This brings old memories from the time when I was something of a mix between consultant and support technician. I got the worst of both worlds, but learned a few tricks how to end calls after some odd noises had occured. I came up with so many tricks and used them so frequently so I kept track of which idiot had been hung up using which method. (Ok, so customer_0643 I've already hung up using the "bringing a HDD demagnetizer close to the cell phone"-method, so I guess I just do the "gradually cover the phone mic with thumb, then turn off the phone" method)
So different types of edges, whether they are sharp or soft; curves, gradients etc would have their optimal algorithm? I guess I should read the link given in a reply, or the book, but I wonder if there were plans to automatically detect the optimal algorithm to use? For example by: 1: checking the colours, histogram etc, selecting a few probable algorithms 2 then compressing up to 1% of an image using each of them, comparing compression level and picking a final algorithm that way.
This might be CPU-intensive, but lead to smaller images. With larger flash memories and hard disks as well as the "good enough JPG format in one ring side, and faster CPUs and an evolved algorithm picking function I guess the fight would still end up in jpg's favour.
(I started this post as a joke but edited it to be more serious, had some cheap pr0n algorithm joke...:/ )
I can imagine they will soon (perhaps on any upcoming smaller Mac fair) offer matching keyboards and mouses with a 2 button version, thus admitting they were wrong. Instead hiding it in the launch of a peripheral, not a main product like if a new 2-button mouse had been part of the Minimac)
Acquintance of mine has a SSID "Blew me for helping with WLAN" (In Finnish though, "Imutti WLAN-avusta", I think) in his neighbourhood.
He's been looking out through his window since the discovery at his neighbours lately trying to figure out which woman it is, always willing to help out.
No worries, Joe Sixpack has not even have heard of VOIP, and the inability of the telcos and their competitiors to explain to the technology to Joe will slow the acceptance of the technology.
In 2006, though, everyone will understand that in order to sell VoIP to the mass market you need to fulfil three requirements:
1: It should be sold as a PHONE connection (not even mentioning the technology behind, let alone any acronyms) 2: A reason why he should bother (Extremely low prices, very simple installation. Otherwise there is no reason to change something that has worked for 100+ years) 3: A celebrity association and/or extreme marketing using the 2 above factors.
Since porn and copyrighted material, which has led to the high, um, penetration, in the mass market when it comes to VCRs and the Internet will not be a factor when it comes to VoIP I think the telephone companies will have ample time to adjust their product lines and services. The change won't come overnight.
Except if you include free phone dating and sex calls in the VoIP service. Hmm... Remember where you read this first.
VNC is an acronym for a software product that exist in a few different variants, most notably RealVNC which is free. http://www.realvnc.com/. I have yet to see any of the manufacturers use the acronym VNC for their commercial products, since it is the name for a specific software, not a generic acronym.
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/Windows2000/AdminTips/Network/VNCstandsforVirtual NetworkComputing.html
The question itself is interesting. If the author of the grandparent post doesn't reply, I can recommend RealVNC and TightVNC http://www.tightvnc.com/ - AFAIK the different versions of the VNC based products are mostly compatible with eachother, except of course version specific changes, most notably security enhancements which you asked about.
I don't think the danger (primarily) lies in the collision risk, but in problems associated with too little separation between satellites using the same frequency band. AfaIk they don't need to be exactly the same frequency to disturb too adjacent signals.
A somewhat similar situation exists in Sweden, but instead of research institutes charging for prints and reprints and/or memberships we have a situation where the organisations that are participating in research projects and studies not only finance them, but also take part with personnel and other resources.
For example: large energy companies and a few governmental departments and a university are members of an organisation that deals with future energy solutions. They all fund the organisation and projects with an amount depending on the company's size and type. The involved participators try to get projects started that would provide them with valuable information. Usually interesting projects get approved, and the different organisations recommend (usually their own) people that are suitable to execute the studies.
The results are then spread primarily to the members of the organisation, and since the documents are primarily for internal usage, it can be hard or impossible to get hold of copies legitimately. Even in the universities the existing copies are used conservatively, so few copies spread to the public.
After some time the results are published usign the Universities printing presses and made available more widely.
This might not apply to all similar organisations in Europe or even Sweden, but these are my experiences of how it works over here. Many European Union projects also work like this, but I don't know if it is general.
How long until he is charged for crimes using the anti-patriotic act, and seen as a general threat to free enterprise?
This might sound quite negative, but over the last few years the legislation and general tendency of court decisions, as well as in parts of the population anything that restricts the ability to screw the people over, is seen as such.
This is kind of good news. At this rate Mozilla might load as fast and require as little memory as IE by the time it is scrapped and Mozilla 2 is started up to clean out the code again.
This is not a troll, but a resigned sigh after seeing the slow development and bloated releases from Mozilla and its spinoffs. I am aware that the reason IE uses so little memory and loads so fast is because parts of it are used in the OS.
Some results:
www.dn.se - IE 21 368kB, Firefox 21 240kB
www.slashdot.org - IE 18 508kB, Firefox 22 248kB
Load times were a bit higher with Firefox, and image rendering slower. I also did tests with a remote control session, which makes it easier to spot slow load times and picture rendering in web browsers, because of the periodic updates of the screen where this difference was clearly visible. I did tests with both cached and non cached pages and IE did a better job.
I use Firefox as a default web browser on my Windows machine, but do not let Mozilla stay installed after seeing it is so bloated. I give it a chance each release, but alas I see no improvement. It seems to be a colossal memory hog, and it makes me wonder if the project can and should survive considering the already bloated code.
Ah, the good old days of 8 bit computing, when people did great things with so little resources.
I think they should make a Happy Meal for geeks where they include a Suse CD, or Knoppix in a penguin shaped cardboard box, with the burger and fries in it.
Oh, and a license agreement from SCO.
There are some differences between USA and Europe that will give some varying and odd court decisions.
Big business has a strong hold of the US courts. The only way they can lose is if anyone even stronger is the counterpart, or if a state or country invests heavily in the suit to gain even larger monetary gains from winning in the court.
In Europe, this is rarely the case, but on the other hand many European legislators and courts are weak, have little resources and time. In Sweden, for example, the Social Democarat party tends to legislate and vote in the EU parlament often following the US court results and organisation bullying (MPAA, RIAA)
Some countries invest time and resources to actually learn what the cases are about, and court cases involving Microsoft etc, can in fact be lost by the larger companies, liek in this case.
Just because IBM is on the "good" side for now, does not mean that Big Business will be the saviour and flag bearer for the Open Source movement for ever. Sooner or later O.S. will be screwed and we will see court cases vs IBM, HP etc will steamroll over smaller organisations and people in order to enforce software patents.
I'll just ignore your outburst of curses, and want to point out that my main point was that money does not reflect the real value of resources and work (which is exactly the opposite of what you accuse me of claiming) and that the world (and many countries budget defecits) can benefit from a more equal distribution of money, which I already mentioned is a very bad tool.
p.s. I am not a CEO, and am a liberal socialist d.s.
- Companies save money by outsourcing, allowing expenditure in more critical areas. Fewer jobs in the short run, more jobs and stable companies in the long run.
- Spreading $ to "less developed" countries narrows the gap between countries with little money (a theoretical construction) but huge resources and low wages and countries with lots of money but few resources and high wages. In the long run or very long run this leads to a more stable world economy. Large parts of many countries budget defecits are because other countries can't afford to pay for exensive products. Basically money != work/resources, and the development of other countries rectifies this.
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ISS colliding with something would mean it hits something that is:
1: Also in orbit, and in an extreme case it is a head-on collision. Its speed would be similar to the ISS, since it maintains orbit at the asme altitude.
2: Something else, non-orbital, moving through space. Its speed can theoretically be anything, but most likely not close to c/10.
Re:30,000 km/s can do a lot of damage
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Anything hitting the space station at that speed (1/10 the speed of light) would cause enormous damage.
Did you mean 30 000km/h?
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Mercifully, yes.
This brings old memories from the time when I was something of a mix between consultant and support technician. I got the worst of both worlds, but learned a few tricks how to end calls after some odd noises had occured. I came up with so many tricks and used them so frequently so I kept track of which idiot had been hung up using which method. (Ok, so customer_0643 I've already hung up using the "bringing a HDD demagnetizer close to the cell phone"-method, so I guess I just do the "gradually cover the phone mic with thumb, then turn off the phone" method)
The guy from the Gillette commercials seems to have been drawn twice by the Bingo machine and plays
both the roles of Mr Fantastic and Human Torch.
So different types of edges, whether they are sharp or soft; curves, gradients etc would have their optimal algorithm? I guess I should read the link given in a reply, or the book, but I wonder if there were plans to automatically detect the optimal algorithm to use?
:/ )
For example by:
1: checking the colours, histogram etc, selecting a few probable algorithms
2 then compressing up to 1% of an image using each of them, comparing compression level and picking a final algorithm that way.
This might be CPU-intensive, but lead to smaller images. With larger flash memories and hard disks as well as the "good enough JPG format in one ring side, and faster CPUs and an evolved algorithm picking function I guess the fight would still end up in jpg's favour.
(I started this post as a joke but edited it to be more serious, had some cheap pr0n algorithm joke...
I can imagine they will soon (perhaps on any upcoming smaller Mac fair) offer matching keyboards and mouses with a 2 button version, thus admitting they were wrong. Instead hiding it in the launch of a peripheral, not a main product like if a new 2-button mouse had been part of the Minimac)
Acquintance of mine has a SSID "Blew me for helping with WLAN" (In Finnish though, "Imutti WLAN-avusta", I think) in his neighbourhood. He's been looking out through his window since the discovery at his neighbours lately trying to figure out which woman it is, always willing to help out.
In Europe the hot chicks work AT the space obseravtories and other labs. :D
Windows exploits?
I think it is more of a sign that the temperature in Hell is a steady 2000 C still.
No worries, Joe Sixpack has not even have heard of VOIP, and the inability of the telcos and their competitiors to explain to the technology to Joe will slow the acceptance of the technology.
In 2006, though, everyone will understand that in order to sell VoIP to the mass market you need to fulfil three requirements:
1: It should be sold as a PHONE connection (not even mentioning the technology behind, let alone any acronyms)
2: A reason why he should bother (Extremely low prices, very simple installation. Otherwise there is no reason to change something that has worked for 100+ years)
3: A celebrity association and/or extreme marketing using the 2 above factors.
Since porn and copyrighted material, which has led to the high, um, penetration, in the mass market when it comes to VCRs and the Internet will not be a factor when it comes to VoIP I think the telephone companies will have ample time to adjust their product lines and services. The change won't come overnight.
Except if you include free phone dating and sex calls in the VoIP service. Hmm... Remember where you read this first.
VNC is an acronym for a software product that exist in a few different variants, most notably RealVNC which is free. http://www.realvnc.com/. I have yet to see any of the manufacturers use the acronym VNC for their commercial products, since it is the name for a specific software, not a generic acronym. http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips /Windows2000/AdminTips/Network/VNCstandsforVirtual NetworkComputing.html
The question itself is interesting. If the author of the grandparent post doesn't reply, I can recommend RealVNC and TightVNC http://www.tightvnc.com/ - AFAIK the different versions of the VNC based products are mostly compatible with eachother, except of course version specific changes, most notably security enhancements which you asked about.
PCAnywhere, Terminal Server and Metaframe are not based on VNC.
I don't think the danger (primarily) lies in the collision risk, but in problems associated with too little separation between satellites using the same frequency band. AfaIk they don't need to be exactly the same frequency to disturb too adjacent signals.
You know, some people are Millhouses and some people are Barts.
A somewhat similar situation exists in Sweden, but instead of research institutes charging for prints and reprints and/or memberships we have a situation where the organisations that are participating in research projects and studies not only finance them, but also take part with personnel and other resources.
For example: large energy companies and a few governmental departments and a university are members of an organisation that deals with future energy solutions. They all fund the organisation and projects with an amount depending on the company's size and type. The involved participators try to get projects started that would provide them with valuable information. Usually interesting projects get approved, and the different organisations recommend (usually their own) people that are suitable to execute the studies.
The results are then spread primarily to the members of the organisation, and since the documents are primarily for internal usage, it can be hard or impossible to get hold of copies legitimately. Even in the universities the existing copies are used conservatively, so few copies spread to the public.
After some time the results are published usign the Universities printing presses and made available more widely.
This might not apply to all similar organisations in Europe or even Sweden, but these are my experiences of how it works over here. Many European Union projects also work like this, but I don't know if it is general.
How long until he is charged for crimes using the anti-patriotic act, and seen as a general threat to free enterprise? This might sound quite negative, but over the last few years the legislation and general tendency of court decisions, as well as in parts of the population anything that restricts the ability to screw the people over, is seen as such.
This is kind of good news. At this rate Mozilla might load as fast and require as little memory as IE by the time it is scrapped and Mozilla 2 is started up to clean out the code again. This is not a troll, but a resigned sigh after seeing the slow development and bloated releases from Mozilla and its spinoffs. I am aware that the reason IE uses so little memory and loads so fast is because parts of it are used in the OS. Some results: www.dn.se - IE 21 368kB, Firefox 21 240kB www.slashdot.org - IE 18 508kB, Firefox 22 248kB Load times were a bit higher with Firefox, and image rendering slower. I also did tests with a remote control session, which makes it easier to spot slow load times and picture rendering in web browsers, because of the periodic updates of the screen where this difference was clearly visible. I did tests with both cached and non cached pages and IE did a better job. I use Firefox as a default web browser on my Windows machine, but do not let Mozilla stay installed after seeing it is so bloated. I give it a chance each release, but alas I see no improvement. It seems to be a colossal memory hog, and it makes me wonder if the project can and should survive considering the already bloated code. Ah, the good old days of 8 bit computing, when people did great things with so little resources.
I think they should make a Happy Meal for geeks where they include a Suse CD, or Knoppix in a penguin shaped cardboard box, with the burger and fries in it. Oh, and a license agreement from SCO.
There are some differences between USA and Europe that will give some varying and odd court decisions. Big business has a strong hold of the US courts. The only way they can lose is if anyone even stronger is the counterpart, or if a state or country invests heavily in the suit to gain even larger monetary gains from winning in the court. In Europe, this is rarely the case, but on the other hand many European legislators and courts are weak, have little resources and time. In Sweden, for example, the Social Democarat party tends to legislate and vote in the EU parlament often following the US court results and organisation bullying (MPAA, RIAA) Some countries invest time and resources to actually learn what the cases are about, and court cases involving Microsoft etc, can in fact be lost by the larger companies, liek in this case.
Just because IBM is on the "good" side for now, does not mean that Big Business will be the saviour and flag bearer for the Open Source movement for ever. Sooner or later O.S. will be screwed and we will see court cases vs IBM, HP etc will steamroll over smaller organisations and people in order to enforce software patents.
Showing nudity or a pair of boobs is OK, as long as there is a bullet wound between them.
I'll just ignore your outburst of curses, and want to point out that my main point was that money does not reflect the real value of resources and work (which is exactly the opposite of what you accuse me of claiming) and that the world (and many countries budget defecits) can benefit from a more equal distribution of money, which I already mentioned is a very bad tool.
p.s. I am not a CEO, and am a liberal socialist d.s.
- Companies save money by outsourcing, allowing expenditure in more critical areas. Fewer jobs in the short run, more jobs and stable companies in the long run. - Spreading $ to "less developed" countries narrows the gap between countries with little money (a theoretical construction) but huge resources and low wages and countries with lots of money but few resources and high wages. In the long run or very long run this leads to a more stable world economy. Large parts of many countries budget defecits are because other countries can't afford to pay for exensive products. Basically money != work/resources, and the development of other countries rectifies this.
ISS colliding with something would mean it hits something that is: 1: Also in orbit, and in an extreme case it is a head-on collision. Its speed would be similar to the ISS, since it maintains orbit at the asme altitude. 2: Something else, non-orbital, moving through space. Its speed can theoretically be anything, but most likely not close to c/10.
Anything hitting the space station at that speed (1/10 the speed of light) would cause enormous damage. Did you mean 30 000km/h?
I bet you did not know this when you wrote your comment:
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http://edition.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/11/25/i
You think suicide bombers are Joe Palestinians?