>> And I also wonder how many people will actually heed the call and switch their browser.
Very very few. I've got firefox installed on my family computer. Despite them getting infected with adware and spyware through IE, none of them want to use firefox. I've asked them many times, and even gone to the point of deleting IE, but their resillence to use anything else forced me to put it back on (amongst other reasons).
However, while Mircosoft are normally very good at patching these secuirty faults, this time they have totally failed. The blame doesn't rest with stubborn users who refuse to switch. The blame rests with Microsoft's inability to provide a patch in time.
Once they do supply a patch, it will then turn into the case of a supid user who doesn't patch. (and my server's apache logs show this, I'm still getting attacked by Code Red from infected servers who have not been patched).
Hopefully Microsoft will adapt to the pressure created by the users not being happy with the situation and release a patch.
Then again, looking at the age of IE and the number of requests to make a better version added to the time its taken them to respond, I'm stating a pool for those who want to bid on the release date of the patch. All dates start from 2005 onwards...
Unless you run a S3 Inc. 86c968 [Vision 968 VRAM]. Installing Redhat on that system choked in a few seconds, as it detected 63 graphic cards in my system...
As if i could get 63 cards in one computer, considering that there are only 5 slots...
My best line from the error log: (!!) More than one primary device found
So, currently its running XP, and so far, not a problem to boot.
Could it be that either the configuration ingame limits it to 60, or that you have Vsync enabled with a refresh rate of 60? Also check out DirectX'es overide ability, try using it to have 85hz as the default directX setting...
Don't blame the game before you check out all combos. My P3 1.2Ghz laptop keeps CS at 98fps. I capped it to 60 due to the sync of my TFT.
>> people who showed a statistical likelihood of being terrorists
Come again? How does one define an activity that makes you statistically a terrorist? Is it by the car they drive? Is it by the job they have? Is it by their nationality? Is it by their age? Is it by their house? Is it by anything bar the obvious ones, such as actively supporting terrorist activities?
Probably not. They probably picked at almost random 120,000 people and defined them as a 'likelihood of being terrorists'.
The question is who gets to make that choice? To me, it seems that the person(s) who make the choice could be as much of a terrorist as your average next door Jones, yet because they make the choices, they call the shots; they will never be featured in that list.
I would love to know how many of the 120,000 people were -NOT- charged with terrorist activities; i doubt that even 1% of them were arrested with enough evidence to prove it. However, given the current state of the laws, that doesn't matter now, does it?
Why seed the data? Why not let the information be collected the way it's intended, and then compile a list from it? Ok, this system might be rather like the 'big brother' we are all fearing, but currently, most major supermarkets track what you buy almost without you noticing, so its not like this information will be collected obtrusively.
Maybe its time someone out there took a step back and looked at the system they have just partaken in creating, and they just might, possibly, see it as something that shouldn't be.
Someone needs to look at this before the next 'red-ball' has your name on it, because by then, it's too late.
NeoThermic
P.S, is it me, or have they forgotten how to make an acronym? How does one get from Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange to Matrix? To me that makes 'MATIE'...
Install XP. Then, before plugging in any network of any type: start -> control pannel -> network connections. Find your connection medium, and click properties. Click the advanced tab, and check the ICF box.
Now connect up windows machine, and run windows update. I assue you, with the ICF active, you are not as big of a target as one might think.
Best get a better firewall first before running windows update, as ICF is one way traffic [incomming] protected only.
1. To stream or flow continuously or profusely.
2. To rain hard or heavily.
3. To pass or proceed in large numbers or quantity: Students poured into the auditorium.
4. To serve a beverage, such as tea or coffee, to a gathering: We need someone to pour.
So, if they poured through the data, they passed through the data in large numbers; meaning either many agents looking at a small amount of data, or a large amout of data being looked at by a few agents.
A little quote: It is not viri, or (worse) virii. True, the word comes directly from Latin, but not all Latin words ending in -us have -i as their plural. Besides, viri is the Latin word for 'men' (plural of vir, "man," the root of English virile). There is in fact no written attestation of a Latin plural of virus.
Repeat after me: Its Lego, not Legos. Lego is shortend from Leg Godt, which is Danish, and means Play Good. The amazing thing is, its plural and singular at the same time, so you don't need the S.
phfft! 3.6Ghz?! is that ALL you could get? From a p4?
Try this one on for size: http://82.34.77.49/Images/GIF/6.58ghz.gif And if you think thats not enough, have a look at the attempts to go ten times higher... http://82.34.77.49/Images/GIF/ReportBug 1.gif
Presentation, readablilty and understanding is what makes documentation usable.
This includes formatting, and visual output.
If content is controled by CSS, then in theory, the content can be ammended as needed, with those in charge of presenting it not interfering with the actual documentation. This could lead to less time to prepare content as you stated.
Remember, what makes the Microsoft KB almost un-usable is its presentation. What makes php.net's documentation usable is its presentation.
Guess who has got it right, and who hasn't. Guess also who uses proper presentation and who doesn't. Compare.
I just tried it. Yes, I agree, great if you use a text based browser, or have low bandwidth. But for usage? Seems backwards.
But gave me a thought. Why not use the text only interface, shove some CSS over it, and make the page look like the bloated HTML code version. Thus, you could make/. XHTML and CSS rather than bloated HTML.
NeoThermic
Re:At the present rate
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X-43A Hits Mach 7
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In 1994, a paper was written by Miguel Alcubierre which detailed a possible way of obtaining warp drive.
The current problem is that of relitivty, at which there is a certian point where energy stops creating speed, and goes into increasing the mass of the moving object, thus making light speed impossible. Alcubierre's idea was that the ship doesn't move. Instead, it modifies the space around it much like an esclator. Since the ship doesn't move in relitive terms, it doesn't gain mass or suffer time dialation.
However, at this time, there was a problem with obtaining the required energy, which was quite alot [think total solar output of the sun in its current life, per second]. In 1999, however, Thomas Valone spotted an answer. Zero Point Energy. In a nutshell, one can theoretically harness the binding energy of a particle. This energy, if harnessed, would be enough energy to power an Alcubierre warp drive.
However, both ideas are still in the working stage, and I think we will see Duke Nukem Forever before we see warp drive from either of these two concepts.
From the article: 'The gear fits into the assembly both ways, but is slightly asymmetric so the teeth do not fit exactly if the gear is reversed.'
So why not have the side its supposed to go in green, and the side where its not supposed to go in red? Simple visual solution that can be spotted quicker?
Remember, one can never say that we've made everything as its the unexpected inventions that change our world. Remember the quote from the patent office in 1899, something along the lines of 'Everything that can be invented has been invented'?
Look at what we have now, 105 years after that quote. Also to those who never thought SMS would take over.
There is only such thing as a percivable technology plateau. Everything that we see around us seems to be the end all. We can't see why we would realistly need 32 TB of ram for instance. But just leave it a good 5 years, and I'm sure that someone out there will say 'I need more than 32TB for running this'.
Fundamental new technologies are being invented as we type and read this, we just don't know about them yet. Once its released, it has the oppertunity to change it all. Think about the AT -> ATX standerd.. and the new one [PTX?]. Once released, it should change everything.
Who knows... mabey in 15 years time, rather than watch our character on the screen run around the UT world with a gun shooting at the other people, we will be immersed in this game, made so real its impossible to tell the diffrence.
Who knows... that just might require 32 TB of ram...
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>> And I also wonder how many people will actually heed the call and switch their browser.
Very very few. I've got firefox installed on my family computer. Despite them getting infected with adware and spyware through IE, none of them want to use firefox. I've asked them many times, and even gone to the point of deleting IE, but their resillence to use anything else forced me to put it back on (amongst other reasons).
However, while Mircosoft are normally very good at patching these secuirty faults, this time they have totally failed. The blame doesn't rest with stubborn users who refuse to switch. The blame rests with Microsoft's inability to provide a patch in time.
Once they do supply a patch, it will then turn into the case of a supid user who doesn't patch. (and my server's apache logs show this, I'm still getting attacked by Code Red from infected servers who have not been patched).
Hopefully Microsoft will adapt to the pressure created by the users not being happy with the situation and release a patch.
Then again, looking at the age of IE and the number of requests to make a better version added to the time its taken them to respond, I'm stating a pool for those who want to bid on the release date of the patch. All dates start from 2005 onwards...
NeoThermic
I would of suspected that orbit requires speed and control, thus a rail gun based launching system would lack the control to obtain orbit.
Plus I think you will be doing more than the Mach 25 required for orbit, and thus you might just shoot off into space.
Great for launching planitary probes though...
NeoThermic
(You'll have to forgive
NeoThermic
Ok, seeing as you wrote it, explain to those who might be too lazy to RTFA, why 802.16 is better than 802.11[a|b|g].
NeoThermic
>>So let's not hold our breath, eh?
Until they patent breathing through biological devices that exchange oxygen for carbon dioxide...
NeoThermic
>>you won't have to worry about being mugged for it.
And even if you did get mugged for it, a laptop and some wireless network scanning software of your choice, and you could track them down for it back!
NeoThermic
>>You need [...] a Linksys wireless device
so now users can hack your rotuer as well with this article!
Joy!
NeoThermic
http://www.dreamlandresort.com/area51/new_sensors. html
Third image on the page, clearly shows device, labled 'U.S Government Property'.
Neothermic
Unless you run a S3 Inc. 86c968 [Vision 968 VRAM]. Installing Redhat on that system choked in a few seconds, as it detected 63 graphic cards in my system...
As if i could get 63 cards in one computer, considering that there are only 5 slots...
My best line from the error log:
(!!) More than one primary device found
So, currently its running XP, and so far, not a problem to boot.
NeoThermic
Could it be that either the configuration ingame limits it to 60, or that you have Vsync enabled with a refresh rate of 60? Also check out DirectX'es overide ability, try using it to have 85hz as the default directX setting...
Don't blame the game before you check out all combos. My P3 1.2Ghz laptop keeps CS at 98fps. I capped it to 60 due to the sync of my TFT.
NeoThermic
Yes, it was unfortunate. The receiver was pointed at the MIR and then the ISS.
We have yet to make contact though...
NeoThermic
>> people who showed a statistical likelihood of being terrorists
Come again? How does one define an activity that makes you statistically a terrorist?
Is it by the car they drive?
Is it by the job they have?
Is it by their nationality?
Is it by their age?
Is it by their house?
Is it by anything bar the obvious ones, such as actively supporting terrorist activities?
Probably not. They probably picked at almost random 120,000 people and defined them as a 'likelihood of being terrorists'.
The question is who gets to make that choice? To me, it seems that the person(s) who make the choice could be as much of a terrorist as your average next door Jones, yet because they make the choices, they call the shots; they will never be featured in that list.
I would love to know how many of the 120,000 people were -NOT- charged with terrorist activities; i doubt that even 1% of them were arrested with enough evidence to prove it. However, given the current state of the laws, that doesn't matter now, does it?
Why seed the data? Why not let the information be collected the way it's intended, and then compile a list from it? Ok, this system might be rather like the 'big brother' we are all fearing, but currently, most major supermarkets track what you buy almost without you noticing, so its not like this information will be collected obtrusively.
Maybe its time someone out there took a step back and looked at the system they have just partaken in creating, and they just might, possibly, see it as something that shouldn't be.
Someone needs to look at this before the next 'red-ball' has your name on it, because by then, it's too late.
NeoThermic
P.S, is it me, or have they forgotten how to make an acronym? How does one get from Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange to Matrix? To me that makes 'MATIE'...
Install XP. Then, before plugging in any network of any type: start -> control pannel -> network connections.
Find your connection medium, and click properties. Click the advanced tab, and check the ICF box.
Now connect up windows machine, and run windows update. I assue you, with the ICF active, you are not as big of a target as one might think.
Best get a better firewall first before running windows update, as ICF is one way traffic [incomming] protected only.
NeoThermic
Doesn't anyone know how to look beyond their screen?
Dictionary Reference for Poured
v. intr.
1. To stream or flow continuously or profusely.
2. To rain hard or heavily.
3. To pass or proceed in large numbers or quantity: Students poured into the auditorium.
4. To serve a beverage, such as tea or coffee, to a gathering: We need someone to pour.
So, if they poured through the data, they passed through the data in large numbers; meaning either many agents looking at a small amount of data, or a large amout of data being looked at by a few agents.
NeoThermic
Rather than use my mod points, I thought that I would point out one of the biggest arguments...
What is the plural of virus?
A little quote:
It is not viri, or (worse) virii. True, the word comes directly from Latin, but not all Latin words ending in -us have -i as their plural. Besides, viri is the Latin word for 'men' (plural of vir, "man," the root of English virile). There is in fact no written attestation of a Latin plural of virus.
NeoThermic
Repeat after me: Its Lego, not Legos. Lego is shortend from Leg Godt, which is Danish, and means Play Good. The amazing thing is, its plural and singular at the same time, so you don't need the S.
NeoThermic
phfft! 3.6Ghz?! is that ALL you could get? From a p4?
g 1.gif
Try this one on for size:
http://82.34.77.49/Images/GIF/6.58ghz.gif
And if you think thats not enough, have a look at the attempts to go ten times higher...
http://82.34.77.49/Images/GIF/ReportBu
All from a 1.2Ghz Pentium 3 Celeron
NeoThermic
Remember, In soviet russia, the fool Aprils...
I think...
NeoThermic
Presentation, readablilty and understanding is what makes documentation usable.
This includes formatting, and visual output.
If content is controled by CSS, then in theory, the content can be ammended as needed, with those in charge of presenting it not interfering with the actual documentation. This could lead to less time to prepare content as you stated.
Remember, what makes the Microsoft KB almost un-usable is its presentation. What makes php.net's documentation usable is its presentation.
Guess who has got it right, and who hasn't.
Guess also who uses proper presentation and who doesn't. Compare.
NeoThermic
I just tried it. Yes, I agree, great if you use a text based browser, or have low bandwidth. But for usage? Seems backwards.
/. XHTML and CSS rather than bloated HTML.
But gave me a thought. Why not use the text only interface, shove some CSS over it, and make the page look like the bloated HTML code version. Thus, you could make
NeoThermic
In 1994, a paper was written by Miguel Alcubierre which detailed a possible way of obtaining warp drive.
The current problem is that of relitivty, at which there is a certian point where energy stops creating speed, and goes into increasing the mass of the moving object, thus making light speed impossible.
Alcubierre's idea was that the ship doesn't move. Instead, it modifies the space around it much like an esclator. Since the ship doesn't move in relitive terms, it doesn't gain mass or suffer time dialation.
However, at this time, there was a problem with obtaining the required energy, which was quite alot [think total solar output of the sun in its current life, per second].
In 1999, however, Thomas Valone spotted an answer. Zero Point Energy. In a nutshell, one can theoretically harness the binding energy of a particle. This energy, if harnessed, would be enough energy to power an Alcubierre warp drive.
However, both ideas are still in the working stage, and I think we will see Duke Nukem Forever before we see warp drive from either of these two concepts.
NeoThermic
tlhIngan mu' DichDaq SIq Dung SoH!!
[Note, google for online english to klingon translator and use the first link]
NeoThermic
'On the other hand, there's been what? 5-6 space shuttles in the history of mankind!'
Correct:
OV-101: Enterprise, test vehicle (now owned by Smithsonian Institution).
OV-102: (1981) Columbia, first operational shuttle.
OV-099: (1983) Challenger, destroyed in explosion Jan-1986.
OV-103: (1984) Discovery.
OV-104: (1985) Atlantis.
OV-105: (1992) Endeavour, replacement for OV-099.
Although to be brutial, Enterprise never made an orbit IIRC.
NeoThermic
Or, do what they do now for computer compoments:
Colour code the connections.
From the article:
'The gear fits into the assembly both ways, but is slightly asymmetric so the teeth do not fit exactly if the gear is reversed.'
So why not have the side its supposed to go in green, and the side where its not supposed to go in red?
Simple visual solution that can be spotted quicker?
NeoThermic
Remember, one can never say that we've made everything as its the unexpected inventions that change our world.
Remember the quote from the patent office in 1899, something along the lines of 'Everything that can be invented has been invented'?
Look at what we have now, 105 years after that quote. Also to those who never thought SMS would take over.
There is only such thing as a percivable technology plateau. Everything that we see around us seems to be the end all. We can't see why we would realistly need 32 TB of ram for instance. But just leave it a good 5 years, and I'm sure that someone out there will say 'I need more than 32TB for running this'.
Fundamental new technologies are being invented as we type and read this, we just don't know about them yet. Once its released, it has the oppertunity to change it all. Think about the AT -> ATX standerd.. and the new one [PTX?]. Once released, it should change everything.
Who knows... mabey in 15 years time, rather than watch our character on the screen run around the UT world with a gun shooting at the other people, we will be immersed in this game, made so real its impossible to tell the diffrence.
Who knows... that just might require 32 TB of ram...
NeoThermic