Well, it's a physics thought experiment that works as follows:
You put a cat in a box with a lump of radiactive material, a gun, and a geiger counter. Instead of clicking, the geiger counter triggers the gun, which shoots the cat. At some point, the radioactive lump might decay, and the geiger counter might register it, at which point it happily shoots the cat dead.
Now, there's no way to know if the cat is alive or dead before you open the box. So, while the box remains closed, the cat is both alive and dead at the same time. Once you open the box, you resolve the question, and the cat is definately alive or dead.
This is supposed to parallel his idea that, at a quantum level, we cannot measure the state of a particle without changing it. However, when it comes down to it, all the thought experiment really proves is that physicists hate cats.
Okay, so the NSA, with the assistance of the Gnomes of Zurich and the Black Activists, use the Orbital Mind Control Lasers to attack your wacky Amiga tinfoil hat guy.
As far as text entry goes, it can be done, but it's a pain in the arse, as is pretty much all handwriting recognition. I use it ocasionally for entering kanji (Japanese characters) but other than that, I still use the keyboard.
As for copy/paste work, I believe that the little side rocker switch can be programmed to be ^X ^V ^C etc, but I keep it as down -> right-click, up -> double left-click. The little pen tip acts as a left click by default, and tapping the pen twice fast enough and in the same spot is a pain in the arse.
I don't think these things are ready for mainstream text input just yet. Perhaps someone will be able to hack out the new TabletPC IMEs to work with these things...
As well, XP has a bit more in the way of handwriting recognition/pen input support, but I'm currently running 2K on the non-linux boxes here, so I can't give you a review of it.
Check these out: http://www.wacom.com/productinfo/index.cfm
I have the Graphire2 model, and it's quite useful for doing some tasks, such as screwing around in photoshop, but I still fall back to a regular mouse for most things.
Under windows, the rectangle maps directly to your screen, so if your pen is in the bottom left hand corner, the mouse is in the bottom left hand corner, and if you pick the pen up, out of range of the tablet, and put it down in the upper right, the cursor will jump there. This behaviour can be changed with it's drivers, and under linux it works just like a regular USB mouse (the pad only follows the pen's movement, it doesn't map it directly to the screen.)
No snow here in Edmonton ATM either. Must be this "Global Warming" thing that Ralphie is refusing to acknowledge. I sure as hell recall snowdrifts taller than I was at this time of year when I was in grade 3.
I've flown four times in the past year, from Edmonton, Alberta to San Francisco and back, and once from Edmonton, Alberta to Hamilton, Ontario and back.
I have a leather laptop case, with a junker of a laptop (Compaq LTE 5280). On the way into the US, the laptop got swabbed. On the way back to Canada, it didn't. As well, when flying internally, it didn't get swabbed.
Of course, every time they made me plug it in, which means that I had to dig out the cord and converter, and ask them to give me power.
This involves a divide-by-zero, and, assuming that the PHB actually passed grade 12 math, it wouldn't be too tough to convince him that it's an "infinate" discount.
Just don't try to explain orders of infinity when they ask if it's cheaper to go with *BSD or Linux;-)
About 3 years ago, when I was still wet behind the ears, I made the mistake of rm -rf.* thinking it would wipe out all those pesky hidden files...
That's not a mistake you make twice;-)
Never underestimate the bandwidth of 5mL of semon.
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The "fuss" is they are still labeled as "experimental."
There are two very different angles to look at this problem from. Those who hack on linux in their spare time, and those who run mission-critical systems for their living.
Here in my basement, I run Debian Sid. I play with 2.5 series kernels. CVS doesn't phase me. And all is well, for if something gets screwed up, the only loss is my time, and there is more to be gained from the experience than there was lost to it. However, when the sun rises, and I make my way to work, the story is much different.
In the server room at work, I am responsible for the servers that host our client's websites, email, and DNS records. If something hits a bug, that something malfunctions. Maybe it hiccups, maybe it takes the entire box to it's knees. Given my druthers, I'd take the former, after all, if it just hiccups, it doesn't interfere with everything else. Now, I may think that I have a very firm grasp on what is happening on those boxes. I even pretend to think that I have a firm grasp on what is happening on my system here at home. My boss even trusts and respects my judgement. If I decided, for example, to replace our very stable and definately efficient-enough Apache 1.3.26, PHP, mod_gzip, etc. with the Apache 2.x and the corresponding modules, he wouldn't blink an eye. Why? Because he trusts me to make good decisions. I can't think of any better reason to stick with what is known to be stable, verses something that is "cooler," newer, or jus' phatter.
After all, as much as we like to think it, they don't pay us systems administrators to sit there and hack. They pay us to deliver systems that work.
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If China does decide to take up electronic warfare, how will the Taiwanese prove that it indeed originated in China, and not somewhere else? After all, I highly doubt that China would hit Taiwanese systems without taking a few measures to cover their tracks.
Would just a huge rise in the frequency with which Taiwanese systems are attacked be enough for them to scream bloody murder and ask for the Americans to come to their defence?
And on a side note, how would Washington respond to these kind of attacks on Taiwan? If Taiwan was physically invaded, or was bombed / targeted by missiles, America would obviously move to provide Taiwan with direct military aid. But what would be considered an apropriate response to an attack that neither physically damages Taiwan (in the "buldings blown up and civilians killed sense), nor is obviously of Chinese origin...
What does/. think of that?
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Consider this a request. And what's on the first 3 volumes?
I shot the last guy who asked me to help troubleshoot his NIC card.
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Well, it's a physics thought experiment that works as follows:
You put a cat in a box with a lump of radiactive material, a gun, and a geiger counter. Instead of clicking, the geiger counter triggers the gun, which shoots the cat. At some point, the radioactive lump might decay, and the geiger counter might register it, at which point it happily shoots the cat dead.
Now, there's no way to know if the cat is alive or dead before you open the box. So, while the box remains closed, the cat is both alive and dead at the same time. Once you open the box, you resolve the question, and the cat is definately alive or dead.
This is supposed to parallel his idea that, at a quantum level, we cannot measure the state of a particle without changing it. However, when it comes down to it, all the thought experiment really proves is that physicists hate cats.
Schroedinger's tea?
Blockquoth the poster:
...for 2 points.
... for great justice.
Okay, so the NSA, with the assistance of the Gnomes of Zurich and the Black Activists, use the Orbital Mind Control Lasers to attack your wacky Amiga tinfoil hat guy.
As far as text entry goes, it can be done, but it's a pain in the arse, as is pretty much all handwriting recognition. I use it ocasionally for entering kanji (Japanese characters) but other than that, I still use the keyboard.
As for copy/paste work, I believe that the little side rocker switch can be programmed to be ^X ^V ^C etc, but I keep it as down -> right-click, up -> double left-click. The little pen tip acts as a left click by default, and tapping the pen twice fast enough and in the same spot is a pain in the arse.
I don't think these things are ready for mainstream text input just yet. Perhaps someone will be able to hack out the new TabletPC IMEs to work with these things...
As well, XP has a bit more in the way of handwriting recognition/pen input support, but I'm currently running 2K on the non-linux boxes here, so I can't give you a review of it.
Check these out: http://www.wacom.com/productinfo/index.cfm
I have the Graphire2 model, and it's quite useful for doing some tasks, such as screwing around in photoshop, but I still fall back to a regular mouse for most things.
Under windows, the rectangle maps directly to your screen, so if your pen is in the bottom left hand corner, the mouse is in the bottom left hand corner, and if you pick the pen up, out of range of the tablet, and put it down in the upper right, the cursor will jump there. This behaviour can be changed with it's drivers, and under linux it works just like a regular USB mouse (the pad only follows the pen's movement, it doesn't map it directly to the screen.)
No snow here in Edmonton ATM either. Must be this "Global Warming" thing that Ralphie is refusing to acknowledge. I sure as hell recall snowdrifts taller than I was at this time of year when I was in grade 3.
But the albino aligators need the radiation to reproduce...
Note to self: Don't hit submit when I've been awake for 42 hours...
Maybe that's why they swabbed me on my way into the US; the dark circles under my eyes must make me look like a ReallyBadGuy(tm).
As well, I'm a tall caucasian with an arabic last name and long curly dirty-blond hair pulled back. Profile THAT!
I've flown four times in the past year, from Edmonton, Alberta to San Francisco and back, and once from Edmonton, Alberta to Hamilton, Ontario and back.
I have a leather laptop case, with a junker of a laptop (Compaq LTE 5280). On the way into the US, the laptop got swabbed. On the way back to Canada, it didn't. As well, when flying internally, it didn't get swabbed.
Of course, every time they made me plug it in, which means that I had to dig out the cord and converter, and ask them to give me power.
And no, I don't smoke.
if TIVOs regularly record the same show twice from different sources.
This involves a divide-by-zero, and, assuming that the PHB actually passed grade 12 math, it wouldn't be too tough to convince him that it's an "infinate" discount. Just don't try to explain orders of infinity when they ask if it's cheaper to go with *BSD or Linux ;-)
About 3 years ago, when I was still wet behind the ears, I made the mistake of rm -rf .* thinking it would wipe out all those pesky hidden files... ;-)
That's not a mistake you make twice
I prefer something along the lines of:
/dev/urandom
#!/bin/sh
cat
Unless you want to sit there wiggling the mouse while it generates entropy...
Yes, but the shotgun approach is almost guaranteed to work.
I believe that some Samsung LCD monitors have the same power cord. AFAIK, it's not proprietary, it's just less standard...
Never underestimate the bandwidth of 5mL of semon.
The "fuss" is they are still labeled as "experimental."
There are two very different angles to look at this problem from. Those who hack on linux in their spare time, and those who run mission-critical systems for their living.
Here in my basement, I run Debian Sid. I play with 2.5 series kernels. CVS doesn't phase me. And all is well, for if something gets screwed up, the only loss is my time, and there is more to be gained from the experience than there was lost to it. However, when the sun rises, and I make my way to work, the story is much different.
In the server room at work, I am responsible for the servers that host our client's websites, email, and DNS records. If something hits a bug, that something malfunctions. Maybe it hiccups, maybe it takes the entire box to it's knees. Given my druthers, I'd take the former, after all, if it just hiccups, it doesn't interfere with everything else. Now, I may think that I have a very firm grasp on what is happening on those boxes. I even pretend to think that I have a firm grasp on what is happening on my system here at home. My boss even trusts and respects my judgement. If I decided, for example, to replace our very stable and definately efficient-enough Apache 1.3.26, PHP, mod_gzip, etc. with the Apache 2.x and the corresponding modules, he wouldn't blink an eye. Why? Because he trusts me to make good decisions. I can't think of any better reason to stick with what is known to be stable, verses something that is "cooler," newer, or jus' phatter.
After all, as much as we like to think it, they don't pay us systems administrators to sit there and hack. They pay us to deliver systems that work.
If China does decide to take up electronic warfare, how will the Taiwanese prove that it indeed originated in China, and not somewhere else? After all, I highly doubt that China would hit Taiwanese systems without taking a few measures to cover their tracks.
/. think of that?
Would just a huge rise in the frequency with which Taiwanese systems are attacked be enough for them to scream bloody murder and ask for the Americans to come to their defence?
And on a side note, how would Washington respond to these kind of attacks on Taiwan? If Taiwan was physically invaded, or was bombed / targeted by missiles, America would obviously move to provide Taiwan with direct military aid. But what would be considered an apropriate response to an attack that neither physically damages Taiwan (in the "buldings blown up and civilians killed sense), nor is obviously of Chinese origin... What does