I often hear things in record stores, etc. and would love to have an easy way to buy it.
Walk to record store guy that's selecting the music. Call out that you wanna have the CD with the song he/she is playing. Buy CD. Which part is confusing you?
So I go to a public place & I hear a song that I like. Hmmm. Possible but unlikely. Most places play songs that are acceptable by many, and liked by none. At least none that are in the right age to buy lots of music. Somebody know a funky Starbucks out there?
That would be bad for the space elevator as well. I can see the "No taking pictures or throwing lightning at space elevator" messages already. I would not want to be caught in an elevator at 3 km height with a fire starting below as well. 3 km is a long way to fall. Of course, you might actually fall up if it is cut loose below. Talking about a novice way of going into space - how did you get here? Oh I simply fell up.
These little jokes made me think back to a fortune cookie I once read. I've googled it up, so here it goes:
An Explanation of Radio
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
What I'd love to see someone do at some point is re-skin FireFox to look like IE and then abuse one of IE's many security holes to replace IE with the reskinned FireFox on any machine that visits the website.:)
Ah, yes, but that would not work. See Java's stab to look like Windows (or any other OS) using swing. There are always lot's of small things that make it different. One pixel can make quite a difference. IBM won't eclipse the Sun, but SWT might have a stab at eclipsing Swung.
I once saw a nice new frontend for/. which seemed to be fine. Nice real HTML and stuff. Where did it go? Why isn't it on the front page yet? Why don't I RTFM? Questions that need to be answered!
It's still better than the inquirer (www.inquirer.net) and way better than the register (www.theregister.co.uk) which doesn't even check their submissions for errors (missing end tag for instance, ugh) though.
I suppose that the reason I'm not rich yet is because I wouldn't. Building software is usually time consuming and costly. Building good software is more so. I wonder that the OSS movement didn't gain popularity so much because of a desire to contribute, as out of a sense of frustration that there was very little good software available at any price.
Wouldn't that be turning the table around? I mean, in the first place there was (pre) unix and the universities, which were pretty royal at giving software away. Then came the commercial software. But the open source software movement was always there.
Now the OS software movement seems to be growing. But I contribute that to the larger companies getting involved, as well as the growth of the internet. The distribution problem is over folks (sorry to all those guys still behind a modem). Share and enjoy:) The first one to let a mayor country use linux as standard wins a candy bar.
Yes, but that would negate all the benefits of having.net in the first place. Most of the time when such performance is required, better security and good interprocess communcation will be required as well. Think about which components you would like to compiled to native code.
The scheduler will probably be native code (well, it has to be, hasn't it:) and the core kernel components as well. But a kernel + default services will be much larger than those components.
I don't think anyone who actually has the money for this, would want this, since for a few million more they can probably go up to the ISS.
Most people won't be able to go to the ISS though. The problem with that is not so much money as the other requirements. They won't let people that are not 100 fit for it on a space craft.
Not everything is for sale you know. Bah, it would not fit in my 3 by 4 (meter) room anyway.
I am not surprised. They probably used.NET to build it all. That means a few things:
- they are now using components (with.NET style SOAP XML messaging) - they use bounds checking all over - more meta information on objects is stored - libraries are probably more extensive - makes reuse better - more things are service-driven, so more is in memory all the time
This all comes down to more memory use. Look at Java. It's fast enough nowadays, but it still uses a lot of memory resources. You get more runtime functionality (reflection etc) in return..NET does essentially the same, but it will have the same drawbacks as Java - slower execution and larger memory footprint.
This is a good thing though, it's a one time performance penalty returning huge benefits. It won't favour small/old machines though.
If you're responsible for sites like these (nice mixup of "defense" tactics with extremist views), I would not mind for him spending a few years behind bars. I don't think that sherrif is in his right though, so unfortunately I am pro release of the guy. The criminal charges should be dropped. Unfortunately. Darn.
Come on guys. This is just a smart card chip with some sensors put on it. It has a non-ISO 14443 type A or type B interface, which means you can only use the readers provided by Cypak.
On top of that it only uses AES encryption. Great. Most smartcard processors can do any symetric cryptography and DSA and RSA as well. 156 / 1024 bit 3DES/RSA is common nowadays and higher asymetric encryption is on the horizon, if not there. 16 bit processors are quite common as well, with 32 bit processors just around the corner. You can host web servers on smart cards for some time now.
Obviously there are some interesting things to this story. What kind of wireless protocol will they use? How do they connect the sensors? What kind of sensors are available? What kind of operating system can be used? How easy is it to integrate it into some piece of clothing (eg)?
And 1 dollar per CPU is very good value I suppose.
It said memory. It's probably EEPROM though. This is all simple smartcard technology. The only thing interesting is the inclusion of sensors and their interface with the chip. Otherwise, nothing new.
So the memory will be SLOW and cannot be written over continuously. So much for the software you are talking about. Oh, well, we will get there sometime.
I live together with a band of people, mostly students. Things went missing and the slightly less brilliant ones asked me why I could not install a web-cam to find out who dunnit.
Same problem as you mentioned. You could obviously buy a camera that is mounted to the roof or something, but that would cost more than the stolen goods (mostly food). A camera atached to the body would be out of the question probably, or safe storage inside your head or something like that:)
If I look towards the sky, I can see very little only a "couple of stars", a few planets, all very long distance stuff. Oh yeah, and a huge round low gravity rock "floating" right above. Maybe it wouldn't mind if we chipped a few pieces off?
Most of these countries are not an option for the US, they are too small (not enough ooomph to support the project) too large (headlines: space elevator taken over by ), politically hostile or just downright hostile towards the US. I can't see the thing build in somalia to name the most obvious one.
Satellites? It would probably be way less expensive to make a sattellite that is less shock proof, weights a few pounds more - well, you fill in the details. Also the military would probably like to use this to bring low flying satillites into orbit to safe launching costs.
What about fuel? Most of it is burned during launch time to send the fuel up in the first place.
I can think of millions of things to do with cheap space access. And NASA and other space corps are probably a bit more imaginative than I am.
Yeah, yeah. I send an email to an outlook express agent and though malformed HTML it autoexecuted when it was automatically placed in the preview page (you start up the client, it downloads the messages and displays the last).
It was an prove of concept for my boss; i showed that any IE hole could be triggered by Outlook Express without him doing anything. Worms that spread by server or RPC problems also autoexecute.
Maybe he/she should have said: I'm in a good mood today instead, or I'm content, ?no
I think there's more good than bad in going to one language. Anyway, languages evolve as well. I sure as hell cannot understand half of what is being sung nowadays for starters.
Good idea... I must have been nuts to click on this anyway (poster clicks on back button to main page).
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A better way would be to pinpoint the telephones within a certain area and block calls from the telephony provider. If you jam something within your restaurant, you will probably also block phones around that area. This would also accomodate calling to 911 or 112 (EU) in the unlikely event of a cinema on fire without the staff noticing.
Obviously all cell phone providers should cooperate to make this possible, and the devices should be pinpointed within something like a meter. But this should be possible, and would be better than just jamming the signal.
I don't see a cinema or a luxury restaurant redecorating the entire place just to install a faraday cage anyway (as suggested by another poster in this thread. Paying some money to the operators to block the area seems to be the better option.
If possible of course. Install additional receivers? Dunno.
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Except that they almost never seem to use that sort of low tone of voice. I am going to buy a headset myself. I've noticed that people with a headset seem to keep their coverstations a lot more private.
Unless you are using bluetooth headset, then the conversation is both private and public:)
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I often hear things in record stores, etc. and would love to have an easy way to buy it.
Walk to record store guy that's selecting the music. Call out that you wanna have the CD with the song he/she is playing. Buy CD. Which part is confusing you?
So I go to a public place & I hear a song that I like. Hmmm. Possible but unlikely. Most places play songs that are acceptable by many, and liked by none. At least none that are in the right age to buy lots of music. Somebody know a funky Starbucks out there?
That would be bad for the space elevator as well. I can see the "No taking pictures or throwing lightning at space elevator" messages already. I would not want to be caught in an elevator at 3 km height with a fire starting below as well. 3 km is a long way to fall. Of course, you might actually fall up if it is cut loose below. Talking about a novice way of going into space - how did you get here? Oh I simply fell up.
These little jokes made me think back to a fortune cookie I once read. I've googled it up, so here it goes:
An Explanation of Radio
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
Albert Einstein
What I'd love to see someone do at some point is re-skin FireFox to look like IE and then abuse one of IE's many security holes to replace IE with the reskinned FireFox on any machine that visits the website. :)
Ah, yes, but that would not work. See Java's stab to look like Windows (or any other OS) using swing. There are always lot's of small things that make it different. One pixel can make quite a difference. IBM won't eclipse the Sun, but SWT might have a stab at eclipsing Swung.
I once saw a nice new frontend for /. which seemed to be fine. Nice real HTML and stuff. Where did it go? Why isn't it on the front page yet? Why don't I RTFM? Questions that need to be answered!
It's still better than the inquirer (www.inquirer.net) and way better than the register (www.theregister.co.uk) which doesn't even check their submissions for errors (missing end tag for instance, ugh) though.
That last one is well is well known and seems to work. It is however not a style sheet crashing bug.
I could not get the style sheet bug to actually work (or not work, to be precise). Has anyone complete code to confirm this bug?
I suppose that the reason I'm not rich yet is because I wouldn't. Building software is usually time consuming and costly. Building good software is more so. I wonder that the OSS movement didn't gain popularity so much because of a desire to contribute, as out of a sense of frustration that there was very little good software available at any price.
:) The first one to let a mayor country use linux as standard wins a candy bar.
Wouldn't that be turning the table around? I mean, in the first place there was (pre) unix and the universities, which were pretty royal at giving software away. Then came the commercial software. But the open source software movement was always there.
Now the OS software movement seems to be growing. But I contribute that to the larger companies getting involved, as well as the growth of the internet. The distribution problem is over folks (sorry to all those guys still behind a modem). Share and enjoy
Yes, but that would negate all the benefits of having .net in the first place. Most of the time when such performance is required, better security and good interprocess communcation will be required as well. Think about which components you would like to compiled to native code.
The scheduler will probably be native code (well, it has to be, hasn't it:) and the core kernel components as well. But a kernel + default services will be much larger than those components.
I don't think anyone who actually has the money for this, would want this, since for a few million more they can probably go up to the ISS.
Most people won't be able to go to the ISS though. The problem with that is not so much money as the other requirements. They won't let people that are not 100 fit for it on a space craft.
Not everything is for sale you know. Bah, it would not fit in my 3 by 4 (meter) room anyway.
I am not surprised. They probably used .NET to build it all. That means a few things:
.NET style SOAP XML messaging)
.NET does essentially the same, but it will have the same drawbacks as Java - slower execution and larger memory footprint.
- they are now using components (with
- they use bounds checking all over
- more meta information on objects is stored
- libraries are probably more extensive - makes reuse better
- more things are service-driven, so more is in memory all the time
This all comes down to more memory use. Look at Java. It's fast enough nowadays, but it still uses a lot of memory resources. You get more runtime functionality (reflection etc) in return.
This is a good thing though, it's a one time performance penalty returning huge benefits. It won't favour small/old machines though.
The future is runtime.
If you're responsible for sites like these (nice mixup of "defense" tactics with extremist views), I would not mind for him spending a few years behind bars. I don't think that sherrif is in his right though, so unfortunately I am pro release of the guy. The criminal charges should be dropped. Unfortunately. Darn.
Come on guys. This is just a smart card chip with some sensors put on it. It has a non-ISO 14443 type A or type B interface, which means you can only use the readers provided by Cypak.
On top of that it only uses AES encryption. Great. Most smartcard processors can do any symetric cryptography and DSA and RSA as well. 156 / 1024 bit 3DES/RSA is common nowadays and higher asymetric encryption is on the horizon, if not there. 16 bit processors are quite common as well, with 32 bit processors just around the corner. You can host web servers on smart cards for some time now.
Obviously there are some interesting things to this story. What kind of wireless protocol will they use? How do they connect the sensors? What kind of sensors are available? What kind of operating system can be used? How easy is it to integrate it into some piece of clothing (eg)?
And 1 dollar per CPU is very good value I suppose.
It said memory. It's probably EEPROM though. This is all simple smartcard technology. The only thing interesting is the inclusion of sensors and their interface with the chip. Otherwise, nothing new.
So the memory will be SLOW and cannot be written over continuously. So much for the software you are talking about. Oh, well, we will get there sometime.
I live together with a band of people, mostly students. Things went missing and the slightly less brilliant ones asked me why I could not install a web-cam to find out who dunnit.
:)
Same problem as you mentioned. You could obviously buy a camera that is mounted to the roof or something, but that would cost more than the stolen goods (mostly food). A camera atached to the body would be out of the question probably, or safe storage inside your head or something like that
If I look towards the sky, I can see very little only a "couple of stars", a few planets, all very long distance stuff. Oh yeah, and a huge round low gravity rock "floating" right above. Maybe it wouldn't mind if we chipped a few pieces off?
Most of these countries are not an option for the US, they are too small (not enough ooomph to support the project) too large (headlines: space elevator taken over by ), politically hostile or just downright hostile towards the US. I can't see the thing build in somalia to name the most obvious one.
Satellites? It would probably be way less expensive to make a sattellite that is less shock proof, weights a few pounds more - well, you fill in the details. Also the military would probably like to use this to bring low flying satillites into orbit to safe launching costs.
What about fuel? Most of it is burned during launch time to send the fuel up in the first place.
I can think of millions of things to do with cheap space access. And NASA and other space corps are probably a bit more imaginative than I am.
Yeah, yeah. I send an email to an outlook express agent and though malformed HTML it autoexecuted when it was automatically placed in the preview page (you start up the client, it downloads the messages and displays the last).
It was an prove of concept for my boss; i showed that any IE hole could be triggered by Outlook Express without him doing anything. Worms that spread by server or RPC problems also autoexecute.
Come to think of it, what's your point exactly?
In that case he is certainly not _getting_ old. Older maybe, but you are dead if you don't.
edge, bridge, or chopsticks - you'd be in bizarre circumstances to not understand which one is being referred to
Watch out for that bridge!!!
What bridge?
AAAAAaaaaaarrrrrgggghhhh!!!
Maybe he/she should have said: I'm in a good mood today instead, or I'm content, ?no
I think there's more good than bad in going to one language. Anyway, languages evolve as well. I sure as hell cannot understand half of what is being sung nowadays for starters.
Good luck with your essay.
Good idea... I must have been nuts to click on this anyway (poster clicks on back button to main page).
A better way would be to pinpoint the telephones within a certain area and block calls from the telephony provider. If you jam something within your restaurant, you will probably also block phones around that area. This would also accomodate calling to 911 or 112 (EU) in the unlikely event of a cinema on fire without the staff noticing.
Obviously all cell phone providers should cooperate to make this possible, and the devices should be pinpointed within something like a meter. But this should be possible, and would be better than just jamming the signal.
I don't see a cinema or a luxury restaurant redecorating the entire place just to install a faraday cage anyway (as suggested by another poster in this thread. Paying some money to the operators to block the area seems to be the better option.
If possible of course. Install additional receivers? Dunno.
Except that they almost never seem to use that sort of low tone of voice. I am going to buy a headset myself. I've noticed that people with a headset seem to keep their coverstations a lot more private.
:)
Unless you are using bluetooth headset, then the conversation is both private and public