How does it handle saving downloads to your actual computer?
I dunno about this version, but the full-blown VMWare had a facility where you could use "Shared Folders" to transfer files between your virtual and real machines. For instance, I was running a virtual Linux machine under a real Windows machine. I could share, say, "My Documents" in Windows and it'd appear as/mnt/hgfs/Docs in the Linux machine.
As far as your other questions, I don't know what any advantages would be. I mainly used VMWare to simulate a low-end PC running a very minimal version of Linux, and I needed to transfer files from Windows to Linux.
You could have persistant changes (in the full version). VMWare created a file on your host machine's hard drive, and used that file as the virtual machine's hard drive. So, any changes you made to the virtual machine could be stored permanently. Again, no idea if the lite version does that.
I have to wonder how many people actually receive these e-mails. I have a few e-mail accounts, and I've seen only one in any of them. Perhaps there's a spam mechanism filtering them out before they hit my inbox, though.
Curiously, the only one that I've seen was sent to my.mil address. I wonder how many hits the scammers get from that domain.
On the other hand, all of the 419 scammer / counterscammer sites like 419eater.com seem to have plenty of stories.
Was Connect-4 a good choice for your project? I thought I read a paper a while ago that said that given perfect players, whoever goes first will always win at that game. Or did you choose those two games to see the difference in results for a game that will always end in a tie and a game that will always result in a win for one of the players?
According to the Wikipedia article on Jack Thompson, he mistakenly believed that a patch that removed the 'blurring' effect when your Sims were naked showed genitals, etc.
I think the YouSendIt site asks for your e-mail because after you upload a file (via what means, I know not), the site e-mails your recipient a URL to the file you just uploaded. It also e-mails you the link to the file, so you can re-email the link to other friends. The recipient of the e-mails just clicks on the link and downloads it via HTTP.
Actually, there are a few, depending on the size of the files you want to send, and how persistant you want the storage to be. You Send It is one I use (1 gigabyte files, good for 1 week). PutFile is another one - smaller file sizes (I think 60 megs for the free service), but the videos stay there longer.
So is your cellphone scratch-free? Is your Gameboy scratch-free?
I have a Motorola V710 (yay broken Bluetooth!). The outside LCD screen is scratch free, and I carry it in my pocket every single day, and have dropped it a couple of times.
I also have a Gameboy - the old late 80's, original Gameboy that I bought in the late 80's/early 90's. No scratches on that thing's LCD, either.
Oh, I wholeheartedly agree with practicing with what you'll actually be using. If nothing else, you at least need to know that your firearm will cycle your carry ammo!
But for a new shooter, as you point out, I think that 00 kicks a bit much. I think that it's better to gain familiarity with the shotgun first, and then begin to toughen up that shoulder. The cheap stuff is perfect for introduction work.
Call me a wimp, but my Winchester 1200 beats me up after a few boxes of 00 buck, and even more so with slugs. If I were a new shooter, I don't think I'd have much incentive to practice much if I come home with a bruise on my shoulder every time I hit the range...
WW does carry Federal's value packs, but I think they have 'value packs' of Remington stuff, too - at least, the one by me does. For the application, though, it's probably a moot point - both work for practice.
WalMart has 100 round value packs of birdshot for $15. Excellent stuff for teaching new shotgunners. Lower kick than double aught buck, and it's cheap, too.
Most of those places sell power inverters, too. I bought a 400W one at Wal-Mart for $20, I think. Just plugs into your cigarette adapter.. I use it to run my laptop during cross country road trips.
Hey, I'm not doubting you, just trying to satisfy my curiousity..
Do they record when someone loses signal? For instance, my old apartment was horrible as far as reception went - I could get zero bars if I stood on my front porch, but couldn't be understood (though I could dial out). But if I went inside, I had no service at all. Can they distinguish between someone merely turning their phone off, and someone going into a completely dead spot?
Of course, with Sprint, pretty much all of that city was a dead spot....
A 2.5" HD uses significantly less space and generates less heat than a 3.5" HD. Given the size complaints directed towards the original Xbox, and given the number of vents that the Xbox360 has (suggesting that they are trying to keep the thing as cool as possible), I think a 2.5" HD is a reasonable decision. They're also easier to carry around to your friend's house than a bulky 3.5" HD/enclosure.
I have that exact enclosure sitting on my machine right now. It's survived for over a year being tossed in a backpack and carried back and forth from work to school to home. It seems to keep the HD cool (though the case does get warm if you are constantly doing file transfers for a long time; streaming mp3's off of it, though, it stays at room temperature). Highly recommended.
It's normally $13, but XPC Gear puts it on sale for $9.99 quite regularly, I believe.
That doesn't really help too much if you live a few miles away from your work, and both of the places get flattened by an errant hurricane. I agree with you that online backups may not be a good thing if the provider goes out of business, develops an evil business plan, etc. But it would be less likely to be wiped out by the same natural disaster as the one that takes out your main server.
Not sure about your 20ms number. My thesis involved using a helmet mounted display. When I was doing research, I found (as you might imagine) tons of research on what an acceptable latency is.
The lowest maximum acceptable lag that I found was 20ms (ie 0-20ms is acceptable without making people sick). Other researchers found values between 40ms - 300ms! I think 300ms would be pretty bad, personally.
My thesis project only updated once a second (it used GPS data, which came out of the receiver at the rate of 1HZ), though, so the maximum latency was 1000ms. Surprisingly, it wasn't too bad. Of course, my display wasn't a totally immersive VR type system - it was more augmented reality - but none of my test subjects got sick. I'm not sure what the difference would've been if they could not reference the real world, or if the update rate between screen refreshes was different (say, the view updated 60 times a second, but with a 1 second delay between user movement and that movement being reflected on the screen).
Well, no recorded cases of police dying from being shot with a round the vest was designed to stop. That's a pretty important distinction. If you're only wearing a IIA vest and you get hit by a hot.44 magnum, the vest people won't be held liable - you got shot by something the vest wasn't designed to stop.
Why is it 100% certain that the OP took the text from Wikipedia? If you google for the phrases, there are many places with that same list. It's unlikely that all of those places ripped off Wikipedia.
It's more likely that all of those sites ripped off John Gall's book, Systematics. However, not having read that book, I can only speculate.
One of those statements in the list (A system tends to oppose it's own purpose) seems to be a re-wording of Le Chatelier's Principle, who died in the 1930's. Who violated who's copyright?
I think I'd consider the original post a copying of a portion of text for conversational purposes. A citation would've been nice, but I think it's hardly necessary.
Remember what happened when the space program was under the United States department of war? (Specifically the Air Force?)
As a minor nitpick, the USAF was never under the Department of War. The National Security Act of 1947 changed the Department of War into the Department of Defense (well, merged Department of War with the Department of the Navy), and the Army Air Corps into the United States Air Force.
MD5 was found to have several flaws in 2004. Security advisors recommended that people migrate from MD5 to SHA-1.
Your last question is the interesting one. Encryption has been described as transfering a credit card in an heavily armored truck to a guy living in a cardboard box. Oftentimes, the easiest way to circumvent the encryption is not to break it, but to look for flaws in the implementation of the algorithm, or to social engineer your way to a password.
Factoring in polynomial time is important in public key algorithms. Properly designed secret key algorithms with a key-size of 256 bits or more are unlikely to be broken even by a quantum computer (this is per Zimmerman's introduction to PGP, though he does note that history has a tendancy to make notions like this "amusingly quaint.") Grover's algorithm, as far as I know, is the quantum-computing algorithm for searching. However, this algorithm effectively reduces the keyspace by half. A 128-bit symmetric (secret) key effectively becomes a 64-bit key against a quantum computer, which is not very strong. A 256-bit symmetric key becomes a 128-bit key, which is still very strong.
Of course, there is one unbreakable encryption - one time pads. Fortunately, quantum cryptography seems to be able to implement a convenient one time pad at a decent data rate. It's a race to see whether quantum computing or quantum cryptography becomes widespread first.
You mean you haven't heard of the Almost Final Fantasy games, or the Really Close to Final Fantasy games? Of course, there's always the Original Fantasy game, but that may not be work safe.
Slashdot Mirror
I dunno about this version, but the full-blown VMWare had a facility where you could use "Shared Folders" to transfer files between your virtual and real machines. For instance, I was running a virtual Linux machine under a real Windows machine. I could share, say, "My Documents" in Windows and it'd appear as /mnt/hgfs/Docs in the Linux machine.
As far as your other questions, I don't know what any advantages would be. I mainly used VMWare to simulate a low-end PC running a very minimal version of Linux, and I needed to transfer files from Windows to Linux.
You could have persistant changes (in the full version). VMWare created a file on your host machine's hard drive, and used that file as the virtual machine's hard drive. So, any changes you made to the virtual machine could be stored permanently. Again, no idea if the lite version does that.
Curiously, the only one that I've seen was sent to my .mil address. I wonder how many hits the scammers get from that domain.
On the other hand, all of the 419 scammer / counterscammer sites like 419eater.com seem to have plenty of stories.
AI..... What's the A stand for?
Was Connect-4 a good choice for your project? I thought I read a paper a while ago that said that given perfect players, whoever goes first will always win at that game. Or did you choose those two games to see the difference in results for a game that will always end in a tie and a game that will always result in a win for one of the players?
According to the Wikipedia article on Jack Thompson, he mistakenly believed that a patch that removed the 'blurring' effect when your Sims were naked showed genitals, etc.
Unless I completely misunderstood you..
Actually, there are a few, depending on the size of the files you want to send, and how persistant you want the storage to be. You Send It is one I use (1 gigabyte files, good for 1 week). PutFile is another one - smaller file sizes (I think 60 megs for the free service), but the videos stay there longer.
I have a Motorola V710 (yay broken Bluetooth!). The outside LCD screen is scratch free, and I carry it in my pocket every single day, and have dropped it a couple of times.
I also have a Gameboy - the old late 80's, original Gameboy that I bought in the late 80's/early 90's. No scratches on that thing's LCD, either.
What do you mean? They're doing great! They've really mastered the art of making easily cracked plastic goods! ;)
Oh, I wholeheartedly agree with practicing with what you'll actually be using. If nothing else, you at least need to know that your firearm will cycle your carry ammo!
But for a new shooter, as you point out, I think that 00 kicks a bit much. I think that it's better to gain familiarity with the shotgun first, and then begin to toughen up that shoulder. The cheap stuff is perfect for introduction work.
Call me a wimp, but my Winchester 1200 beats me up after a few boxes of 00 buck, and even more so with slugs. If I were a new shooter, I don't think I'd have much incentive to practice much if I come home with a bruise on my shoulder every time I hit the range...
WW does carry Federal's value packs, but I think they have 'value packs' of Remington stuff, too - at least, the one by me does. For the application, though, it's probably a moot point - both work for practice.
WalMart has 100 round value packs of birdshot for $15. Excellent stuff for teaching new shotgunners. Lower kick than double aught buck, and it's cheap, too.
Most of those places sell power inverters, too. I bought a 400W one at Wal-Mart for $20, I think. Just plugs into your cigarette adapter.. I use it to run my laptop during cross country road trips.
Hey, I'm not doubting you, just trying to satisfy my curiousity..
Do they record when someone loses signal? For instance, my old apartment was horrible as far as reception went - I could get zero bars if I stood on my front porch, but couldn't be understood (though I could dial out). But if I went inside, I had no service at all. Can they distinguish between someone merely turning their phone off, and someone going into a completely dead spot?
Of course, with Sprint, pretty much all of that city was a dead spot....
The US spent approximately 15% of its GDP on healthcare in 2003, and about 3% on military spending in 2003.
- size.php
Healthcare:
http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/costgrowth/
Military:
http://www.truthandpolitics.org/military-relative
A 2.5" HD uses significantly less space and generates less heat than a 3.5" HD. Given the size complaints directed towards the original Xbox, and given the number of vents that the Xbox360 has (suggesting that they are trying to keep the thing as cool as possible), I think a 2.5" HD is a reasonable decision. They're also easier to carry around to your friend's house than a bulky 3.5" HD/enclosure.
It's normally $13, but XPC Gear puts it on sale for $9.99 quite regularly, I believe.
That doesn't really help too much if you live a few miles away from your work, and both of the places get flattened by an errant hurricane. I agree with you that online backups may not be a good thing if the provider goes out of business, develops an evil business plan, etc. But it would be less likely to be wiped out by the same natural disaster as the one that takes out your main server.
The lowest maximum acceptable lag that I found was 20ms (ie 0-20ms is acceptable without making people sick). Other researchers found values between 40ms - 300ms! I think 300ms would be pretty bad, personally.
My thesis project only updated once a second (it used GPS data, which came out of the receiver at the rate of 1HZ), though, so the maximum latency was 1000ms. Surprisingly, it wasn't too bad. Of course, my display wasn't a totally immersive VR type system - it was more augmented reality - but none of my test subjects got sick. I'm not sure what the difference would've been if they could not reference the real world, or if the update rate between screen refreshes was different (say, the view updated 60 times a second, but with a 1 second delay between user movement and that movement being reflected on the screen).
What are the taxes on an income of $4 billion? Peter gets his cut after the Feds do.
Well, no recorded cases of police dying from being shot with a round the vest was designed to stop. That's a pretty important distinction. If you're only wearing a IIA vest and you get hit by a hot .44 magnum, the vest people won't be held liable - you got shot by something the vest wasn't designed to stop.
It's more likely that all of those sites ripped off John Gall's book, Systematics. However, not having read that book, I can only speculate.
One of those statements in the list (A system tends to oppose it's own purpose) seems to be a re-wording of Le Chatelier's Principle, who died in the 1930's. Who violated who's copyright?
I think I'd consider the original post a copying of a portion of text for conversational purposes. A citation would've been nice, but I think it's hardly necessary.
As a minor nitpick, the USAF was never under the Department of War. The National Security Act of 1947 changed the Department of War into the Department of Defense (well, merged Department of War with the Department of the Navy), and the Army Air Corps into the United States Air Force.
It seems that the hackers never managed to gain control of the W2K machines, but were able to launch a DOS on it.
Your last question is the interesting one. Encryption has been described as transfering a credit card in an heavily armored truck to a guy living in a cardboard box. Oftentimes, the easiest way to circumvent the encryption is not to break it, but to look for flaws in the implementation of the algorithm, or to social engineer your way to a password.
Of course, there is one unbreakable encryption - one time pads. Fortunately, quantum cryptography seems to be able to implement a convenient one time pad at a decent data rate. It's a race to see whether quantum computing or quantum cryptography becomes widespread first.