When she talks about her programs, she mentions: - A program to sort a list. - A calculator that can add, subtract, multiply and divide. - A program that shows the table of a number? Didn't hear that one.
So, while I wouldn't go so far as to call it genius, or really newsworthy, it's still fairly impressive for a 10 year old.
> If a smart crook were behind this, he'd not worry > much about collecting the supposed ransom, but > would pop his head up as a good guy saying he'd > cracked the virus and would sell you a fix-it kit > for $50. > Of course, this means any honest white knight is > going to learn the hard way about 20 feds and a > flashlight.
Any honest white knight wouldn't charge $50 for it.
What remains is that most people who I have shown Firefox to don't click the little red bell when it appears, and so won't update to get the fix to this problem. Firefox needs to be more forceful with its updates.
The point is that, from the 100,000 th digit of Pi, it's quite hard to predict the next. However, doing the same with, for example, 1/3, would be highly predictable.
The counter works by checking the real number occasionally, and then interpolating with a steady rate between these numbers. It should never be off by too much - the people who complain about a 500 variation - this is 0.001% error - not too big really.
Of course. A lot of Microsoft engineers spent a long time making XP boot as fast as possible. They'll probably do the same thing with Longhorn.
What remains is that when I minise a window on my parents' 700MHz XP box, it takes noticeable time to render the desktop, and these kind of delays will be much worse in Longhorn (probably).
My subconcious often does a very good job of being an alarm clock. Example:
The other day, I had to wake up early to receive a delivery. My father woke me up about 30 mins before it was due to arrive, but I was so tired and just went back to sleep. Then, 1.5hrs after it was supposed to arrive, I woke up, checked the clock and started to panic. Seconds later, the delivery guy rang the bell. I figure I must have heard the truck, and I got woken up thinking about the delivery.
It's been in portage testing for some time, and I definitely will keep using it. Not only do you have the peace of mind that it will render your PDF correctly, but the GTK2 GUI looks far better than xpdf or acroread5, and the loading times aren't too bad at all. I haven't even had to remove the useless plugins.
One qualm - I had to delete one plugin file to stop an error message coming up on start (It was invalid or something).
They may not have been alive, but he sure tried his best:
I painted the
originally beige group of soldiers black so
they would melt better, then I started to
call them "Black Sheep Squad." I
imagined that they were a ragtag group of
misfits who had countless daring
adventures. Then I started to call the
other side "Green's Marines," lead by
Sergeant Eugene Green. Man, they were
a hardy group of hardnosed soldiers.
Then I remembered I was going to melt
the crap out of them, so I stop giving them
names and back-stories.
I tried a shell fork bomb on my Gentoo install now, (and I have not knowingly taken steps against this) and all that happened was my user was stopped from creating any processes, so I had to login as root and kill the processes. No slowdown at all.
Run this: while true ; do date=`date +%s` ; left=$((1111111111-date)) ; if [ $left == 0 ] ; then echo HAPPY NEW MOST SIGNIFICANT DECIMAL DIGIT ; break ; fi ; echo $left ; sleep 1 ; done
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For example, infringement of Microsoft's "patents"?
When she talks about her programs, she mentions:
- A program to sort a list.
- A calculator that can add, subtract, multiply and divide.
- A program that shows the table of a number? Didn't hear that one.
So, while I wouldn't go so far as to call it genius, or really newsworthy, it's still fairly impressive for a 10 year old.
> Based on bookmarks and preferences that you post to the server, an algorithm could reccomend other uses with similar tastes.
Not only would that mean massive load for the centralised server, but it would raise privacy issues.
> If a smart crook were behind this, he'd not worry
> much about collecting the supposed ransom, but
> would pop his head up as a good guy saying he'd
> cracked the virus and would sell you a fix-it kit
> for $50.
> Of course, this means any honest white knight is
> going to learn the hard way about 20 feds and a
> flashlight.
Any honest white knight wouldn't charge $50 for it.
I bet that the simulation shows companies with Symantec products are vastly better protected...
Well, it is harmless on Linux.
What remains is that most people who I have shown Firefox to don't click the little red bell when it appears, and so won't update to get the fix to this problem. Firefox needs to be more forceful with its updates.
The point is that, from the 100,000 th digit of Pi, it's quite hard to predict the next. However, doing the same with, for example, 1/3, would be highly predictable.
"Fortress will do for Fortran what Java did for C" Please no! The cruel b******s!
The counter works by checking the real number occasionally, and then interpolating with a steady rate between these numbers. It should never be off by too much - the people who complain about a 500 variation - this is 0.001% error - not too big really.
>>>"not unacceptable"
>>why the fuck didn't you just say acceptable?
>"not full" != empty
>the world isn't binary.
But in that case, it is. You either accept something, or you don't. You can't half accept something. There is no middle ground.
Yeah, currently.
However, if this company has found a usably efficient way, then this is _very_ big news.
Of course. A lot of Microsoft engineers spent a long time making XP boot as fast as possible. They'll probably do the same thing with Longhorn.
What remains is that when I minise a window on my parents' 700MHz XP box, it takes noticeable time to render the desktop, and these kind of delays will be much worse in Longhorn (probably).
That is the best way of using these unorthodox TLDs I have heard for a while. Please, ICANN and US Gov, please do that.
That's scary? The _really_ scary thing is when the grammar nazi's say 'more scarier'.
> Whaddaya wanna do, KILL 'EM??
This is a french Mac site, so...
My subconcious often does a very good job of being an alarm clock. Example: The other day, I had to wake up early to receive a delivery. My father woke me up about 30 mins before it was due to arrive, but I was so tired and just went back to sleep. Then, 1.5hrs after it was supposed to arrive, I woke up, checked the clock and started to panic. Seconds later, the delivery guy rang the bell. I figure I must have heard the truck, and I got woken up thinking about the delivery.
What I great idea - I'd much rather get up than touch a perl script.
It's been in portage testing for some time, and I definitely will keep using it. Not only do you have the peace of mind that it will render your PDF correctly, but the GTK2 GUI looks far better than xpdf or acroread5, and the loading times aren't too bad at all. I haven't even had to remove the useless plugins.
One qualm - I had to delete one plugin file to stop an error message coming up on start (It was invalid or something).
I painted the originally beige group of soldiers black so they would melt better, then I started to call them "Black Sheep Squad." I imagined that they were a ragtag group of misfits who had countless daring adventures. Then I started to call the other side "Green's Marines," lead by Sergeant Eugene Green. Man, they were a hardy group of hardnosed soldiers. Then I remembered I was going to melt the crap out of them, so I stop giving them names and back-stories.
Does anyone write 9s which look like upside down 6s? My 9s are a circle with a vertical line...
Are dead pixels grounds for return? I have two on my new DS, but I thought I just had to live with it...
I tried a shell fork bomb on my Gentoo install now, (and I have not knowingly taken steps against this) and all that happened was my user was stopped from creating any processes, so I had to login as root and kill the processes. No slowdown at all.
Run this:
while true ; do date=`date +%s` ; left=$((1111111111-date)) ; if [ $left == 0 ] ; then echo HAPPY NEW MOST SIGNIFICANT DECIMAL DIGIT ; break ; fi ; echo $left ; sleep 1 ; done
'a million reality TV shows, only without the pain and humiliation.'
so just leaving the relentless boredom? - sounds accurate.
He's Linus' son - he named him after his Operating System, like Mac OS Jobs, and Useless Piece of Crap Gates.