Why does everyone seem to be so down on the nazis? They were remarcably efficient at what they did, gave us a lot of scientific research we will never duplicate, spured on the world in the development of many new technologies both that they invented and we invented to counter them. Sure, they had some problems, but all around they weren't all bad....
Why must female sexuality be mutually exclusive with "kicking ass"? Or being smart? Or being successful? Or anything other than sexual objectificiation? Why is it that any display of female sexuality is instantly branded as somehow belittling women and reducing them to nothing but their reproductive capacity? Why can't a woman be intelligent, able to kick your ass in a sparring match, and be sexy? Why is it that our response to all attractive, sexy women is to immediately go on the defensive on their behalf for how they are being exloited for their looks and used?
Because it makes girls who are neither sexy nor can kick ass feel bad about themselves.
As far as I know, there aren't any patent free replacements for JPEG currently available. If this situation turns into something similar to the GIF situation, there will be one. Remember, there was no PNG either until the GIF patents came to light, or OGG Vorbis until the MP3 patent problems started. Compression is a patent minefield however, as the MP3, GIF, and now JPG situations show. You do your best to not use patented alogrithms, but a few years down the road someone finds some obscure patent they say applies. Vorbis and PNG might still run into this trouble, as might any other piece of software in the current climate. In case you haven't noticed, software patents in their current form SUCK. Hard.
I'm 5'10". In high school, I weighed 180 lbs, and based on different tests(skin calipers, electric resistance, body measurements) had a 5-8% body fat. I was healthy, but didn't have body builder kind of muscles. I have realtivily large sholders and was relatively fit from hiking and running. 5-8% body fat puts me in the athletic catagory, while 5'10" and 180# puts me in the overweight catagory. Obviously for me BMI was useless. Which of your catagories did I fit into?
When watching TV, I often get up to take a piss or get some food when a commercial comes on. I guess I'm not upholding this "social contract" I apparently agreed to at some point.
This is a VERY limited client, can only update to the current status of the tree. That's it. It's completely seperate from other offerings of the complete client and their licenses.
My favorite airline security idea, courtesy of the Cryptogram newsletter:
From: Ric Woodson
Subject: Arming Pilots
In response to the guns in cockpits debate, I would like to suggest an alternative to which I have not yet had anyone come up with a better solution. Mount along the full length of each side wall of the passenger area, a tube within a tube. Each tube has openings down its length approximately 1/3 of its diameter. The outer tube is stationary, the inner tube rotates to an open position only at the command of the cockpit.
Inside the inner tube, are 1/2 size baseball bats laid end to end. Once the tubes are open, the window passenger has access to the bats in the tube. These can be used offensively or defensively. Each row of seats would then have something like two bats per row. More than enough to use for re-acquisition of control of the craft. There would be too many bats to be collected and managed by the "terrorists" (did you ever try to pick up more than four bats at a time?). No chance for a misfire. Nothing to take the pilots away from their jobs. Too small to be used to bash in security doors. Easy for authorities to inventory and reclaim after the landing.
Cheap and relatively easy to install. After all, who has more experience with a Louisville slugger than an American passenger? How about giving the passengers a chance if a revolt is necessary. Send the marshals home and save the money. Forget the high-tech solutions, this is not a high tech problem. I know it sounds radical at first but think about it a while.
The thing about China that no one on Slashdot seems to realize is that Chinese government isn't as centralized as ours. You can say just about anything you want about China, and it will be true for some part of China. They have a government that resembles our government pre-civil war, when we didn't have such a strong federal government, and each state made and enforced a lot of their own policies about important issues. On the other hand, I agree with you, all governments are evil in some way, and the way theirs is evil offends me, just like the way the US is offends others.
My school(Virginia Commonwealth University) also did this, and actually won the competition these were built for, the second AUVSI student competition. http://auvsi-seafarer.org/seafarers/ default.htm http://www.egr.vcu.edu/announcements/ uav.html As far as I know, no Microsoft products were used on the plane, but I can't find too many details at the moment. The guy I know who worked on the project only knew C and C++, though from my understanding he did mostly the EE stuff, not as much programming....
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I woud argue that the OSS community is a superset that contains as a subset the Free Software Community, and therfore his statement is true. But that's just my personal opinion.....
No, I think he's merely saying that the stupid people should have checked to see if they did in fact compleletly punch out the circle they thought they did. It's not that hard... Of course, I prefer the old manual voting machines they have in NJ that allow you to see and verify your choices, then record votes onto a "secured" paper tape. Never have heard of them having much of any sort of problem...
Don't forget that the extra power draw mostly is converted into heat, which provides expensive heating in the winter, and rasies your cooling costs in the summer...
I use Source Mage, and it has xfree86-4.3, xfree86-4.4, and x.org availible. Since it is a source based distro. that values flexibility, you can install whichever one you want. Most people who hang out on IRC or on the mailing lists seem to have made the switch to x.org. In this case, "still using xfree86" is quite relative.
I was just thinking the other day... It's way to cold in my computer case, what can I do... Oh yeah, let's put a refrigeration unit in there! That'll heat it up nicely! Then I can add even more obnoxiously loud fans, plus have the bonus referigeration noise! Great!
You can't be totally secure. Get over it. A determined attacker can take you down no matter how paranoid you are. The secret is to be a litte more paranoid then they are determined... That differs a lot for a mob boss and a student such as myself. Honestly, I have very little to hide, but I'm still a bit careful to avoid identity theft and people wanting to take over my computer to be used in a DOS attack, etc. No one wants to go after me specifically, but if I make myself an easy target, I stand out and will get taken advantage of somehow. Now, if I was a mob boss, there's tons of people who want to do me in/get access to my data, and there's really no way I can stop them. I can make it hard for 99.999% of the people out there, but I can still be taken down. That's life. All this to say, "Attention slashdot readers! You ain't secure! You can't be secure. Get over it!"
For me, Essential C++ was a good jumpstart book, and then The C++ Programming Language is of course the gold standard if you need to go deeper. I have also heard good things about Accelerated C++, but haven't looked at it myself.
That's exactly the point of this shootout. It's not a super-optimized version for each language, but a simple algorithm in each language. You could do it faster in either language, but that's a different benchmark. For this test, it's basically "for a constant low amount of effort, you get x performance across different languages." He says, "For this test, each program should be implemented in the same way. (For this test, all solutions must use recursion as specified below. For a number of languages other (iterative) techniques may be much faster, but that would make it a different test.)" Functional languages just happen to be designed with this sort of problem in mind, and therefore do very well.
The point is the Linux developers are in general pretty pragmatic about this. You can have binary modules in the kernel, but they don't want a bug report from you if you do. It's basically a "do this at your own risk" type of thing. What happened here is a binary only module pulled a sneaky trick to say that it isn't a binary only module, and the debug information no longer tells the developers that the kernel was running with code they don't have the sources to debug, hence wastes their time trying to figgure out a problem they can't solve anyway. It's just stupid on the part of Linuxant, doesn't really benifit them in any meaningful way, and gives them lots of bad press.
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Loudest alarm clock I've ever seen...
Why does everyone seem to be so down on the nazis? They were remarcably efficient at what they did, gave us a lot of scientific research we will never duplicate, spured on the world in the development of many new technologies both that they invented and we invented to counter them. Sure, they had some problems, but all around they weren't all bad....
Why must female sexuality be mutually exclusive with "kicking ass"? Or being smart? Or being successful? Or anything other than sexual objectificiation? Why is it that any display of female sexuality is instantly branded as somehow belittling women and reducing them to nothing but their reproductive capacity? Why can't a woman be intelligent, able to kick your ass in a sparring match, and be sexy? Why is it that our response to all attractive, sexy women is to immediately go on the defensive on their behalf for how they are being exloited for their looks and used?
Because it makes girls who are neither sexy nor can kick ass feel bad about themselves.
I am also using 1.4.2 on Linux, 1_4_2_08 to be exact.. Works well for me.
You already answered that.. Hooking your console up to..
As far as I know, there aren't any patent free replacements for JPEG currently available. If this situation turns into something similar to the GIF situation, there will be one.
Remember, there was no PNG either until the GIF patents came to light, or OGG Vorbis until the MP3 patent problems started.
Compression is a patent minefield however, as the MP3, GIF, and now JPG situations show. You do your best to not use patented alogrithms, but a few years down the road someone finds some obscure patent they say applies. Vorbis and PNG might still run into this trouble, as might any other piece of software in the current climate.
In case you haven't noticed, software patents in their current form SUCK. Hard.
I'm 5'10".
In high school, I weighed 180 lbs, and based on different tests(skin calipers, electric resistance, body measurements) had a 5-8% body fat. I was healthy, but didn't have body builder kind of muscles. I have realtivily large sholders and was relatively fit from hiking and running. 5-8% body fat puts me in the athletic catagory, while 5'10" and 180# puts me in the overweight catagory. Obviously for me BMI was useless. Which of your catagories did I fit into?
When watching TV, I often get up to take a piss or get some food when a commercial comes on. I guess I'm not upholding this "social contract" I apparently agreed to at some point.
This is a VERY limited client, can only update to the current status of the tree. That's it. It's completely seperate from other offerings of the complete client and their licenses.
Excellent! I think all one day or less coding projects I do from now will be using this license...
My favorite airline security idea, courtesy of the Cryptogram newsletter:
From: Ric Woodson
Subject: Arming Pilots
In response to the guns in cockpits debate, I would like to suggest an alternative to which I have not yet had anyone come up with a better solution. Mount along the full length of each side wall of the passenger area, a tube within a tube. Each tube has openings down its length approximately 1/3 of its diameter. The outer tube is stationary, the inner tube rotates to an open position only at the command of the cockpit.
Inside the inner tube, are 1/2 size baseball bats laid end to end. Once the tubes are open, the window passenger has access to the bats in the tube. These can be used offensively or defensively. Each row of seats would then have something like two bats per row. More than enough to use for re-acquisition of control of the craft. There would be too many bats to be collected and managed by the "terrorists" (did you ever try to pick up more than four bats at a time?). No chance for a misfire. Nothing to take the pilots away from their jobs. Too small to be used to bash in security doors. Easy for authorities to inventory and reclaim after the landing.
Cheap and relatively easy to install. After all, who has more experience with a Louisville slugger than an American passenger? How about giving the passengers a chance if a revolt is necessary. Send the marshals home and save the money. Forget the high-tech solutions, this is not a high tech problem. I know it sounds radical at first but think about it a while.
The thing about China that no one on Slashdot seems to realize is that Chinese government isn't as centralized as ours. You can say just about anything you want about China, and it will be true for some part of China. They have a government that resembles our government pre-civil war, when we didn't have such a strong federal government, and each state made and enforced a lot of their own policies about important issues.
On the other hand, I agree with you, all governments are evil in some way, and the way theirs is evil offends me, just like the way the US is offends others.
Off-brand "crispy puffed rice" does not exist, as it is an unlicensed version of "Rice Crispies(tm)".
As you may note from the article you point out, there are a number of DSSS 2.4 GHz phones coming out, that don't interfere like FHSS phones do...
My school(Virginia Commonwealth University) also did this, and actually won the competition these were built for, the second AUVSI student competition./ default.htm/ uav.html
http://auvsi-seafarer.org/seafarers
http://www.egr.vcu.edu/announcements
As far as I know, no Microsoft products were used on the plane, but I can't find too many details at the moment. The guy I know who worked on the project only knew C and C++, though from my understanding he did mostly the EE stuff, not as much programming....
I woud argue that the OSS community is a superset that contains as a subset the Free Software Community, and therfore his statement is true.
But that's just my personal opinion.....
No, I think he's merely saying that the stupid people should have checked to see if they did in fact compleletly punch out the circle they thought they did. It's not that hard...
Of course, I prefer the old manual voting machines they have in NJ that allow you to see and verify your choices, then record votes onto a "secured" paper tape. Never have heard of them having much of any sort of problem...
You want it fast, cheap, reliable, easy, and now, eh? Good luck with that.... Sounds like a request from the PHB...
Don't forget that the extra power draw mostly is converted into heat, which provides expensive heating in the winter, and rasies your cooling costs in the summer...
I use Source Mage, and it has xfree86-4.3, xfree86-4.4, and x.org availible. Since it is a source based distro. that values flexibility, you can install whichever one you want. Most people who hang out on IRC or on the mailing lists seem to have made the switch to x.org.
In this case, "still using xfree86" is quite relative.
I was just thinking the other day... It's way to cold in my computer case, what can I do... Oh yeah, let's put a refrigeration unit in there! That'll heat it up nicely! Then I can add even more obnoxiously loud fans, plus have the bonus referigeration noise! Great!
You can't be totally secure. Get over it.
A determined attacker can take you down no matter how paranoid you are.
The secret is to be a litte more paranoid then they are determined...
That differs a lot for a mob boss and a student such as myself. Honestly, I have very little to hide, but I'm still a bit careful to avoid identity theft and people wanting to take over my computer to be used in a DOS attack, etc.
No one wants to go after me specifically, but if I make myself an easy target, I stand out and will get taken advantage of somehow.
Now, if I was a mob boss, there's tons of people who want to do me in/get access to my data, and there's really no way I can stop them. I can make it hard for 99.999% of the people out there, but I can still be taken down. That's life.
All this to say, "Attention slashdot readers! You ain't secure! You can't be secure. Get over it!"
For me, Essential C++ was a good jumpstart book, and then
The C++ Programming Language is of course the gold standard if you need to go deeper.
I have also heard good things about Accelerated C++, but haven't looked at it myself.
That's exactly the point of this shootout. It's not a super-optimized version for each language, but a simple algorithm in each language.
You could do it faster in either language, but that's a different benchmark. For this test, it's basically "for a constant low amount of effort, you get x performance across different languages."
He says, "For this test, each program should be implemented in the same way. (For this test, all solutions must use recursion as specified below. For a number of languages other (iterative) techniques may be much faster, but that would make it a different test.)"
Functional languages just happen to be designed with this sort of problem in mind, and therefore do very well.
The point is the Linux developers are in general pretty pragmatic about this. You can have binary modules in the kernel, but they don't want a bug report from you if you do. It's basically a "do this at your own risk" type of thing.
What happened here is a binary only module pulled a sneaky trick to say that it isn't a binary only module, and the debug information no longer tells the developers that the kernel was running with code they don't have the sources to debug, hence wastes their time trying to figgure out a problem they can't solve anyway. It's just stupid on the part of Linuxant, doesn't really benifit them in any meaningful way, and gives them lots of bad press.