Just like the last time, the laws of quantum physics still work and it is still impossible to observe a quantum system without altering it. The researchers found that the classical authentication protocols that prevent man-in-the-middle attacks were insufficient.
Visualize our three dimensions as a bounded volume in 3-space. Then you can kind-of imagine the 4th and 5th spatial dimensions discreetly as 1- and 2-d arrays of such volumes.
The given rule is an geometric series that indicates that the size of the bureaucracy is equal to 1/2 to 1/3 of the organization for all sizes. You need something that diverges, like real cancers*cough*bureaucracies do.
If you want a good CRT, you can buy a GDM-W900 or W900F on ebay or craigslist - they're absolutely professional grade displays and the image is a wonder to behold. I've plugged my laptop in to the mine's second input before; The difference in color saturation is stunning.
Unfortunately, we all have the same problem regadless of our monitor technology. It can either have black be truly black and get it's full dynamic range, or we can work in a room with a normal level of illumination.
Unfortunately, that doesn't mean much since being raped in the ass and mouth by your gyro-car's controls is also (slightly) less painful than dealing with the airlines.
If you want really good math typesetting, write LaTex with TexMaker. I promise, it's frighteningly easy. Although I don't know what formulas you're writing out, unless you do serious math and physics \frac, ^, and _ probably cover most of it. And if they don't, that's what TexMaker's pages of other symbols are for.
Honestly, the only thing that I somewhat dislike in LaTeX is having to set up my pages manually - I'd like having a screen with a bunch of radio buttons for common presets that displays a sample page in this format, and then has an interactive editor where selecting a page parameter highlights that feature on the page.
Link to TFA is a 404, and clicking the homepage link returns a 500, and there were only three posts when I clicked on the article.
Not worried about data recovery though; I make a point of using shred with -n 50 on the rare occassion that I would care if someone stole my hard drive. Other than that, most of my internet logins are stored in an encrypted kde wallet and that's good enough for me. I don't see anything on my computer as warranting an Ironkey that doesn't leave my person...
They used to actually do that for electric trains back when there was a debate about ac vs dc power. The problem is that it wastes about 3/4 of your power - each large motor will be about 50% efficient.
Three surgeons are discussing what kind of patients they like to operate on. The first says, "I like to operate on accountants. All the insides are neatly numbered." The second says, "I like to operate on electrical engineers. The insides are color-coded." The third says "I've got you all beat. I operate on politicians - there's no guts, no heart, no brain, no spine, and the head and ass are interchangable."
Don't know about you, but Gentoo Portage is one of the most painless program installation methods I've ever encountered*: emerge program. Plus, there's some GUI that basically shows you what a command line query will so ordinaries can use it too:)
* Except that as an Athlon-64 user I can't understand why anything is masked with ~amd64, let alone something as important as QT4. x86_64 is no longer experimental or new and I think we've gotten over using unsigned integers as pointers, what's the damn problem?
I'm curious what the upper limit on the image resolution they can reconstruct by intercepting the RF emission from a CRT. Is it more difficult to recover the 160Mhz signal from my workstation monitor than it is to recover the 18-ish Mhz signal from an sdtv? And in any case, what's the quality look like? OK or utter shit? And what about the highest-end CRTs, that reach something like a 350Mhz pixel clock?
It's nice to know now how to enter filenames into gtk applications. Now why in the hell did someone have to tell me how to do it?
Don't blame me for not knowing about the address bar. If I don't see a text box, I won't type and if I don't type I won't see the bar - that's an insanely bad design that's just begging to trap anyone who doesn't either start typing without looking or mash the keyboard for some reason. Regarding 3, I retract - something must've been wrong with my previous sound setup; The application that originally spawned my complaint worked nicely this time.
And why exactly are you accusing me of spreading fud? The GP asked what people want in other OSes, and I honestly answered: I want Flash for my AMD64, a friendly gnome file dialog, and I've had a bad time with sound recording in the past.
Nitpick - Power from space would never be in the form of ionizing radiation. Radiation isn't ionizing until the photons or particles have enough energy to make ions by kicking electrons loose from atoms. We're talking microwaves, not vaccuum ultraviolet:)
I can help add some things to what I as a user want that my Linux desktop doesn't have:
1) Flash without having to install 32-bit libraries. 32-bit is dying, Adobe, and I'm sick of redirecting Firefox windows from my server to my desktop.
2) A friendly and standard file open dialog for Gnome apps. Mplayer, PCB, and the Gimp are the GTK-based programs I most commonly use. Mplayer doesn't have any apparent way to get to hidden directories unless it starts in them, and neither Gimp nor PCB will just let me type my filename in. And why are they all different?
3) A sound-recording application that starts up and will record my line-in or mic when I hit "record." Making me jump through hoops and Google searches trying to find out which block device and stream to point it at is ridiculous; 99.5% of users have at most three inputs: Line-in, mic, and maybe a webcam.
As for what the community should push, I believe that we should push Linux as the OS (And let Apple push Macs and MS push Windows). More important than the OS, we should fight to the death for open standards. Look at image formats: Windows, Mac and Linux have about zero programs in common for viewing images. Yet that doesn't matter a bit for image formats that are open (bmp, png, gif, jpg, tiff, tga) because everyone can implement them the same way. Moreover, Linux for example has implemented them in one library (libpng, libtiff, etc) rather than having every app write it's own decoder. Possibly the best example we have of this is the Internet itself: But for Microsoft's almost successful attempt to fuck it up, any browser would get it's data from any server with zero OS-dependance. And why? Because we have an open standard, HTML, that everyone can implement.
After they enumerate every last thing Bushco did. Sort of like how the prosecutor normally gets something of value for case A in exchange for not pursuing case B, generally as a stepping stone to indictment for a worse offense in case A?
I don't know what sickens me more, the extent to which Bushco has defiled the rule of law in this country or that they'll most likely succeed in avoiding prosecution by running out the clock.
Having MS doesn't necessarily mean the professors like it. In intermediate physics lab, we need to have LabView. The boxes all have windows (even though the lab assistants and the professor dislike it) because LabView only has real driver support in windows.
Now come on up to the theoretical physics department: Linux cluster, Linux servers, and the professors have Linux desktops.
Turing-complete means that it can eventually perform any operation that Turing's abstract "state-machine moving along an infinite tape" can. This is important because Turing's machine is proven to be capable of (1) running an extremely powerful and broad array of math operations and (2) emulating any other Turing machine. This leads to the conclusion that any machine which is Turing-complete can (however soul-crushingly slowly) emulate any other Turing machine.
Babbage's analytical engine can in principle do anything IBM's Blue Gene-L can, given enough punch cards and spare parts. Of course, Blue Gene is about fifty quadrillion times faster.
Well, it was supposedly going to use something like the punch-cards for a Jaquard loom, which are apparently 8x26 holes or 26B per card. Which comes out to about 60 thousand cards to hold vmlinuz. Note that this says nothing about the size of a translated version or of an i386 emulator for the analytical engine...
Now for a number that'd be really hard to believe, think about the cache latencies waiting for the assistant to put in the next card.
The problem is that apparent material properties are dependent on size, and the machine would most likely have a very rude encounter with them after no more than a handful of cycles.
For example, something one tenth the size will have 1/1000 the mass but 1/100 the strength. Thus from the smaller scale it would seem to be ten times stronger. Hence you can look up SEM pictures of microcantelievers where a flat plane can stand out, hundreds of times longer than it is thick, with no support. How would you wind coils out of wires that seem to be getting stiffer and stiffer?
Fluids are even more interesting. Viscosity will seem to increase as you shrink down, as the same speed of movement corresponds to much more rapid shearing. There are also surface effects; At the scale of small insects, the surface tension formed by a molecule-think water layer is strong enough to support small, flat pieces of steel. It would be harder and harder to force the molten plastic through the nozzle.
Heat diffusion. The RepRap has to melt the plastic to form it, right? The smaller you get, the more rapidly heat will diffuse out of its hopper and into the surrounding materials.
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TiVo did a pretty impressive foot-in-mouth when, shortly after the Janet Jackson boob incident, they said it was the most rewound moment ever.
Ever notice how they're always rather insistent that you plug the dvr into a phone or ethernet? Dish charges $5/mo per dvr that isn't plugged in.
Just like the last time, the laws of quantum physics still work and it is still impossible to observe a quantum system without altering it. The researchers found that the classical authentication protocols that prevent man-in-the-middle attacks were insufficient.
Visualize our three dimensions as a bounded volume in 3-space. Then you can kind-of imagine the 4th and 5th spatial dimensions discreetly as 1- and 2-d arrays of such volumes.
The given rule is an geometric series that indicates that the size of the bureaucracy is equal to 1/2 to 1/3 of the organization for all sizes. You need something that diverges, like real cancers*cough*bureaucracies do.
If you want a good CRT, you can buy a GDM-W900 or W900F on ebay or craigslist - they're absolutely professional grade displays and the image is a wonder to behold. I've plugged my laptop in to the mine's second input before; The difference in color saturation is stunning.
Unfortunately, we all have the same problem regadless of our monitor technology. It can either have black be truly black and get it's full dynamic range, or we can work in a room with a normal level of illumination.
Unfortunately, that doesn't mean much since being raped in the ass and mouth by your gyro-car's controls is also (slightly) less painful than dealing with the airlines.
/South park FTW
We're HIV-Positive.
If you want really good math typesetting, write LaTex with TexMaker. I promise, it's frighteningly easy. Although I don't know what formulas you're writing out, unless you do serious math and physics \frac, ^, and _ probably cover most of it. And if they don't, that's what TexMaker's pages of other symbols are for.
Honestly, the only thing that I somewhat dislike in LaTeX is having to set up my pages manually - I'd like having a screen with a bunch of radio buttons for common presets that displays a sample page in this format, and then has an interactive editor where selecting a page parameter highlights that feature on the page.
Link to TFA is a 404, and clicking the homepage link returns a 500, and there were only three posts when I clicked on the article.
Not worried about data recovery though; I make a point of using shred with -n 50 on the rare occassion that I would care if someone stole my hard drive. Other than that, most of my internet logins are stored in an encrypted kde wallet and that's good enough for me. I don't see anything on my computer as warranting an Ironkey that doesn't leave my person...
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
You keep referring to mAnn Coulter as "she." Do you see the error?
They used to actually do that for electric trains back when there was a debate about ac vs dc power. The problem is that it wastes about 3/4 of your power - each large motor will be about 50% efficient.
Seen on a professor's door:
Three surgeons are discussing what kind of patients they like to operate on. The first says, "I like to operate on accountants. All the insides are neatly numbered." The second says, "I like to operate on electrical engineers. The insides are color-coded." The third says "I've got you all beat. I operate on politicians - there's no guts, no heart, no brain, no spine, and the head and ass are interchangable."
Don't know about you, but Gentoo Portage is one of the most painless program installation methods I've ever encountered*: emerge program. Plus, there's some GUI that basically shows you what a command line query will so ordinaries can use it too :)
* Except that as an Athlon-64 user I can't understand why anything is masked with ~amd64, let alone something as important as QT4. x86_64 is no longer experimental or new and I think we've gotten over using unsigned integers as pointers, what's the damn problem?
I'm curious what the upper limit on the image resolution they can reconstruct by intercepting the RF emission from a CRT. Is it more difficult to recover the 160Mhz signal from my workstation monitor than it is to recover the 18-ish Mhz signal from an sdtv? And in any case, what's the quality look like? OK or utter shit? And what about the highest-end CRTs, that reach something like a 350Mhz pixel clock?
It's nice to know now how to enter filenames into gtk applications. Now why in the hell did someone have to tell me how to do it?
Don't blame me for not knowing about the address bar. If I don't see a text box, I won't type and if I don't type I won't see the bar - that's an insanely bad design that's just begging to trap anyone who doesn't either start typing without looking or mash the keyboard for some reason. Regarding 3, I retract - something must've been wrong with my previous sound setup; The application that originally spawned my complaint worked nicely this time.
And why exactly are you accusing me of spreading fud? The GP asked what people want in other OSes, and I honestly answered: I want Flash for my AMD64, a friendly gnome file dialog, and I've had a bad time with sound recording in the past.
Nitpick - Power from space would never be in the form of ionizing radiation. Radiation isn't ionizing until the photons or particles have enough energy to make ions by kicking electrons loose from atoms. We're talking microwaves, not vaccuum ultraviolet :)
I can help add some things to what I as a user want that my Linux desktop doesn't have:
1) Flash without having to install 32-bit libraries. 32-bit is dying, Adobe, and I'm sick of redirecting Firefox windows from my server to my desktop.
2) A friendly and standard file open dialog for Gnome apps. Mplayer, PCB, and the Gimp are the GTK-based programs I most commonly use. Mplayer doesn't have any apparent way to get to hidden directories unless it starts in them, and neither Gimp nor PCB will just let me type my filename in. And why are they all different?
3) A sound-recording application that starts up and will record my line-in or mic when I hit "record." Making me jump through hoops and Google searches trying to find out which block device and stream to point it at is ridiculous; 99.5% of users have at most three inputs: Line-in, mic, and maybe a webcam.
As for what the community should push, I believe that we should push Linux as the OS (And let Apple push Macs and MS push Windows). More important than the OS, we should fight to the death for open standards. Look at image formats: Windows, Mac and Linux have about zero programs in common for viewing images. Yet that doesn't matter a bit for image formats that are open (bmp, png, gif, jpg, tiff, tga) because everyone can implement them the same way. Moreover, Linux for example has implemented them in one library (libpng, libtiff, etc) rather than having every app write it's own decoder. Possibly the best example we have of this is the Internet itself: But for Microsoft's almost successful attempt to fuck it up, any browser would get it's data from any server with zero OS-dependance. And why? Because we have an open standard, HTML, that everyone can implement.
I know that I'm not the only one who read that link as "Dalek Scientific."
Which would be the most goddamn awesome name for a scientific supply company ever.
After they enumerate every last thing Bushco did. Sort of like how the prosecutor normally gets something of value for case A in exchange for not pursuing case B, generally as a stepping stone to indictment for a worse offense in case A?
I don't know what sickens me more, the extent to which Bushco has defiled the rule of law in this country or that they'll most likely succeed in avoiding prosecution by running out the clock.
Having MS doesn't necessarily mean the professors like it. In intermediate physics lab, we need to have LabView. The boxes all have windows (even though the lab assistants and the professor dislike it) because LabView only has real driver support in windows.
Now come on up to the theoretical physics department: Linux cluster, Linux servers, and the professors have Linux desktops.
Turing-complete means that it can eventually perform any operation that Turing's abstract "state-machine moving along an infinite tape" can. This is important because Turing's machine is proven to be capable of (1) running an extremely powerful and broad array of math operations and (2) emulating any other Turing machine. This leads to the conclusion that any machine which is Turing-complete can (however soul-crushingly slowly) emulate any other Turing machine.
Babbage's analytical engine can in principle do anything IBM's Blue Gene-L can, given enough punch cards and spare parts. Of course, Blue Gene is about fifty quadrillion times faster.
Well, it was supposedly going to use something like the punch-cards for a Jaquard loom, which are apparently 8x26 holes or 26B per card. Which comes out to about 60 thousand cards to hold vmlinuz. Note that this says nothing about the size of a translated version or of an i386 emulator for the analytical engine...
Now for a number that'd be really hard to believe, think about the cache latencies waiting for the assistant to put in the next card.
And the first RepRap will equip the new second one with these measuring tools, how?
The problem is that apparent material properties are dependent on size, and the machine would most likely have a very rude encounter with them after no more than a handful of cycles.
For example, something one tenth the size will have 1/1000 the mass but 1/100 the strength. Thus from the smaller scale it would seem to be ten times stronger. Hence you can look up SEM pictures of microcantelievers where a flat plane can stand out, hundreds of times longer than it is thick, with no support. How would you wind coils out of wires that seem to be getting stiffer and stiffer?
Fluids are even more interesting. Viscosity will seem to increase as you shrink down, as the same speed of movement corresponds to much more rapid shearing. There are also surface effects; At the scale of small insects, the surface tension formed by a molecule-think water layer is strong enough to support small, flat pieces of steel. It would be harder and harder to force the molten plastic through the nozzle.
Heat diffusion. The RepRap has to melt the plastic to form it, right? The smaller you get, the more rapidly heat will diffuse out of its hopper and into the surrounding materials.