Apparently, back when secretaries took dictation (literally, not euphuismistically) one say "et cetera" when one meant to have it spelled-out "et cetera", and "et ce" when one wanted it abbreviated "etc."
Motorist doesn't obey laws and hits a pedestrian, you think there's a chance it will it only affect his insurance? Please tell me the state you live in, so I can avoid ever sitting foot it, maybe I'll just drive through it.
In, Virginia a pedistrian in a cross walk has right of way. And it's been established (case law) that he or she doesn't have to be exactly inside the paint to be considered in the right of way. Basically 8 feet either way. And whatever the case you have to avoid an accident if it is possible, you can't just chose to hit people. My point is stepping into the crosswalk , or traffic, is not the same as stepping DIRECTLY in front of a on coming car and killing yourself. SO the the tricky area becomes whether or not he or she is in the crosswalk or not, how far the car was away and the speed the car should be expected to be driving, and the speed the car was actually driving.
I wonder if the pedistrians with phones and ipods and not paying attention are getting hit by drivers with phones and ipods?
The reason one can't divide by zero, is that one can't divide by zero. Limits and precalculus are another thing. Though i is imaginary, it's possible that one could produce i squared, which is 1 and real, and it also possible for limits to converge, but limits are not arithmetic, and in arithmetic it simply can't be done, having a divisor is a requirement. Imagine if you have five apples, and you want to share them with your 3 friends , one can cut all the apples into 3rds and give them all 5, if one likes to cut; or one could reduce the cutting and give out 1 and 2/3 apples. Now imagine that all the apples have gone somewhat bad, and none of your friends care for them. Is there any point in cutting anything? What would dividing by zero accomplish? If you divide by nothing can it be proven that you divided at all?
I imagine that for computers, that something with limited scope could actually simply allow division by zero, by deciding that since the operation can't be accomplished, its a no-op, and is defined as leaving registers and memory unchanged, and perhaps some efficiency could be gained as it would not be necessary to compare to zero and then jump over the division. Another rationale is the division is iterated subtraction as multiplication is iterated addition, and that one can iterate 0 times, by doing nothing. If comp-sci was to make its own rules, I'd say that would be the way to go, as some well designed code, could simpliy factor into straight line code. Of course, this begs the question of whether one could do this with gates or not.
I had knocking around the idea of running two small machines in 1 case, which I believe one could easily do assuming the powersupply was say twice what was needed, well maybe only one could be hooked up to soft power, etc. I guess one could remove the power supply of one machine, split the power supply leads, (create two of everything, and run 1 set of wires into an adjacent machine ).. The next step would be for someone to make a device, a super powersupply, which runs 3 or machines, perhaps with each machine having its powerspupply replaced with what's basically a box (of the same formfactor ) , and maybe some circuits that provide the soft power, atx , etc. in other words each machine thinks it has its own atx power supply, but in fact they're sharing 1 mega sized powersupply.
Maybe they mean like bezerk pack (Doom/ ID ). It's medicine but it's steroids??? Imagine some sick kid refusing to take medicine because he thinks it will cure him to 100% but will make him so hyper he'll need rydalin... Giving the time elapsed, and the gross world population I'd guess it's happend 10 times already -- at least;-]
Or worse, some kid asking for a berzerk pack. So then red cross nurses would have to know the complete history of 3rd persons shooters, to help -- let's say? --- a 10 year old victim of Katrina, who is seperated from their parents ( or worse ).
The moral of this story is, that/everyone/ has the right to complain.
>Unless you start to give your hash keys as the same size as the original file, there is not anything that can be done Which would be pointless, you might as well send the same data twice ( or cmp the files from/cd/tape/ etc ).
But, then again, it is a hash , it is what is, and as hash, it maps 1 set of data into another set , the bins. Collisions are really by design. Even if the sizes were same, they could still be collisions, depends on the hash alg. One could look at the first byte of a file of N bytes long, the replicate it N times, spit that out as a hash and have a hash key the same size of as the file. Or step thru each byte of a file, and feed to isalpha, and spit out either a 1 or 0, and again have the same size. It all depends, Cryptocraphic hash, seem to me to be somewhat similiar to pseudo random algs, really. I wonder how a hash based on stdlib's rand() function would fair? I imagine theorists would deny it, but then the limitations of pseudo random algs are well known, while each new hash is presented as the 'virtually' unbreakable, etc.
Also, f you get the SUM, MD5, etc files from the same place, what difference does it really make at all? They might as well jus use the simpler the algs, those geared to finding transmission errors, as the file with the hash could be compromised as well.
True, but it's missused. I just found a list of grades from 1995 that were clearly using SSN's as student ID's. No name or address, but still it shouldn't be there, still even. I imagine there's some stuff that one can do with just valid ssn's, and why is it still there 10 years later? It's a big name school, I won't the link, but it was very, very, easy to find. I just googled for "xxx-yy-", use first 3 numbers of school's zip for xxx, and yy is arb, and it was on the first page of hits.
Would noise cancelling headphones help? I've wondered whether they would actually help vis a vis hearing loss, or would they fill the valley's and somehow increase pressure on the eardrum, or not.
One thing I've noticed is that some high frequency noise like from a case fan, often sounds louder when I put on head phones.
Does is matter if it's soft-click or old fashion ibm clicky? What about pc-jr style software 'click', could that mask the actual click?
> First, it isolates the sound of each individual keystroke. Second, it takes all of the recorded keystrokes and puts them >into about fifty categories, where the keystrokes within each category sound very similar. Third, it uses fancy machine >learning methods to recover the sequence of characters typed, under the assumption that the sequence has the statistical >characteristics of English text
I'd say this would help more recovering emails, etc , than, passwords, Also, it assumes you can get those sounds in the first place, I'm guessing if you plant the bug, you can quickly type in each key, or make note of the make and model, etc. Distinguing app keystrokes, from passwords, from text might be difficult, I'm guessing they just produce a big dump, similiar to a key stroke log... Vi users, might give them some grief, or anything that isn't modeless.
Parent is a bad comparison, true, but above is wrong: Boromir is not a heir to throne, he is son of Denethor , who is Steward of Gondor, steward being something like a regent, who rules in the king's absense ( as proxy ), he would also run the household aspect of things... (note: his "throne" or chair, is more or less a slightly raised desk, well belong the true throne, which is much higher )... there is no contention , a claim to Steward, can't contend with King, but Aragorn has to be recognized -- authenticaed in a sense.
Boromir'sattitude is more "Where, have you been?", than anything. Aragorn living icognito as "Strider", was considered almost a bandit by some..., while he's traipsing around in the woods, Boromir and Faramir, are fighting the losing battle to keep Mordor contained... Of course, Aragorn is watching the shire for Gandalf, among other things, but what was he doing before Bilbo finds the ring? Chasing young elvish women;-] ?
It already plays movies. Drag a movie into your library, and you it will play in the album art window, or a seperate window. This was new a few version ago. So, I'm guess it will will download to library, and then to iPod, unless they do something different.
As I recall most viewed netscape simply as an upgrade to mosaic, and the details being trivial, if you used mosaic before, you used netscape after. IE's about dialog states "based on NCSA Mosaic", at least on the version that came with Apples before Safari, don't know if it still does.. Really, I'd say Mosaic popularized the web. Of course, Berner's Lee invented it, (props) but unless you had NextStep, the browsers displayed images on external viewers ( xv , etc ) , instead of in the page, and other wierd user interface stuff, which still beat gopher, which I learned to use only a few monthes before, just in time to see it go, but I'd say the popularizer of the web was Mosaic, if you consider Netscape and IE to be it's children. (bastards, perhaps;-)
I was looking for a thread with Subject "We don't Need ESR Anymore, ( if we ever did )", but I think this seems as good a place as any ( and I can sponge off the Score: 4 Insightful ). Rather than a hypocrite, he seems to have revealed himself as a opportunist: He says he didn't like the GPL from the start, but only reveals this truth now, If I believe this I got to say, seems pretty uncool, un-transparent, and IMO un-hacker like ( but hey,, I don't own any dictonaries to back my opinion ), and I think I'd have to reject his excuse, and say simply, if his book had been anti GPL, it would not have sold anywhere near what it has, there was a market among FSF/GPL, Linux, fans for the book, something they could pass on to friends and family, give as gifts, etc, seems like the reason was sales (and therefore money). Everyone I know, who had a copy, was big into Linux, and FSF stuff, I don't believe the book was as popular in the BSD camp, not really needing the hype seemed to be gist, so despite what he says about "soladarity" , wasn't it really just money? Has not the FSF spoke against publishers profitting from books about GNU software?
And doesn't one typically call B.S. on only any claims of "thought this way all along?"
Just swap Solient Green for Wired, and there you go. Since 1995 is too kind, It's always basically had the writing level as People Mag but about technology instead of movie stars, from the start. For what, it is, it is what is. And, sure I've enjoyed a few articles here and there, waiting in various offices.. but it is no CACM, or Popular Science for that matter. My main gripe is when pseudo nerds start qouting it, not realizing that its the equivalent of qouting Dave Barry, or Erma Bombeck, it may be somewhat amusing, but its not like they're quoting Dennis Ritchie, Linus, or even Bill Gates.
Take that supposed Law about Nazi Analogies that gets linked too much: 1. Would be it would be true. 2. It's not Moore's Law... or Law in any empirical or scientific sense of the word. 3. It's really just a derivative of just about any netiquette guide from pre-Mosaic era, just specific to 1 kind of grossness. 4. Again, its not a true LAW, some guy needed a column, and that was it.
Reject EU and save the world. Seriously, imagine the U.S. as already fallen to the Corporate Patent Axis, and needs to be rescued by Europe, not only would Europe save it self from the hegemony of Big Corps, but would have a really good retort to claims of "we saved your butt in WWII".
Okinawa : American losses were over 72,000 casualties, and Japanese Civilian personel were fighting along side. Consider, also that Ike may have been already aiming for President at the point, makes for good party politics to take the opposing view, and Ike is in Germany, not the Pacific, so isn't his opinion kinda of second-hand?
Basically the concept of Total War started in the Civil War, Otto von Bismark studied it and brought to Europe for the Crimean War, and then WWI, and the concept stuck. Go after supply, destroy the economy and the ability for the enemy to make war. If want someone to blame, blame Grant, of course if that strategy was never exploited, Lee might flanked and finessed his way to a stalemate, the North may have tired of losing so many young men, with no real progress , and we could have slavery and the Confederacy today. Actually, Rome practiced a form of it when the destroyed crops, and salted the earth of its enemies -- soldiers got to eat, and an army travels on its stomach... Really nukes are just an extension of Total War, and like they said of nukes, that you can't put the [nuclear] genie back in the bottle again, was true of Total War, once out, it can't really be put back.
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Apparently, back when secretaries took dictation (literally, not euphuismistically) one say "et cetera" when one meant to have it spelled-out "et cetera", and "et ce" when one wanted it abbreviated "etc."
Might be funny if it read:
There are 11 types of people in the world, those who know unary and those who don't.
The design seems similiar to King Tut's Tomb.
Motorist doesn't obey laws and hits a pedestrian, you think there's a chance it will it only affect his insurance? Please tell me the state you live in,
so I can avoid ever sitting foot it, maybe I'll just drive through it.
In, Virginia a pedistrian in a cross walk has right of way. And it's been established (case law) that he or she doesn't have to be exactly inside the paint to be considered in the right of way. Basically 8 feet either way. And whatever the case you have to avoid an accident if it is possible,
you can't just chose to hit people. My point is stepping into the crosswalk , or traffic, is not the same as stepping DIRECTLY in front of a on coming car and killing yourself. SO the the tricky area becomes whether or not he or she is in the crosswalk or not, how far the car was away and
the speed the car should be expected to be driving, and the speed the car was actually driving.
I wonder if the pedistrians with phones and ipods and not paying attention are getting hit by drivers with phones and ipods?
Brings new meaning to "Core dumps"
The reason one can't divide by zero, is that one can't divide by zero. Limits and precalculus are another thing. Though i is imaginary, it's possible that one could produce i squared, which is 1 and real, and it also possible for limits to converge, but limits are not arithmetic, and
in arithmetic it simply can't be done, having a divisor is a requirement. Imagine if you have five apples, and you want to share them with your
3 friends , one can cut all the apples into 3rds and give them all 5, if one likes to cut; or one could reduce the cutting and give out
1 and 2/3 apples. Now imagine that all the apples have gone somewhat bad, and none of your friends care for them. Is there any point in cutting anything? What would dividing by zero accomplish? If you divide by nothing can it be proven that you divided at all?
I imagine that for computers, that something with limited scope could actually simply allow division by zero, by deciding that since the operation can't be accomplished, its a no-op, and is defined as leaving registers and memory unchanged, and perhaps some efficiency could be gained as it would not be necessary to compare to zero and then jump over the division. Another rationale is the division is iterated subtraction as multiplication is iterated addition, and that one can iterate 0 times, by doing nothing. If comp-sci was to make its own rules, I'd say that would be the way to go, as some well designed code, could simpliy factor into straight line code. Of course, this begs the question of whether one could do this with gates or not.
I had knocking around the idea of running two small machines in 1 case, which I believe one could easily do
assuming the powersupply was say twice what was needed, well maybe only one could be hooked up
to soft power, etc. I guess one could remove the power supply of one machine, split the power supply leads,
(create two of everything, and run 1 set of wires into an adjacent machine ).. The next step would be
for someone to make a device, a super powersupply, which runs 3 or machines, perhaps with each machine having
its powerspupply replaced with what's basically a box (of the same formfactor ) , and maybe some circuits that
provide the soft power, atx , etc. in other words each machine thinks it has its own atx power supply, but in fact
they're sharing 1 mega sized powersupply.
And if that trojan contains a virus or a worm, it's a "dropper".
Maybe, they should have explained as shareware, but you only have to pay $0 to register it ;-]
(and you don't have to register it )
Useless? Try Table Top MAME !
Maybe they mean like bezerk pack (Doom/ ID ). It's medicine but it's steroids??? ... Giving the time elapsed, and the gross world population I'd guess it's happend ;-]
/everyone/ has the right to complain.
Imagine some sick kid refusing to take medicine because he thinks it will cure him to 100% but will make him
so hyper he'll need rydalin
10 times already -- at least
Or worse, some kid asking for a berzerk pack. So then red cross nurses would have to know the complete history
of 3rd persons shooters, to help -- let's say? --- a 10 year old victim of Katrina, who is seperated from their parents
( or worse ).
The moral of this story is, that
>Unless you start to give your hash keys as the same size as the original file, there is not anything that can be done
Which would be pointless, you might as well send the same data twice ( or cmp the files from
But, then again, it is a hash , it is what is, and as hash, it maps 1 set of data into another set , the bins. Collisions are really by design. Even if the sizes were same, they could still be collisions, depends on the hash alg. One could look at the first byte of a file of N bytes long, the replicate it N times, spit that out as a hash and have a hash key the same size of as the file. Or step thru each byte of a file, and feed to isalpha, and spit out either a 1 or 0, and again have the same size. It all depends, Cryptocraphic hash, seem to me to be somewhat similiar to pseudo random algs, really.
I wonder how a hash based on stdlib's rand() function would fair? I imagine theorists would deny it, but then the limitations of pseudo random algs are well known, while each new hash is presented as the 'virtually' unbreakable, etc.
Also, f you get the SUM, MD5, etc files from the same place, what difference does it really make at all? They might as well jus use the simpler the algs, those geared to finding transmission errors, as the file with the hash could be compromised as well.
True, but it's missused. I just found a list of grades from 1995 that were clearly using SSN's as student ID's.
No name or address, but still it shouldn't be there, still even. I imagine there's some stuff that one can do with
just valid ssn's, and why is it still there 10 years later?
It's a big name school, I won't the link, but it was very, very, easy to find. I just googled for "xxx-yy-", use first 3 numbers of school's zip for xxx, and yy is arb, and it was on the first page of hits.
Would noise cancelling headphones help? I've wondered whether they would actually help vis a vis hearing loss,
or would they fill the valley's and somehow increase pressure on the eardrum, or not.
One thing I've noticed is that some high frequency noise like from a case fan, often sounds louder when I put on head phones.
Does is matter if it's soft-click or old fashion ibm clicky? What about pc-jr style software 'click', could that mask
the actual click?
> First, it isolates the sound of each individual keystroke. Second, it takes all of the recorded keystrokes and puts them >into about fifty categories, where the keystrokes within each category sound very similar. Third, it uses fancy machine >learning methods to recover the sequence of characters typed, under the assumption that the sequence has the statistical >characteristics of English text
I'd say this would help more recovering emails, etc , than, passwords, Also, it assumes you can get those sounds in the first place, I'm guessing if you plant the bug, you can quickly type in each key, or make note of the make and model, etc.
Distinguing app keystrokes, from passwords, from text might be difficult, I'm guessing they just produce a big dump, similiar to a key stroke log... Vi users, might give them some grief, or anything that isn't modeless.
Didn't we fight a war with them circa 1800.
Isn't the treaty part of our punk, please don't hurt us, no military, paying tribute period?
Also, isn't this treaty voided by default as the parties are no-more, NO more Bey, and no more pirates of the Barbary Coast,
--We have marines now.
Parent is a bad comparison, true, but above is wrong: Boromir is not a heir to throne, he is son of Denethor , who is ;-] ?
Steward of Gondor, steward being something like a regent, who rules in the king's absense ( as proxy ), he would also run the household aspect of things... (note: his "throne" or chair, is more or less a slightly raised desk, well belong the true throne, which is much higher )... there is no contention , a claim to Steward, can't contend with King, but Aragorn has to be recognized -- authenticaed in a sense.
Boromir'sattitude is more "Where, have you been?", than anything. Aragorn living icognito as "Strider", was considered almost a bandit by some..., while he's traipsing around in the woods, Boromir and Faramir, are fighting the losing battle to keep Mordor contained... Of course, Aragorn is watching the shire for Gandalf, among other things, but what was he doing before Bilbo finds the ring? Chasing young elvish women
Well, if freedos gets some use, then a dos era compiler should as well.
It already plays movies. Drag a movie into your library, and you it will play in the album art window,
or a seperate window. This was new a few version ago. So, I'm guess it will will download to library, and then to iPod,
unless they do something different.
As I recall most viewed netscape simply as an upgrade to mosaic, and the details being trivial, if you used mosaic before, you used netscape after. IE's about dialog states "based on NCSA Mosaic", at least on the version that came with Apples ;-)
before Safari, don't know if it still does.. Really, I'd say Mosaic popularized the web. Of course, Berner's Lee invented it,
(props) but unless you had NextStep, the browsers displayed images on external viewers ( xv , etc ) , instead of in the page, and other wierd user interface stuff, which still beat gopher, which I learned to use only a few monthes before, just in time to see it go, but I'd say the popularizer of the web was Mosaic, if you consider Netscape and IE to be it's children.
(bastards, perhaps
I was looking for a thread with Subject "We don't Need ESR Anymore, ( if we ever did )", but I think this seems as good a place as any ( and I can sponge off the Score: 4 Insightful ). Rather than a hypocrite, he seems to have revealed himself as ,, I don't own any dictonaries to back my opinion ), and I think I'd have to reject his excuse, and say simply, if his book had been anti GPL, it would not have
a opportunist: He says he didn't like the GPL from the start, but only reveals this truth now, If I believe this I got to say, seems pretty uncool, un-transparent, and IMO un-hacker like ( but hey
sold anywhere near what it has, there was a market among FSF/GPL, Linux, fans for the book, something they could pass on to friends and family, give as gifts, etc, seems like the reason was sales (and therefore money). Everyone I know, who had a copy, was big into Linux, and FSF stuff, I don't believe the book was as popular in the BSD camp, not really needing the hype seemed to be gist, so despite what he says about "soladarity" , wasn't it really just money? Has not the FSF
spoke against publishers profitting from books about GNU software?
And doesn't one typically call B.S. on only any claims of "thought this way all along?"
Just swap Solient Green for Wired, and there you go. Since 1995 is too kind, It's always basically had the writing level as People Mag but about technology instead of movie stars, from the start. For what, it is, it is what is. And, sure I've enjoyed a few articles here and there, waiting in various offices.. but it is no CACM, or Popular Science for that matter.
My main gripe is when pseudo nerds start qouting it, not realizing that its the equivalent of qouting Dave Barry, or Erma Bombeck, it may be somewhat amusing, but its not like they're quoting Dennis Ritchie, Linus, or even Bill Gates.
Take that supposed Law about Nazi Analogies that gets linked too much:
1. Would be it would be true.
2. It's not Moore's Law... or Law in any empirical or scientific sense of the word.
3. It's really just a derivative of just about any netiquette guide from pre-Mosaic era, just specific to 1 kind of grossness.
4. Again, its not a true LAW, some guy needed a column, and that was it.
Reject EU and save the world. Seriously, imagine the U.S. as already fallen to the Corporate Patent Axis, and needs to be rescued by Europe, not only would Europe save it self from the hegemony of Big Corps, but would have a really good retort to claims of "we saved your butt in WWII".
Okinawa : American losses were over 72,000 casualties, and Japanese Civilian personel were fighting along side.
Consider, also that Ike may have been already aiming for President at the point, makes for good party politics to take the opposing view, and Ike is in Germany, not the Pacific, so isn't his opinion kinda of second-hand?
Basically the concept of Total War started in the Civil War, Otto von Bismark studied it and brought to Europe for the Crimean War, and then WWI, and the concept stuck. Go after supply, destroy the economy and the ability for the enemy to make war. If want someone to blame, blame Grant, of course if that strategy was never exploited, Lee might flanked and finessed his way to a stalemate, the North may have tired of losing so many young men, with no real progress , and we could have slavery and the Confederacy today. Actually, Rome practiced a form of it when the destroyed crops, and salted the earth of its enemies -- soldiers got to eat, and an army travels on its stomach... Really nukes are just an extension of Total War, and like they said of nukes, that you can't put the [nuclear] genie back in the bottle again, was true of Total War, once out, it can't really be put back.
And generally, war sucks.
Upgrade to 8 hour tapes or 160minutes SP.