To use your example: if you brute force a password, then you have solved the password. If you brute-force ALL possible passwords, then you have solved the encryption/hash function.
There are at least two (2) 64-bit OS that the iPhone+iTunes is compatible with. Care to guess which two? 64-bit Windows XP is a mess. From other comments in this thread, it sounds like 64-bit Vista is too. Steve Jobs as much as said (and as a Windows administrator I agree) that running Windows is like being in Hell.
That said, I think it's pretty unfair that it's "all or nothing" with the iPhone. No activation == no iPod, photo, wifi browsing. However, now that my iPhone is activated... gosh, it's darn pretty.:)
But I agree that people should be moving on, and not kicking the dirt around in his own theater. They should be posting here on Slashdot, and telling the ****ing editor to read the ****ing articles before posting.
"Proving" that multiple choice exams are poor testers of knowledge by generalizing from randomly designed 50/50% questions, and not bothering to give any statistics for the more typical 4 or 5 answer "multiple choice" exams? It changes the numbers quite a bit, don't it?:) Nor does it address the common method of penalizing incorrect answers, or whether degrees of knowledge could be used to winnow down the possibilities, and reward knowledgeable guessing.
And yet, passenger cars in the US contribute to 18% of US CO2 emissions, while in the EU, they only account for 12% of total CO2 emissions. Maybe the fact that Europeans drive less than Americans would explain their different priorities. Perhaps their cars may emit more smog and carbon-monoxide per liter of fuel, and still, because of their lighter weight, still get better gas mileage, and emit less carbon-dioxide. (But that's just a guess.)
You may want to check out a more reputable website for your information. Your "pop" quiz is incorrect about the satellite data, which _does_ show warming trends, and is misleading about the greenhouse effect and the significance of the _rapid_ change in global average temperatures. To clarify, if it took a thousand years instead of twenty years for the recent increase in temperature, there would be a very different reaction.
The many, many, many studies done around the world show that there is a recent, rapid increase in global temperature, and that it is linked to human activities, and, in a single lifetime, left uncorrected, will cause great amounts of worldwide suffering. Also, we can mitigate the effects with substantial and early corrective actions.
Increased CO2 levels are expected to boost food production by a significant and measurable amount, around 10-20% if I remember correctly. It's offset by a lot of nasty stuff. Just the fact that rainfall patterns are going to shift, and we've built up our communities and farmlands in a lot of places to the limits of existing rainfall patterns. It'll suck for those communities currently near the limit, getting the below average trend in rainfall. Not to mention the other changes. Capish?
As for opportunity, I hear there's already forward-looking land investments in Canada.
Darn, I meant to include a link to the IPCC Climate Change 2007 report. It's PDF, but only 1.3MB. It's intended for policy makers, so it uses smaller words, and explains it more than in a scientific journal. However, it liberally references the sources, and uses precise language.
Edward Tufte believes that terse and inaccurate bullet points are the enemy of science.
The article (not the best, and in a populist magazine) states: "The truth is probably somewhere between these two extremes. Climate change will undoubtedly have losers -- but it will also have winners. There will be a reshuffling of climate zones on earth. And there is something else that we can already say with certainty: The end of the world isn't coming any time soon."
If you read scientific journals, this is nothing new. This is hardly "questioning 'A warming earth will cause bad things for humankind'".
For an article that quotes a tabloid as evidence of rampant fears of catastrophe.. it's actually not that bad. If you read it.
"Keeping a cool head is a good idea because, for one thing, we can no longer completely prevent climate change. No matter how much governments try to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, it will only be possible to limit the rise in global temperatures to about 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century."
So, if we do everything we can to limit and reduce CO2 levels, the best outcome will be a 3.6 degree rise in average temperature, which will not be as catastrophic as the 10-15 degree rise caused by unchecked rising CO2 levels.
"Nevertheless, sea levels will rise worldwide as higher temperatures cause the water in the oceans to expand. In addition, more water will flow into the ocean with the gradual thawing of the Greenland ice sheet. All things considered, however, in the current IPCC report climatologists are predicting a rise in sea levels of only about 40 centimeters (16 inches)" (also from the same article)
This would be devastating to the Netherlands, unless they divert a lot of money, time, and resources to raise the dikes by another couple feet. Money, time, energy, and resources that could've been spent on medical care, education.. many other things. It's not just The Netherlands, Venice, and New Orleans that'll be hurt by even a foot-and-a-half of extra ocean. A lot of coastal cities would be affected to different degrees. According to the article, that 16 inches of worldwide average increase would mean a 31 inch increase along the German coast (new to me).
Shifting rainfall patterns will cause joy in some places, and disaster in others. Given how much effort has been put into using or diverting rainfall/water the way it is now, how will it affect people on average when the rainfall moves a few hundred miles closer or farther? When it decreases or increases by 30% in a region? 50%? 100%?
Even war and plague makes some people wealthy, so it's no surprise that even severe global warming will really benefit some people and even some nations (on average). But who uses that as an argument to discredit global warming? Get all the facts, and don't put your faith in pundits or newspapers. Get your data as close to the source as possible.
I haven't tried VMWare-- never occurred to me since it was a driver/hardware issue. We use the old tape software in Windows XP for reading files, but couldn't get it to access the SCSI tape readers, no matter what I tried. Do you think it would be able to access the hardware in VMWare when the host OS can't (in that way)?
We're close enough now to getting rid of the tapes onto CD/DVD/FTP anyway, I'm not going to mess with it. But thanks for the idea.
The day I worry about my computer's idea of propriety over my own is the day I hope someone shoots me in the fucking head, because I'm obviously already not using my brain.
Not everyone has the time you have to research and verify every system, registry, and application setting for security risks. Did you disable Fast Saves in Word the moment you installed it the first time? Did you modify the ACLs for the Windows folder? Disable remote registry access? Did you disable the Messenger service? Should you? Did you change the Macro Security levels in all the Office apps? Did you turn on DEP protection? What's the repercussions? Encrypt your files? Did you even think about it? Would you shoot your grandmother in the head when her computer gets infected with spyware? If you don't have the time to do the research, you have to trust the makers of the OS (someone) about the best ways to use their own damned product.
Actually, a word balloon pops up saying that updates are ready for your computer. It's neither modal nor pop-to-front (it does appear in front of things, but it doesn't affect input.) You were saying?
I had VNC connections to nearly a dozen Windows systems yesterday.. I saw the shield on some of them, but no popups. So if there are popups, they're hiding, useless, or inconsistent. When do they appear, and for how long?
OS X has an actual update application. It checks for updates as scheduled. If it finds them, it stays open, and tells you that there's updates available without stealing the focus. It's obvious, not hidden in the system tray that, on Windows, defaults to auto-hiding icons after a while.
Microsoft is not the one preventing people from thinking for themselves.
Don't be a dolt. Microsoft designed the options, made recommendations, and set the defaults. They accepted responsibility. Can't you agree that Microsoft designed the update process poorly?
That is not Microsoft's fault. It is the fault of your OEM, who chose to preconfigure that for you when they had no business doing so.
That's the lamest argument. There are three options: (1) Auto-install (recommended by Microsoft, by the way, reboots without saving open files), (2) Download without installing (not recommended by Microsoft), and (3) Don't even check for updates (really not recommended by Microsoft.. gives you a big Red Shield). Even though Microsoft prompts you on new installs, the "default" is still (1) most-secure/green, and not (2) kind-of-secure/yellow or (3) i'm-a-rebel/red.
If you select the Download without updating option, the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer flags the system as a "Potential Risk"-- the Microsoft way of saying "Tsk, tsk". Also, the system notifies you of updates by putting a little blue/green blob in the bottom right corner of the screen (oops, now a little yellow shield). Why aren't users notified of critical remotely-exploitable updates with, oh, an actual pop-up and/or sound? (not modal or pop-to-front, of course, which is pet-peeve #2)
Microsoft made it their fault when they made the auto-reboot option, didn't highlight that it would cause data loss, and recommended it as the best and only secure option.
The way system updates work in Windows is one of my biggest pet peeves as a Windows administrator, and one of my what-a-relief things about OS X.
"Hey, let's install driver and kernel updates using the web browser!" -- Bill Gates
We have a couple Windows 98 machines for reading mainframe tapes we still get from our clients. The tape software runs in DOS, and simply can not be run in any newer Windows. There is updated tape software, but it's all GUI, less useful, and takes about 10 times longer to do the same thing.
I've spent enough hours trying to get around this.. so now we have these single-purpose systems with severely locked down accounts.
Point is, there may be a good reason they've still got Windows 98 systems in use..
(PCCOE was pretty cool.. I've written a couple site packages for it in a past life.)
Ditto. I switched my boss from a Dell laptop to Thinkpad, and even as an avid Mac fan, I'm impressed with the Thinkpads. They seem like Cyberpunk versions of Mac laptops-- all black, hard edges, rugged plastic, streamlined, and solid. I'd recommend them to any one who needs a Windows-only laptop. (We've had to replace the motherboard on it after only six months, but with the warranty, they sent someone out to fix it onsite. If it breaks again, I reconsider my recommendation. First one's free.)
His conjectures and studies (late 1830's) began long before his daughter died (early 1851), but his daughter's death undoubtedly affected his perception of God. Thanks for the link.
Care to define your terms? If you mean that "Darwinists need an Origin of Life that excludes all non-physical influences", I'd dispute that. I'm living with one.
I definitely agree that finding the definitive source of life will be nigh impossible (unless someone took pictures). Single celled life don't leave much in the way of fossils. Bacteria swap genes and have a high mutation rate which makes it harder to determine ancestry billions of years ago.
However, it's much easier to demonstrate a common ancestry for complex life on Earth. Mutations in highly conserved DNA sequences, plus fossil records that show that species change over time, geographic distribution of species, and shared "mistakes" in the "designs" of species, all support the Theories of Common Descent and (Macro) Evolution.
Unfortunately, people conflate the theories, (I used to, but not saying you do) and justify their belief in the Creation as done by Jesus Christ, simply because scientists haven't proven it all the way back to the big bang. Which is utterly foolish. Since their religious belief is centered on the Bible being 100% accurate, they incorrectly believe that all of the Theory of Evolution etc. falls apart if scientists can't prove the Origin of Life.
Don't confuse 1) The Theory of Evolution with 2) The Theory of Common Decent and 3) the various theories of the Origin of Life. The first two are well proven with lots of data from many disciplines. They, like Newton's Law, will probably be refined in the years to come. The third has vary little evidence to say one way vs. another.
Don't confuse evidence with "faith".
Do you really have a better theory? Supported by the vast amount of evidence already gathered? Able to make useful predictions in bio-genetics and paleontology?
Darwin started out a Creationist. He stopped being one because Creationism kept making wrong predictions.
I get 50% of my music from CDBaby, but don't fool yourself, they "gatekeep" too. In addition to basic quality standards, they have recommended lists, top seller lists, and "mood" lists. Plus, every CD has a custom, "If you liked this..." list.
Every CD can also have user reviews. Most of the ones I get have a half-dozen or more positive reviews, but I may get ones that have no reviews if it was recommended by CDBaby. CDs with songs that have been in movies or tv shows, usually have a gazillion reviews-- and the gatekeepers for movies and tv shows are very picky.:)
Unless you go for the "random" lists, you're going through gatekeepers.
By the way, CDBaby tunes are available through iTunes, if you just want a song. (And the artist actually gets the majority of your dollar.)
What with the whole 'submit a proposal' process to go through first, I doubt this would work for your three day projects. Also, IFAIK, OS X does have local exploits, which means that you still need to trust the software being run by the XGrid on your system.
If the proposal review doesn't insist on reviewing and archiving source code first, this could be the start of a nasty bot-net. Am I right?
A couple months ago, I upgraded from a 3.5 yr 1.0GHz TiBook to a 2.33GHz C2D MacBook Pro. The speed goes way beyond being able to play H.264 videos without stuttering.
I gave my brothers a demo, with all of these running simultaneously.. * iTunes playing music * VLC playing a video * DVD playing (a ripped folder) * iPhoto open with 5,000 photos * VPN/VNC to several work systems * Parallels running Windows XP *...and that Windows XP running XCOM:UFO Defence * A second Parallels window installing Windows 98
I hit Expose to show all windows-- there was no stutter.
The CPU load was only at 75%:-D
/ love the MagSafe adapter more than I expected.. it just works
CheapAss Games is definitely still around. They tend to be beer-and-pretzel games with some good humor, but range from 5-minute games to several hours.
My friends and family like "Give Me The Brain", and the "BRAWL:" sets, but our favorite of those is "Light Speed".
You might want to review the reasons why a "crackpot fundamentalist" is calling it controversial, and not a "respected member of the scientific community". Jesus.
Gravity and Algebra ARE ALSO THEORIES.
So is the theory that the Earth goes around the sun.
Apple is pushing/promoting widget development in Leopard with both the Safari web-clipper (for users), and a XCode IDE for making full-featured widgets (for developers). So I'd say, yes, you can develop for it. I don't know about Terminal, but I'd say it's very likely, given that it's running OS X (probably Leopard) and iPod games (right?).
I'm looking forward to the inevitable bluetooth mini keyboard/touchpad.. someone will probably build that into a storage case, and that would make VNC-on-the-go a snap. wow.
i'm only disappointed that it's exclusive with Cingular, but I expect that'll change in 2008. And it won't stop me from buying it as soon as they get FCC approval.:)
That's a software problem-- so Apple (with the Fingerworks engineers) solved it. Your fingertip is larger than a single key, but the center of your fingertip can be calculated and can be matched to a single key. The problem is a lack of tactile feedback to correct our tendencies to drift, but it looks like they have keypress popups and spelling correction to compensate.
Take a look at the Fingertouchkeyboards.. They've been around for several years, and stopped production when Apple bought the team/company/IP in 2005. Don't let the pictures fool you-- there are no "keys". It is a completely smooth surface, and all the buttons and gestures are fully re-programmable. All sensing is done in the keyboard and converted to keystrokes and mouse movements for the USB.
Granted, the linked keyboard is laptop sized, but the point is that they calculate the center of the touch.
Illuminopoly is played on a normal Monopoly board, but set in a universe where mind-control devices are routinely installed in the apartments.
The default victory condition is to own or control at least 1/2 of the property values once all properties are owned. Each piece has alternate victory conditions and special powers. In addition, properties can be razed/rezoned with the appropriate graft. Bribery and backstabbing are expected, and even cheating is allowed, with a mandatory Go To Jail if caught; though we usually don't allow cheating in our games.
A work crew was upgrading the electrical system of a run-down property on Baltic when Sal found the Thingy. It was some kind of computerized property on Baltic when Sal found the Thingy. It was some kind of computerized device hooked into the electrical lines, kinda like a phone tap or sumthin. Anyway, Sal he took it to th' foreman, who told him to fergit about it. That was about a week before Sal was in that train wreck....
Running the world used to involve control of secret societies and political candidates. But that was before someone discovered how to use subsonics generated in electrical wiring along with chemicals in the water softeners to influence the minds of people living in apartment complexes and subdivisions. Soon the secret was 'common knowledge' among the factions vying for world domination, and they scrambled to buy up real estate in order to create their own armies of voting public.
Owning the utilities allows you to subvert huge masses of unclaimed territory, but less reliably (hence the random roll for Rent). Owning the rails lets you tamper with consumer goods delivered on trains, and with the minds of the Light Rail passengers. Monopoly on a certain area is highly sought after, since it allows the owners to renovate the properties extensively while adding even more complex mind control devices and attracting a richer (and more powerful) class of slave. Illuminopoly is the story of the struggle for dominance of one particular city, as several factions vie to gain total control....
Rereading your request.. this isn't necessarily less chancy, but it is more strategic. And definitely more advanced.
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Yes it is.
To use your example: if you brute force a password, then you have solved the password. If you brute-force ALL possible passwords, then you have solved the encryption/hash function.
There are at least two (2) 64-bit OS that the iPhone+iTunes is compatible with. Care to guess which two? 64-bit Windows XP is a mess. From other comments in this thread, it sounds like 64-bit Vista is too. Steve Jobs as much as said (and as a Windows administrator I agree) that running Windows is like being in Hell.
:)
That said, I think it's pretty unfair that it's "all or nothing" with the iPhone. No activation == no iPod, photo, wifi browsing. However, now that my iPhone is activated... gosh, it's darn pretty.
Well, the article is ****ing lame.
:) Nor does it address the common method of penalizing incorrect answers, or whether degrees of knowledge could be used to winnow down the possibilities, and reward knowledgeable guessing.
But I agree that people should be moving on, and not kicking the dirt around in his own theater. They should be posting here on Slashdot, and telling the ****ing editor to read the ****ing articles before posting.
"Proving" that multiple choice exams are poor testers of knowledge by generalizing from randomly designed 50/50% questions, and not bothering to give any statistics for the more typical 4 or 5 answer "multiple choice" exams? It changes the numbers quite a bit, don't it?
And yet, passenger cars in the US contribute to 18% of US CO2 emissions, while in the EU, they only account for 12% of total CO2 emissions. Maybe the fact that Europeans drive less than Americans would explain their different priorities. Perhaps their cars may emit more smog and carbon-monoxide per liter of fuel, and still, because of their lighter weight, still get better gas mileage, and emit less carbon-dioxide. (But that's just a guess.)
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You may want to check out a more reputable website for your information. Your "pop" quiz is incorrect about the satellite data, which _does_ show warming trends, and is misleading about the greenhouse effect and the significance of the _rapid_ change in global average temperatures. To clarify, if it took a thousand years instead of twenty years for the recent increase in temperature, there would be a very different reaction.
The many, many, many studies done around the world show that there is a recent, rapid increase in global temperature, and that it is linked to human activities, and, in a single lifetime, left uncorrected, will cause great amounts of worldwide suffering. Also, we can mitigate the effects with substantial and early corrective actions.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming
Increased CO2 levels are expected to boost food production by a significant and measurable amount, around 10-20% if I remember correctly. It's offset by a lot of nasty stuff. Just the fact that rainfall patterns are going to shift, and we've built up our communities and farmlands in a lot of places to the limits of existing rainfall patterns. It'll suck for those communities currently near the limit, getting the below average trend in rainfall. Not to mention the other changes. Capish?
As for opportunity, I hear there's already forward-looking land investments in Canada.
Darn, I meant to include a link to the IPCC Climate Change 2007 report. It's PDF, but only 1.3MB. It's intended for policy makers, so it uses smaller words, and explains it more than in a scientific journal. However, it liberally references the sources, and uses precise language.
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http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf
Background on the working group(s) and the report:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Pa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPCC_Fourth_Assessme
Edward Tufte believes that terse and inaccurate bullet points are the enemy of science.
The article (not the best, and in a populist magazine) states: "The truth is probably somewhere between these two extremes. Climate change will undoubtedly have losers -- but it will also have winners. There will be a reshuffling of climate zones on earth. And there is something else that we can already say with certainty: The end of the world isn't coming any time soon."
If you read scientific journals, this is nothing new. This is hardly "questioning 'A warming earth will cause bad things for humankind'".
For an article that quotes a tabloid as evidence of rampant fears of catastrophe.. it's actually not that bad. If you read it.
"Keeping a cool head is a good idea because, for one thing, we can no longer completely prevent climate change. No matter how much governments try to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, it will only be possible to limit the rise in global temperatures to about 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century."
So, if we do everything we can to limit and reduce CO2 levels, the best outcome will be a 3.6 degree rise in average temperature, which will not be as catastrophic as the 10-15 degree rise caused by unchecked rising CO2 levels.
"Nevertheless, sea levels will rise worldwide as higher temperatures cause the water in the oceans to expand. In addition, more water will flow into the ocean with the gradual thawing of the Greenland ice sheet. All things considered, however, in the current IPCC report climatologists are predicting a rise in sea levels of only about 40 centimeters (16 inches)" (also from the same article)
This would be devastating to the Netherlands, unless they divert a lot of money, time, and resources to raise the dikes by another couple feet. Money, time, energy, and resources that could've been spent on medical care, education.. many other things. It's not just The Netherlands, Venice, and New Orleans that'll be hurt by even a foot-and-a-half of extra ocean. A lot of coastal cities would be affected to different degrees. According to the article, that 16 inches of worldwide average increase would mean a 31 inch increase along the German coast (new to me).
Shifting rainfall patterns will cause joy in some places, and disaster in others. Given how much effort has been put into using or diverting rainfall/water the way it is now, how will it affect people on average when the rainfall moves a few hundred miles closer or farther? When it decreases or increases by 30% in a region? 50%? 100%?
Even war and plague makes some people wealthy, so it's no surprise that even severe global warming will really benefit some people and even some nations (on average). But who uses that as an argument to discredit global warming? Get all the facts, and don't put your faith in pundits or newspapers. Get your data as close to the source as possible.
I haven't tried VMWare-- never occurred to me since it was a driver/hardware issue. We use the old tape software in Windows XP for reading files, but couldn't get it to access the SCSI tape readers, no matter what I tried. Do you think it would be able to access the hardware in VMWare when the host OS can't (in that way)?
We're close enough now to getting rid of the tapes onto CD/DVD/FTP anyway, I'm not going to mess with it. But thanks for the idea.
The day I worry about my computer's idea of propriety over my own is the day I hope someone shoots me in the fucking head, because I'm obviously already not using my brain.
Not everyone has the time you have to research and verify every system, registry, and application setting for security risks. Did you disable Fast Saves in Word the moment you installed it the first time? Did you modify the ACLs for the Windows folder? Disable remote registry access? Did you disable the Messenger service? Should you? Did you change the Macro Security levels in all the Office apps? Did you turn on DEP protection? What's the repercussions? Encrypt your files? Did you even think about it? Would you shoot your grandmother in the head when her computer gets infected with spyware? If you don't have the time to do the research, you have to trust the makers of the OS (someone) about the best ways to use their own damned product.
Actually, a word balloon pops up saying that updates are ready for your computer. It's neither modal nor pop-to-front (it does appear in front of things, but it doesn't affect input.) You were saying?
I had VNC connections to nearly a dozen Windows systems yesterday.. I saw the shield on some of them, but no popups. So if there are popups, they're hiding, useless, or inconsistent. When do they appear, and for how long?
OS X has an actual update application. It checks for updates as scheduled. If it finds them, it stays open, and tells you that there's updates available without stealing the focus. It's obvious, not hidden in the system tray that, on Windows, defaults to auto-hiding icons after a while.
Microsoft is not the one preventing people from thinking for themselves.
Don't be a dolt. Microsoft designed the options, made recommendations, and set the defaults. They accepted responsibility. Can't you agree that Microsoft designed the update process poorly?
That is not Microsoft's fault. It is the fault of your OEM, who chose to preconfigure that for you when they had no business doing so.
That's the lamest argument. There are three options: (1) Auto-install (recommended by Microsoft, by the way, reboots without saving open files), (2) Download without installing (not recommended by Microsoft), and (3) Don't even check for updates (really not recommended by Microsoft.. gives you a big Red Shield). Even though Microsoft prompts you on new installs, the "default" is still (1) most-secure/green, and not (2) kind-of-secure/yellow or (3) i'm-a-rebel/red.
If you select the Download without updating option, the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer flags the system as a "Potential Risk"-- the Microsoft way of saying "Tsk, tsk". Also, the system notifies you of updates by putting a little blue/green blob in the bottom right corner of the screen (oops, now a little yellow shield). Why aren't users notified of critical remotely-exploitable updates with, oh, an actual pop-up and/or sound? (not modal or pop-to-front, of course, which is pet-peeve #2)
Microsoft made it their fault when they made the auto-reboot option, didn't highlight that it would cause data loss, and recommended it as the best and only secure option.
The way system updates work in Windows is one of my biggest pet peeves as a Windows administrator, and one of my what-a-relief things about OS X.
"Hey, let's install driver and kernel updates using the web browser!" -- Bill Gates
We have a couple Windows 98 machines for reading mainframe tapes we still get from our clients. The tape software runs in DOS, and simply can not be run in any newer Windows. There is updated tape software, but it's all GUI, less useful, and takes about 10 times longer to do the same thing.
I've spent enough hours trying to get around this.. so now we have these single-purpose systems with severely locked down accounts.
Point is, there may be a good reason they've still got Windows 98 systems in use..
(PCCOE was pretty cool.. I've written a couple site packages for it in a past life.)
There are some benefits simply by -not- being part of the mono-culture.
Ditto. I switched my boss from a Dell laptop to Thinkpad, and even as an avid Mac fan, I'm impressed with the Thinkpads. They seem like Cyberpunk versions of Mac laptops-- all black, hard edges, rugged plastic, streamlined, and solid. I'd recommend them to any one who needs a Windows-only laptop. (We've had to replace the motherboard on it after only six months, but with the warranty, they sent someone out to fix it onsite. If it breaks again, I reconsider my recommendation. First one's free.)
His conjectures and studies (late 1830's) began long before his daughter died (early 1851), but his daughter's death undoubtedly affected his perception of God. Thanks for the link.
Care to define your terms? If you mean that "Darwinists need an Origin of Life that excludes all non-physical influences", I'd dispute that. I'm living with one.
I definitely agree that finding the definitive source of life will be nigh impossible (unless someone took pictures). Single celled life don't leave much in the way of fossils. Bacteria swap genes and have a high mutation rate which makes it harder to determine ancestry billions of years ago.
However, it's much easier to demonstrate a common ancestry for complex life on Earth. Mutations in highly conserved DNA sequences, plus fossil records that show that species change over time, geographic distribution of species, and shared "mistakes" in the "designs" of species, all support the Theories of Common Descent and (Macro) Evolution.
Unfortunately, people conflate the theories, (I used to, but not saying you do) and justify their belief in the Creation as done by Jesus Christ, simply because scientists haven't proven it all the way back to the big bang. Which is utterly foolish. Since their religious belief is centered on the Bible being 100% accurate, they incorrectly believe that all of the Theory of Evolution etc. falls apart if scientists can't prove the Origin of Life.
Don't confuse 1) The Theory of Evolution with 2) The Theory of Common Decent and 3) the various theories of the Origin of Life. The first two are well proven with lots of data from many disciplines. They, like Newton's Law, will probably be refined in the years to come. The third has vary little evidence to say one way vs. another.
Don't confuse evidence with "faith".
Do you really have a better theory? Supported by the vast amount of evidence already gathered? Able to make useful predictions in bio-genetics and paleontology?
Darwin started out a Creationist. He stopped being one because Creationism kept making wrong predictions.
I get 50% of my music from CDBaby, but don't fool yourself, they "gatekeep" too. In addition to basic quality standards, they have recommended lists, top seller lists, and "mood" lists. Plus, every CD has a custom, "If you liked this..." list.
:)
Every CD can also have user reviews. Most of the ones I get have a half-dozen or more positive reviews, but I may get ones that have no reviews if it was recommended by CDBaby. CDs with songs that have been in movies or tv shows, usually have a gazillion reviews-- and the gatekeepers for movies and tv shows are very picky.
Unless you go for the "random" lists, you're going through gatekeepers.
By the way, CDBaby tunes are available through iTunes, if you just want a song. (And the artist actually gets the majority of your dollar.)
What with the whole 'submit a proposal' process to go through first, I doubt this would work for your three day projects. Also, IFAIK, OS X does have local exploits, which means that you still need to trust the software being run by the XGrid on your system.
If the proposal review doesn't insist on reviewing and archiving source code first, this could be the start of a nasty bot-net. Am I right?
A couple months ago, I upgraded from a 3.5 yr 1.0GHz TiBook to a 2.33GHz C2D MacBook Pro. The speed goes way beyond being able to play H.264 videos without stuttering.
...and that Windows XP running XCOM:UFO Defence
:-D
I gave my brothers a demo, with all of these running simultaneously..
* iTunes playing music
* VLC playing a video
* DVD playing (a ripped folder)
* iPhoto open with 5,000 photos
* VPN/VNC to several work systems
* Parallels running Windows XP
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* A second Parallels window installing Windows 98
I hit Expose to show all windows-- there was no stutter.
The CPU load was only at 75%
/ love the MagSafe adapter more than I expected.. it just works
CheapAss Games is definitely still around. They tend to be beer-and-pretzel games with some good humor, but range from 5-minute games to several hours.
My friends and family like "Give Me The Brain", and the "BRAWL:" sets, but our favorite of those is "Light Speed".
You might want to review the reasons why a "crackpot fundamentalist" is calling it controversial, and not a "respected member of the scientific community". Jesus.
Gravity and Algebra ARE ALSO THEORIES.
So is the theory that the Earth goes around the sun.
Apple is pushing/promoting widget development in Leopard with both the Safari web-clipper (for users), and a XCode IDE for making full-featured widgets (for developers). So I'd say, yes, you can develop for it. I don't know about Terminal, but I'd say it's very likely, given that it's running OS X (probably Leopard) and iPod games (right?).
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I'm looking forward to the inevitable bluetooth mini keyboard/touchpad.. someone will probably build that into a storage case, and that would make VNC-on-the-go a snap. wow.
i'm only disappointed that it's exclusive with Cingular, but I expect that'll change in 2008. And it won't stop me from buying it as soon as they get FCC approval.
PS. When is the "iTunes" name going to change?
That's a software problem-- so Apple (with the Fingerworks engineers) solved it. Your fingertip is larger than a single key, but the center of your fingertip can be calculated and can be matched to a single key. The problem is a lack of tactile feedback to correct our tendencies to drift, but it looks like they have keypress popups and spelling correction to compensate.
Take a look at the Fingertouch keyboards.. They've been around for several years, and stopped production when Apple bought the team/company/IP in 2005. Don't let the pictures fool you-- there are no "keys". It is a completely smooth surface, and all the buttons and gestures are fully re-programmable. All sensing is done in the keyboard and converted to keystrokes and mouse movements for the USB.
Granted, the linked keyboard is laptop sized, but the point is that they calculate the center of the touch.
bluetooth-- exactly!
i'm sure there will be external keypads for touch-dialing (without looking) as well.
Apple just gained another huge market for third-party licensing.
The default victory condition is to own or control at least 1/2 of the property values once all properties are owned. Each piece has alternate victory conditions and special powers. In addition, properties can be razed/rezoned with the appropriate graft. Bribery and backstabbing are expected, and even cheating is allowed, with a mandatory Go To Jail if caught; though we usually don't allow cheating in our games.
Rereading your request.. this isn't necessarily less chancy, but it is more strategic. And definitely more advanced.