You'll place a bet with her 5 years from now. If you're alive and you're both single by 33, you'll get married. Scrap that. Make it 25 otherwise you'll lose contact forever...
Ever tried to download Moz on a 33.6 modem? I suggest you give it a try. It puts discovering bugs like that under a new light.
That is why I decided I won't bother with Moz anymore. Next programmed release I'm getting is going to be around 1.4 and that only after it's been out for nearly a month. Needless to say, my linux box is going to keep 0.98 for a loong time still.
I'll never forget Mozilla's DHTML bug. I'm still using 1.2 and when it crashes, I quietly curse the lives of the developers and restart the damn thing.
Given enough eyes all bugs are shallow? Yeah right.
Epic releases UT2003 text mode. This has the advantage of being playable on all kinds of hardware specifications, from a measly 8086 to AMD's flagship AMD 64...
You hop Alice-in-Wonderland-like in a room full of bots. What do you do? >
This is what we've all been waiting for ladies and gents. If those folks have indeed violated the GPL, the will be the most strenuous test the GPL could go through. We'll see how enforeceable the GPL really is, so it will either make it or break it.
I sure hope Dell can withstand the pressure from the RIAA/MPAA. Imagine. The entire Dell customer/user base, will now officially be branded as a bunch of pirates.
The article is called "Reflections". The subject of the research was the increase of bandiwidth by taken advantage of multipath, yet the person who submitted this seems to find interesting that bandwidth efficiency increases in a cluttered environment. Duh! The more cluttered the environment, the more reflections occur, the stronger the multipath phenomenon. I would have thought this would have been an obvious line of thought. Apparently not.
On to more technical stuff now: I assume that the modelling these folks have made either uses a Ricean distribution or an m-Nakagami one. If it's Ricean (or Nakagami for large m), it means they have a strong LOS (line-of-sight) component and a multitude of nLOS components, which will be Rayleigh distributed. By having lots of reflections, their LOS components weakens, but their Rayleigh components (effects of multipath, already weak) become even more weakened. Thus they have a clearer signal; one which the equalizer at the Rx end can more easily discriminate. Therein lies the problem though. Do you remember that until a few months ago, no 3G phones existed, solely because the equilizer couldn't handle the load? Well, this is bound to happen now! Sure, the LOS components are easier to be discriminated against the nLOS ones, but due to the nature of the environment (high clutter) the number of components rises (exponentially, if i am not mistaken).
This whole thing is being and has been researched, as the evolution of 3G. This is where the 3G people want the scheme to go, but frankly having seen what it can do, this sort of thing will only appear at the end of 3G's life and will be the big argument for migrating to 4G. That is of couse, unless 3G's span is pushed back by 3-4 years until 2008-2012... In short, don't hold your breath.
Who really cares if Moore's law still aplies or not? Isn't the fact that technological advancement is occuring and that the fruits of that advancement help us in our lives more important than anyting else, including the rate at which the aforementioned advancements occur?
In onther words, I'm sick and tired of people judging the inapplicability or not of Moore's law. In fact Moore's law is in itself irrelevant as long as advancement occurs at an acceptable rate. And what is an acceptable rate and how can be measured, I hear you say. Acceptable is when there's new technologies that are useful and there is a point in their existance. That's more measurable and meaningful than Moore's law will eve be. In short, I don't get the point for P4's at 3 or 4 gigs (I lost track after whoever it was crossed the 1 gig limit, my k6-2 at 500 is more than enough...).
Considering the hype surrounding Ruby these last 2 years in the OSS world, I'm surprised it doesn't make the top 10 and Scheme does, even if Scheme might be in there because of inaccurate searches. What also struck me as very weird is Python's penetration in the job market. Surely it is much more used than the percentage suggests?
You misunderstand. The answers are not meant to be given. Films, books, art or discourse in general, that pose questions of a philosophical nature have one purpose. To educate. How to go about it? Making you think. Giving you food for thought. If the questions were given, this would just be another Hollywood blockbuster flick, that chews the food for you and then feeds it to you.
My favourite though is UTRAN. An acronym including an acronym. UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network Now if you fully expand this, you get the majestic Universal Mobile Telecommunications System Terrestrial Radio Access Network.
Flame me all you want. Mod me down. But anyone who doesn't condemn the actions of this group is no better than them. This game belongs to Sony. They make the rules, so either play the game as its creators intended the game to be played or don't play it at all. If you think that this app is a valuable addition to the game, convince Sony to accept it and help those wankers develop it. If they say no, then just go away. It's their game. Otherwise, you're no better than the people who exploit the in-game weaknesses. A cheater.
It will not be here soon. It is already here and with the advent of technologies like GPRS, 3G and 4G it will become more and more common and noticeable. The world's armies (and especially the US one) have been funding -and up to a certain extenct using- technologies like this for years now. The technology is now "seeping" into the mobile operator business. Soon, with the help of those people, who buy,sell or store personal data (lawfully or not, eg. ad serving scum, police) this will be a much more evident reality than ever. Not before long we'll be living in Minority Report's world. Not fancy multimedia stuff, like "Hello Mr. Anderson, why don't you try this GAP outfit?" but as in you'll be getting SMS (or MMS or the then equivalent) as soon as you walk outside the shop and you're identified either as an existing ot a potential customer...
True, I never bother with nightlies. What pisses me off though is that every time I want to submit a bug/crash with the talkback thingy, all my attempts fail. And no, I don't have a firewall or weird/custom proxy settings (my ISP's settings, that is).
I seem to remember a version of IE for Unix. I can't find the link now, but I am certain I had encountered IE's for Unix page on MS's site.. Has anyone seen what I'm talking about?
I don't know, maybe I'm not getting something. Ads are a service. They are supposed to promote a product or a service, regardless of the fact, that advertising itself is a service/product. A bit obvious, but I don't have to buy all that's being advertised and I am in no way considered a thief (and if you think so, turn the other cheek and empty your pockets). In fact I don't have to buy anything advertised and I am certainly not obliged to view ads in other media. Instead, advertising is supposed to give me options. Freedom to choose. It is a service, which I can decline if I so wish. What these people are saying is, that I can have all the freedom I want in buying products, but I am not free not to watch their ads. Well it seems nonsensical to me. I don't seem to remember signing anything (or agreeing to), which would expect this of me. And even if this was a case, why am I still at large considering how many ads on all sorts of media I ignore?
There is a very easy solution to this little problem. ./ the scum of the face off the planet (or the 'net, if you so wish). They can sue? HA. Tell them their techniques worked. Thousands of people were so interested, they felt like visiting their site. And I bet these people will hate ever having anything to do with advertising....
What? We don't know were they are when the network's working at it's "usual high speed"? Or is it that when the network is not working at it's "usual high speed", you find them waiting for you in your office?
Of course it is. That's the whole point. Or points. Bear with me. Scenario 1: He's got two accounts. One devoted to karma whoring, one devoted to FP's. You've guessed it. All consciensous/.'ers will visit the links, read the articles and post an informed view (pun fully intended). Scenario 2: Revenge is a dish best served hot. What better way to get back at his enemies, than to slashdot their machines to melting point?
You couldn't be more wrong. You and I and everybody else matters. Not as the slashdot crowd, but as consumers.
A fine example: The other day I was aimlessly browsing the new releases at HMV. To my surprise I discovered, that one of my favourite bands of all time, Paradise Lost, have their new record out. By BMG. Using copy protection. My first thoughts were, oh well, it seems I'll have to revert back to my ancient discman to listen to it. And guess what, I was enlightened. Rebellious thoughts started circling around my head. Why should they dictate where and how I can listen to music? I'll show them. I'll download the whole thing and email it to Nick (Holmes, the band's frontman) and every email address I can find at BMG. Then I thought. Hell no. This is Paradise Lost. They don't deserve this treatment by either me or their label. And the decision was instant. I didn't buy it. I'm looking to see if they'll release vinyl versions like they used to do (at least did up to and including One Second) and I'll be shortly sending an email to Nick expressing my disappointment. You see, if more people chose not to buy copy encrypted cds and in this way, pressure from decreasing (or not increasing) sales would drop a hint to the labels. And no, by this rand I don't mean I will be boycotting anyone or any corporation. I will be making conscious decisions, instead of going with the flow, regardless of whether the flow says "Boycott them!" or "Screw it, I was going to change my cd player anyway".
Without having read the article (Shock! Horror!), I think they'll probably be using "Spread spectrum" techniques. These are techniques for mixing your signal with Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) for two purposes:
a) When the communication is intercepted, the signal is so intentionally, but randomly, garbled by AWGN, that it is almost impossible to be recovered, unless b) The intended recipient knows exactly what AWGN to remove, from which parts of the signal to remove it and how to go about it.
These techniques are very widely used in the military, especially by the US military, for wireless communications.
There has been research lately, examining whether these techniques can be used in conjuction with 3rd and 4th generation communication systems, to improve the quality of mobile communications generally, for all.
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You'll place a bet with her 5 years from now. If you're alive and you're both single by 33, you'll get married.
Scrap that. Make it 25 otherwise you'll lose contact forever...
Ever tried to download Moz on a 33.6 modem?
I suggest you give it a try. It puts discovering bugs like that under a new light.
That is why I decided I won't bother with Moz anymore. Next programmed release I'm getting is going to be around 1.4 and that only after it's been out for nearly a month. Needless to say, my linux box is going to keep 0.98 for a loong time still.
I'll never forget Mozilla's DHTML bug. I'm still using 1.2 and when it crashes, I quietly curse the lives of the developers and restart the damn thing.
Given enough eyes all bugs are shallow?
Yeah right.
Epic releases UT2003 text mode.
This has the advantage of being playable on all kinds of hardware specifications, from a measly 8086 to AMD's flagship AMD 64...
You hop Alice-in-Wonderland-like in a room full of bots. What do you do?
>
This is what we've all been waiting for ladies and gents.
If those folks have indeed violated the GPL, the will be the most strenuous test the GPL could go through.
We'll see how enforeceable the GPL really is, so it will either make it or break it.
I sure hope Dell can withstand the pressure from the RIAA/MPAA.
Imagine. The entire Dell customer/user base, will now officially be branded as a bunch of pirates.
The article is called "Reflections". The subject of the research was the increase of bandiwidth by taken advantage of multipath, yet the person who submitted this seems to find interesting that bandwidth efficiency increases in a cluttered environment.
Duh! The more cluttered the environment, the more reflections occur, the stronger the multipath phenomenon.
I would have thought this would have been an obvious line of thought. Apparently not.
On to more technical stuff now:
I assume that the modelling these folks have made either uses a Ricean distribution or an m-Nakagami one. If it's Ricean (or Nakagami for large m), it means they have a strong LOS (line-of-sight) component and a multitude of nLOS components, which will be Rayleigh distributed. By having lots of reflections, their LOS components weakens, but their Rayleigh components (effects of multipath, already weak) become even more weakened. Thus they have a clearer signal; one which the equalizer at the Rx end can more easily discriminate.
Therein lies the problem though. Do you remember that until a few months ago, no 3G phones existed, solely because the equilizer couldn't handle the load? Well, this is bound to happen now! Sure, the LOS components are easier to be discriminated against the nLOS ones, but due to the nature of the environment (high clutter) the number of components rises (exponentially, if i am not mistaken).
This whole thing is being and has been researched, as the evolution of 3G. This is where the 3G people want the scheme to go, but frankly having seen what it can do, this sort of thing will only appear at the end of 3G's life and will be the big argument for migrating to 4G.
That is of couse, unless 3G's span is pushed back by 3-4 years until 2008-2012... In short, don't hold your breath.
>> This could as easily be for military computers as well as the great unwashed...
The military already has Palladium installed. It's called "Shoot on Sight".
Obvious but necessary: If articles could be modded (a la kuro5hin), this would have been a -1 Troll....
I think you meant 18 days....
Who really cares if Moore's law still aplies or not?
/. rant. I feel exilarated.
Isn't the fact that technological advancement is occuring and that the fruits of that advancement help us in our lives more important than anyting else, including the rate at which the aforementioned advancements occur?
In onther words, I'm sick and tired of people judging the inapplicability or not of Moore's law. In fact Moore's law is in itself irrelevant as long as advancement occurs at an acceptable rate.
And what is an acceptable rate and how can be measured, I hear you say.
Acceptable is when there's new technologies that are useful and there is a point in their existance. That's more measurable and meaningful than Moore's law will eve be.
In short, I don't get the point for P4's at 3 or 4 gigs (I lost track after whoever it was crossed the 1 gig limit, my k6-2 at 500 is more than enough...).
Haah, my first
Considering the hype surrounding Ruby these last 2 years in the OSS world, I'm surprised it doesn't make the top 10 and Scheme does, even if Scheme might be in there because of inaccurate searches.
What also struck me as very weird is Python's penetration in the job market. Surely it is much more used than the percentage suggests?
You misunderstand. The answers are not meant to be given.
Films, books, art or discourse in general, that pose questions of a philosophical nature have one purpose.
To educate. How to go about it? Making you think. Giving you food for thought.
If the questions were given, this would just be another Hollywood blockbuster flick, that chews the food for you and then feeds it to you.
My favourite though is UTRAN. An acronym including an acronym.
UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network
Now if you fully expand this, you get the majestic Universal Mobile Telecommunications System Terrestrial Radio Access Network.
Flame me all you want. Mod me down.
But anyone who doesn't condemn the actions of this group is no better than them.
This game belongs to Sony. They make the rules, so either play the game as its creators intended the game to be played or don't play it at all.
If you think that this app is a valuable addition to the game, convince Sony to accept it and help those wankers develop it. If they say no, then just go away. It's their game.
Otherwise, you're no better than the people who exploit the in-game weaknesses. A cheater.
It will not be here soon.
It is already here and with the advent of technologies like GPRS, 3G and 4G it will become more and more common and noticeable.
The world's armies (and especially the US one) have been funding -and up to a certain extenct using- technologies like this for years now. The technology is now "seeping" into the mobile operator business. Soon, with the help of those people, who buy,sell or store personal data (lawfully or not, eg. ad serving scum, police) this will be a much more evident reality than ever.
Not before long we'll be living in Minority Report's world. Not fancy multimedia stuff, like "Hello Mr. Anderson, why don't you try this GAP outfit?" but as in you'll be getting SMS (or MMS or the then equivalent) as soon as you walk outside the shop and you're identified either as an existing ot a potential customer...
True, I never bother with nightlies.
What pisses me off though is that every time I want to submit a bug/crash with the talkback thingy, all my attempts fail.
And no, I don't have a firewall or weird/custom proxy settings (my ISP's settings, that is).
I just finished downloading the damn thing.
And it worked fine throughout its 5 minute usage history.
I seem to remember a version of IE for Unix.
I can't find the link now, but I am certain I had encountered IE's for Unix page on MS's site..
Has anyone seen what I'm talking about?
I don't know, maybe I'm not getting something.
Ads are a service. They are supposed to promote a product or a service, regardless of the fact, that advertising itself is a service/product.
A bit obvious, but I don't have to buy all that's being advertised and I am in no way considered a thief (and if you think so, turn the other cheek and empty your pockets).
In fact I don't have to buy anything advertised and I am certainly not obliged to view ads in other media.
Instead, advertising is supposed to give me options. Freedom to choose. It is a service, which I can decline if I so wish.
What these people are saying is, that I can have all the freedom I want in buying products, but I am not free not to watch their ads.
Well it seems nonsensical to me. I don't seem to remember signing anything (or agreeing to), which would expect this of me. And even if this was a case, why am I still at large considering how many ads on all sorts of media I ignore?
There is a very easy solution to this little problem.
./ the scum of the face off the planet (or the 'net, if you so wish). They can sue? HA. Tell them their techniques worked. Thousands of people were so interested, they felt like visiting their site. And I bet these people will hate ever having anything to do with advertising....
What?
We don't know were they are when the network's working at it's "usual high speed"?
Or is it that when the network is not working at it's "usual high speed", you find them waiting for you in your office?
Of course it is. That's the whole point. Or points. Bear with me. /.'ers will visit the links, read the articles and post an informed view (pun fully intended).
Scenario 1: He's got two accounts. One devoted to karma whoring, one devoted to FP's. You've guessed it. All consciensous
Scenario 2: Revenge is a dish best served hot. What better way to get back at his enemies, than to slashdot their machines to melting point?
Considering the BBC has been experimenting with ogg webcasts, I wonder if there's any chance of the play being cast as an ogg stream...
You couldn't be more wrong.
You and I and everybody else matters. Not as the slashdot crowd, but as consumers.
A fine example: The other day I was aimlessly browsing the new releases at HMV. To my surprise I discovered, that one of my favourite bands of all time, Paradise Lost, have their new record out. By BMG. Using copy protection. My first thoughts were, oh well, it seems I'll have to revert back to my ancient discman to listen to it.
And guess what, I was enlightened. Rebellious thoughts started circling around my head. Why should they dictate where and how I can listen to music? I'll show them. I'll download the whole thing and email it to Nick (Holmes, the band's frontman) and every email address I can find at BMG.
Then I thought. Hell no. This is Paradise Lost. They don't deserve this treatment by either me or their label. And the decision was instant. I didn't buy it. I'm looking to see if they'll release vinyl versions like they used to do (at least did up to and including One Second) and I'll be shortly sending an email to Nick expressing my disappointment.
You see, if more people chose not to buy copy encrypted cds and in this way, pressure from decreasing (or not increasing) sales would drop a hint to the labels.
And no, by this rand I don't mean I will be boycotting anyone or any corporation. I will be making conscious decisions, instead of going with the flow, regardless of whether the flow says "Boycott them!" or "Screw it, I was going to change my cd player anyway".
Without having read the article (Shock! Horror!), I think they'll probably be using "Spread spectrum" techniques.
These are techniques for mixing your signal with Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) for two purposes:
a) When the communication is intercepted, the signal is so intentionally, but randomly, garbled by AWGN, that it is almost impossible to be recovered, unless
b) The intended recipient knows exactly what AWGN to remove, from which parts of the signal to remove it and how to go about it.
These techniques are very widely used in the military, especially by the US military, for wireless communications.
There has been research lately, examining whether these techniques can be used in conjuction with 3rd and 4th generation communication systems, to improve the quality of mobile communications generally, for all.