That video was pretty ridiculous. The music doesn't make any sense. It's like out of a montage in an action movie (Under Siege? It has that Steven Segal quality...), and the contrast to that thing wobbling around makes it all the more laughable.
I'm scared of micropayments. It conjures up a picture of tiny holes in my wallet that continuously leak small ammounts of money, only, a lot of tiny holes leaking small ammounts of money ammounts to a lot of money leaking away.
Not really. If I install a slackware version from 2004 on my laptop from 2004, it boots about as fast as the slackware from 2009 I run on my 2009 desktop. And both boot to CLI.
Plenty. In many cases, people just add them to things because it sells. It's increasingly becoming a buzzword. I think Ruby on Rails is carbon nanotube reinforced, and The Cloud consists of up to 20% of carbon nanotubes.
Yeah, I almost had time to write a hello world program in COBOL during a cricket game once. Though I couldn't find enough Libraries of Congress to save it in, so I had to chuck it. A shame, really.
Well, maybe what they saw wasn't a false positive? Maybe there is residual functionality of the brain some time after death, the same way you can electrically stimulate the muscles of a dead body to make them twitch. Is it that unthinkable that visual impulses have some effect on the brain, that death instantly renders every single braincell inoperable?
Since he was walking on clipped tiles and handing out more objects than could possibly fit in his inventory, there was justified suspicion of some form of cheating. I think the server has been patched now, though, since that doesn't seem to happen as often.
There's a couple of reasons why technology has sort of fizzled out, as I see it.
First of all, DIY is dead or dying. Electronic components are harder to get hold of, and information about electronics is harder to get hold of (Internet is all good, but it really doesn't compare to the old electronics magazines). Heck, even the toys that 20th century kids engineering, like Lego and Meccano, have been either mutilated beyond recognition, or canceled.
Secondly, patents. For every technological invention, there's a fair chance that someone has patented something in a way that they at least think they own they invention. Not only is it a turnoff to have to jump legal hurdles all the time, it's also really expensive and most people just don't have the resources.
What's changed in that? If a Trojan can get into your host machine, it can get into your emulated machine (since it obviously has Internet connectivity), and vice versa. Doesn't really matter if it catches real or emulated key presses.
It's hard to motivate to your voters why you need to spend huge amounts of tax money chasing down cyber criminals that mostly operate abroad, thus not affecting your country in the slightest, when that money could go to catching criminals that do, or to education, health care, whatever.
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Integer truncation is not rounding. It's a work-related injury for C programmers.
"Google Frame Benchmarks 10x Faster than IE8" is a more accurate headline, since no sane rounding scheme in the world would round 9.6 into 9.
That video was pretty ridiculous. The music doesn't make any sense. It's like out of a montage in an action movie (Under Siege? It has that Steven Segal quality...), and the contrast to that thing wobbling around makes it all the more laughable.
Besides, bacteria mutate at a very high rate as it is, since they have such short generation gaps.
So even if some radiation-induced mutations survive, it's probably not going to be a significant increase in mutation rate.
I'm scared of micropayments. It conjures up a picture of tiny holes in my wallet that continuously leak small ammounts of money, only, a lot of tiny holes leaking small ammounts of money ammounts to a lot of money leaking away.
Not really. If I install a slackware version from 2004 on my laptop from 2004, it boots about as fast as the slackware from 2009 I run on my 2009 desktop. And both boot to CLI.
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Plenty. In many cases, people just add them to things because it sells. It's increasingly becoming a buzzword. I think Ruby on Rails is carbon nanotube reinforced, and The Cloud consists of up to 20% of carbon nanotubes.
Yeah, I almost had time to write a hello world program in COBOL during a cricket game once. Though I couldn't find enough Libraries of Congress to save it in, so I had to chuck it. A shame, really.
Uh, I think I meant the last sentence to read "that death doesn't instantly render every single braincell inoperable?"
Well, maybe what they saw wasn't a false positive? Maybe there is residual functionality of the brain some time after death, the same way you can electrically stimulate the muscles of a dead body to make them twitch. Is it that unthinkable that visual impulses have some effect on the brain, that death instantly renders every single braincell inoperable?
Since he was walking on clipped tiles and handing out more objects than could possibly fit in his inventory, there was justified suspicion of some form of cheating. I think the server has been patched now, though, since that doesn't seem to happen as often.
... the more ban-happy the country you live in is, the more likely banning itself will be banned.
OS/2 is clearly half an OS. So OS/2 + OS/2 = OS.
When push comes to shove, you could pretty much any I/O port conceivable.
Obligatory extrapolation
Ah, but in Haskell, ++ concatenates strings.
C++ is not C. Your example is not more or less relevant than mine.
Hmm. I accidentally a word. Was supposed to read "toys that taught 20th century kids engineering."
There's a couple of reasons why technology has sort of fizzled out, as I see it.
First of all, DIY is dead or dying. Electronic components are harder to get hold of, and information about electronics is harder to get hold of (Internet is all good, but it really doesn't compare to the old electronics magazines). Heck, even the toys that 20th century kids engineering, like Lego and Meccano, have been either mutilated beyond recognition, or canceled.
Secondly, patents. For every technological invention, there's a fair chance that someone has patented something in a way that they at least think they own they invention. Not only is it a turnoff to have to jump legal hurdles all the time, it's also really expensive and most people just don't have the resources.
What's changed in that? If a Trojan can get into your host machine, it can get into your emulated machine (since it obviously has Internet connectivity), and vice versa. Doesn't really matter if it catches real or emulated key presses.
It's hard to motivate to your voters why you need to spend huge amounts of tax money chasing down cyber criminals that mostly operate abroad, thus not affecting your country in the slightest, when that money could go to catching criminals that do, or to education, health care, whatever.
I think the controversy basically boils down to the following: Correlation is not causation.
Sure 67% is ~60%. An 11% error is well within the error margin where similarity (~) is appropriate.
That, or go Skynet. The ideal way to stop all web attacks would be to bring down the internet itself. I so hope these guys did their homework.
And your term for the day is ..
Occam's razor