I dearly, sincerly wish that Microsoft would actually build not only a real firewall into their products
Ummm for XP the firewall that is enabled by default when setting up an internet connection works great and protects against both of these threats.
Ever consider making a simple website between calls for something like this and saying go there and follow the instructions. One of the main problems is that users must be connected to the internet (hence vulnerable, and contagious) to download patches/fixes but you could tell them save a text file to threir desktop and log off to read it, just a thought.
So if we start using GC for everything will this yield programmers who produce sloppy code and don't know about memory management? If so, will it matter?
Admittedly I haven't used a language with native GC for a few years, but I don't have fond memories of it.
For small programs ie less than 2000 or so LOC I would preffer no garbage colection so compiler directives would be nice, some object property that allows me to chose whether to place the object into the list of objects that may need GC would also be nice.
Not sure what "SCE" is either but a google search might yield some clues...
Sony Computer Entertainment...no
SCE Gaskets, Inc....no
Sydney College of English...no
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hmmm.. just a guess but Super Conducting Electronics?
Whatever it is it's also a very common accronym.
That floating magnet experiment/demonstration they describe is one of the coolest physics phenomena I've witnessed, for those without subscriptions you chill the superconductor below its critical temperature and place a small magnet with high magnetic field strength to mass ratio above the superconductor and it floats or sits in mid air spining slightly, pretty cool to see.
This article is low on actual content, it fails to even mention what the Tc is for this tape. The highest Tc I'm aware of is in the 130K while room temperature is on the order of 300K. If we can find materials with high enough Tc and without bad qualities it will revolutionize the world, imagine an electric motor with near zero resistance, unfortunately it could be used for evil too.
What does a gentoo user do if new versions of apps they use come out? They recompile those apps, so I was wondering do they recompile lots of stuff when a new gcc comes out?
On another note I notice Ada is getting some attention, do the added features mean it's not super standard, and thus becoming more C++ like? And does the improved confmity to standards of G++ mean C++ is becoming more Ada like? One thing that bugs me about C++ are the extra ';' at the end of some brackets, though I know at least one reason to include them, but now I can't throw in useless ';' after all my brackets, only some, where they are required? Also the Ada improvements include
" Additional set of warnings about potential wrong code
Improved error messages
Improved code generation"
, but does c++?(answer for those who Don't RTFAs: NO):), I'm actually starting to understand their error messages, but sometimes when a friend asks me to help with their coding problems I have no clue (template >) --Ghaaa.
What's this world coming to when I can't even accept my own friend's typedefs? One can't legislate good form!!!!!...oh wait you did "This is actually ill-formed and it is now rejected" It also seems they ditched yacc and that's no bison!
Seems like this may have had some impact 15 years ago if everybody agreed to it, but now it either won't last in the face of the obvious ubiquity of silent loggers such as Trillian (as has been mentioned before), or it will only be selectively enforced when they want to enforce it.
Just the way I see it.
This works great if the images are close enough but falls apart if elements in them are further away like the size of a monitor. It would be doable if you sized each half way down. I would give you an example but the slashdot "lameness filter was encountered: post aborted: Reason: Please use fewer 'junk' characters."
Well I was going to post an Ascii stereogram but it " violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition. Comment aborted."
I wrote some code to make SIRDS a while back and you can put these in motion with no more difficulty than puting normal images in motion, but the textured stereograms -the smoother magic-eye like stuff- don't do well in motion, this has to do with the way our brains track motion. Effectively adding meaningfull colors is also something I couldn't get to work.
I really think someday the graphical component of a computer's output will appear true 3D, without the need for special goggles. I seem to recall seeing something about making computer screens use technology where each pixel had elements oriented towards each eye thus allowing for very effective, and non-headache inducing, 3D depth. Goggles like you've seen at arcades work well enough but they arent very popular. Holograms like Starwars would be cool but the engineering problems are huge in the biggest sense of the word. Polorized glasses might work well but you still need to wear something. Though unlike goggles these glasses merely sort out the images instead of displaying them. Disneyland has or had some movie that they used two cameras to film, one camera offset slightly from the other, then when the movie is played back one projector polarizes light one way and the other does the opposite, thus when you view the screen with your polarized glasses on, each eye picks up the image from each camera's point of view. This was highly effective as I recall. The trick would be to get a computer to processes information quickly enough and then polarize light for display, to address a person moving their head umm, I know a few solutions but I notice I'm already going too far off topic so I'll stop now. I haven't downloaded the code or the program yet but it looks good, I just hope you don't move your head too much when you play games like these, My parents wouldn't be able to play this as they would lose the depth too quickly if they turned. Addressing the health of SIRDS I've stared at a lot an the worst it ever does to me (that I notice) is give me a slight headache.
Sig to come in new reply when I finish it
It could be called Operation Interplanetary Liberation. (...and where there's simple hydrocarbons like methane there there may be more complex hydrocarbons...) Given this new evidence they may then rename the mission Operation Interplanetary Freedom (OIF for short).
Anyone ever ask what allows Nasa to exist- Interplanetary space travel is nowhere mentioned in the constitution. The 13 enumerated powers of congress barely apply unless it is millitary or interstate commerce, or...both?.
Just tried using an img tag and it works fine in my Netscape version 7.1, however it doesn't show anything in my (now old and obselete) version 1.5 of Mozilla, and IE6 shows the familiar broken image box, embed also doesn't work at all in IE though it works in the others, M$ really needs to update IE, though I must say their css coverage is comprable to Netscape's, I just wish there were more overlap between the two.
Wait so CNN says that Interfax reports that Zelenshchikov said that engineers are working on a huge spaceship? They probably are, but this presentation of it just amusses me. -Arn out
The best way is to simply limit your calculator usage. I like to show off with the folks I tutor by doing their calculations in my head before they can type them into calculators. A strong basis in algebra can help you beak apart calculations into managable chunks, the trick is remembering how to put those chuncks back together. For instance (contrived example so not great but...): 95*23=100*25-100*2-5*23=2500-200-115=2185
Just responding to this, but the article says 10 feet and no collision detection, that seems high to me but a paper could have a relatively large anntena-the thing that most determines read distance, aside from passive/active tags(if you know anything about this this example is obviously passive) but active tags have read ranges in free space of well over a 100 meters. hope this clarifies your understanding. Besides it seems the primary aplication for this company is document authentication, other uses of course exist and can be exploited, as I mentioned in a paper I wrote on the subject of RFID: Wal-Mart is pushing it, Wal-Mart is also pushing active/changable Point of sale signs, 1984 ring a bell? Despite the redundancy: tin hat on, though Coca Cola has been involved in RFID and they produce metal objects with high water content so good engineering can get around some technical difficulties but not the laws of physics... of course particles (photons included) can pass impassible objects (infinetly steep potential wells are the classic example: look up wavefunctions..off topic) by the laws of quantum mechanics. I tend to go off topic esspecially when it comes to physics -sorry- but 'nough said.
verisign is a scary thought, but last I heard the EU has plans to incorperate RFID tags in Euro notes, this method would work for that. The US wont be ble to do this though. It reminds me of a document that the ACLU, and a bunch of other groups published a while back. saying that:
"(1) Merchants must be prohibited from forcing or coercing customers into accepting live or dormant RFID tags in the products they buy.
(2) There should be no prohibition on individuals to detect RFID tags and readers and disable tags on items in their possession.
(3) RFID must not be used to track individuals absent informed and written consent of the data subject. Human tracking is inappropriate, either directly or indirectly, through clothing, consumer goods, or other items.
(4) RFID should never be employed in a fashion to eliminate or reduce anonymity. For instance, RFID should not be incorporated into currency."
Every one of these I agree with wholly: http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/RFIDposition.htm
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I dearly, sincerly wish that Microsoft would actually build not only a real firewall into their products
Ummm for XP the firewall that is enabled by default when setting up an internet connection works great and protects against both of these threats.
Ever consider making a simple website between calls for something like this and saying go there and follow the instructions. One of the main problems is that users must be connected to the internet (hence vulnerable, and contagious) to download patches/fixes but you could tell them save a text file to threir desktop and log off to read it, just a thought.
Yes!! qwerty wasn't one of 'em that means I'm safe, er... um, yeah....
So if we start using GC for everything will this yield programmers who produce sloppy code and don't know about memory management? If so, will it matter?
Admittedly I haven't used a language with native GC for a few years, but I don't have fond memories of it.
For small programs ie less than 2000 or so LOC I would preffer no garbage colection so compiler directives would be nice, some object property that allows me to chose whether to place the object into the list of objects that may need GC would also be nice.
Not sure what "SCE" is either but a google search might yield some clues... Sony Computer Entertainment...no SCE Gaskets, Inc....no Sydney College of English...no . . . hmmm.. just a guess but Super Conducting Electronics? Whatever it is it's also a very common accronym.
That floating magnet experiment/demonstration they describe is one of the coolest physics phenomena I've witnessed, for those without subscriptions you chill the superconductor below its critical temperature and place a small magnet with high magnetic field strength to mass ratio above the superconductor and it floats or sits in mid air spining slightly, pretty cool to see.
This article is low on actual content, it fails to even mention what the Tc is for this tape. The highest Tc I'm aware of is in the 130K while room temperature is on the order of 300K. If we can find materials with high enough Tc and without bad qualities it will revolutionize the world, imagine an electric motor with near zero resistance, unfortunately it could be used for evil too.
What does a gentoo user do if new versions of apps they use come out? They recompile those apps, so I was wondering do they recompile lots of stuff when a new gcc comes out? On another note I notice Ada is getting some attention, do the added features mean it's not super standard, and thus becoming more C++ like? And does the improved confmity to standards of G++ mean C++ is becoming more Ada like? One thing that bugs me about C++ are the extra ';' at the end of some brackets, though I know at least one reason to include them, but now I can't throw in useless ';' after all my brackets, only some, where they are required? Also the Ada improvements include " Additional set of warnings about potential wrong code Improved error messages Improved code generation" , but does c++?(answer for those who Don't RTFAs: NO) :), I'm actually starting to understand their error messages, but sometimes when a friend asks me to help with their coding problems I have no clue (template >) --Ghaaa.
What's this world coming to when I can't even accept my own friend's typedefs? One can't legislate good form!!!!!...oh wait you did "This is actually ill-formed and it is now rejected" It also seems they ditched yacc and that's no bison!
If I read something associated with PERL and it didn't look like "gobbledygook" I would be concerned.
Seems like this may have had some impact 15 years ago if everybody agreed to it, but now it either won't last in the face of the obvious ubiquity of silent loggers such as Trillian (as has been mentioned before), or it will only be selectively enforced when they want to enforce it.
Just the way I see it.
This works great if the images are close enough but falls apart if elements in them are further away like the size of a monitor. It would be doable if you sized each half way down.
I would give you an example but the slashdot "lameness filter was encountered: post aborted: Reason: Please use fewer 'junk' characters."
Well I was going to post an Ascii stereogram but it " violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition. Comment aborted."
I wrote some code to make SIRDS a while back and you can put these in motion with no more difficulty than puting normal images in motion, but the textured stereograms -the smoother magic-eye like stuff- don't do well in motion, this has to do with the way our brains track motion. Effectively adding meaningfull colors is also something I couldn't get to work.
I really think someday the graphical component of a computer's output will appear true 3D, without the need for special goggles. I seem to recall seeing something about making computer screens use technology where each pixel had elements oriented towards each eye thus allowing for very effective, and non-headache inducing, 3D depth. Goggles like you've seen at arcades work well enough but they arent very popular. Holograms like Starwars would be cool but the engineering problems are huge in the biggest sense of the word. Polorized glasses might work well but you still need to wear something. Though unlike goggles these glasses merely sort out the images instead of displaying them. Disneyland has or had some movie that they used two cameras to film, one camera offset slightly from the other, then when the movie is played back one projector polarizes light one way and the other does the opposite, thus when you view the screen with your polarized glasses on, each eye picks up the image from each camera's point of view. This was highly effective as I recall. The trick would be to get a computer to processes information quickly enough and then polarize light for display, to address a person moving their head umm, I know a few solutions but I notice I'm already going too far off topic so I'll stop now.
I haven't downloaded the code or the program yet but it looks good, I just hope you don't move your head too much when you play games like these, My parents wouldn't be able to play this as they would lose the depth too quickly if they turned. Addressing the health of SIRDS I've stared at a lot an the worst it ever does to me (that I notice) is give me a slight headache. Sig to come in new reply when I finish it
I just tried it to see what it did- my test word was "stuff" and guess what nerd news site showed up first.
It could be called Operation Interplanetary Liberation. (...and where there's simple hydrocarbons like methane there there may be more complex hydrocarbons...) Given this new evidence they may then rename the mission Operation Interplanetary Freedom (OIF for short).
...both?.
Anyone ever ask what allows Nasa to exist- Interplanetary space travel is nowhere mentioned in the constitution. The 13 enumerated powers of congress barely apply unless it is millitary or interstate commerce, or
They might already be illeagal.
Just tried using an img tag and it works fine in my Netscape version 7.1, however it doesn't show anything in my (now old and obselete) version 1.5 of Mozilla, and IE6 shows the familiar broken image box, embed also doesn't work at all in IE though it works in the others, M$ really needs to update IE, though I must say their css coverage is comprable to Netscape's, I just wish there were more overlap between the two.
This isn't a troll its funny, oh well, But I wish everybody would just do MNG (and PNG for that matter) right, GIFs are so limiting.
Wait so CNN says that Interfax reports that Zelenshchikov said that engineers are working on a huge spaceship? They probably are, but this presentation of it just amusses me.
-Arn out
Make it a -2, but I whole heartidly agree. ps WoW looks great. I choose to be 'redundant' rather than 'off topic'. :)
The best way is to simply limit your calculator usage. I like to show off with the folks I tutor by doing their calculations in my head before they can type them into calculators. A strong basis in algebra can help you beak apart calculations into managable chunks, the trick is remembering how to put those chuncks back together. For instance (contrived example so not great but...): 95*23=100*25-100*2-5*23=2500-200-115=2185
Solution-Make he AI intelligent but place limits on its "skills"
Black and White 2 might be considerably better, few if any 'errands for the villagers,' more war and macromanagement. Due fourth quarter 2004?
Imagine how long it'd be if (as I half expected) they failed to launch for the next couple years.
70 bits = 1180591620717411303424 unique ids, the EPC standard is 92 bits if I'm not mistaken: 4951760157141521099596496896 unique ids
Just responding to this, but the article says 10 feet and no collision detection, that seems high to me but a paper could have a relatively large anntena-the thing that most determines read distance, aside from passive/active tags(if you know anything about this this example is obviously passive) but active tags have read ranges in free space of well over a 100 meters. hope this clarifies your understanding. Besides it seems the primary aplication for this company is document authentication, other uses of course exist and can be exploited, as I mentioned in a paper I wrote on the subject of RFID: Wal-Mart is pushing it, Wal-Mart is also pushing active/changable Point of sale signs, 1984 ring a bell? Despite the redundancy: tin hat on, though Coca Cola has been involved in RFID and they produce metal objects with high water content so good engineering can get around some technical difficulties but not the laws of physics... of course particles (photons included) can pass impassible objects (infinetly steep potential wells are the classic example: look up wavefunctions..off topic) by the laws of quantum mechanics. I tend to go off topic esspecially when it comes to physics -sorry- but 'nough said.
verisign is a scary thought, but last I heard the EU has plans to incorperate RFID tags in Euro notes, this method would work for that. The US wont be ble to do this though. It reminds me of a document that the ACLU, and a bunch of other groups published a while back. saying that: "(1) Merchants must be prohibited from forcing or coercing customers into accepting live or dormant RFID tags in the products they buy. (2) There should be no prohibition on individuals to detect RFID tags and readers and disable tags on items in their possession. (3) RFID must not be used to track individuals absent informed and written consent of the data subject. Human tracking is inappropriate, either directly or indirectly, through clothing, consumer goods, or other items. (4) RFID should never be employed in a fashion to eliminate or reduce anonymity. For instance, RFID should not be incorporated into currency." Every one of these I agree with wholly: http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/RFIDposition.htm