It will most certainly see a lot of cleaning solvent, since the whole family seems to be touching it with their filthy fingers, and I can only begin to imagine the kinds of materials that will be spilled on it.
Versatile. Not Video. Digital Versatile Disc. Which says even less about the disc than 'floppy disc' or 'compact disc'. It's obviously digital. Well, yeah, you can store whatever you like on it, hance it's versatile. And it's a disc too, it spins like that other compact disc. But hey, it should have a name.
The thing I don't like is that they take more and more letters. There was MC and LP and CD. But why DAT and not DT, why DCC and not DC, why DVD and not just DD which would be a logical successor for CD... And now "Blue-ray" and "HD-DVD"? That's five or six digits! What did we do to deserve that? And what will the next format be? Ultra-Violet-Digital-Storage-Rotating-Encrypted-Co ntent-Storage-Disc?
This is your power plant on a safe distance of a volcano *shows picture of obviously long ago abandoned plant* Questions?
Simple math.
People build a plant there because multiplying the chance of total disaster with the cost of such disaster comes out much smaller than the expected revenue.
"There are magazines I do not buy because of the ads."
Mee too - but for different reasons.
I stopped reading a (Dutch) PC magazine once I reveiled the strong correlation between the review of the product and the size of its advertisement on the next page. For example when a 2x CD burner gets more points for "speed" than a 4x burner...
So actually, I "blocked" because the ads were actually related to the content.
For TCP using MD5 is not feasible. The hardware just isn't up to it, you can't calculate MD5 as fast as your network card can transfer it. By the time you have hardware that can keep up, the network has also evolved and you're still not fast enough.
Another thing is, with CRC64, any modification of 64 bits or less will be detected (as will any odd number). If you look at the example, only 5 bytes (40 bits at most) were different, but yielded the same MD5 checksum. CRC64 would have detected this modification.
The point is: MD5 is (well, used to be) good for data integrety protection. It is hard to willingly modify the data in such a way that the hash remains unchanged. It is not so good at error detection - it cannot guarantee a level of protection.
CRC is good at detecting (random, transmission) errors. You can calculate exactly what the odds are that a certain number of bits has changed. And you can guarantee that no errors up to 32 bits will pass unnoticed.
An indicator light on the mouse lights up when the battery has less than 10% power left
I assume that the light goes off again when the battery level reaches 0? B.t.w., why is it that modern devices all have a light to indicate that they're switched off? They used to have a light to warn you that it's still turned on...
...the mouse can sense when the PC has gone into sleep mode or is shut down. The mouse powers down accordingly. This gives the mouse an expected battery life of three months
Only if the PC remains shut down for three months.
And combined with the first statement, the mouse must have enough battery power to allow the "battery low" light to remain on for 9 days straight. Is that included in the calculation, or will it now run out of juice in a day because the light is now draining the battery?
Before Google, there was Lycos. I once typed the word "Computer" and got 3000 hits.
Nothing as much fun as getting Mosaic to compile on your Apollo workstation. Took a few nights, but the results were awesome.
And it took revenge too - just click on the About menu option of IE: Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM); was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Yeah - and to get to that improvement, just hook up your unprotected Windows box and you'll be flooded with products to increase your performance... massively...
One got infected in 12 minutes. The other one is still not infected. So 50% of the test machines got infected in 12 minutes.
What the article actually suggests is that there's a exponential distribution (like radioactive decay). So 50% gets infected in 12 minutes, that means 75% in 24 minutes, 87.5% in 36 minutes and so on. Eventually they all get owned.
According to that, the XP box here in the lab that's unprotected, running web (and other) services and hooked to the backbone with a 100Mbps line for half a year now has a chance of 1/(2^21600), something like 10^-6000, of actually existing.
Let them city folks stay in the city. No more annoying tourists here dumping their garbage wherever they happen to stand, and complaining that there's no pavement.
So city folks should raise their kids to stay put.
Basically, nobody buys a desktop PC. The one you bought in 2003 is still running just fine. And you cannot think of an upgrade for it, since you don't play a lot of games.
So all that money has to go somewhere. And then you notice that you can get a laptop for about the price of a desktop, you figure, what the heck, why not buy a laptop.
Because face it, there's not much interesting new stuff. The faster videocards and newer CPUs are great for the hardcore gamerz out there. But for development, digital photography, webbrowsing and so on, the old one is still just fine.
Did you notice that you could replace "check your email" with any other verb, like "walk your dog", "brush your teeth" or "play with your genitals" and make this whole thing general?
Let's cook up a "are you addicted" poll generator in PHP (or even JavaScript would do)...
The great thing is that many countries, like The Netherlands where i live, you can also receive the BBC channels by satelite - for free (as in "free beer").
So thanks to those UK folks who do pay up - my satelite dish turns to 28 degrees every Saturday evening to dump Farscape on the tuner's harddisk so I can watch it on Monday.
And no, you can't get ours any longer - the Dutch TV channels are all well encrypted starting this month. (Before that, they were also broadcast in an encryption that has been cracked some 8 years ago)
Windows 2000 Pro (no modifications whatsoever) ran beautifully on my P133 laptop with 40 MB RAM. Running office applications, playing games like Need For Speed 2 (no 3D accelleration...) and tetris clones was no problem at all.
Opening Control Panel was a bit of a problem, because it caused the memory load to go from 30 to 70 MB, and excessive swapping as a result.
What caught my attention was the abbreviation SOA.
This abbreviation is quite often mentioned on TV and Radio. According to the Dutch dictionary, the abbreviation is for "Sexueel Overdraagbare Aandoening", which translates to "Sexual transferable disease" (like herpes and AIDS).
Because once we have a holodeck like on Startrek, we'll see a new economy based on "holominutes" to be spent there.
Of course, if the holodeck is sorta free (as in free beer) like in Startrek, civilization as we know it will end, since no-one will ever leave it.
Although, we might want to get some of the bugs out, since the holodeck did not appear to be a safe place.
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..you've just created a "Guilty until proven innocent" model...
Actually, that's becoming a very popular model. It has been in use for traffic rules violations for many years now (you have to prove yourself innocent), and there are several other areas where the Dutch government wants to apply it. The most recent example is for "unwanted intimacies" (ongewenste intimiteiten) at work. If the secretary files a complaint that the boss is harassing her, the boss will have to prove he didn't or otherwise he'll be considered guilty.
You forgot the chinese - or whatever place they make those - players that probably didn't care about license fees - they're not open source but they're free. As in freedom of speech.
And they care about their contracts with the big manufacturers, which in return allows the biggies to lock out newcomers. How are you, as a startup DVD player manufacturer ever going to get a key for your device? Of couse any manufacturer can get a key, free of charge. You just have to pay the gazillion dollar "administration" fee. Just like MP3 - it costs only $2.50 per user license to sell an MP3 encoding device. But there's a minimum of 15000 per year, which makes it impossible for shareware authors to include MP3 encoding at reasonable cost.
And without the protection mechanism, there would have been much less fees to pay, to begin with.
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It will most certainly see a lot of cleaning solvent, since the whole family seems to be touching it with their filthy fingers, and I can only begin to imagine the kinds of materials that will be spilled on it.
Enough alternatives - unless you travel to a location where they haven't discovered the PC yet.
Just to name a few:
Versatile. Not Video. Digital Versatile Disc. Which says even less about the disc than 'floppy disc' or 'compact disc'. It's obviously digital. Well, yeah, you can store whatever you like on it, hance it's versatile. And it's a disc too, it spins like that other compact disc. But hey, it should have a name.
o ntent-Storage-Disc?
The thing I don't like is that they take more and more letters. There was MC and LP and CD. But why DAT and not DT, why DCC and not DC, why DVD and not just DD which would be a logical successor for CD... And now "Blue-ray" and "HD-DVD"? That's five or six digits! What did we do to deserve that? And what will the next format be? Ultra-Violet-Digital-Storage-Rotating-Encrypted-C
This is your power plant on a safe distance of a volcano *shows picture of obviously long ago abandoned plant* Questions?
Simple math.
People build a plant there because multiplying the chance of total disaster with the cost of such disaster comes out much smaller than the expected revenue.
I knew that one post would inevitable lead to a breast reference, and this is the one.
Studies showed that we like "sweet and creamy" because it takes us back to drinking mother's milk.
I for one, have no doubts about the added value.
Basically, a few LEDs and some analog electronics will lead to a bill of material of roughly $10 for the Ambilight feature.
The TV is sold for quite a bit more than $10 over the one without the funky LEDs.
I for one, welcome our ambient (and rich) overlords from The Netherlands...
"There are magazines I do not buy because of the ads."
Mee too - but for different reasons.
I stopped reading a (Dutch) PC magazine once I reveiled the strong correlation between the review of the product and the size of its advertisement on the next page. For example when a 2x CD burner gets more points for "speed" than a 4x burner...
So actually, I "blocked" because the ads were actually related to the content.
For TCP using MD5 is not feasible. The hardware just isn't up to it, you can't calculate MD5 as fast as your network card can transfer it. By the time you have hardware that can keep up, the network has also evolved and you're still not fast enough.
Another thing is, with CRC64, any modification of 64 bits or less will be detected (as will any odd number). If you look at the example, only 5 bytes (40 bits at most) were different, but yielded the same MD5 checksum. CRC64 would have detected this modification.
The point is: MD5 is (well, used to be) good for data integrety protection. It is hard to willingly modify the data in such a way that the hash remains unchanged. It is not so good at error detection - it cannot guarantee a level of protection.
CRC is good at detecting (random, transmission) errors. You can calculate exactly what the odds are that a certain number of bits has changed. And you can guarantee that no errors up to 32 bits will pass unnoticed.
I assume that the light goes off again when the battery level reaches 0? B.t.w., why is it that modern devices all have a light to indicate that they're switched off? They used to have a light to warn you that it's still turned on...
Only if the PC remains shut down for three months.
And combined with the first statement, the mouse must have enough battery power to allow the "battery low" light to remain on for 9 days straight. Is that included in the calculation, or will it now run out of juice in a day because the light is now draining the battery?
And before Mosaic, there was Gopher.
Before Google, there was Lycos. I once typed the word "Computer" and got 3000 hits.
Nothing as much fun as getting Mosaic to compile on your Apollo workstation. Took a few nights, but the results were awesome.
And it took revenge too - just click on the About menu option of IE:
Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM); was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
It's been done even before that...
PacMan is my description of a Disco: People eating coloured pills while moving on repetitive music.
Yeah - and to get to that improvement, just hook up your unprotected Windows box and you'll be flooded with products to increase your performance... massively...
Nah, they just had two boxes and hooked them up.
One got infected in 12 minutes. The other one is still not infected. So 50% of the test machines got infected in 12 minutes.
What the article actually suggests is that there's a exponential distribution (like radioactive decay). So 50% gets infected in 12 minutes, that means 75% in 24 minutes, 87.5% in 36 minutes and so on. Eventually they all get owned.
According to that, the XP box here in the lab that's unprotected, running web (and other) services and hooked to the backbone with a 100Mbps line for half a year now has a chance of 1/(2^21600), something like 10^-6000, of actually existing.
so does that mean that you should always use protection when using windows
Running Windows is like having sex - without protection, there's a 50% chance you get infected in 12 minutes...
100% Agreed!
Let them city folks stay in the city. No more annoying tourists here dumping their garbage wherever they happen to stand, and complaining that there's no pavement.
So city folks should raise their kids to stay put.
Basically, nobody buys a desktop PC. The one you bought in 2003 is still running just fine. And you cannot think of an upgrade for it, since you don't play a lot of games.
So all that money has to go somewhere. And then you notice that you can get a laptop for about the price of a desktop, you figure, what the heck, why not buy a laptop.
Because face it, there's not much interesting new stuff. The faster videocards and newer CPUs are great for the hardcore gamerz out there. But for development, digital photography, webbrowsing and so on, the old one is still just fine.
Did you notice that you could replace "check your email" with any other verb, like "walk your dog", "brush your teeth" or "play with your genitals" and make this whole thing general?
Let's cook up a "are you addicted" poll generator in PHP (or even JavaScript would do)...
I was just looking, but yours appears to be the only. So here goes:
Dren! I'll never get back to my frelling home then.
The great thing is that many countries, like The Netherlands where i live, you can also receive the BBC channels by satelite - for free (as in "free beer").
So thanks to those UK folks who do pay up - my satelite dish turns to 28 degrees every Saturday evening to dump Farscape on the tuner's harddisk so I can watch it on Monday.
And no, you can't get ours any longer - the Dutch TV channels are all well encrypted starting this month. (Before that, they were also broadcast in an encryption that has been cracked some 8 years ago)
Windows 2000 Pro (no modifications whatsoever) ran beautifully on my P133 laptop with 40 MB RAM. Running office applications, playing games like Need For Speed 2 (no 3D accelleration...) and tetris clones was no problem at all.
Opening Control Panel was a bit of a problem, because it caused the memory load to go from 30 to 70 MB, and excessive swapping as a result.
What caught my attention was the abbreviation SOA.
a _committee/
This abbreviation is quite often mentioned on TV and Radio. According to the Dutch dictionary, the abbreviation is for "Sexueel Overdraagbare Aandoening", which translates to "Sexual transferable disease" (like herpes and AIDS).
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/04/_oasis_so
Because once we have a holodeck like on Startrek, we'll see a new economy based on "holominutes" to be spent there.
Of course, if the holodeck is sorta free (as in free beer) like in Startrek, civilization as we know it will end, since no-one will ever leave it.
Although, we might want to get some of the bugs out, since the holodeck did not appear to be a safe place.
Actually, that's becoming a very popular model. It has been in use for traffic rules violations for many years now (you have to prove yourself innocent), and there are several other areas where the Dutch government wants to apply it. The most recent example is for "unwanted intimacies" (ongewenste intimiteiten) at work. If the secretary files a complaint that the boss is harassing her, the boss will have to prove he didn't or otherwise he'll be considered guilty.
They drive motorcycles nowadays, and Plague has been replaced by Pollution.
You forgot the chinese - or whatever place they make those - players that probably didn't care about license fees - they're not open source but they're free. As in freedom of speech.
And they care about their contracts with the big manufacturers, which in return allows the biggies to lock out newcomers. How are you, as a startup DVD player manufacturer ever going to get a key for your device? Of couse any manufacturer can get a key, free of charge. You just have to pay the gazillion dollar "administration" fee. Just like MP3 - it costs only $2.50 per user license to sell an MP3 encoding device. But there's a minimum of 15000 per year, which makes it impossible for shareware authors to include MP3 encoding at reasonable cost.
And without the protection mechanism, there would have been much less fees to pay, to begin with.