Well... yes. But the context (even the article summary) gives us that answer.
The desired properties are heterogenity. By its nature a single crystal's elements are homogenously spread.
'For instance, tantalum and niobium are heavy atoms and in doing the solidification process on the ground, they will segregate in different places and produce a very heterogeneous material. If you do this in microgravity, you obtain a very homogenous material because you prevent separation; and you have a much more efficient material, mechanically.'
Haven't single crystal superalloy tech already solved the problems caused by gravity and metallurgy?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superalloy
I don't know, just asking...
Bloat with Citrix? The program neighbourhood is 512kb in size and uses ~10mb of RAM?... and why run Citrix with a locally installed MSWord? Just run the citrix version, then it's not really running on your computer at all... unless you're already doing that... in which case your PC's RAM is almost completely irrelevant.
http://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/article.cfm?issueID=117&articleID=1515
"There are more tigers in the United States--as many as 10,000--than in the wilds of Asia. Held in public zoos and private hands, these captive cats are so genetically degraded through rampant cross-breeding that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated them a virtually new, ninth subspecies: the "generic captive tiger."
I find it very hard to sympathise with any human being killed by a Tiger outside of it's natural territory. They will be extinct in our lifetime.
Why in the world would anyone get a crippled stand-alone DVD recorder? Who said anything about crippled?
You have to put up with macrovision, and digital tokens preventing recording from DVDs or VHS tapes, and even sometimes digital cable/satellite tuners No you don't, where are you getting this idea from? It's just like a VCR, except it's got a HD.
You have to record in real-time, at low quality, and that's if you or an installer can even figure out how to get the wiring right... Most satellite installers can't figure out how to keep a single VCR in the loop, let alone VCR+DVD+DVDR+DVR. What low quality? Who makes you record in low quality? Wiring? You just plug the cable in the back? You need an installer for that?
Meanwhile, if you put a TV tuner and DVD-Burner in your computer, you can (trivially) edit out commercials, decide after the fact whether or not it's worth wasting a disc on the show... You can make backup DVD copies at 16X. You can back-up data from your computer. You can record high-def video to disc. etc., etc. I have a DVR, sometimes I use my PC to record TV too but I've never burned a disc for it. You can do all of these things with a DVR too, record it to DIVX if you like. Methinks you don't know what you're talking about.
The story here is that Americans aren't stupid enough to buy DRM crippled, expensive, and inherently limited, stand-alone DVD recorders. Keep dreaming pal. I can't believe you've been modded up for this, I guess it's because it's 2:30am in Europe.
Anyone interested in intelligent reasons for why this is an incredibly bad idea could do worse than listen to this outstanding speech given by Lawrence Lessig at the SDForum Distinguished Speaker series titled "The Comedy of the Commons". http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail349.html/
It's a bit long but very worthwhile.
Well that's not in the scope of security as pertains to remote exploits such as the CSRF mentioned in the article. You may as well be asking how this strategy deals with someone burgling his house while on the web with his headphones on he's rocking out to 'super sounds of the seventies'.
Good to see you back though Trip, been a while since I saw you round these parts.
but how about something similar?
How difficult would it be to create a forum of sorts for debates. Following the initial postulates, the argument could be analysed for fallacious reasoning. Think slashdot moderation but instead of -1 Troll, you'd have -1 ad ignorantiam or -1 Ignoratio elenchi etc...
Perhaps it would be possible to distill arguments down to their cores, cutting out all the nonsense, we could then crack each other's heads open and feed on the goo inside.
ahh... That IS good news. I'd been basking in the comforting glow of the fact that we sort of maybe might not yet have software patents in Europe. Then I heard that MS had reached an agreement and they'd be looking for royalties. First I was nervous, then anxious, then wary, then apprehensive, then kinda sleepy, then worried, and then concerned. But now I realize that being a spaceman is something you have to do.
Then I read this http://www.fsdaily.com/Legal/Do_software_patents_exist_in_the_EU-1/ on the FS-daily and realised that if the EPLA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPLA/ is ever passed then bingo, all the dominos would fall like a house of cards, checkmate.
They said that its mass was decreasing, not that its weight was decreasing. Besides, I'm sure they calibrated their measuring device with that of a known mass before measuring.
The best use for Beryl I've found is the 'invert screen colour' command. It's the only feature I use Beryl for. I'd been looking for something that did this for years! Not in particular for the environment, just for the sake of my eyesight on pages like... even this one!
For those using MS Office, you can get the same effect by putting a screen dump into MS Word and selecting it... though you lose functionality somewhat...
I will, therefore, take occasion to assert that the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess. In this latter, where the pieces have different and bizarre motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound. The attention is here called powerfully into play. If it flag for an instant, an oversight is committed, resulting in injury or defeat. The possible moves being not only manifold but involute, the chances of such oversights are multiplied; and in nine cases out of ten it is the more concentrative rather than the more acute player who conquers. In draughts, on the contrary, where the moves are unique and have but little variation, the probabilities of inadvertence are diminished, and the mere attention being left comparatively what advantages are obtained by either party are obtained by superior acumen. To be less abstract --Let us suppose a game of draughts where the pieces are reduced to four kings, and where, of course, no oversight is to be expected. It is obvious that here the victory can be decided (the players being at all equal) only by some recherche movement, the result of some strong exertion of the intellect. Deprived of ordinary resources, the analyst throws himself into the spirit of his opponent, identifies himself therewith, and not unfrequently sees thus, at a glance, the sole methods (sometimes indeed absurdly simple ones) by which he may seduce into error or hurry into miscalculation. Edgar Allan Poe - The murders in the Rue Morgue. Great Story!
Everything, read the subject, "US puts 12 countries on watch for Piracy".
Do you really need a sarcasm tag?
Piracy is an illegal act of violence, detention, or plunder committed for private ends by crew or passengers of a private ship or aircraft against another ship or aircraft on the high seas or in a place outside the jurisdiction of any state.
What we're talking about here is copyright infringement. Calling it theft, piracy, etc is a manipulative attempt to confound discussion by depicting copyright as a piece of owned property which can be stolen when in actuality it is nothing more than a government run incentive program to fund the arts.
Sorry but this is just wrong.
"Too many people are trying to make others do work for them for free." Really? How so? How many is too many? Perhaps you think too many people are willing to 'work', as you call it, for free?
There's only so much attention to go around. And we're running out. Now we're running out of attention. Are you sure? Better get back to doing what we used to do and watch tv then so, before this silly attention-stealing, intarweb came along then so.
Most of the good articles were added when Wikipedia was a tenth the size it is now. What's coming in now is mostly dreck. Existing articles suffer from ongoing churn, as people make marginal edits and others revert them, without much real progress. Well all its "good articles" (the articles that interest most) are finished. Wikipedia never becomes finished because at all times it's a snapshot of how society and culture sees itself at one moment in time.
Then there are all those "rating sites". Those suffer from a scaling problem - rating only works when the number of raters is large compared to the number of things to be rated. Otherwise, stuff gets rated up by people promoting it. So we need more raters, "eybealls", if you will.
What we need is more automation, not more eyeballs. So we don't need more raters, we need some magic algorithms that can extrapolate the truth from fewer raters.
hmm...
Well for me there's websites like instantchess.com that I use quite a bit, also my company's citrix portal uses Java implemented Citrix program neighbourhood to enable me to run almost any MS app on linux, seamlessly.
Obviously you're not a sysadmin.
Payday is the day employees of a company get paid for their time and labour. All employees have payday. A sysadmin's job however is one of constant battle with people's over-expectation. The cleaners and janitors are more appreciated and get more polite conversation from other employees than sysadmins.
Well yes it's what I asked for but it's not what I wanted!
There is a strange sense of over-entitlement for employees of a company when it comes to IT, this goes for programmers as well as sysadmins.
Of course it will never be as big as mother's day. Mother's are far more deserving of appreciation than any employee.
So those that have arranged a response to the lack of human empathy to IT workers should get a job in McDonalds? Well done, you've solved the problem, congratulations.
If you're a sysadmin, no doubt you're familiar with the phenomenon of 2 different people coming to your desk at the same time and talking over each other, at the same time, about 2 completely different requests, never once acknowledging each other, both completely convinced of their enitilement to whine at you about how their laptop isn't bling enough or their quota is too small and their time is too valuable to clean up.
Nowhere else would such behaviour be tolerated.
Has anyone ever approached their facilties department and asked for a bigger desk because they don't have the time to tidy it?
Sure, you've got some admins that subscribe to the book of bofh, never realising that maintenance of productivity is their sole reason to have a job but these are the exception especially more recently, as management get more clued in to IT.
Ask any employee, Finance, HR, Corporate, if they think they're appreciated enough and the answer will be no. But none of these groups are expected to be available 24*7, train themselves constantly, be on-demand during office hours to all and sundry, behave as if they're responsible for everything that happens within their department, always be patient, take time away from their complex SAN restructure to show how to re-sync a wireless mouse... blah blah... I could go on forever.
Slashdot Mirror
Why do I get the feeling that this article is posted every few months?
In this regard I find it telling that the word "Idiot" was originally coined to describe these people.
... then it should be opt-out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque/
Microsoft has announced something we'll all benefit from. The company's patented... uhhh... Come again?
Oops, I mean "The desired properties are homogeneity."
Haven't single crystal superalloy tech already solved the problems caused by gravity and metallurgy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superalloy I don't know, just asking...
Bloat with Citrix? The program neighbourhood is 512kb in size and uses ~10mb of RAM? ... and why run Citrix with a locally installed MSWord? Just run the citrix version, then it's not really running on your computer at all... unless you're already doing that... in which case your PC's RAM is almost completely irrelevant.
http://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/article.cfm?issueID=117&articleID=1515
"There are more tigers in the United States--as many as 10,000--than in the wilds of Asia. Held in public zoos and private hands, these captive cats are so genetically degraded through rampant cross-breeding that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated them a virtually new, ninth subspecies: the "generic captive tiger."
I find it very hard to sympathise with any human being killed by a Tiger outside of it's natural territory. They will be extinct in our lifetime.
Anyone interested in intelligent reasons for why this is an incredibly bad idea could do worse than listen to this outstanding speech given by Lawrence Lessig at the SDForum Distinguished Speaker series titled "The Comedy of the Commons".
http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail349.html/
It's a bit long but very worthwhile.
Well that's not in the scope of security as pertains to remote exploits such as the CSRF mentioned in the article. You may as well be asking how this strategy deals with someone burgling his house while on the web with his headphones on he's rocking out to 'super sounds of the seventies'. Good to see you back though Trip, been a while since I saw you round these parts.
but how about something similar?
How difficult would it be to create a forum of sorts for debates. Following the initial postulates, the argument could be analysed for fallacious reasoning. Think slashdot moderation but instead of -1 Troll, you'd have -1 ad ignorantiam or -1 Ignoratio elenchi etc...
Perhaps it would be possible to distill arguments down to their cores, cutting out all the nonsense, we could then crack each other's heads open and feed on the goo inside.
ahh... That IS good news. I'd been basking in the comforting glow of the fact that we sort of maybe might not yet have software patents in Europe. Then I heard that MS had reached an agreement and they'd be looking for royalties. First I was nervous, then anxious, then wary, then apprehensive, then kinda sleepy, then worried, and then concerned. But now I realize that being a spaceman is something you have to do. Then I read this http://www.fsdaily.com/Legal/Do_software_patents_exist_in_the_EU-1/ on the FS-daily and realised that if the EPLA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPLA/ is ever passed then bingo, all the dominos would fall like a house of cards, checkmate.
They said that its mass was decreasing, not that its weight was decreasing. Besides, I'm sure they calibrated their measuring device with that of a known mass before measuring.
The best use for Beryl I've found is the 'invert screen colour' command. It's the only feature I use Beryl for. I'd been looking for something that did this for years! Not in particular for the environment, just for the sake of my eyesight on pages like... even this one! For those using MS Office, you can get the same effect by putting a screen dump into MS Word and selecting it... though you lose functionality somewhat...
Great Story!
Everything, read the subject, "US puts 12 countries on watch for Piracy". Do you really need a sarcasm tag? Piracy is an illegal act of violence, detention, or plunder committed for private ends by crew or passengers of a private ship or aircraft against another ship or aircraft on the high seas or in a place outside the jurisdiction of any state. What we're talking about here is copyright infringement. Calling it theft, piracy, etc is a manipulative attempt to confound discussion by depicting copyright as a piece of owned property which can be stolen when in actuality it is nothing more than a government run incentive program to fund the arts.
Strange, here's a map of global piracy
China and Russia don't seem to be a problem at all?
http://www.icc-ccs.org/extra/display.php
"Too many people are trying to make others do work for them for free." Really? How so? How many is too many? Perhaps you think too many people are willing to 'work', as you call it, for free? There's only so much attention to go around. And we're running out. Now we're running out of attention. Are you sure? Better get back to doing what we used to do and watch tv then so, before this silly attention-stealing, intarweb came along then so. Most of the good articles were added when Wikipedia was a tenth the size it is now. What's coming in now is mostly dreck. Existing articles suffer from ongoing churn, as people make marginal edits and others revert them, without much real progress. Well all its "good articles" (the articles that interest most) are finished. Wikipedia never becomes finished because at all times it's a snapshot of how society and culture sees itself at one moment in time. Then there are all those "rating sites". Those suffer from a scaling problem - rating only works when the number of raters is large compared to the number of things to be rated. Otherwise, stuff gets rated up by people promoting it. So we need more raters, "eybealls", if you will. What we need is more automation, not more eyeballs. So we don't need more raters, we need some magic algorithms that can extrapolate the truth from fewer raters. hmm...
Well for me there's websites like instantchess.com that I use quite a bit, also my company's citrix portal uses Java implemented Citrix program neighbourhood to enable me to run almost any MS app on linux, seamlessly.
... and the answer will be, none.
There is a strange sense of over-entitlement for employees of a company when it comes to IT, this goes for programmers as well as sysadmins.
Of course it will never be as big as mother's day. Mother's are far more deserving of appreciation than any employee.
So those that have arranged a response to the lack of human empathy to IT workers should get a job in McDonalds? Well done, you've solved the problem, congratulations.
If you're a sysadmin, no doubt you're familiar with the phenomenon of 2 different people coming to your desk at the same time and talking over each other, at the same time, about 2 completely different requests, never once acknowledging each other, both completely convinced of their enitilement to whine at you about how their laptop isn't bling enough or their quota is too small and their time is too valuable to clean up.
Nowhere else would such behaviour be tolerated.
Has anyone ever approached their facilties department and asked for a bigger desk because they don't have the time to tidy it?
Sure, you've got some admins that subscribe to the book of bofh, never realising that maintenance of productivity is their sole reason to have a job but these are the exception especially more recently, as management get more clued in to IT.
Ask any employee, Finance, HR, Corporate, if they think they're appreciated enough and the answer will be no. But none of these groups are expected to be available 24*7, train themselves constantly, be on-demand during office hours to all and sundry, behave as if they're responsible for everything that happens within their department, always be patient, take time away from their complex SAN restructure to show how to re-sync a wireless mouse... blah blah... I could go on forever.
This day exists for a reason since 2000.Seems Gabe and Tycho agree with the article: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/05/05/