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Then the PS3 will really start hurting. Future Shop in Canada had a 1-day special to celebrate the release of the PS3; the XBOX 360 Pro with over CAD$200 of games (Ghost Recon AW, Arcade, Gears of War, Ridge Racer 6) for CAD$449. Even if you only wanted GOW from that lot, that would work out at US$330 for the 'Pro' version- half the price of a PS3 and about a game more than the Wii.
Because it's not news, this issue is always discussed when space elevators are mentioned, as in the Wikipedia article.
As for speed, most designs have the space elevators moving pretty slowly, leaving the passengers in the Van Allen Belts for something on the order of days.
I had this problem on an Intel Macbook Pro, it was fixed by ensuring that Firefox runs under Rosetta, rather that running the Intel binary. Right click (Ctrl-click) on firefox, and it's right there in the properties.
I believe the crashing was caused by a non-Intel version of Shockwave being installed (Adobe seems to think this is plausible), but I suppose other plugins could be to blame. Disabling Shockwave would probably have worked too.
I had this problem on an Intel Macbook Pro, it was fixed by ensuring that Firefox runs under Rosetta, rather that running the Intel binary. Right click (Ctrl-click) on firefox, and it's right there in the properties.
I believe the crashing was caused by a non-Intel version of Shockwave being installed (Adobe seems to think this is plausible), but I suppose other plugins could be to blame. Disabling Shockwave would probably have worked too.
I had this problem on an Intel Macbook Pro, it was fixed by ensuring that Firefox runs under Rosetta, rather that running the Intel binary. Right click (Ctrl-click) on firefox, and it's right there in the properties.
I believe the crashing was caused by a non-Intel version of Shockwave being installed (Adobe seems to think this is plausible), but I suppose other plugins could be to blame. Disabling shockwave would probably have worked too.
How about the design of the graphics card, and the code that runs on the graphics card itself? Those aren't 'open' either. My optical mouse runs some code on it's little embedded CPU; that's not open source either. Or even the design of the AMD/Intel chip itself, and the microcode that runs on it?
In the real word, not all manufacturers of all components want to give you a "how to clone my life's work" guide, and you just have to live with that.
Funny you should think that because the phone that I'm posting this on gives easily 2 or 3 days of heavy usage WiFi/EDGE web & email, mp3s, & calls. It charges over USB while syncing, and with a nightly charge I've never come close to missing a call. It's an i-mate SP5m, in case you want to look it up.
My Windows Mobile phone has MSN Messenger built in, uses any internet connection with no per-message costs. I _can_ use it over WiFi, but I'm sure my telco isn't crying about the GPRS bandwidth that it encourages me to buy.
I don't see the point of that- anyone capable of decoding that mess of symbols on the edge of the piece should have no problem remembering the moves for the 6 different pieces.
I learned chess at 6, I'm pretty sure that the moves are well within the grasp of any 6 year old.
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I don't know why your post was made on this reactionary tech-tabloid. All they do is troll for hits to their outlandish articles. They rarely have any content of worth, and when they do, it's overshadowed by their poor writing style and use of reactionary language.
No, a closer analogy would be like if you drove around with a puppy in the car in Gran Turismo, and you had to pull over to the curb occasionally so it could pop out for a crap.
This one seems particulary stupid as if you don't put your beer back on the coaster accurately it'll _fall_over_.
Why not build the sensor into the bottom of the glass (possibly clip it onto the glass), which would allow you to put the glass down anywhere?
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Bottom line is the last thing I need at work is to not be able to use anyone else's computer because I'm use to a non-standard keyboard layout.
I use Dvorak full-time at home, and wherever else possible. Since I can touch-type, I can also quickly change the drivers. EVEN IF I must type with QWERTY, I have only lost a few WPM compared to when I used it all the time.
I switched to Dvorak 5 or 6 years ago. Never changed the keycaps- I was previously a Qwerty touch-typist and found that within a few weeks I was up to and perhaps surpassing my previous Qwerty speed. I switched back to Qwerty after a couple of months.
A couple of points I can add to the discussion:
I found that, while Dvorak may be 'faster', flat-out typing speed is rarely the limiting factor when I am working, if I'm writing code or any text that I want to sound decent my fingers usually have to pause occasionally while my brain catches up. If I was transcribing large blocks of other people's writing typing speed would be more important, but for me there wasn't that much difference.
Other people's keyboards- this is the reason that I switched back to Qwerty. It's all very well to be happily chugging along at 80wpm on your own machine, but when you have to sit down at your boss's desk for 2 minutes to look into a problem, and you're slowly hunt-and-peck typing, it's rather embarassing. Even if you install the drivers and/or switch keyboards on their machines, it's a pain for them if you forget to switch back ("What did you do to my fing keyboard?")
Qwerty is a standard, and as anyone who uses the internet knows, sometimes a sub-optimal standard is better than a superiour non-standard solution.
I would only recommend the switch to Dvorak if:
A) the geek factor of using an alternate layout is enough that the problems are worth it, or B) if you rarely have to switch machines, and you do a lot of typing at full speed, or C) you have room in your head for 2 keyboard layouts at once, and can switch at will.
My cat found the shutdown key on my old keyboard long before I did. It had some incomprehensible icon by it, and she managed to switch the computer off several times before I worked out which key it was and pryed it out with a knife.
However, if A known or suspected to be broken, then you're down to the security provided by B. A is out of the picture.
If A can be tossed then, then you're totally reliant on B for a safe hash. If that's true, then you didn't need A at all and you'd better be confident that B is gonna do what you need it to do, cuz A don't dance.
I'm not so sure, the description of the MD5 attack didn't say it was completely compromised, only that it was possible to find padding bits that could allow malicious content to be inserted without changing the checksum of the whole.
If the orginal data is: "abcdefg", I can insert some malicious bits 'M', along with some padding bits 'X', and ensure that the result of A would be the same: A("abcdefg") == A("abcdMXfg").
Assuming that I found a similar attack on B, I could find padding bits 'Y' such that B("abcdefg") == B("abcdMYfg").
Of course to fool both checksums, X must equal Y. Finding a value that keeps both checksums the same might turn out to be a non-trivial problem.
PGP is easily broken by a brute force attack given enough time, it's just that the amount of time isn't feasible at the moment.
Yes, like you said in your title, it might because a "arm race", but it's a race there is no point for a website/advertiser to try to win.
History suggests otherwise. Spammers invent crafty ways to circumvent spam-blocking filters. TV stations fought a war with commercial-filtering VCRs a few years back, and are now fighting with TiVo.
Advertisers know from experience that no matter how much the public tries to get out of viewing their Ads, if they can force the ads through and get them seen then they will have some effect.
We are all affected by advertising at some level, even if it's just the subliminal effects such as brand recognition.
They are becoming statistically significant, I think that is the point of the article.
The point of the article was that there seems to be a correlation between using Firefox and being unlikely to click on Ads, it said nothing about the statistical significance or otherwise of Firefox users. If Firefox gets a 90% market share, we can forget about using Adblock.
Enjoy the ad revenue while you can. I think you will find that treating your users like criminals who must be punished for requesting your freely available html files but choosing not to request additional images will significantly lower your eyeball count. It sounds to me like web publishing is not what you really want, since you insist on trying to make it do things it was never intended to do and that your users do not want.
Me? I'm not on the side of the advertisers, just being realistic. You seem to be very idealistic about who serves content and why on the Web- your comments would have not been out of placed in 1994, but in 2004 lots of people out there are throwing lots of money at trying to make it do things it was never intended to do.
I personally use Firefox, and use Adblock on sites that I visit regularly. I don't click on Ads anyway, so Adblock saves me having to filter out the Ads visually. Either way, I'll filter them out.
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Then the PS3 will really start hurting. Future Shop in Canada had a 1-day special to celebrate the release of the PS3; the XBOX 360 Pro with over CAD$200 of games (Ghost Recon AW, Arcade, Gears of War, Ridge Racer 6) for CAD$449. Even if you only wanted GOW from that lot, that would work out at US$330 for the 'Pro' version- half the price of a PS3 and about a game more than the Wii.
As for speed, most designs have the space elevators moving pretty slowly, leaving the passengers in the Van Allen Belts for something on the order of days.
I believe the crashing was caused by a non-Intel version of Shockwave being installed (Adobe seems to think this is plausible), but I suppose other plugins could be to blame. Disabling Shockwave would probably have worked too.
I believe the crashing was caused by a non-Intel version of Shockwave being installed (Adobe seems to think this is plausible), but I suppose other plugins could be to blame. Disabling Shockwave would probably have worked too.
I had this problem on an Intel Macbook Pro, it was fixed by ensuring that Firefox runs under Rosetta, rather that running the Intel binary. Right click (Ctrl-click) on firefox, and it's right there in the properties.
I believe the crashing was caused by a non-Intel version of Shockwave being installed (Adobe seems to think this is plausible), but I suppose other plugins could be to blame. Disabling shockwave would probably have worked too.
How about the design of the graphics card, and the code that runs on the graphics card itself? Those aren't 'open' either. My optical mouse runs some code on it's little embedded CPU; that's not open source either. Or even the design of the AMD/Intel chip itself, and the microcode that runs on it?
In the real word, not all manufacturers of all components want to give you a "how to clone my life's work" guide, and you just have to live with that.
Funny you should think that because the phone that I'm posting this on gives easily 2 or 3 days of heavy usage WiFi/EDGE web & email, mp3s, & calls. It charges over USB while syncing, and with a nightly charge I've never come close to missing a call. It's an i-mate SP5m, in case you want to look it up.
My Windows Mobile phone has MSN Messenger built in, uses any internet connection with no per-message costs. I _can_ use it over WiFi, but I'm sure my telco isn't crying about the GPRS bandwidth that it encourages me to buy.
I don't see the point of that- anyone capable of decoding that mess of symbols on the edge of the piece should have no problem remembering the moves for the 6 different pieces.
I learned chess at 6, I'm pretty sure that the moves are well within the grasp of any 6 year old.
Magnesium (Ma m Ma ls)
groan... geek christmas cracker standard
I don't know why your post was made on this reactionary tech-tabloid. All they do is troll for hits to their outlandish articles. They rarely have any content of worth, and when they do, it's overshadowed by their poor writing style and use of reactionary language.
No, a closer analogy would be like if you drove around with a puppy in the car in Gran Turismo, and you had to pull over to the curb occasionally so it could pop out for a crap.
Shame that they've still kept the Tamagotchi-like 'Creature'; who wants to train a Cow-Wolf when you can cause Volcanoes?
Also, why does a god have to waste time performing the harvest etc.?
Shame, because the idea had potential.
Who are they trying to appeal to? Do most people really want to bring up a 'Creature' by rubbing it's tummy etc.?
This one seems particulary stupid as if you don't put your beer back on the coaster accurately it'll _fall_over_.
Why not build the sensor into the bottom of the glass (possibly clip it onto the glass), which would allow you to put the glass down anywhere?
A couple of points I can add to the discussion:
- I found that, while Dvorak may be 'faster', flat-out typing speed is rarely the limiting factor when I am working, if I'm writing code or any text that I want to sound decent my fingers usually have to pause occasionally while my brain catches up. If I was transcribing large blocks of other people's writing typing speed would be more important, but for me there wasn't that much difference.
- Other people's keyboards- this is the reason that I switched back to Qwerty. It's all very well to be happily chugging along at 80wpm on your own machine, but when you have to sit down at your boss's desk for 2 minutes to look into a problem, and you're slowly hunt-and-peck typing, it's rather embarassing. Even if you install the drivers and/or switch keyboards on their machines, it's a pain for them if you forget to switch back ("What did you do to my fing keyboard?")
- Qwerty is a standard, and as anyone who uses the internet knows, sometimes a sub-optimal standard is better than a superiour non-standard solution.
I would only recommend the switch to Dvorak if: A) the geek factor of using an alternate layout is enough that the problems are worth it, or B) if you rarely have to switch machines, and you do a lot of typing at full speed, or C) you have room in your head for 2 keyboard layouts at once, and can switch at will.If the orginal data is: "abcdefg", I can insert some malicious bits 'M', along with some padding bits 'X', and ensure that the result of A would be the same: A("abcdefg") == A("abcdMXfg").
Assuming that I found a similar attack on B, I could find padding bits 'Y' such that B("abcdefg") == B("abcdMYfg").
Of course to fool both checksums, X must equal Y. Finding a value that keeps both checksums the same might turn out to be a non-trivial problem.
PGP is easily broken by a brute force attack given enough time, it's just that the amount of time isn't feasible at the moment.
Sounds like a bug in your system. Nothing works until it's been tested.
This article says that the following can be true:
Intuitively it seems to me that it'd be difficult to find y for a given x where: Not putting all the eggs in one basket, so to speak.Advertisers know from experience that no matter how much the public tries to get out of viewing their Ads, if they can force the ads through and get them seen then they will have some effect. We are all affected by advertising at some level, even if it's just the subliminal effects such as brand recognition.
I personally use Firefox, and use Adblock on sites that I visit regularly. I don't click on Ads anyway, so Adblock saves me having to filter out the Ads visually. Either way, I'll filter them out.