'For example, if Pokemon toys are currently the best selling or most-frequently-searched-for items within the database, the term POKEMON may be suggested whenever a user enters the letters "PO," even though many hundreds of other items in the database may start with "PO."'
Any fule nose that typing 'PO' will always autocomplete to 'PORN', no matter how popular Pokemon is at any one time.
It doesn't look like it from the specs, and with 22% CPU utilisation just for FM reception, I doubt that a PDA has the guts to perform the DAB decoding in anything like real time.
Besides, £100 gets you a pretty capable DAB receiver here in the UK (if you're lucky enough to find one in stock), and I'd guess that the add-on card for the PDA costs at least that much.
resistance against cheese-eating surrender monkey imperialism
If it's an Irishman, then it depends which way the wind is blowing - at the moment, it'd be terrorism, but in the good old days when Noraid had the ear of the presidency, it was freedom fighting.
Puts me more in mind of Coppola's The Conversation.
The idea of combining it with speech recognition in an adaptive fashion, using one source to cross-check the other, could open up a whole new area of privacy invasion.
Imagine this stuff running on all the CCTVs in the town where you live...
A superficially economics-literate troll, but a troll nevertheless.
If economics was any good at analysing this sort of thing, then we'd have a series of principles in force acting against the short-term exploitation of fragile resources.
But Diamond addresses economics only once in the article, where he refers to 'discounting' of resources - if the percieved benefit of harvesting all the resources now, and investing the profits elsewhere, outwieghs the calculated benefits of harvesting the resource over a number of years (read: sustainability), then the 'rational' economic argument is to harvest now, and fuck the future.
Economics, outside of strict financial / manufacturing / internal human activities, is pure voodoo, and should never be taken too seriously.
Printing, for example, requires all the graphics subsystems because we have the "what you see is what you get" model. You need to have the whole of the display stuff to render it. It's a very tangled subsystem.
wtf???
Can't they mod some of the Terminal Server code so that a virtual GUI is running as a terminal to handle all this tangled shit?
Geez - these guys have the creativity of a Jackson Pollock!
If you're transporting your methane one molecule at a time, this would be true.
However, it's water in bulk, with methane dispersed throughout, and in more of a cubic structure than the dodecahedron shown, so the packing efficiency gives roughly a 2-2.5:1 weight ratio, and a 2:1 space ratio.
Each molecule of water would play it's part in transporting about 1/2 as much methane, and the extra space taken up is less than the water volume.
Having said all that, I'm not at all sure that the hydrates are as thermodynamically stable as the article seems to imply.
'Fraid not - once the temperature rises or the pressure drops (at -4 C, the hydrate is only stable at ca. 20 atmospheres pressure, IIRC), yon solid would tend to degass quite violently, with a concomitant risk of explosion.
At -10 C, of course, the hydrate is stable at a couple of atmospheres pressure, so if you don't crash, you're OK.
It's mainly these problems that make mining the clathrates (old name for methane hydrates) from the ocean bed uneconomical.
Nope - we still use NT4 (and IIS!) for our internet application, simply because we're tight.
We've got everything tightly firewalled, the OS locked down as tightly as possible, all the NetBIOS crap disabled, etc. etc.
This problem won't affect us, but we won't upgrade for the simple reason that the only non-hardware downtime we've had in the last three years was when a M$ patch buttfucked the server, requiring a reinstall.
Put simply, if you're just using NT4 as an application server, it's stable and fairly robust, and I can't be bothered with the disruption that an upgrade would entail.
It's only if you're using NT for file and print, or being dumb and using DCOM rather than building a roll-your-own server, that this vulnerability will affect you.
I could port everything to Linux, but what's the point? 3 years with only 2 hrs unplanned downtime is good enough for me...
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Isn't the phrase "Complete Idiot's" a little superfluous in this book title?
An analysis of my handwriting once produced a diagnosis of me as a sad, lonely wanker with absolutely no point in life.
Aaaaah - it's just dawned on me...
Nah.
Funny as hell, though - Visual Studio is an absolute joy to use.
Compared to what?
Having your head nailed to a table?
Any fule nose that typing 'PO' will always autocomplete to 'PORN', no matter how popular Pokemon is at any one time.
Besides, £100 gets you a pretty capable DAB receiver here in the UK (if you're lucky enough to find one in stock), and I'd guess that the add-on card for the PDA costs at least that much.
resistance against cheese-eating surrender monkey imperialism
If it's an Irishman, then it depends which way the wind is blowing - at the moment, it'd be terrorism, but in the good old days when Noraid had the ear of the presidency, it was freedom fighting.
Seriously, though - if this isn't a troll, this guy will make one hell of a sociologist - he already has Wittgenstinian relativism down pat.
And if he doesn't get tenure, at least he'll be able to assume that I'd like fries with that...
Wow, I didn't really mean to write more than the first paragraph, but I thought that I would get it all down for those interested.
I have this very amusing impression of you getting interested all over your trousers, lol.
Thinking about it, would it not be feasible to make them emit harmonics (375nm blue, anyone?) for use in optical storage too?
I'm just a dumb old maths guy, not a physicist, but surely someone can enlighten us?
Unfortunately, 3.2 miles of narrow gauge track probably isn't going to be that easy to aim!
It may be useful for testing deep penetration type warheads, or they might just b ehaving fun at the taxpayers expense.
Never mind the processor - you find me an OS that will run for 8000 hours at 100% CPU utilisation!
Bugger - I've just remembered - Netware 3.12.
Oh well...
Perhaps she'll make it illegal to crack the Code of Hammurabi ...
The idea of combining it with speech recognition in an adaptive fashion, using one source to cross-check the other, could open up a whole new area of privacy invasion.
Imagine this stuff running on all the CCTVs in the town where you live...
If economics was any good at analysing this sort of thing, then we'd have a series of principles in force acting against the short-term exploitation of fragile resources.
But Diamond addresses economics only once in the article, where he refers to 'discounting' of resources - if the percieved benefit of harvesting all the resources now, and investing the profits elsewhere, outwieghs the calculated benefits of harvesting the resource over a number of years (read: sustainability), then the 'rational' economic argument is to harvest now, and fuck the future.
Economics, outside of strict financial / manufacturing / internal human activities, is pure voodoo, and should never be taken too seriously.
Now there's a flame for ya!
"Goodbye World"
AAAAAAAAAAARGH!
SPLAT!
wtf???
Can't they mod some of the Terminal Server code so that a virtual GUI is running as a terminal to handle all this tangled shit?
Geez - these guys have the creativity of a Jackson Pollock!
Simplr.
Prolly too simple for you to see it.
Odd week - no mod points.
I'll just have to tell you it's funny as fuck instead.
The human nose is a marvellous tool, as GC/MS analysis of the same samples rarely disagreed with my initial findings.
On the other hand, I don't envisage sniffing any nanobots anytime soon.
If you're transporting your methane one molecule at a time, this would be true.
However, it's water in bulk, with methane dispersed throughout, and in more of a cubic structure than the dodecahedron shown, so the packing efficiency gives roughly a 2-2.5:1 weight ratio, and a 2:1 space ratio.
Each molecule of water would play it's part in transporting about 1/2 as much methane, and the extra space taken up is less than the water volume.
Having said all that, I'm not at all sure that the hydrates are as thermodynamically stable as the article seems to imply.
At -10 C, of course, the hydrate is stable at a couple of atmospheres pressure, so if you don't crash, you're OK.
It's mainly these problems that make mining the clathrates (old name for methane hydrates) from the ocean bed uneconomical.
Damn physics, but there ya go...
Try indymedia if you wish torepost articles from th'independent...
We've got everything tightly firewalled, the OS locked down as tightly as possible, all the NetBIOS crap disabled, etc. etc.
This problem won't affect us, but we won't upgrade for the simple reason that the only non-hardware downtime we've had in the last three years was when a M$ patch buttfucked the server, requiring a reinstall.
Put simply, if you're just using NT4 as an application server, it's stable and fairly robust, and I can't be bothered with the disruption that an upgrade would entail.
It's only if you're using NT for file and print, or being dumb and using DCOM rather than building a roll-your-own server, that this vulnerability will affect you.
I could port everything to Linux, but what's the point? 3 years with only 2 hrs unplanned downtime is good enough for me...