The bombes were electromechanical devices used on enigma, colossus was a programmable computer built at bletchley park and used to crack lorentz.
As usual we Brits had it destroyed and then kept the whole project under wraps for decades after the war, losing out on any technological advantage it might have given us. Tommy Flowers, the designer/builder was a worker for the general post office and he built colossus out of parts he borrowed from them. When the war was over he had to give them back, or so the story goes...
Well, the organisers will sort it out basically. You email them to confirm kills and they confirm who you are to go after next.
SO at this cutoff, which is in place to keep the game moving, they will cut out everyone with less than two kills and then make sure that the circle formation is maintained when they reassign targets.
It should mean exactly that. It's set up so that the 100-150 players are in a ring, each has the next as a target, so by the time you get to someone that has you, you really should be the last man standing.
I'd like to comment once again how behind the news slasdot is. We've been playing for two weeks and it's moving into its final phase now!
It's been great fun, have done my fair share of stalking. My teammate managed to get inside our first target's apartment block and flush him out onto the street, right into my range of fire. Great fun. We did put in about 7 hours of stakeout over the course of a week to get him though!
Alas we haven't made a second kill inside two weeks and will be disqualified at midnight tonight unless we can pull something out of the bag in the next few hours. Haven't seen hide nor hair of anyone hunting us though, which has been a bit of a disappointment.
So far I don't think the cops have shot or even arrested anyone either, which is good.
You're still ranting. You're still spouting libertarian nonsense.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO TO A STATE SCHOOL.
Right? I know you don't want your little ones to be indoctrinated contrary to their religion, that's fine, keep 'em home, or send them to a school your sect runs, whatever. The state does not assume some sort of "Right" to indoctrinate your kids, because, let me repeat, they don't have to go to a state school!!
Now, true, the state mandates that they must receive and education, but neither in the US nor the UK does that mean they have to go to a state institution.
Oh, and you AGAIN misrepresent my arguments, I'm not talking about the education or teaching or state mandated subject matter when I say socialising. I'm talking about learning to be around groups of other people. People your own age. About having a childhood that doesn't revolve entirely around your own family. That could be at any school. ANY school of the parents choosing. Sorry if you can't find a KKK school of hatred in your area, but they're not too popular so they don't get much in terms of donation. If that's the ideal for you then you get the choice of degenerate state moralising or poor people skills in your offspring.
We disagree less than you think, I agree parents should exercise whatever control they want over the education of their children. But I also think the state is absolutely right to demand that they get some education.
(I also think it's right that strict religious types should have it forcibly educated out of them, repressive and retrograding societal force that they are, but that's another argument for another day)
My IQ comes out between 145 and 160 depending on the test, usually mid 150s.
School teaches you to deal with people. And to cope and get on with your life whatever the retards across the hall think. I don't think life is like middle school, but I think middle school probably teaches you something important - people are cruel, stupid and small minded. Much like you actually, who took a dislike to my post and so accuse me of being "stupidest".
The "socialising" I am referring to is not indoctrination. Whether that goes on or not is a totally seperate issue.
Kids need to learn to get on with one another, to get by when forced into a situation where they have to deal with people they don't like, learn the subtle social skills.
Sure you can get that from other places, but school is the best one I can think of.
And reign in that libertarian rant there, I went to a private school myself, I think it's great that the state both mandates education and provides it. Even better that if you want to do it differently you can.
Well firstly let me say I don't think it's by any means a rule that home schooled kids are going to turn out socially awkward, but more of a suspicion on my part.
You raise the point of college - well they may find it difficult to adjust to the classroom at that stage, but I don't think that's too big an issue, and as long as they are making friends their own age as well I'm sure you're doing a fine job. BUT I do think the answer to your question of who is going to be better adjusted is the one who's had to deal with people who are not smart/nice/whatever. The world is full of assholes and learning to deal with them is IMHO, important.
And I think you'll find the age thing depends heavily on the office, I've worked in dev groups of 30-60 people all pretty much within a 10 year window of ages, and I've worked in very varied places. I'm sure that making friends regardless of school defined "year group" will actually help your little ones.
For me though, what I loved about school was that I was away from my family. I learned to be my own person there. I only had one childhood so I can't compare and make a value judgement, but I'd hate to have missed out on that.
You sound like a bit of a conspiracy theorist there.
I'm not parroting anyone or anything, I genuinely do think that people probably have a better experience of life if they learn to deal with a wide spectrum of different sorts of people when they're young. And don't start me on religion...
And what do you mean by "scoring" in society? Happiness is, to me, the only score that counts.
I'd dispute that kids socialise better on their own time.
Rather, they socialise better with friends on their own time, sure. They don't then have the benefits of being forced to deal with people they don't like, learn about how not everyone in the world is either smart or nice and how sometimes you have to deal with their presence anyway...
Lots of things. Socialising kids isn't just about them hanging out with friends, it's about preparing them for society.
Apart from 9, 10 and 13 there, I think the other kids are right. If your kid needs therapy because she's learning what life is like then you've done something wrong.
Life's a bitch, all the way through, may as well learn now.
I object to this in the same way as I object a bit to homeschooling - sure the kid will learn stuff, but they won't learn to be around other people their own age, how to work with others, or how to be a member of society in general.
Some may consider that a blessing, but I certainly wouldn't. I think it'll lead to some serious problems when they finally are turned out into the world.
Was about to post the same thing.
Make a distributed app, receive spam, post "unsubscribe" link to app, (assuming this is how blue worked) instant mass traffic for spammer.
The problem here is that if you don't have a central authority controlling what gets hit the someone will sooner or later abuse the P2P DDoS machine that you've effectively just created.
NO!!! The input to the codec is the same, the output is hopefully the same as well, but the codec used by the player is a different implementation and thus can have efficiency characteristics associated. Sure the player affects things too, but the codec can provide improvements, which was the OP's statement IIRC.
No, it can't recode the data, but it CAN decode it with a different efficiency if it has a different implemenbtation of the decompression side of things. What do you not get?
Yup, i know this topic is long dead, but -
I too have a small camera, but do I carry it everywhere with me? No, because it's one more expensive lump in my pocket. I, and it seems most others, do not carry cameras around as a habit, but my phone I do carry. End of story.
Err, you nbeed to update your knowledge. CO-DEC. COder, DECoder. you need one at each end. As long as the data comes to you in a known formate (real) then you can feel free to use whatever codec you like at either end.
The Real codec and the Real Alternative codec both DECode the same data when used in a player on a PC, but the Real Alternative is codec is not restricted to use within Real Player, so any media player can use it, like Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic, VLC, mplayer, whatever.
It doesn't change which codec is used by the sites, it changes which codec is used at your end. These do no have to be the same thing.
It's about EASY.
I have a camera phone. It was free with my contract. It has a 2MP camera. I take it with me everywhere because it's my phone, so if I see something I want to snap, I can. Camera phones are not for people that want artistic or even "good" pictures. What they take is memories and reminders, things otherwise forgotten, not art.
So get off your damn high horse. Of course it would be great if they managed to fit a DSLR quality camera system inside a phone. FOr now they can't and the products are STILL great, and within the budget of most people here in the UK.
though a recent addition to big blue, I'll say this - whilst big blue tries (IMHO) to be friendly, that doesn't mean they'll rule out anything as far as business methods go. They do feel that what they patent is worth a patent because they have researched and developed it, and they also feel that as long as the current system is in place they have no choice but to participate.
Hiring practices in the legal department though - I'm sure they already have their own ethical guidelines, how much attention they pay to the whims of engineers I don't know.
*Disclaimer - I do NOT speak for IBM, this is just the impression I have after a very small anmopunt of experience with them.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe he means colossus.
The bombes were electromechanical devices used on enigma, colossus was a programmable computer built at bletchley park and used to crack lorentz.
As usual we Brits had it destroyed and then kept the whole project under wraps for decades after the war, losing out on any technological advantage it might have given us. Tommy Flowers, the designer/builder was a worker for the general post office and he built colossus out of parts he borrowed from them. When the war was over he had to give them back, or so the story goes...
I got another kill before breakfast this morning, we're still in the game.
What a rush, a 7am sprint down the road, replete with confused and suprised looking civillians, and a shoot out from behind cars, hedges and walls.
Got the man though. Soaked him good.
Well, the organisers will sort it out basically. You email them to confirm kills and they confirm who you are to go after next.
SO at this cutoff, which is in place to keep the game moving, they will cut out everyone with less than two kills and then make sure that the circle formation is maintained when they reassign targets.
It should mean exactly that. It's set up so that the 100-150 players are in a ring, each has the next as a target, so by the time you get to someone that has you, you really should be the last man standing.
I'd like to comment once again how behind the news slasdot is. We've been playing for two weeks and it's moving into its final phase now!
It's been great fun, have done my fair share of stalking. My teammate managed to get inside our first target's apartment block and flush him out onto the street, right into my range of fire. Great fun. We did put in about 7 hours of stakeout over the course of a week to get him though!
Alas we haven't made a second kill inside two weeks and will be disqualified at midnight tonight unless we can pull something out of the bag in the next few hours. Haven't seen hide nor hair of anyone hunting us though, which has been a bit of a disappointment.
So far I don't think the cops have shot or even arrested anyone either, which is good.
Unfortunately I don't think sharks will be biting fast enough for this stuff to help.
It's the velocity of the object hitting the liquid that determines whether or not (or how much) it resists.
You're still ranting. You're still spouting libertarian nonsense.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO TO A STATE SCHOOL.
Right? I know you don't want your little ones to be indoctrinated contrary to their religion, that's fine, keep 'em home, or send them to a school your sect runs, whatever. The state does not assume some sort of "Right" to indoctrinate your kids, because, let me repeat, they don't have to go to a state school!!
Now, true, the state mandates that they must receive and education, but neither in the US nor the UK does that mean they have to go to a state institution.
Oh, and you AGAIN misrepresent my arguments, I'm not talking about the education or teaching or state mandated subject matter when I say socialising. I'm talking about learning to be around groups of other people. People your own age. About having a childhood that doesn't revolve entirely around your own family. That could be at any school. ANY school of the parents choosing. Sorry if you can't find a KKK school of hatred in your area, but they're not too popular so they don't get much in terms of donation. If that's the ideal for you then you get the choice of degenerate state moralising or poor people skills in your offspring.
We disagree less than you think, I agree parents should exercise whatever control they want over the education of their children. But I also think the state is absolutely right to demand that they get some education.
(I also think it's right that strict religious types should have it forcibly educated out of them, repressive and retrograding societal force that they are, but that's another argument for another day)
My IQ comes out between 145 and 160 depending on the test, usually mid 150s.
School teaches you to deal with people. And to cope and get on with your life whatever the retards across the hall think. I don't think life is like middle school, but I think middle school probably teaches you something important - people are cruel, stupid and small minded.
Much like you actually, who took a dislike to my post and so accuse me of being "stupidest".
FYI, "Stupidest" is not even a word.
The "socialising" I am referring to is not indoctrination. Whether that goes on or not is a totally seperate issue.
Kids need to learn to get on with one another, to get by when forced into a situation where they have to deal with people they don't like, learn the subtle social skills.
Sure you can get that from other places, but school is the best one I can think of.
And reign in that libertarian rant there, I went to a private school myself, I think it's great that the state both mandates education and provides it. Even better that if you want to do it differently you can.
Well firstly let me say I don't think it's by any means a rule that home schooled kids are going to turn out socially awkward, but more of a suspicion on my part. You raise the point of college - well they may find it difficult to adjust to the classroom at that stage, but I don't think that's too big an issue, and as long as they are making friends their own age as well I'm sure you're doing a fine job. BUT I do think the answer to your question of who is going to be better adjusted is the one who's had to deal with people who are not smart/nice/whatever. The world is full of assholes and learning to deal with them is IMHO, important. And I think you'll find the age thing depends heavily on the office, I've worked in dev groups of 30-60 people all pretty much within a 10 year window of ages, and I've worked in very varied places. I'm sure that making friends regardless of school defined "year group" will actually help your little ones. For me though, what I loved about school was that I was away from my family. I learned to be my own person there. I only had one childhood so I can't compare and make a value judgement, but I'd hate to have missed out on that.
You sound like a bit of a conspiracy theorist there. I'm not parroting anyone or anything, I genuinely do think that people probably have a better experience of life if they learn to deal with a wide spectrum of different sorts of people when they're young. And don't start me on religion... And what do you mean by "scoring" in society? Happiness is, to me, the only score that counts.
I'd dispute that kids socialise better on their own time.
Rather, they socialise better with friends on their own time, sure. They don't then have the benefits of being forced to deal with people they don't like, learn about how not everyone in the world is either smart or nice and how sometimes you have to deal with their presence anyway...
Lots of things. Socialising kids isn't just about them hanging out with friends, it's about preparing them for society.
Apart from 9, 10 and 13 there, I think the other kids are right. If your kid needs therapy because she's learning what life is like then you've done something wrong. Life's a bitch, all the way through, may as well learn now.
I object to this in the same way as I object a bit to homeschooling - sure the kid will learn stuff, but they won't learn to be around other people their own age, how to work with others, or how to be a member of society in general. Some may consider that a blessing, but I certainly wouldn't. I think it'll lead to some serious problems when they finally are turned out into the world.
Do I win?
/Bonzos forever!
Was about to post the same thing. Make a distributed app, receive spam, post "unsubscribe" link to app, (assuming this is how blue worked) instant mass traffic for spammer. The problem here is that if you don't have a central authority controlling what gets hit the someone will sooner or later abuse the P2P DDoS machine that you've effectively just created.
...this magical dope-smoking, playstation-playing, tech-mad, sex-loving female?
NO!!! The input to the codec is the same, the output is hopefully the same as well, but the codec used by the player is a different implementation and thus can have efficiency characteristics associated. Sure the player affects things too, but the codec can provide improvements, which was the OP's statement IIRC.
No, it can't recode the data, but it CAN decode it with a different efficiency if it has a different implemenbtation of the decompression side of things. What do you not get?
Yup, i know this topic is long dead, but - I too have a small camera, but do I carry it everywhere with me? No, because it's one more expensive lump in my pocket. I, and it seems most others, do not carry cameras around as a habit, but my phone I do carry. End of story.
Err, you nbeed to update your knowledge. CO-DEC. COder, DECoder. you need one at each end. As long as the data comes to you in a known formate (real) then you can feel free to use whatever codec you like at either end. The Real codec and the Real Alternative codec both DECode the same data when used in a player on a PC, but the Real Alternative is codec is not restricted to use within Real Player, so any media player can use it, like Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic, VLC, mplayer, whatever. It doesn't change which codec is used by the sites, it changes which codec is used at your end. These do no have to be the same thing.
It's about EASY. I have a camera phone. It was free with my contract. It has a 2MP camera. I take it with me everywhere because it's my phone, so if I see something I want to snap, I can. Camera phones are not for people that want artistic or even "good" pictures. What they take is memories and reminders, things otherwise forgotten, not art. So get off your damn high horse. Of course it would be great if they managed to fit a DSLR quality camera system inside a phone. FOr now they can't and the products are STILL great, and within the budget of most people here in the UK.
Dmmit, I nearly choked as I said that. SCO are already trying to kill open source though...
though a recent addition to big blue, I'll say this - whilst big blue tries (IMHO) to be friendly, that doesn't mean they'll rule out anything as far as business methods go. They do feel that what they patent is worth a patent because they have researched and developed it, and they also feel that as long as the current system is in place they have no choice but to participate. Hiring practices in the legal department though - I'm sure they already have their own ethical guidelines, how much attention they pay to the whims of engineers I don't know. *Disclaimer - I do NOT speak for IBM, this is just the impression I have after a very small anmopunt of experience with them.
I suppose there is a danger of that, but MS would have to take out Apple first...