Well, I'm pretty sure Wedge got the kill shadow too. That and the entire Executor (the super star destroyer) getting dumped into the Death Star probably would have taken it out given time.
Having recently had a HD die of mechanical reasons on me, and also having a rock (ok, screwdriver and hammer) I took apart a hard drive for fun. The platters themselves are about a milimeter thick while the drive heads are less, and a lot more flimsy. Maybe back in the day they could, but not these days.
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I'll post my comment from Fark below:
This isn't that new, as I heard a presentation on it at Schmoo Con in DC earlier this year. The blurb about the presentation reproduced below from this page.
"Old Skewl Hacking: Infra Red - MMIrDA (Major Malfunction's Infra Red Discovery Application)"
Major Malfunction
Major Malfunction spends a lot of time travelling. Consequently he spends a lot of time in Hotels. Hotels have Pay-Per-View. Hotels have infra-red remote controlled TVs. And so, to while away the hours, MMIrDA was born...
Infra Red is all around us. Most of us will use an Infra Red controller on more or less a daily basis, to change the TV channel, or open a car or garage door, but how often have you thought about how it actually works? This talk will describe not only how to analyse the signals being sent by your remote, but also how to use that information to find hidden commands and reveal functions you didn't even know your systems had. You will learn how to brute force garage doors, car doors, hotel pay-per-view TV systems, take over LED signs, vending machines and even control alarm systems, using cheap or home made devices and free software.
DEFCON Goon since DC5. White Hat hacker since the late 70s. Co-founder of InterFACE, one of the earliest Internet streaming pirate radio stations (1995).
/got into Schmoo for free //no didn't sneak in ///free passes for DC2600 members -- hope they do it again
This is one of those things that gets me at least a dozen calls whenever I switch people to linux. Luckily most of the time all the programs they need I get on there at the OS install, but the second most users go outside their Home folder it's confusing as hell. There has got to be a more user friendly way we can implement the filesystem.
Also, Linux really does need something like Spotlight for searching, because all the times I've tried to do it on a linux box I can usually find the file quicker manually.
My guess is that larger companies are more likely to have marketing and advertising divisions than smaller companies and that those are going to be most/all OSX.
Sadly true. These things need to be able to be locked into QWERTY for new users otherwise they'll never learn to touchtype. I would love one of these things, but I'm wondering if it might fare better as a panel of buttons to go alongside a keyboard, like a bigger numpad.
Wrong. So, so wrong. For one, this statment: I feel nothing because the centrifugal force exactly balances the force of gravity isn't the case at all. You feel nothing because the centripetal force OUTWARD is balanced by the gravitational force INWARD.
Let's consider a ball with a string attatched to it. Say you pick up the ball, and twirl it around your head. The centripetal force OUTWARD is constant. It is an unbalanced force. Without the string providing the INWARD force, it would fly off. There is absolutely no inward force without the string(ignoring friction).
The force of which you speak does not exist. Newton's 3rd law does not make it exist. Trying to say it exists in your PoV is like assuming that the Earth is the center of the universe. It's a valid PoV, but we all know it's untrue.
That's not a centifugal force though. There is no centrifugal force. That's just the perfectly normal force being exerted by the string or the constraning body. We don't call the force that keeps us on the ground centrifugal, do we?
Centrifugal force was just a bit of confusion on the parts of scientists at the time. There is only centripital force and the force from the constraing body acting on the object in UCM, there is no centrifugal force.
To reiterate, no centrifugal force exists. You're using the wrong name for the force.
Yes, but my argument was based on it being a school, where they need cheap, dense, and fairly hard to break. I was also kind of thinking of the smart paper in The Diamond Age(Neal Stephenson) where nanotech let their 'paper' become pretty much a full fledged computer, though not that powerful usually. For my personal use I like books to read, but for something like school I usually end up ditching the textbook and using Wikipedia and other online sources to learn about things.
Basically, for a school to be able to use ebooks they way they use paper ones you'd need tablets so students could keep easy notes for books in English class. The other classes would benefit from this as well but in English at the higher levels annotating is pretty much compulsory.
I'm not totally opposed to your point of view, but I go to a high school that actually works in terms of educating kids. We have AP/IB classes for pretty much every subject, including most electives. The only ones that I've taken that arn't are my CCNA class and Newspaper. Now, I'm never going to have a 4.0 or within.5 of it, and I take classes because I'm interested in them when outside of the core ones which tend not to be that bad.
The problem you describe is more the kids that have become so motivated they lose sight of the important things. I care about by grades being good, but I have other interests and I don't neglect them to get a 4.0. I get A's in the classes that interest me, B's and every now and then a C in the ones that don't. If I hate the class I won't spend a lot of energy on it, I usually end up reading things for other classes during that class or just sitting there thinking about other things.
My goal is to get an education from school that suits me and that'll be useful in whatever career I end up pursuing, and if it isn't then it'll be fun. My goal has never been a 4.0 with honors and awards laden apon me so I get attention/best college/etc.
Slashdot Mirror
Though meant as a joke, I wonder what google uses, and can it be bought/hacked together?
I think we'll all come to regret the cat-pin regeneration.
I think you have it backwards. NG was decent, DS:9 failed in the end, and Voyager just sucked all the way through.
Whaa? You crazy. Kirk may have died (twice, IIRC) but William Shatner is doing pretty well with Boston Legal.
Well, I'm pretty sure Wedge got the kill shadow too. That and the entire Executor (the super star destroyer) getting dumped into the Death Star probably would have taken it out given time.
Having recently had a HD die of mechanical reasons on me, and also having a rock (ok, screwdriver and hammer) I took apart a hard drive for fun. The platters themselves are about a milimeter thick while the drive heads are less, and a lot more flimsy. Maybe back in the day they could, but not these days.
Ironic then that the very religions that preach against evolution would end up using a form of it to survive.
Remember folks, Evolution over Neo-Creo anyday.
Hm. I call bullshit. The same site appears to also support UFOs and some sort of secret Nazi base in Antartica?
Seems like a scientist's National Enquirer.
Can't they take the open source Linux drivers and modify them like they did to KHTML?
With hot grits...
Addenda: How many individual servers/CPU's make up a server like Dark Iron or Skullhammer? Is there one CPU/server per region or city?
Also, are you planning on adding more instance servers to help deal with lag in high level raid dungeons?
Because it would be an instant + 10-20% points in their market share, and they'd start cracking the gamer market in a big way.
How are you sure that the picture is even from on of the mac dev boxes? Nothing I see on that picture says Apple to me.
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/got into Schmoo for free
//no didn't sneak in
///free passes for DC2600 members -- hope they do it again
I'll post my comment from Fark below:
This isn't that new, as I heard a presentation on it at Schmoo Con in DC earlier this year. The blurb about the presentation reproduced below from this page.
"Old Skewl Hacking: Infra Red - MMIrDA (Major Malfunction's Infra Red Discovery Application)" Major Malfunction
Major Malfunction spends a lot of time travelling. Consequently he spends a lot of time in Hotels. Hotels have Pay-Per-View. Hotels have infra-red remote controlled TVs. And so, to while away the hours, MMIrDA was born...
Infra Red is all around us. Most of us will use an Infra Red controller on more or less a daily basis, to change the TV channel, or open a car or garage door, but how often have you thought about how it actually works? This talk will describe not only how to analyse the signals being sent by your remote, but also how to use that information to find hidden commands and reveal functions you didn't even know your systems had. You will learn how to brute force garage doors, car doors, hotel pay-per-view TV systems, take over LED signs, vending machines and even control alarm systems, using cheap or home made devices and free software.
DEFCON Goon since DC5. White Hat hacker since the late 70s. Co-founder of InterFACE, one of the earliest Internet streaming pirate radio stations (1995).
All the signs on the Flickr stream are in English.
This is one of those things that gets me at least a dozen calls whenever I switch people to linux. Luckily most of the time all the programs they need I get on there at the OS install, but the second most users go outside their Home folder it's confusing as hell. There has got to be a more user friendly way we can implement the filesystem.
Also, Linux really does need something like Spotlight for searching, because all the times I've tried to do it on a linux box I can usually find the file quicker manually.
Don't worry, they say damn too. This is /.
My guess is that larger companies are more likely to have marketing and advertising divisions than smaller companies and that those are going to be most/all OSX.
Sadly true. These things need to be able to be locked into QWERTY for new users otherwise they'll never learn to touchtype. I would love one of these things, but I'm wondering if it might fare better as a panel of buttons to go alongside a keyboard, like a bigger numpad.
P/E is Profit divided by Earnings, right?
Gamma?
Wrong. So, so wrong. For one, this statment: I feel nothing because the centrifugal force exactly balances the force of gravity isn't the case at all. You feel nothing because the centripetal force OUTWARD is balanced by the gravitational force INWARD.
Let's consider a ball with a string attatched to it. Say you pick up the ball, and twirl it around your head. The centripetal force OUTWARD is constant. It is an unbalanced force. Without the string providing the INWARD force, it would fly off. There is absolutely no inward force without the string(ignoring friction).
The force of which you speak does not exist. Newton's 3rd law does not make it exist. Trying to say it exists in your PoV is like assuming that the Earth is the center of the universe. It's a valid PoV, but we all know it's untrue.
That's not a centifugal force though. There is no centrifugal force. That's just the perfectly normal force being exerted by the string or the constraning body. We don't call the force that keeps us on the ground centrifugal, do we?
Centrifugal force was just a bit of confusion on the parts of scientists at the time. There is only centripital force and the force from the constraing body acting on the object in UCM, there is no centrifugal force.
To reiterate, no centrifugal force exists. You're using the wrong name for the force.
Yes, but my argument was based on it being a school, where they need cheap, dense, and fairly hard to break. I was also kind of thinking of the smart paper in The Diamond Age(Neal Stephenson) where nanotech let their 'paper' become pretty much a full fledged computer, though not that powerful usually. For my personal use I like books to read, but for something like school I usually end up ditching the textbook and using Wikipedia and other online sources to learn about things.
Basically, for a school to be able to use ebooks they way they use paper ones you'd need tablets so students could keep easy notes for books in English class. The other classes would benefit from this as well but in English at the higher levels annotating is pretty much compulsory.
I'm not totally opposed to your point of view, but I go to a high school that actually works in terms of educating kids. We have AP/IB classes for pretty much every subject, including most electives. The only ones that I've taken that arn't are my CCNA class and Newspaper. Now, I'm never going to have a 4.0 or within .5 of it, and I take classes because I'm interested in them when outside of the core ones which tend not to be that bad.
The problem you describe is more the kids that have become so motivated they lose sight of the important things. I care about by grades being good, but I have other interests and I don't neglect them to get a 4.0. I get A's in the classes that interest me, B's and every now and then a C in the ones that don't. If I hate the class I won't spend a lot of energy on it, I usually end up reading things for other classes during that class or just sitting there thinking about other things.
My goal is to get an education from school that suits me and that'll be useful in whatever career I end up pursuing, and if it isn't then it'll be fun. My goal has never been a 4.0 with honors and awards laden apon me so I get attention/best college/etc.