I don't have a large amount of critical data to backup (mostly documents for research). I've been using PAR (or rather relying on it) to verify and correct errors when recovering data.
That said, I realize I should probably also have a checksum. Should one consider a different algorithm then MD5, for example to prevent collisions of the hashes?
I don't agree with including Evolution in Science textbooks.
However, it might get the boards reviewing the books to actually read the books that are being included in the curriculum.
I remember reading a story from Richard Feyman. He was asked to review books for his local board. If I recall, he was asked why his reviews took so long. He explained he read the books. Some of the others were simply approving books based on which one looked the best.
One of the problems seems to be that the asteroid struck in day-time so was obscured by the Sun. The Sun seems to be an obstacle to proper tracking of these 'smaller' asteroids on Earth or using satellites orbiting earth.
I'm not suggesting this will be practical or affordable. Has there been any discussion of using a satellite to orbit the moon? Perhaps a potential use of deep-space probes like Voyager 1 will be to track these asteroids in the future (if V1 hasn't been doing this already).
Mastercard surely employs security experts who should know better. I would think most of them would come up with the same counter-arguments we'll be reading on Slashdot in the next few hours.
So the question is, who came up with this idea and why authorize to release it to the media?
Exxon seem confident. Then they should go for a dive in the same water and be subject to Sonar. What's not harmful to whales and other sea life could hardly be bad for humans.
This make me feel fortunate that I learned, as a kid, to use computers since the Commodore 64 and Dos-era. Only having access to a command line, it forced me to read manuals to understand what the software does before using it.
The people who have only learned computers, particularly on one platform only, are utterly confused trying to learn something new or feel its 'impossible to do'.
In learning to use computers, the education system should focus on the essentials. Teach basics of hardware and software. It not only makes you appreciate what you have but it helps understand what is happening. To me its the same argument of "why teach multiplication tables, if we have calculators?".
Skies of Arcadia. I know it was originally a Dreamcast game and ported to Gamecube. I had it on my GC. That game was by far the most fun RPG (and probably video game) I've ever played.
I'd also recommend remaking River City Ransom. I know there's been some remakes and some clones. But that game was special and deserves a proper remake.
Free?.... "misery And Force choke? Really, Free?! I think you'll have to pay EA for these as DLC on first day. And chances are, the game won't run without misery.
Sooner or later, you'll have to pay to have a player that walks and runs - $1.99 each.
I haven't played the online Starwars mmporg, but the original Bioware Knights of Old Republic I & II (save for a few annoying characters... which seems the norm for the SW universe.... ) were among the best games I've ever played. Now EA owns Bioware, which means Bioware cannot be any better than any EA game. Sigh.
Agreed. There used to be a time when Disney used to stand for quality but that's really no longer the case.
I was kid when Empire was first released. The story was way too dark/scary for me at the time. Now, the movie is absolutely amazing,
There's a lot of really cool stuff they could do in SW movies. It doesn't have to be gory. If you sacrifice toy sales, you can make a hell of a better movie. Kids don't belong in the theater. They don't need to see a movie of beheadings, bar fights, understanding what bounty hunters do, see giant armies and exploding planets.
If any other movie director/company had the license, there are some really cool things you could do with the movies.... SFX, dialog, etc. but it just anin't gonna happen with Star Wars. I hope something cool happens, but I'll just settle blissfully with the idea I at least got to see Empire.
The Marvel movies, despite Disney owning Marvel studios, have actually been fairly good despite fast releases. I never read any SW Sci-Fi novels, but could it be they're just going to adapt some books into movies.... kinda like Flemming's 007 series?
California's requirements for a DMV system shouldn't be all that different from NY or TX or most other States. A new DMV system could just be redone 'once' for one state and then modifications made to the system base on -legal- requirements of another state.
I emphasize 'legal' reguirements, because the last thing you want are 'desired' or 'mandatory' requirements that aren't really needed. You sink in a lot more money due to incompetence.
Purely speculation here but part Steam seems to be promoting Ubuntu for their Linux-based Steam client. Games often require patching to get acceptable or optimal performance. This announcement for Rolling Releases might be directed at keeping Valve / Steam happy.
Anything that improves Linux distros is good news. However, if Steam suddenly gets 100 million Linux gamers, the sudden popularity of Ubuntu (assuming at some point Steam might only work with Ubuntu) might not work in favor of other distros. I'm concerned that it might push too much development resources to get X & Y working which is popular for the gaming community but not for all other Linux / ''Nix users (personal, business, enterprise...).
It used to be though to get the reasonably specced PC you had to spend $800 - 1000. When the PS3 / X360 and before their release that was true. $300 (or whatever it was) for a sound card just to place Wing Commander 2 with voice pack..... ah the memories
I'm a PS3 owner because of the Blu-Ray player, and I'm a fan of a few Sony exclusive game franchises.
I think most people buy platform X or Y not on technical merits but on system-exclusive games. If the next-gen don't have any system exclusives that are worth buying the console for, then PS4 and 720 have something to worry about.
How much automation is possible with the iPhone or iPod type device? How much does the automation equipment cost? How much of it can be re-used with little re-tooling when a new model is introduced?
I think Slashdot has to get it right. We use LOC (Library of Congress) as the analogy for this story because it deals with transfer speed. For anything else, we use a car analogy and it always isn't the same car.
I propose a change. We need to standardize. Therefore, we should use the number of mini-vans (each filled with books) that can be parked in the LOC. I only suggest we use a mini-van since it has more storage space. This is challenging in itself to standardize since mini-vans must be parked so we will lose out on floor-to-ceiling space vs traditional bookcase technologies currently used.
A main concern with the iPhone to me is the durability. I've seen countless friends and strangers on the street with shattered or badly cracked screens. You don't need to drop from a significant height (2-3 feet I think), probably just needs to hit at the right angle. The only remedy appears to be to get a bumper case for the phone. If you know how to fix the iPhone yourself you can get parts on eBay etc for less than $50 (not that big a deal I supposed). I know of people who've been quoted over $200 to get it fixed in a shop.
In contrast, my cellphone takes a bit of abuse (its a BB Curve). I've probably dropped my BB several dozen times and carry in my pocket next to keys. I only installed a screen protector. Many other competing smartphones to iPhone all seem to fare well on durability.
With every iPhone model (and smartphones in general all of which can cost $300 - $600+) being thinner and lighter, I'm concerned smartphones as a whole are not going to last very long.
I'm concerned that if Apple 'wins' too many of these patent lawsuits, we will all end up with expensive phones and few (if any) even reasonably cheap phones will be available. The costs of patents is pushing up the costs to the consumer too much in this case.
We need to make sure cell phones remain inexpensive for all consumers to afford.
A phone is an essential communications device. Land lines have begun to fade away. You can still buy land-line phones for under $20. An average smart phone is several hundred dollars to purchase outright (or will be factored into the monthly payment on contract). When a smartphone breaks, or gets stolen, the cost of replacement is now the average person's disposable income for a month or many months!
Cell phones aren't made to last. We need to keep the prices down or a lot of people will be left out. I'm hoping one dominant player doesn't take over the market for this very reason.
Nokia Lumina includes Windows Phone. It is implied to be version 1.0 since MS marketing did not mention which version is installed on the phone. If its not obvious, MS Marketing will tell you.
From the headline, each version jump of Windows Phone seems to be worth $49 to the consumer.
MS should release Windows Phone 9.183673469387755. You know they are going to.
9.183673469387755 x $49 = $450.
Assuming a fixed cost of marketing of $450 per phone per consumer for future releases, at MS Phone OS v 9.183673469387755, the phone advertises itself for free.
I leave it to the reader to determine what will happen after.
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I don't have a large amount of critical data to backup (mostly documents for research). I've been using PAR (or rather relying on it) to verify and correct errors when recovering data.
That said, I realize I should probably also have a checksum. Should one consider a different algorithm then MD5, for example to prevent collisions of the hashes?
What you are describing sounds like a waterslide. ;)
I don't agree with including Evolution in Science textbooks.
However, it might get the boards reviewing the books to actually read the books that are being included in the curriculum.
I remember reading a story from Richard Feyman. He was asked to review books for his local board. If I recall, he was asked why his reviews took so long. He explained he read the books. Some of the others were simply approving books based on which one looked the best.
I think they're going to remake Con-Air now. And Cyrus "the Virus" will be a grad of the program.
One of the problems seems to be that the asteroid struck in day-time so was obscured by the Sun. The Sun seems to be an obstacle to proper tracking of these 'smaller' asteroids on Earth or using satellites orbiting earth.
I'm not suggesting this will be practical or affordable. Has there been any discussion of using a satellite to orbit the moon? Perhaps a potential use of deep-space probes like Voyager 1 will be to track these asteroids in the future (if V1 hasn't been doing this already).
Mastercard surely employs security experts who should know better. I would think most of them would come up with the same counter-arguments we'll be reading on Slashdot in the next few hours.
So the question is, who came up with this idea and why authorize to release it to the media?
Exxon seem confident. Then they should go for a dive in the same water and be subject to Sonar. What's not harmful to whales and other sea life could hardly be bad for humans.
This make me feel fortunate that I learned, as a kid, to use computers since the Commodore 64 and Dos-era. Only having access to a command line, it forced me to read manuals to understand what the software does before using it.
The people who have only learned computers, particularly on one platform only, are utterly confused trying to learn something new or feel its 'impossible to do'.
In learning to use computers, the education system should focus on the essentials. Teach basics of hardware and software. It not only makes you appreciate what you have but it helps understand what is happening. To me its the same argument of "why teach multiplication tables, if we have calculators?".
Thanks for the tip! I didn't know what this thread was about until I read this.
Skies of Arcadia. I know it was originally a Dreamcast game and ported to Gamecube. I had it on my GC. That game was by far the most fun RPG (and probably video game) I've ever played.
I'd also recommend remaking River City Ransom. I know there's been some remakes and some clones. But that game was special and deserves a proper remake.
Free? .... "misery And Force choke? Really, Free?! I think you'll have to pay EA for these as DLC on first day. And chances are, the game won't run without misery.
Sooner or later, you'll have to pay to have a player that walks and runs - $1.99 each.
I haven't played the online Starwars mmporg, but the original Bioware Knights of Old Republic I & II (save for a few annoying characters ... which seems the norm for the SW universe .... ) were among the best games I've ever played. Now EA owns Bioware, which means Bioware cannot be any better than any EA game. Sigh.
Agreed. There used to be a time when Disney used to stand for quality but that's really no longer the case.
I was kid when Empire was first released. The story was way too dark/scary for me at the time. Now, the movie is absolutely amazing,
There's a lot of really cool stuff they could do in SW movies. It doesn't have to be gory. If you sacrifice toy sales, you can make a hell of a better movie. Kids don't belong in the theater. They don't need to see a movie of beheadings, bar fights, understanding what bounty hunters do, see giant armies and exploding planets.
If any other movie director/company had the license, there are some really cool things you could do with the movies .... SFX, dialog, etc. but it just anin't gonna happen with Star Wars. I hope something cool happens, but I'll just settle blissfully with the idea I at least got to see Empire.
The Marvel movies, despite Disney owning Marvel studios, have actually been fairly good despite fast releases. I never read any SW Sci-Fi novels, but could it be they're just going to adapt some books into movies .... kinda like Flemming's 007 series?
Not only that, but why reinvent the wheel?
California's requirements for a DMV system shouldn't be all that different from NY or TX or most other States. A new DMV system could just be redone 'once' for one state and then modifications made to the system base on -legal- requirements of another state.
I emphasize 'legal' reguirements, because the last thing you want are 'desired' or 'mandatory' requirements that aren't really needed. You sink in a lot more money due to incompetence.
Have the 24" version. Equally awesome for PS3 hookup.
Purely speculation here but part Steam seems to be promoting Ubuntu for their Linux-based Steam client. Games often require patching to get acceptable or optimal performance. This announcement for Rolling Releases might be directed at keeping Valve / Steam happy.
Anything that improves Linux distros is good news. However, if Steam suddenly gets 100 million Linux gamers, the sudden popularity of Ubuntu (assuming at some point Steam might only work with Ubuntu) might not work in favor of other distros. I'm concerned that it might push too much development resources to get X & Y working which is popular for the gaming community but not for all other Linux / ''Nix users (personal, business, enterprise...).
Brilliant post. This is honestly straight-up cut the bullshit George Carlin post.
It used to be though to get the reasonably specced PC you had to spend $800 - 1000. When the PS3 / X360 and before their release that was true. $300 (or whatever it was) for a sound card just to place Wing Commander 2 with voice pack ..... ah the memories
I'm a PS3 owner because of the Blu-Ray player, and I'm a fan of a few Sony exclusive game franchises.
I think most people buy platform X or Y not on technical merits but on system-exclusive games. If the next-gen don't have any system exclusives that are worth buying the console for, then PS4 and 720 have something to worry about.
There would be no market. I'm not sure if you're implying this.
According to Hollywood accounting rules, no movies ever make a profit .... so no movies for movie execs to carry around!
How much automation is possible with the iPhone or iPod type device? How much does the automation equipment cost? How much of it can be re-used with little re-tooling when a new model is introduced?
I think Slashdot has to get it right. We use LOC (Library of Congress) as the analogy for this story because it deals with transfer speed. For anything else, we use a car analogy and it always isn't the same car.
I propose a change. We need to standardize. Therefore, we should use the number of mini-vans (each filled with books) that can be parked in the LOC. I only suggest we use a mini-van since it has more storage space. This is challenging in itself to standardize since mini-vans must be parked so we will lose out on floor-to-ceiling space vs traditional bookcase technologies currently used.
Date is wrong or this story is a month late. TFA says "Starting next Thurs, Sept 27, 2012". Also August 27, 2012 was a Monday.
A main concern with the iPhone to me is the durability. I've seen countless friends and strangers on the street with shattered or badly cracked screens. You don't need to drop from a significant height (2-3 feet I think), probably just needs to hit at the right angle. The only remedy appears to be to get a bumper case for the phone. If you know how to fix the iPhone yourself you can get parts on eBay etc for less than $50 (not that big a deal I supposed). I know of people who've been quoted over $200 to get it fixed in a shop.
In contrast, my cellphone takes a bit of abuse (its a BB Curve). I've probably dropped my BB several dozen times and carry in my pocket next to keys. I only installed a screen protector. Many other competing smartphones to iPhone all seem to fare well on durability.
With every iPhone model (and smartphones in general all of which can cost $300 - $600+) being thinner and lighter, I'm concerned smartphones as a whole are not going to last very long.
I'm concerned that if Apple 'wins' too many of these patent lawsuits, we will all end up with expensive phones and few (if any) even reasonably cheap phones will be available. The costs of patents is pushing up the costs to the consumer too much in this case.
We need to make sure cell phones remain inexpensive for all consumers to afford.
A phone is an essential communications device. Land lines have begun to fade away. You can still buy land-line phones for under $20. An average smart phone is several hundred dollars to purchase outright (or will be factored into the monthly payment on contract). When a smartphone breaks, or gets stolen, the cost of replacement is now the average person's disposable income for a month or many months!
Cell phones aren't made to last. We need to keep the prices down or a lot of people will be left out. I'm hoping one dominant player doesn't take over the market for this very reason.
I bought D3 about 1 week after launch. Was very disappointed. Asked for a refund - four times. Blizzard refunded me.
Nokia Lumina includes Windows Phone. It is implied to be version 1.0 since MS marketing did not mention which version is installed on the phone. If its not obvious, MS Marketing will tell you.
From the headline, each version jump of Windows Phone seems to be worth $49 to the consumer.
MS should release Windows Phone 9.183673469387755. You know they are going to.
9.183673469387755 x $49 = $450.
Assuming a fixed cost of marketing of $450 per phone per consumer for future releases, at MS Phone OS v 9.183673469387755, the phone advertises itself for free.
I leave it to the reader to determine what will happen after.