I worked on a search engine in 95, and used md5 hashes (of content minus tags) as keys for pages to detect identical pages, and I remember having 2-3 md5 collisions out of maybe the first 100.000 indexed pages.
Not sure, but at least I know that the carbon footprint of being dead is pretty low.
Carbon foot-printing things has its missions to put certain things in perspective. Its about time science entered politics instead of having politicans do more or less educated guessworks. But we need a more extensive foot-printing, not just carbon. Environment-footprinting of some sort, calculating how much we pollute and how long it takes for nature to break the pollution down. Maybe measured in how many species it kills off?
Could anyone post a list of alternative modern programming languages that equally handles parallelism as well, that are still being actively developed, and their pros and cons compared to Google Go? I'm interested in learning one of these, I just can't find any easy overview anywhere (all mentioned in wikipedia are pretty old so lots must be missing...). Surely Haskell isn't the latest such project, there must be lots of others just around corner?
is to control our population. Without that, we are just delaying the inevitable catastrophy (be it famine->wars or population+travel+pollution->diseases).
I was wondering what kind of quantum physics theory or statistical model were going to be explaining Santa this Christmas...
And I was actually disappointed, because it looks like it has become a tradition. Enough already, this isn't news anymore, however entertaining it might be for the next generation.
That excerpt from the review made me not click on the link. The reviewer blatantly admits bias to the whole line of laptops instead of concentrating on reviewing the latest model...
No, not even Copy Restriction. DRM only has relevance to playback restriction.
To use the most obvious example, dvd's have CSS to handle DRM. This does not in any way prevent you from copying your dvd, it only restricts which dvd-players and regions can descramble the dvd. If you don't care about CSS you could make a raw copy of the whole thing (There are some caveats: some dvd players refuse to play a normally burnt dvd, and dual layered blank dvd's are still prohibitively expensive).
MPAA has wrongfully claimed over and over to the press that DeCSS is what makes copying of DVD's possible. Repeated so many times that people are starting to believe them. But it is still wrong. DeCSS merely enables the removal of DRM (CSS, region codes, etc).
Two words, but they are still totally wrong. DRM has nothing to do with copy protection.
The only thing DRM governs is limiting the choices of playback hardware/software (only licensed dvd-players, etc).
-Filik
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Actually I think we could scratch "audio" now that we are at 16Gb. You _can_ keep a good bit of your audio life within 16Gb. 4000 mp3's or 400 recordings/podcasts.
- Protagonists that actually do stuff when the PC (player character) isn't around.
- Rumors spreading in a natural way
- Instead of totally scriptet plots, make a bunch of protagonists with different goals and abilities, who themselves have to figure out how to reach their goals.
- The ability to build "gang's" / followers in a natural way (for both PC's and NPC's).
- A living world where every NPC is unique, and constantly living their life.
- NPC's able to understand some rudimentary language, so they can get input both from PC's and other NPC's in both vocal and written form.
- NPC's have to be able to cooperate toward common goals with both other NPC's and other PC's.
Eventually, someone will screw up, trigger another disaster, and that'll be the end of nuclear power in the US forever once people start demanding a stop to it.
Are you not aware that turning off the powerplants in the US is not an option? Where would you get the energy from? Hurriedly building 1000 water dams or 1000000 windmills? Coalplants? Burning the rapidly dwindling oil? Either way, Electricity prices would multiply by 20 and you'd have an instant major recession.
This is just natures way of cleaning up species that are living too crowded...It's all natural...:/
If this does break out, I hope they do the sensible thing and stopp all air-traffic in the affected regions.
We already have quarantine for pets travelling across borders, its just stupid that we don't have the same thing for humans.
As a species, we need to learn to travel alot less.
So why exactly do you need air? Remember that this is deep underground, in tunnels of water within ice, near volcanoes who can give heat. Also, for other posters who complain about no pressure, I imagine there is plenty of pressure once you go deep enough into the ice (3-5km). I don't think there was alot of air where they drilled in Svalbard (Norway)...
Water on Mars has been proven, and you don't need alot of water for this scenario.
-Filik
Actually, working in cubicles can (and has often been so at the places where I've worked) a sign that the company is so successfull that they are expanding quicker than they can get new offices. In all the cases where I worked in cubicles, it was due to extreme expansion, and when we moved, we got proper offices.
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I worked on a search engine in 95, and used md5 hashes (of content minus tags) as keys for pages to detect identical pages, and I remember having 2-3 md5 collisions out of maybe the first 100.000 indexed pages.
Not sure, but at least I know that the carbon footprint of being dead is pretty low. Carbon foot-printing things has its missions to put certain things in perspective. Its about time science entered politics instead of having politicans do more or less educated guessworks. But we need a more extensive foot-printing, not just carbon. Environment-footprinting of some sort, calculating how much we pollute and how long it takes for nature to break the pollution down. Maybe measured in how many species it kills off?
Could anyone post a list of alternative modern programming languages that equally handles parallelism as well, that are still being actively developed, and their pros and cons compared to Google Go? I'm interested in learning one of these, I just can't find any easy overview anywhere (all mentioned in wikipedia are pretty old so lots must be missing...). Surely Haskell isn't the latest such project, there must be lots of others just around corner?
Sounds like Enemy Territory, with its multipart missions.
is to control our population. Without that, we are just delaying the inevitable catastrophy (be it famine->wars or population+travel+pollution->diseases).
Let's block all the http freeloaders also! Wasting my bandwidth!
Who wouldn't be, in her current position...
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I was wondering what kind of quantum physics theory or statistical model were going to be explaining Santa this Christmas...
And I was actually disappointed, because it looks like it has become a tradition. Enough already, this isn't news anymore, however entertaining it might be for the next generation.
Starcraft should probably also be mentioned, one of the most played games ever released.
-Filik
This rapid walk away from democracy in the name of democracy is frightning .
That excerpt from the review made me not click on the link. The reviewer blatantly admits bias to the whole line of laptops instead of concentrating on reviewing the latest model...
To use the most obvious example, dvd's have CSS to handle DRM. This does not in any way prevent you from copying your dvd, it only restricts which dvd-players and regions can descramble the dvd. If you don't care about CSS you could make a raw copy of the whole thing (There are some caveats: some dvd players refuse to play a normally burnt dvd, and dual layered blank dvd's are still prohibitively expensive).
MPAA has wrongfully claimed over and over to the press that DeCSS is what makes copying of DVD's possible. Repeated so many times that people are starting to believe them. But it is still wrong. DeCSS merely enables the removal of DRM (CSS, region codes, etc).
The only thing DRM governs is limiting the choices of playback hardware/software (only licensed dvd-players, etc).
-Filik
Actually I think we could scratch "audio" now that we are at 16Gb. You _can_ keep a good bit of your audio life within 16Gb. 4000 mp3's or 400 recordings/podcasts.
-Filik.
- Protagonists that actually do stuff when the PC (player character) isn't around.
- Rumors spreading in a natural way
- Instead of totally scriptet plots, make a bunch of protagonists with different goals and abilities, who themselves have to figure out how to reach their goals.
- The ability to build "gang's" / followers in a natural way (for both PC's and NPC's).
- A living world where every NPC is unique, and constantly living their life.
- NPC's able to understand some rudimentary language, so they can get input both from PC's and other NPC's in both vocal and written form.
- NPC's have to be able to cooperate toward common goals with both other NPC's and other PC's.
-Filik
-Filik
Are you not aware that turning off the powerplants in the US is not an option? Where would you get the energy from? Hurriedly building 1000 water dams or 1000000 windmills? Coalplants? Burning the rapidly dwindling oil? Either way, Electricity prices would multiply by 20 and you'd have an instant major recession.
-Filik
Indeed. It isn't yellow with black spots (unless its very dirty) and doesnt have quite that tail, but it seems the closest they've found so far.
This must be that long-tailed animal from Spirou. What is it called in English? (Was called Spiralis in Norwegian)
If this does break out, I hope they do the sensible thing and stopp all air-traffic in the affected regions. We already have quarantine for pets travelling across borders, its just stupid that we don't have the same thing for humans. As a species, we need to learn to travel alot less.
-Filik
So why exactly do you need air? Remember that this is deep underground, in tunnels of water within ice, near volcanoes who can give heat. Also, for other posters who complain about no pressure, I imagine there is plenty of pressure once you go deep enough into the ice (3-5km). I don't think there was alot of air where they drilled in Svalbard (Norway)... Water on Mars has been proven, and you don't need alot of water for this scenario. -Filik
Actually, working in cubicles can (and has often been so at the places where I've worked) a sign that the company is so successfull that they are expanding quicker than they can get new offices. In all the cases where I worked in cubicles, it was due to extreme expansion, and when we moved, we got proper offices.
-Filik
I assume it understands "./configure" + "make install"?
-Filik