I kid you not, some people think that Fox News is an authoritative source)
Sorry, the figure I had in mind was about on-air collisions. "Human error" was supposed to include only pilots and air controllers, not control technicians. Thinking about it, maybe it was higher than 50%...