3. A malicious or inquisitive meddler who tries to discover information by poking around. Hence "keyword hacker", "network hacker".
I'm sure your reasons for disliking him are legion. But in the context of this discussion, his change to the file is minor at best, and prefers a different word for the malicious meaning for reasons which, if one reads the revision history and notes surrounding the change, make sense.
Not to sound like I know what I'm talking about, but your objection sounds political and personal rather than technical. In fact the sense was there, but the word "Cracker" was, according to the jargon file at least, coined well before ESR took over.
Is the claim that he is lying, or simply that who-cares-it's-ESR?
Does this confirm your theory, or refute it? It's a Berkeley link, and an MIT Press dictionary. So maybe it confirms your "only people who'd argue it" stereotype?
One of the papers I cited talked about the melting of the permafrost. Liquid water is believed to exist on Mars. And if you want to get technical, the sheer amount of fine particulate in the Martian atmosphere would wreak havoc on moving parts, or so it's believed, anyway. The current rovers have gotten lucky, but it's not like the dust didn't shut them down once or twice.
Flying car. Robot servant. Jacques Cousteau. Nuclear Power (Quote: "The provincial government had decided to see if private managers could do a better job running a major part of the nuclear fleet that supplies almost half of Ontario's electricity [emph. mine]).".
Expecting a perfect match to prediction is a physicist's game at this point. Everyone else has to deal with macroscopic error values.
If the cooling system could dissipate more heat than the power source generated, you could hook the cooling system to a forward Stirling engine and create a perpetual motion machine.
Of course, the word "mutant" didn't clue you into the fact that it was a joke, so I'm not really hopeful that this will penetrate either.
They're going to power the
1) cooling unit for
2) the robot looking for life with
3) plutonium that will
4) generate heat
Day 4 prediction: Mutant baby sulphur monsters come play in the pool of liquid robot.
The sarcasm would cut a lot deeper if the main point of most anti-patent postings on/. didn't complain about the brokenness of the patent system. Some days it really does seem like you could take a patent out on breathing. That's not a healthy situation.
Electromagnetic signal is a function of the charge and the inverse of the square of the distance. The distance between gates is smaller, meaning a smaller amount of charge is required to stabilize the electrical state of the system.
In addition, the smaller size of gates means that more gates fit in the same-sized die. This effect goes as the square of the change in linear dimension, so a reduction of 33% (~60->40nm) means a net twofold increase in the number of transistors available per unit area. This allows, as the other poster suggested, shrinking of processors OR enrichment of feature set. At certain critical points, there are actually more spaces on the wafer, as well, since wafers are not rectangular in shape (or at least, weren't the last time I researched this topic, which was a few years back). Since more chips can be produced from the same raw materials, the cost of production drops, which typically means the cost of the chip drops.
There are also opportunities to take advantage of the inherently more "exact" nature of a finer lithographic resolution, but I'm not really familiar with them, so I'll leave that to someone else to discuss.
Moreover, the war that a lot of military experts expect to fight is a primarily guerilla war (look up 4th generation warfare). Having a bunch of fighter jets is always great, both for recruitment and for the what-the-fuck-was-that factor, but having a bunch of fast, high-performance jets where the pilots can, via advanced optics, see everything in the immediate neighbourhood seems like it would be especially useful against sparse ground forces.
It's fair to point out the apparent (miraculous discoveries notwithstanding) lack of life on the moon, but there is an excellent reason not to disturb the moon's environment with mining until we've had some time to go there and do the basic science, much like doing archaeological preservation on Earth - if we want to learn more about the conditions of the solar system and the universe at large, the best bet early on is doing tons of science to examine the history of the moon in detail. If care isn't taken in development of the moon, history suggests, we will have cause to regret it once we do start thinking in terms of that scientific cause.
Almost every launch ever made is or at least eventually became an on-equator object. Getting the hell away from all that space junk is an excellent strategy if you're trying to convince normal people that you're at least thinking of their safety.
Meanwhile, most of southern Nova Scotia, and all of Southern Ontario, and much of southern Quebec, is entirely unsuitable for launch activities for the simple reason that that's either farm or city country, whereas Cape Breton is the Land of Used Up Mines, once you get into a lot of the communities, particularly the ferry end of the island - you get to Bras D'Or and you're basically passing through mine country for the rest of the way to the boat.
It Looks lovely. But Cape Breton, like Newfoundland, has a hard history in environmentalist terms. A few thousand tonnes of toxic jet fuel being carted around that place is relatively inconsequential.
Yes. Glace Bay and Sydney Mines are the picture of Shire-like charm. That is, at the end of the books. You know, the part where it's completely fucked up.
Stephenville, Newfoundland being one of the fallback landing points for the Space Shuttle says you're not informed enough to have an opinion on the usefulness of the Atlantic provinces in space.
1. If I'm composing something simple that may eventually have to be shared, I save to ODT to avoid the prompting.
2. If I'm composing something complex or composing something that has to be opened anywhere else anytime soon, I save in.doc or.rtf. I don't automatically assume that people have (or want) PDF readers on their machine, but I do assume they have at least a.rtf-capable program, and if it's complex, they're probably going to have MS Office in some flavor (I have old versions, so I don't have to worry about backward-incompatibility).
Maybe because the certified for Windows Vista logo is Microsoft's responsibility? Not to mention, of course, the fact that a Microsoft-to-Microsoft software upgrade breaks another software package completely. Once upon a time, by some accounts, Microsoft used to be careful to avoid breaking software that ran on new OS versions no matter the cost. Sadly, those days are gone, if in fact they ever existed.
Of course, one of the whackjobs (worse, the whackjob inciters!) is Freeman Dyson. As someone clever once pointed out, "Contrary to popular opinion, fact is not established by popular opinion". The hard part about science is that it's still a human pursuit, and maybe realizing that yes, math can be biased.
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The 2003 version of the jargon file still has the malicious definition in it, though it is marked as deprecated:
[hacker] 8. [deprecated] A malicious meddler who tries to discover sensitive information by poking around. Hence password hacker
Compare to (jargon file v1.05):
3. A malicious or inquisitive meddler who tries to discover information by poking around. Hence "keyword hacker", "network hacker".
I'm sure your reasons for disliking him are legion. But in the context of this discussion, his change to the file is minor at best, and prefers a different word for the malicious meaning for reasons which, if one reads the revision history and notes surrounding the change, make sense.
You may want to look up the posted definition of cracker, by the by. It's not just copyright protection. It's computer security in general.
Not to sound like I know what I'm talking about, but your objection sounds political and personal rather than technical. In fact the sense was there, but the word "Cracker" was, according to the jargon file at least, coined well before ESR took over. Is the claim that he is lying, or simply that who-cares-it's-ESR?
Does this confirm your theory, or refute it? It's a Berkeley link, and an MIT Press dictionary. So maybe it confirms your "only people who'd argue it" stereotype?
I mean, I'm not up on all that. But for a little while the effort was made to distinguish them. Has that effort been abandoned by white-hats?
One of the papers I cited talked about the melting of the permafrost. Liquid water is believed to exist on Mars. And if you want to get technical, the sheer amount of fine particulate in the Martian atmosphere would wreak havoc on moving parts, or so it's believed, anyway. The current rovers have gotten lucky, but it's not like the dust didn't shut them down once or twice.
Flying car. Robot servant. Jacques Cousteau. Nuclear Power (Quote: "The provincial government had decided to see if private managers could do a better job running a major part of the nuclear fleet that supplies almost half of Ontario's electricity [emph. mine]).".
Expecting a perfect match to prediction is a physicist's game at this point. Everyone else has to deal with macroscopic error values.
Mars lacks...water? Really? Given the body of research which indicates it has permafrost, I think you may want to check your facts.
If the cooling system could dissipate more heat than the power source generated, you could hook the cooling system to a forward Stirling engine and create a perpetual motion machine.
Of course, the word "mutant" didn't clue you into the fact that it was a joke, so I'm not really hopeful that this will penetrate either.
They're going to power the 1) cooling unit for 2) the robot looking for life with 3) plutonium that will 4) generate heat Day 4 prediction: Mutant baby sulphur monsters come play in the pool of liquid robot.
The sarcasm would cut a lot deeper if the main point of most anti-patent postings on /. didn't complain about the brokenness of the patent system. Some days it really does seem like you could take a patent out on breathing. That's not a healthy situation.
Electromagnetic signal is a function of the charge and the inverse of the square of the distance. The distance between gates is smaller, meaning a smaller amount of charge is required to stabilize the electrical state of the system.
In addition, the smaller size of gates means that more gates fit in the same-sized die. This effect goes as the square of the change in linear dimension, so a reduction of 33% (~60->40nm) means a net twofold increase in the number of transistors available per unit area. This allows, as the other poster suggested, shrinking of processors OR enrichment of feature set. At certain critical points, there are actually more spaces on the wafer, as well, since wafers are not rectangular in shape (or at least, weren't the last time I researched this topic, which was a few years back). Since more chips can be produced from the same raw materials, the cost of production drops, which typically means the cost of the chip drops.
There are also opportunities to take advantage of the inherently more "exact" nature of a finer lithographic resolution, but I'm not really familiar with them, so I'll leave that to someone else to discuss.
Moreover, the war that a lot of military experts expect to fight is a primarily guerilla war (look up 4th generation warfare). Having a bunch of fighter jets is always great, both for recruitment and for the what-the-fuck-was-that factor, but having a bunch of fast, high-performance jets where the pilots can, via advanced optics, see everything in the immediate neighbourhood seems like it would be especially useful against sparse ground forces.
It's fair to point out the apparent (miraculous discoveries notwithstanding) lack of life on the moon, but there is an excellent reason not to disturb the moon's environment with mining until we've had some time to go there and do the basic science, much like doing archaeological preservation on Earth - if we want to learn more about the conditions of the solar system and the universe at large, the best bet early on is doing tons of science to examine the history of the moon in detail. If care isn't taken in development of the moon, history suggests, we will have cause to regret it once we do start thinking in terms of that scientific cause.
Nitrogen-temperature superconductors were found years ago.
Some might even say that at some point, they're getting their wars fought for them.
The Apple version of this product is a RealDoll.
Almost every launch ever made is or at least eventually became an on-equator object. Getting the hell away from all that space junk is an excellent strategy if you're trying to convince normal people that you're at least thinking of their safety. Meanwhile, most of southern Nova Scotia, and all of Southern Ontario, and much of southern Quebec, is entirely unsuitable for launch activities for the simple reason that that's either farm or city country, whereas Cape Breton is the Land of Used Up Mines, once you get into a lot of the communities, particularly the ferry end of the island - you get to Bras D'Or and you're basically passing through mine country for the rest of the way to the boat. It Looks lovely. But Cape Breton, like Newfoundland, has a hard history in environmentalist terms. A few thousand tonnes of toxic jet fuel being carted around that place is relatively inconsequential.
Southern Ontario, as all too often needs to be pointed out, Is Not All Of Canada.
Yes. Glace Bay and Sydney Mines are the picture of Shire-like charm. That is, at the end of the books. You know, the part where it's completely fucked up.
Stephenville, Newfoundland being one of the fallback landing points for the Space Shuttle says you're not informed enough to have an opinion on the usefulness of the Atlantic provinces in space.
Luckily for the patent holder, there was no prior art, and it certainly wasn't obvious to people in the field!
1. If I'm composing something simple that may eventually have to be shared, I save to ODT to avoid the prompting.
.doc or .rtf. I don't automatically assume that people have (or want) PDF readers on their machine, but I do assume they have at least a .rtf-capable program, and if it's complex, they're probably going to have MS Office in some flavor (I have old versions, so I don't have to worry about backward-incompatibility).
2. If I'm composing something complex or composing something that has to be opened anywhere else anytime soon, I save in
Maybe because the certified for Windows Vista logo is Microsoft's responsibility? Not to mention, of course, the fact that a Microsoft-to-Microsoft software upgrade breaks another software package completely. Once upon a time, by some accounts, Microsoft used to be careful to avoid breaking software that ran on new OS versions no matter the cost. Sadly, those days are gone, if in fact they ever existed.
Of course, one of the whackjobs (worse, the whackjob inciters!) is Freeman Dyson. As someone clever once pointed out, "Contrary to popular opinion, fact is not established by popular opinion". The hard part about science is that it's still a human pursuit, and maybe realizing that yes, math can be biased.