If you have in fact run Win 9.x, you should know that systems suddenly crashing is normal behaviour...
It's also quite frequent in WinXP. Some people (like my brother) has no problem accessing any file in the filesystems ever.. Except for every second reboot, when the filesystem must be repaired...
I do however agree that an FS should be tested for a long file before you start using it (I never did FAT 32 until Win98, never NTFS until 2k/XP, never ReiserFS until Kernel 2.4.19).
infidel=IBM; while (money_in_bank>0) { sue (infidel) infidel=infidel->next; }
They just don't realise that it won't survive the first iteration.
That's because there's a bug in the code... sue (infidel) will cause a compilation error, since the line isn't terminated (they should have hired QA staff to refrain from using code missing a ';')...
The secret is in the rapid freezing. When cream is frozen by liquid nitrogen at â"196ÂC, the ice crystals that give bad ice cream its grainy texture have no chance to form.
Nice... No ice crystals... This would be so nice to test.
If you're just going to process word files, I'd use abiword... I like the clean interface and easy-to-use features... OpenOffice is something I just compiled once (running Gentoo, and felt I wanted to check a.xls in Linux). I feel OO to be mostly eyecandy. It's too darn hard to use... Never card enough to take my time, really...
The problem with sales tax is that while Mr. Millionaire might buy more things than you do, he doesn't buy *proportionally* more things -- a man can only drink so much beer, after all.
A rich man may not buy more things, but he ends up buying more expensive things. While you may buy say a little Fiat - he'll buy an expensive BMW.
All that having been said, I would prefer the elimination of income tax and capital gains tax in favor of a federal sales tax (even if said tax were 30%)
So would I, but that being because I live in Sweden... I pay my 31% income tax (since I'm not wealthy - people with higher income pax some extra per cent)... I also pay my 25% VAT on everything I buy... Yet I am happy (or at the very least, content)...
If the eavesdropper can't read the state there is no way that the recipient can either.
I'm not sure you read the article, but the eavesdropper CAN read the message. The thing is that while he 'checks' the photons, he change their state.
Let's compare it with logical circuits:
In a logic circuit, the area somewhere between 0.0 V and 0,9 V (depends on what circuit, actually) is defined as a logical zero... The area above 1.5 V is positive (assuming 5 V circuits, voltage above 5 V might burn it out)... So, what about the 0.9-1.5 area? Let's say the quantum stream send out a logical zero, it gets interecepted and moves along... Some energy has been lost, it is in an "unsafe" area, and the intended recipient knows something is wrong. He then signals the sender that the message has been compromised. No more signal is sent.
because of the greediness of the official distributers, who often put out a dvd with just 3 eps on it, and since anime series tend to be at least 20 eps long that's a lot to pay per series.
Hmmm... I don't know where to begin. First, as they are TV series, they are released on DVD-5 (as opposed to DVD-9 for movies). The reason is simple: It's cheap to press, and better DVD Player compaibility. The End-user benefits greatly from the fact that it is DVD-5 - It is MUCH easier to do your legal backup of the media. Also, the series are commonly released in boxed sets to reduce its price (not that I can afford it, since I must import any anime I buy).
What barriers exist to working in the UK for a non-UK (e.g. US) employer.
I don't know about being a US resident working in the US (it's outside the boundries of the European Community)...
For the EU, there would be no problem in attaining a permit to work (it is after all the EU)... The one thing I'm unsure of is taxes (here in Sweden, you pax taxes to the municipality you live in (as opposed to the one you work in)... The employer on the other hand pays taxes based on where you work.
I'm not really in to tax laws between countries and such... *Sigh*
As much as it might be true that it'll have a better win/lose ratio with sensors, GPS is not the way to go. I mean... A foosball table isn't all that big, and what will the computer do when he thinks the ball is actually 5 metres outside of the "arena"? GPS is a no-go.
The main problems I have had with bittorrent is its heavy usage of bandwidth. I like being able to surf while downloading files (like RH9.iso's) - something I can do with FTP, since it is only one stream being sent.
Unable to find a client with the ability to limit download rates (or connections to 1), under Windows, I've settled for the experimental client. It is usually not any better, but at times I can at least lower my upstream to send http requests.
An official Windows Client that can limit the number of up/down streams would be highly appreciated.
Another problem with bittorrent is when seeds for less-popular files go offline. As people cannot be seeds for more than 10 (at least, I think that's when I ran out of ports in Windows...), and most probably would not make the ammount of upstream that would generate. If there are any plans for a server client to automatically re-seed files (from a given list of.torrent files) at a certain point (let's just assume 1 or 2 seeds), this would certainly be of help.
Are there any plans for limiting up/downstream (even though I know the protocol was designed around the fact that everybody should share) or a server software designed to easy the distribution of older files?
It's an offensive, violent movie, which the producers try to legitimize by jumping on the bandwagon of religion.
Actually, my view on this matter is very different. For me, Matrix is a philosophical hands down. The reason as top why there is such an ammount of action in the movies is the fact that it draws people to it. Matrix is a movie that makes (some, more intellectual) people really think about what is happening. I mean... The end of Matrix: Reloaded makes me really compelled to seeing the third movie.
Philosophy exists in the Matrix movies, it does however not exist a "Matrix philosophy" in the movies.
The movies are in short a mix of different religions, philosophies, Alice in Wonderland and modern action. I also feel strangely attracted to the number '5' in the movies (Binary 0101 - Trinity hacks computer, Highway, IIRC Neo's room number - the fifth reincarnation of Zion etc.).
Notice that no religious expert supports the viewpoints of the usual windbags toting the defense that the matrix trilogy are thinking man's movies or something. Nothing but a trendy violence-filled, mindless movie. Entertainment for mindless masses.
Actually, the Matrix was basis for discussion in our religion class... Not that our teacher might be considered a religious expert, but hey at least it generated couple of pages of interesting notes.
Then again, at work I'm just a normal office worker, and don't get to see the inner periphelas of SAP - I'm just using it.
This might be a good move, however, as SAP databases are (if I remember correctly) quite large. Two large corporations working together on one databse should benefit all of us - It sure beats competition database to database. In some time, we'll see how much impact such a cooperation will have on large-scale databases. Maybe complex operations in SAP will be faster at that time. We'll just have to wait and see.
Actually, I used Windows XP, and started having the strangest crashes... My uptime was down to ~5 minutes, or less...
Fed up with Microsoft, I decided to try out Linux... Tried Mandrake and Gentoo... Sure, they did have a better uptime, but only barely... It turns out I had a span of 500kB with faulty RAM back on the 1326th MiB (302nd MiB of the third stick of memory)... Removed it, and whoops... Unlimited uptime with WinXP, and yet I use it as fileserver and play crappy D3D games at the same time...
The thing that ruins my uptime is on my proper system with high-classed hardware: Security Fixes... That's what kills MS uptime today...
Linux is just as solid... Only problem for me is... No Photoshop, no games, dependency hell, no mIRC (yes I know there are other IRC clients out there, but mIRC is, well... I'm used to it, ok?).
So while system stability might be an issue for some, I belive it is very often the case of old hardware or software (I mean, who could depend on Win98 today... It's like saying: "Todays software isn't all that great, just look at how often my Linux 0.95 crashes.")... Hardware is created to be upgraded, just as software is... Some bugs here, performance there... Just look at Itanium CPUs...
Also, I don't actually use my main domain, but obscured subdomains... Heck, I don't want google visiting my pages, caching them... So I tend to disregard users that have just seen my domain name, and try to visit... FYI, that main page is hardly accessed - most people know what URL's to specify... And most of those people aren't exactly the avergae Joe. Most of them are experienced people (measured in terms of computer knowledge, heck 5% use Mac OS and an equal ammount Linux or FreeBSD)...
The only point I tried proving was the point that people need to realize that in order to succeed in some areas, you shouldn't be creating code that works only for MSIE - there are people out there that will use alternative browsers given the chance...
Heck, my mom uses Opera 7... I just set it up as default browser and she loves it. Given time, Microsoft monopoly will fade away - and no government in the world would need to restrict it, they will eventually fall.
Also, judging by progress in browser innovation and standards implementation, Mozilla and Opera are both way ahead...
Sure, the users on my page may be Opera biased, but given time Mozilla and Opera will eventually combined have that market share... A qualified guess would estimate Q3 2004, MSIE down to 60% for pages that render in the three (maybe four by then) biggest browsers...
So... You're suggesting IE has that a big market share? I don't actually think 94% use IE any more (except for pages that are broken)...
Some daily stats... As you can guess, my page is w3c-compliant and thus works with all browsers (I've even got a considerable ammount vising by the means of Lynx)... Pos Hits % Browser 1 23522 44.56 Internet Explorer 6.x 2 20076 38.03 Opera 7.x 3 3847 7.29 Internet Explorer 5.x 4 2629 4.98 Internet Explorer 5.5 5 581 1.10 Mozilla 1.3x 6 555 1.05 Netscape 7.x 7 354 0.67 Opera 6.x 8 338 0.64 compatible Mozilla/5.x 9 328 0.62 Mozilla 1.2x 10 140 0.27 Netscape 6.x
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If you have in fact run Win 9.x, you should know that systems suddenly crashing is normal behaviour...
It's also quite frequent in WinXP. Some people (like my brother) has no problem accessing any file in the filesystems ever.. Except for every second reboot, when the filesystem must be repaired...
I do however agree that an FS should be tested for a long file before you start using it (I never did FAT 32 until Win98, never NTFS until 2k/XP, never ReiserFS until Kernel 2.4.19).
Wow... He actually got +5?
I usually browse w/ Troll +5 modifier in my settings...
I just thought he barely managed to stay alive at +0 ^_^
Still, very valid points... It wasn't an article about WinFS.
64k should be enough for anyone...
...
In other news, Microsoft is though to break the 64k barrier of an EULA in 2006 when their next generation OS (Longhorn) will be released.
(OTOH, the new EULA is only 1484 bytes larger than the GPL)
That's because there's a bug in the code...
sue (infidel) will cause a compilation error, since the line isn't terminated (they should have hired QA staff to refrain from using code missing a ';')...
The secret is in the rapid freezing. When cream is frozen by liquid nitrogen at â"196ÂC, the ice crystals that give bad ice cream its grainy texture have no chance to form.
Nice... No ice crystals... This would be so nice to test.
Too bad I don't have any liquid nitrogen >_
Well... You friend should be alright. He feels good after some exercise.
You wrist may however ache some time afterwards... There is nothing to worry about unless you are in fact a teenager... Those are in the risk zone.
If you're just going to process word files, I'd use abiword... I like the clean interface and easy-to-use features... .xls in Linux). I feel OO to be mostly eyecandy. It's too darn hard to use... Never card enough to take my time, really...
OpenOffice is something I just compiled once (running Gentoo, and felt I wanted to check a
Breaking down the costs shows this more clearly:
./ crowd ^^
AOL: £15.00/month charge, £15.00/month to AOL, £0.00 VAT to government.
UK-based ISP: £15.00/month charge, £12.76 to ISP, £2.24 VAT to government.
To make the same amount of money from each customer, the UK-based ISPs would have to charge £17.63 (£15.00 plus 17.5 percent).
Actually... To make £15.00 after VAT, £15.00 = (100-17.5 = 82.5%)... £15.00 / 0.825 ~ £18.18
Not a very big error... Still there... And I wanna proove my 1337 math skills to the
The problem with sales tax is that while Mr. Millionaire might buy more things than you do, he doesn't buy *proportionally* more things -- a man can only drink so much beer, after all.
A rich man may not buy more things, but he ends up buying more expensive things. While you may buy say a little Fiat - he'll buy an expensive BMW.
Thus he ends up paying a higher VAT.
Many Scandinavians for instance tend to whine about how they can end up paying around 50% income tax.
.se financial laws...
Obviously you haven't heard about Astrid Lindgren, who had to pay taxes above 100%... Stupid
We do however tend to whine about high taxes. We always take VAT into account, and always display numbers based on people with high income...
I can however brag about paying a mere 100% income - 31.59% income tax = 68.41 * 0.75 = 51.3075% left after VAT...
Only 48.7% tax for my part... Sweet...
(This number is not accurate since I buy both books and food - blessed products with ~half the normal VAT)...
All that having been said, I would prefer the elimination of income tax and capital gains tax in favor of a federal sales tax (even if said tax were 30%)
So would I, but that being because I live in Sweden... I pay my 31% income tax (since I'm not wealthy - people with higher income pax some extra per cent)... I also pay my 25% VAT on everything I buy... Yet I am happy (or at the very least, content)...
Spoiled Americans...
For us mere mortals, not even that is possible... He seems to be slashdotted already...
But according to this (another slashdot comment), you have violated his notice (removing any material), if you were planning on displaying it (doesn't say anything about public showing), so I GUESS YOU'RE SCREWED (or not):
Copyright © 2002 by Sam Barros. All rights reserved. Removing any material from this site for display without consent from its author consists in an infringement of international copyright laws and can result in fines up to $50000 per infringement, plus legal costs. So ASK ME before you remove anything from here.
*Goes check the http://www.thedarkcitadel.com/cd/ mirror that someone else kindly posted*
"for suggesting ideas or musing on thoughts or making witty commentary in response to stories posted on www.slashdot.org"
...
Actually, if a patent was worded that way, I'd just do as I usually do - connect http://slashdot.org - and skip the www.
Then again... I could violate the DMCA... Boohoo... As if I was ever going to visit the US...
If the eavesdropper can't read the state there is no way that the recipient can either.
I'm not sure you read the article, but the eavesdropper CAN read the message. The thing is that while he 'checks' the photons, he change their state.
Let's compare it with logical circuits:
In a logic circuit, the area somewhere between 0.0 V and 0,9 V (depends on what circuit, actually) is defined as a logical zero... The area above 1.5 V is positive (assuming 5 V circuits, voltage above 5 V might burn it out)... So, what about the 0.9-1.5 area?
Let's say the quantum stream send out a logical zero, it gets interecepted and moves along... Some energy has been lost, it is in an "unsafe" area, and the intended recipient knows something is wrong. He then signals the sender that the message has been compromised. No more signal is sent.
And don't let your girlfriend see the hentai collection.
Why not? That's be the recipe for a perfect evening.
because of the greediness of the official distributers, who often put out a dvd with just 3 eps on it, and since anime series tend to be at least 20 eps long that's a lot to pay per series.
Hmmm... I don't know where to begin.
First, as they are TV series, they are released on DVD-5 (as opposed to DVD-9 for movies). The reason is simple: It's cheap to press, and better DVD Player compaibility.
The End-user benefits greatly from the fact that it is DVD-5 - It is MUCH easier to do your legal backup of the media. Also, the series are commonly released in boxed sets to reduce its price (not that I can afford it, since I must import any anime I buy).
What barriers exist to working in the UK for a non-UK (e.g. US) employer.
I don't know about being a US resident working in the US (it's outside the boundries of the European Community)...
For the EU, there would be no problem in attaining a permit to work (it is after all the EU)... The one thing I'm unsure of is taxes (here in Sweden, you pax taxes to the municipality you live in (as opposed to the one you work in)... The employer on the other hand pays taxes based on where you work.
I'm not really in to tax laws between countries and such... *Sigh*
(Maybe we could put a GPS device in the ball!)
As much as it might be true that it'll have a better win/lose ratio with sensors, GPS is not the way to go. I mean... A foosball table isn't all that big, and what will the computer do when he thinks the ball is actually 5 metres outside of the "arena"? GPS is a no-go.
The main problems I have had with bittorrent is its heavy usage of bandwidth. I like being able to surf while downloading files (like RH9 .iso's) - something I can do with FTP, since it is only one stream being sent.
.torrent files) at a certain point (let's just assume 1 or 2 seeds), this would certainly be of help.
Unable to find a client with the ability to limit download rates (or connections to 1), under Windows, I've settled for the experimental client. It is usually not any better, but at times I can at least lower my upstream to send http requests.
An official Windows Client that can limit the number of up/down streams would be highly appreciated.
Another problem with bittorrent is when seeds for less-popular files go offline. As people cannot be seeds for more than 10 (at least, I think that's when I ran out of ports in Windows...), and most probably would not make the ammount of upstream that would generate. If there are any plans for a server client to automatically re-seed files (from a given list of
Are there any plans for limiting up/downstream (even though I know the protocol was designed around the fact that everybody should share) or a server software designed to easy the distribution of older files?
It's an offensive, violent movie, which the producers try to legitimize by jumping on the bandwagon of religion.
Actually, my view on this matter is very different. For me, Matrix is a philosophical hands down. The reason as top why there is such an ammount of action in the movies is the fact that it draws people to it. Matrix is a movie that makes (some, more intellectual) people really think about what is happening. I mean... The end of Matrix: Reloaded makes me really compelled to seeing the third movie.
Philosophy exists in the Matrix movies, it does however not exist a "Matrix philosophy" in the movies.
The movies are in short a mix of different religions, philosophies, Alice in Wonderland and modern action. I also feel strangely attracted to the number '5' in the movies (Binary 0101 - Trinity hacks computer, Highway, IIRC Neo's room number - the fifth reincarnation of Zion etc.).
Notice that no religious expert supports the viewpoints of the usual windbags toting the defense that the matrix trilogy are thinking man's movies or something. Nothing but a trendy violence-filled, mindless movie. Entertainment for mindless masses.
Actually, the Matrix was basis for discussion in our religion class... Not that our teacher might be considered a religious expert, but hey at least it generated couple of pages of interesting notes.
I don't see how this would benefit SAP.
Then again, at work I'm just a normal office worker, and don't get to see the inner periphelas of SAP - I'm just using it.
This might be a good move, however, as SAP databases are (if I remember correctly) quite large. Two large corporations working together on one databse should benefit all of us - It sure beats competition database to database. In some time, we'll see how much impact such a cooperation will have on large-scale databases. Maybe complex operations in SAP will be faster at that time. We'll just have to wait and see.
Actually, I used Windows XP, and started having the strangest crashes... My uptime was down to ~5 minutes, or less...
Fed up with Microsoft, I decided to try out Linux... Tried Mandrake and Gentoo... Sure, they did have a better uptime, but only barely...
It turns out I had a span of 500kB with faulty RAM back on the 1326th MiB (302nd MiB of the third stick of memory)... Removed it, and whoops... Unlimited uptime with WinXP, and yet I use it as fileserver and play crappy D3D games at the same time...
The thing that ruins my uptime is on my proper system with high-classed hardware: Security Fixes... That's what kills MS uptime today...
Linux is just as solid... Only problem for me is... No Photoshop, no games, dependency hell, no mIRC (yes I know there are other IRC clients out there, but mIRC is, well... I'm used to it, ok?).
So while system stability might be an issue for some, I belive it is very often the case of old hardware or software (I mean, who could depend on Win98 today... It's like saying: "Todays software isn't all that great, just look at how often my Linux 0.95 crashes.")... Hardware is created to be upgraded, just as software is... Some bugs here, performance there... Just look at Itanium CPUs...
Nah...
The HTTP Standard is Coded 404...
I have over 100 different user agents per day...
Also, I don't actually use my main domain, but obscured subdomains...
Heck, I don't want google visiting my pages, caching them... So I tend to disregard users that have just seen my domain name, and try to visit...
FYI, that main page is hardly accessed - most people know what URL's to specify... And most of those people aren't exactly the avergae Joe. Most of them are experienced people (measured in terms of computer knowledge, heck 5% use Mac OS and an equal ammount Linux or FreeBSD)...
The only point I tried proving was the point that people need to realize that in order to succeed in some areas, you shouldn't be creating code that works only for MSIE - there are people out there that will use alternative browsers given the chance...
Heck, my mom uses Opera 7... I just set it up as default browser and she loves it. Given time, Microsoft monopoly will fade away - and no government in the world would need to restrict it, they will eventually fall.
Also, judging by progress in browser innovation and standards implementation, Mozilla and Opera are both way ahead...
Sure, the users on my page may be Opera biased, but given time Mozilla and Opera will eventually combined have that market share... A qualified guess would estimate Q3 2004, MSIE down to 60% for pages that render in the three (maybe four by then) biggest browsers...
I sure hope you like me ranting off...
So...
You're suggesting IE has that a big market share?
I don't actually think 94% use IE any more (except for pages that are broken)...
Some daily stats... As you can guess, my page is w3c-compliant and thus works with all browsers (I've even got a considerable ammount vising by the means of Lynx)...
Pos Hits % Browser
1 23522 44.56 Internet Explorer 6.x
2 20076 38.03 Opera 7.x
3 3847 7.29 Internet Explorer 5.x
4 2629 4.98 Internet Explorer 5.5
5 581 1.10 Mozilla 1.3x
6 555 1.05 Netscape 7.x
7 354 0.67 Opera 6.x
8 338 0.64 compatible Mozilla/5.x
9 328 0.62 Mozilla 1.2x
10 140 0.27 Netscape 6.x