So now we're going to have two more MST-like shows in addition to the The Film Crew with the later cast of Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy.
Its to bad they can't just cooperate and vary the cast from film to film.
You are misunderstanding how it works on a mac. Command-tab switches between applications (Finder, Firefox, etc) Command-backtic switches between windows within an application.
This means I can either switch between all of my open Firefox windows, or switch to the file browser depending on which key combo I use. In windows, all applications are mixed and when you alt-tab once you may switch applications or you may not depending on the order of the windows you have clicked on lately.
It's more flexable than the windows approach and in practice, it is more often what I want. Oh and shift works the same way.
Actually I discovered the personalized homepage from slashdot, created a personalized page, added slashdot to my page, re-noticed the artical and clicked the link to go back and post.
I think this is finally going to replace slashdot as my home page.
Re:Info on what exactly SHA-1 is ...
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Any encryption scheme that lasts about 10 years has given a pretty good service I would think.
If your encryption scheme only lasted 10 years than nothing would be safe. For example people have credit card numbers that have been the same for the past 10 years, and bank account numbers and not to mention important trade/goverment secrets.
Besides, your question, who whold have predicted such rapid advancement in computer processing power, Ever heard of Moore's Law? disclaimer, Moore's law is not a law but an observation
1) It cheats. It uses a booster rocket to get 90% of its velocity.
It is not a test to see how fast it can get going, but rather a test to see if it can sustain flight at a speed faster than any other air breathing vehical has ever done.
2) it's smaller than a car
It is mearly a test. If they built one full size and then threw it away in the ocean, the public would be screaming bloody hell about all the wasted money. They are trying to be as efficiant as possilbe with these tests on a limited budget.
NASA knows that if it screws up too much it's funding will be cut. I know what it's like to work under such circumstances and it makes you not take risks. That's the sadest thing is that NASA is supposed to be about pushing the limits. About discovering new things, breaking new records and now they are strugling just to stay alive.
Although it's funny to say that this is just a rehashing of the creation of DARPA net again, it's going to be more than that.
The US military has seen what their creation has turned into with the internet and now they want to be able to leverage that for their own use. But at the same time they have seen how a robust system like the internet can still be overwhelmed by DOS attacks and worms/viri. In order to have a system that they can be sure will not be compromized when they need it most, they are forced to create a seperate system.
However even with trying to create a completely seperate network they will run into problems. Satallites could be shot down. Microwave links could be jammed. Encryption could be broken and misinformation could be injected to the network.
Given the current state of incompetence in the armed forces, I can assure you that this project will be late and over budget, and will not accomplish all the things they want it to.
Oh well, that seems to be the status quo in the US.
The MST movies are consistanly among the worst. Including gems such as
Manos: the hands of fate. (Master will be angry) Hobgoblins (Never store pupets in the film vault) The wild world of Batwoman (interesting subplot about a horseshooe) Future War (it's not in the future and there is no war but I'm not complaining) Puma man (Pumas don't seem to fly, just sort of fall out of buildings) Giant Spider invasion (alien spiders are incased inside of dimond geods) Eegah (Ahhhhh, Arch hall Jr. "My dune buggy's tires are filled with water)
The list just gos on and on. But of all their movies I do have to agree that the worst was Night Train to Mundo Fine, AKA Red zone cuba. Dialog such as "Water, sick man,..., water, sick man,..." could only be created by the genius of Coleman Francis. I commend you for creating the worst movie ever.
Your freeshell didn't die so badly, you just used up all of your bandwith. You used almost twice you allowable bandwith. Check out your usage from the command line with webquota or on the web page
-nicnak
The topic of a spatial finder has been up for many discussions when OS X went departed from a spatial finder. However I have to defer to ArsTechnica for the best information about it.
John Siracusa offers a coherent explaination of what it means to be a spatial finder and why it can be better.
I have seen to many people wasting their time reordering code and coming up with obscure ways of doing an if statement that might use a few less cpu cycles.
But I still think inorder to program efficant code you still must know assembly. The best courses I took were about compliers. This lets you know exactly how the compiler will optimize that assembly you know, so you know what is worth optimizing in a high level language.
For example, a lot of the things people do like rearanging local variable instanciation has absolutly nothing to do with how the machine code is actually written. The first think a compiler does is translate your code into a meta-code that has the exact same syntax style everywhere. All the variable declarations are moved to the front, every for, while, and do-while is turned into a while. All the code is normalized into a functional equivalent.
Then the code is optimized, if statements may be turned into the logical opposite, extra variables will be eliminated, code will be rearranged to increase parallel processing.
If you write code with this in mind you focus more on the important problems, like is this loop n-squared or just n.
But in-order to know what to optimize in code you still need to know assembly.
Jon Stewert did a bit on this a few months ago. He kept citing the report titled Hey, what if we put a camera on a blimp and the more detailed report Hey, what if we put a good camera on a blimp.
Difficulties in planning space missions
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The dust problem is just indicitave of how difficult it is to plan such a complex mission like going to Mars. Until we do this a few more times and figure out a few more things, a manned mission will have to wait.
During one of the last times that Berkeley throttled their bandwith the SETI@home project moved to a different hosting location. They are now situated off campus and have their own pipe to the net.
The Planetary Society has a good artical about the bandwith problems.
Slashdot Mirror
Its to bad they can't just cooperate and vary the cast from film to film.
bash is the default shell on OS X, and it's in /bin/bash
/bin/bash --version
$
GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (powerpc-apple-darwin8.0)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
You are misunderstanding how it works on a mac. Command-tab switches between applications (Finder, Firefox, etc) Command-backtic switches between windows within an application.
This means I can either switch between all of my open Firefox windows, or switch to the file browser depending on which key combo I use. In windows, all applications are mixed and when you alt-tab once you may switch applications or you may not depending on the order of the windows you have clicked on lately.
It's more flexable than the windows approach and in practice, it is more often what I want. Oh and shift works the same way.
Two stations at 128k.
Actually I discovered the personalized homepage from slashdot, created a personalized page, added slashdot to my page, re-noticed the artical and clicked the link to go back and post.
I think this is finally going to replace slashdot as my home page.
Any encryption scheme that lasts about 10 years has given a pretty good service I would think.
If your encryption scheme only lasted 10 years than nothing would be safe. For example people have credit card numbers that have been the same for the past 10 years, and bank account numbers and not to mention important trade/goverment secrets.
Besides, your question, who whold have predicted such rapid advancement in computer processing power, Ever heard of Moore's Law?
disclaimer, Moore's law is not a law but an observation
-nicnak
It is not a test to see how fast it can get going, but rather a test to see if it can sustain flight at a speed faster than any other air breathing vehical has ever done.
It is mearly a test. If they built one full size and then threw it away in the ocean, the public would be screaming bloody hell about all the wasted money. They are trying to be as efficiant as possilbe with these tests on a limited budget.
NASA knows that if it screws up too much it's funding will be cut. I know what it's like to work under such circumstances and it makes you not take risks. That's the sadest thing is that NASA is supposed to be about pushing the limits. About discovering new things, breaking new records and now they are strugling just to stay alive.
Although it's funny to say that this is just a rehashing of the creation of DARPA net again, it's going to be more than that.
The US military has seen what their creation has turned into with the internet and now they want to be able to leverage that for their own use. But at the same time they have seen how a robust system like the internet can still be overwhelmed by DOS attacks and worms/viri. In order to have a system that they can be sure will not be compromized when they need it most, they are forced to create a seperate system.
However even with trying to create a completely seperate network they will run into problems. Satallites could be shot down. Microwave links could be jammed. Encryption could be broken and misinformation could be injected to the network.
Given the current state of incompetence in the armed forces, I can assure you that this project will be late and over budget, and will not accomplish all the things they want it to.
Oh well, that seems to be the status quo in the US.
Ask and yee shall recieve.
http://halo.bungie.org/movie1.html
The MST movies are consistanly among the worst. Including gems such as
..., water, sick man, ..." could only be created by the genius of Coleman Francis. I commend you for creating the worst movie ever.
Manos: the hands of fate. (Master will be angry)
Hobgoblins (Never store pupets in the film vault)
The wild world of Batwoman (interesting subplot about a horseshooe)
Future War (it's not in the future and there is no war but I'm not complaining)
Puma man (Pumas don't seem to fly, just sort of fall out of buildings)
Giant Spider invasion (alien spiders are incased inside of dimond geods)
Eegah (Ahhhhh, Arch hall Jr. "My dune buggy's tires are filled with water)
The list just gos on and on. But of all their movies I do have to agree that the worst was Night Train to Mundo Fine, AKA Red zone cuba. Dialog such as "Water, sick man,
Your freeshell didn't die so badly, you just used up all of your bandwith. You used almost twice you allowable bandwith.
Check out your usage from the command line with webquota or on the web page -nicnak
The topic of a spatial finder has been up for many discussions when OS X went departed from a spatial finder. However I have to defer to ArsTechnica for the best information about it.
John Siracusa offers a coherent explaination of what it means to be a spatial finder and why it can be better.
-nicnakI have seen to many people wasting their time reordering code and coming up with obscure ways of doing an if statement that might use a few less cpu cycles.
But I still think inorder to program efficant code you still must know assembly. The best courses I took were about compliers. This lets you know exactly how the compiler will optimize that assembly you know, so you know what is worth optimizing in a high level language.
For example, a lot of the things people do like rearanging local variable instanciation has absolutly nothing to do with how the machine code is actually written. The first think a compiler does is translate your code into a meta-code that has the exact same syntax style everywhere. All the variable declarations are moved to the front, every for, while, and do-while is turned into a while. All the code is normalized into a functional equivalent.
Then the code is optimized, if statements may be turned into the logical opposite, extra variables will be eliminated, code will be rearranged to increase parallel processing.
If you write code with this in mind you focus more on the important problems, like is this loop n-squared or just n.
But in-order to know what to optimize in code you still need to know assembly.
-nicnak
Jon Stewert did a bit on this a few months ago. He kept citing the report titled Hey, what if we put a camera on a blimp and the more detailed report Hey, what if we put a good camera on a blimp.
The dust problem is just indicitave of how difficult it is to plan such a complex mission like going to Mars. Until we do this a few more times and figure out a few more things, a manned mission will have to wait.
During one of the last times that Berkeley throttled their bandwith the SETI@home project moved to a different hosting location. They are now situated off campus and have their own pipe to the net. The Planetary Society has a good artical about the bandwith problems.