Amen to that. I too have seen the dark side of Sony music hardware; namely, the horror of SonicStage SimpleBurner. Why does that thing require Admin privileges to run? What does it write about my activities and where? Why does it not work with dual-boot configurations? What kind of way is that to run a piece of software for listening to and managing music? And why they hell are they worried about people swapping music with it when the thing only rips to ATRAC-3, which is a bloody awful codec anyway?!
I wonder how many people here are posting anonymously out of the shame of being unable to resist replying to something that is quite obviously an off-topic troll.
A number of friends have asked me to help them set up their new computers. I installed Firefox, checked the firewall, installed some basic security tools, and drummed it into their heads that they are to use a limited account (and if application x doesn't like it, live with it).
Although ordinary users, they are all yet to be cracked. And I'll be damned if they ever are.
The only real problem with Windows XP is that it doesn't encourage the most basic security practice of privilege throttling. How is the "unwashed" user supposed to know this? I recently read an article in a "reputable" UK computer magazine that went through everything needed to secure an XP box (from AdAware to ZoneAlarm through Spybot - Search & Destroy) and not once did it say "for goodness's sake, set up a limited account". Those tools are worth squat without this. I intend to have words with the editor.
No, in fact I think I'll just sit back with a smug grin as some 1337 h4xx0r pwns his b0x3n.
I hardly think this is surprising, given the sheer volume of knowledge and understanding a researcher must absorb to make any advancement at the cutting edge of science today. It really does take around half a life-time's worth of study.
These guys were barking up the wrong tree. Beauty, being in the eye of the beholder and all that, is not a gauge-invariant quantity. It's not physical.
My goodness, you're concerned about the physics in Star Wars? Since when has that been a priority for George Lucas (or the target audience)? Star Wars is barely even science fiction; it's a fairy tale (like Shrek). This is the film where Harrison Ford bombs it halfway across the Galaxy going "point five" past lightspeed and Obi Wan K holds a conversation in real-time across a distance of about 20,000 light-years. What's that all about?! And how come he could tell that Alderaan was blown up the moment it happened in the Galaxy frame? Is The Force non-causal or something? Is Rupert Sheldrake Lucas's science advisor? Why the hell didn't Obi Wan simply choose a frame where it happens in his future, and prevent the disaster?! Damn!
Mine is still its original dark black charcoal gré. Did you deface your NeXT by respraying it?! Oh, you philistine! And after Steve Jobs went through hell repainting his factory over and over again to get just the right shade!
I sort of econd this. This isn't a test for fundamental strings (or fundamental anything). To do that requires energies of order the Planck scale. This demonstrates a supersymmetry in a condensed matter context; that is, a symmetry linking bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom. It happens that the vortices in their CM system can be described by the same equations as low-energy versions of G-S superstrings with an N=2 supersymmetry. This is not the first time that dualities between condensed matter systems and string theories have been observed!
I think the trouble was the privatisation was most heinously botched. BT should've been split up into several smaller competing companies, and the lines distributed out to them at random within an exchange, under the purview a body like OFCOM.
It's about time BT was AT&T'd.
It is an undisputed fact that the Soviets and Eastern Europeans were superior to the West in mathematics and abstract theoretical physics.
I'm a high-energy theory Ph.D. student. One of the professors in my department specialises in (amongst other things) Lattice QCD, and once said that in order to get better results for field theoretic predicitions in a non-perturbative regime, you need "either a faster computer, or more Russians" (or words to that effect).
That's what the person who answered the phone at the car insurance company asked. I told them to mind their own business, and that this wasn't that kind of phone call.
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Amen to that. I too have seen the dark side of Sony music hardware; namely, the horror of SonicStage SimpleBurner. Why does that thing require Admin privileges to run? What does it write about my activities and where? Why does it not work with dual-boot configurations? What kind of way is that to run a piece of software for listening to and managing music? And why they hell are they worried about people swapping music with it when the thing only rips to ATRAC-3, which is a bloody awful codec anyway?!
(Offtopic, but am I the only one seeing cross-talk from other discussions popping up here?!)
I think the parent was meant to be funny.
I wonder how many people here are posting anonymously out of the shame of being unable to resist replying to something that is quite obviously an off-topic troll.
A number of friends have asked me to help them set up their new computers. I installed Firefox, checked the firewall, installed some basic security tools, and drummed it into their heads that they are to use a limited account (and if application x doesn't like it, live with it).
Although ordinary users, they are all yet to be cracked. And I'll be damned if they ever are.
The only real problem with Windows XP is that it doesn't encourage the most basic security practice of privilege throttling. How is the "unwashed" user supposed to know this? I recently read an article in a "reputable" UK computer magazine that went through everything needed to secure an XP box (from AdAware to ZoneAlarm through Spybot - Search & Destroy) and not once did it say "for goodness's sake, set up a limited account". Those tools are worth squat without this. I intend to have words with the editor.
No, in fact I think I'll just sit back with a smug grin as some 1337 h4xx0r pwns his b0x3n.
Now at xxx.arXiv.xxx.
So stick the motor in a hybrid.
I hardly think this is surprising, given the sheer volume of knowledge and understanding a researcher must absorb to make any advancement at the cutting edge of science today. It really does take around half a life-time's worth of study.
Wasn't this the company with the marketing department comprising a bunch of jerks who were first against the wall when the revolution came?
As a theorist, I don't care what you do with them. As long as I get to keep Ruslana.
These guys were barking up the wrong tree. Beauty, being in the eye of the beholder and all that, is not a gauge-invariant quantity. It's not physical.
My goodness, you're concerned about the physics in Star Wars? Since when has that been a priority for George Lucas (or the target audience)? Star Wars is barely even science fiction; it's a fairy tale (like Shrek). This is the film where Harrison Ford bombs it halfway across the Galaxy going "point five" past lightspeed and Obi Wan K holds a conversation in real-time across a distance of about 20,000 light-years. What's that all about?! And how come he could tell that Alderaan was blown up the moment it happened in the Galaxy frame? Is The Force non-causal or something? Is Rupert Sheldrake Lucas's science advisor? Why the hell didn't Obi Wan simply choose a frame where it happens in his future, and prevent the disaster?! Damn!
Mine is still its original dark black charcoal gré. Did you deface your NeXT by respraying it?! Oh, you philistine! And after Steve Jobs went through hell repainting his factory over and over again to get just the right shade!
I sort of econd this. This isn't a test for fundamental strings (or fundamental anything). To do that requires energies of order the Planck scale. This demonstrates a supersymmetry in a condensed matter context; that is, a symmetry linking bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom. It happens that the vortices in their CM system can be described by the same equations as low-energy versions of G-S superstrings with an N=2 supersymmetry. This is not the first time that dualities between condensed matter systems and string theories have been observed!
I'm thinking of DRM-ing my entry.
I think the trouble was the privatisation was most heinously botched. BT should've been split up into several smaller competing companies, and the lines distributed out to them at random within an exchange, under the purview a body like OFCOM. It's about time BT was AT&T'd.
So the Welsh translation of Longhorn's going to have a GACU?
At last, Microsoft come up with a panic screen that accurately reflects what many British users say when it pops up: "Argh, sod!"
SCO want a hearing with Judge Judy.
And I thought The Boat Race was bad enough.
I'm a high-energy theory Ph.D. student. One of the professors in my department specialises in (amongst other things) Lattice QCD, and once said that in order to get better results for field theoretic predicitions in a non-perturbative regime, you need "either a faster computer, or more Russians" (or words to that effect).
That's what the person who answered the phone at the car insurance company asked. I told them to mind their own business, and that this wasn't that kind of phone call.
What, there's an IKEA brawl simulation game, now?
All your motherboard are belong to us.
Make way for iKEA.