If they are using piezoelectrics to generate movement, chances are you wouldn't even notice it. Piezoelectrics are used in the crystal in your PC to generate a clock signal, but you don't notice thaqt vibrating, since the amount of vibration is extremely extremely tiny.
It's going to be difficult for AMD to diverge too far, to the point where they are so different from the Intel architecture that they no longer run the same binaries. As much as I am not a fan of windows, this probably wouldn't happen until AMD has enough support from Microsoft to make a second version of MS Windows geared towards the AMD architecture... something I can't see happening in the near future.
"CD burning speed in Xandros File Manager is limited to the minimum burning speed of your CD burner. To get the maximum burning speed out of your hardware you can either become a Premium subscriber to Xandros Networks or Upgrade to the Standard, Deluxe or Business editions of the Xandros Desktop OS"
"The Open Circulation Edition installs an ad-sponsored version of the Opera web browser and e-mail client."
The Open Circulation Edition does not include CodeWeavers CrossOver Office or Plugin so you are not able to run any Windows compatible applications on Xandros Desktop. Upgrade to the Deluxe or Business editions if you need this functionality.
Somehow, I don't think popup ads, crappy CD, and the lack of compatibility with windows promised (unless you upgrade) in the first place burning are going to convince people to jump over to Linux. The idea of an extremely easy to use distro that is Windows compatible is a great idea, but this doesn't seem like the best way to gain support.
While 1 in 100,000 chances of guessing seem like really bad odds: "OMG..we can brute force this, lolz!". In reality, this is a probably much stronger form of protection than it first sounds.
The article stated that the images to be recognixed came from a library of over 200,000. This means that at each login attempt, you could have a different group of images come up that would still contain a legitimate password for the user to type in. Even if each attempt had a 1 in 100,000 chance of being guessed, 2 guesses wouldn't give you a 2 in 100,000 chance of being right and so on......But then I suppose you could just look for which pictures are common in each password attempt, and get in that way...Shit, I'll shut up now.
Not always true, Using a PIC microprocessor for example, instruction words are 13 bits long.
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Not that it seems like a huge problem, sending a few bodies into earth orbit, but does this company actually monitor, or know exactly where in earth orbit these bodies are going? I can imagine the headlines one day when a spaceshuttle has a hit-and-run with a body in orbit nobody expected to be there
Very True. Walking around the halls my first week here at WPI, there were about 50 X terminals the math departments was getting rid of that were free to grab.
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If they are using piezoelectrics to generate movement, chances are you wouldn't even notice it. Piezoelectrics are used in the crystal in your PC to generate a clock signal, but you don't notice thaqt vibrating, since the amount of vibration is extremely extremely tiny.
I'm from Western Mass., home of "Six Flags New England". Everyone around here calls it "Riverside", its former name, befor Six Flags bought it out.
It's going to be difficult for AMD to diverge too far, to the point where they are so different from the Intel architecture that they no longer run the same binaries. As much as I am not a fan of windows, this probably wouldn't happen until AMD has enough support from Microsoft to make a second version of MS Windows geared towards the AMD architecture... something I can't see happening in the near future.
And I can't even spell Xandros! Whoo!
"The Open Circulation Edition installs an ad-sponsored version of the Opera web browser and e-mail client."
The Open Circulation Edition does not include CodeWeavers CrossOver Office or Plugin so you are not able to run any Windows compatible applications on Xandros Desktop. Upgrade to the Deluxe or Business editions if you need this functionality.
Somehow, I don't think popup ads, crappy CD, and the lack of compatibility with windows promised (unless you upgrade) in the first place burning are going to convince people to jump over to Linux. The idea of an extremely easy to use distro that is Windows compatible is a great idea, but this doesn't seem like the best way to gain support.
While 1 in 100,000 chances of guessing seem like really bad odds: "OMG..we can brute force this, lolz!". In reality, this is a probably much stronger form of protection than it first sounds. The article stated that the images to be recognixed came from a library of over 200,000. This means that at each login attempt, you could have a different group of images come up that would still contain a legitimate password for the user to type in. Even if each attempt had a 1 in 100,000 chance of being guessed, 2 guesses wouldn't give you a 2 in 100,000 chance of being right and so on... ...But then I suppose you could just look for which pictures are common in each password attempt, and get in that way...Shit, I'll shut up now.
Not always true, Using a PIC microprocessor for example, instruction words are 13 bits long.
Not that it seems like a huge problem, sending a few bodies into earth orbit, but does this company actually monitor, or know exactly where in earth orbit these bodies are going? I can imagine the headlines one day when a spaceshuttle has a hit-and-run with a body in orbit nobody expected to be there
Just makes me wonder...do cell phone users actually own the SIM card, or is it liscensed from the company, like computer software?
Very True. Walking around the halls my first week here at WPI, there were about 50 X terminals the math departments was getting rid of that were free to grab.