In addition, the FOR loop should go from 0 to 15, technically albeit it will work with 1 to 16. From 0 to 15 defines the color. The 1-16 just happens to map the lower nybble (lowest 4 bits) to 0-15 so... close but not exactly the same.
Just as an explanation for those who haven't clicked on Parent enough times to read the original post...the original thread stated "I am horny"... hence the above comment.
He was moderated off-topic, which seems fair however this being slash-dot I thought redundant might be a better moderation.
>> I like the hard drive noises. Lets be honest here, they are soft clicks and chirps, not chainsaw noises. It gives me a non-visual feel of what the computer's up to.
I can see it now - someone will come out with a driver for people like yourselves that insist on having more noise in their environment. I'll then be tortured by sounds of car engines taking off, "That's my hard drive sound driver - cool huh?", birds tweating and for the joker in the crowd, a huge burp or fart sound as the drive spins up.
Joy.
The drive on this laptop is fairly quite but as with all things, I wouldn't mind it being better - speed would be my primary gain albeit I'd also appreciate the utter sound of silence.
>> Yes, and I've also had Linux do the same thing. It didn't give an error, but no matter how many times I "kill -9"ed it the process never paid attention to the command and carried on churning away. I guess that's the process rather than the OS, but it's still not always "all-powerful root".
The reason is typically because the process is a Zombie process that no longer 'truly' exists. To remove it from the process list you'll need to kill the parent process. (See http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum40/1032.htm last comment for more details on what Zombie / Defunct process's really mean).
With windows it never makes any sense when a process refuses to die - at least with Linux I know there's a reason (and if you understand the details - they make sense).
Anytime that you know the format, or partial content of the original document (such as knowing it's XML and hence will have the same opening and closing tags, and presumably a DTD declaration) you make life much much easier for those attempting to crack it.
Based upon the md5 routine in a software package, I can get the initial set of random sequences and stepping for the first so many characters - that will allow me a much higher chance of calculating the rest of the random sequencing / stepping that is occurring instead of having to approach the problem brute force.
Take the paragraphs above and replace all words less than 6 characters with long mathmatical sounding ones and if it doesn't make sense now it'll sound right then.:-)
There is no such thing as security - only illusions of security - someone's always watching.
Shift-Clicking to enforce constraints has been a common approach used in a variety of graphic drawing programs for some time.
I'm not aware of Gimp's documentation but don't knock GIMP due to one person's documentation. I note that you _were_ able to find the documentation -- you just didn't care for it's tone.
I've recently had to try and find documentation on a closed product and the vendor's documentation suck.
Remember that what one person percieves as non resulsts-oriented activity another group will perceive it as taking proper action.
Hate to bring polotics into it - but as a corollary: Neither the democarts or repubelicans are right; they merely have a difference of opinion. Same here.
>> Even more simple would be hash some posts here on/. >> >> There are some pretty fricken random posts
Uh, actually no - you're almost always guarentted the following:
1) First Post in the 2nd message. (The first post usually has nothing to do with the article as the person never read it). 2) The 1, 2, 3, 4) Profit?? posts. 3) Natalie Portman and Grits. 4) (Old School) GoatSe posts. 5) Spwelling und Grammmer Misteaks 6) In my day we did it with a 1 bit computer that had 1 value posts.
Actually, it was briefly discussed after Katrina but cities after a natural disaster typically tend to rebuild to a much larger economic base than they had 10 years after the event happens.
However, although the news-folks were discussing the floods et al I'm not sure it would apply for a disaster of that scale when base infrastructure is severly affected.
However, mass damage that doesn't impact the overall infrastructure can be a good thing as it provides jobs, ability to implement things "right" - you get a fresh start to straighten out Lombard street for example and it provides for an influx of workers and with them an economic boom.
If they'd lower the prices of my groceries I'd go through the lines but since they don't / won't - I won't.
The more efficiencies that you put in the market the less you cycle the money: IE: Spend $100 paying an individual. That person will then spend $50 of that $100 on something. The 3rd person will then spend $5 of that $50 spending something. Fourth person spending $1 - total money in circulation for spending money is $156.
In real life the multipliers for money are much higher (8x I think). The more you cut individuals at low-end jobs the more you decrease the overall US economy, or at least drive the profits into the higher income segment.
Again, lower the price to get me to go through the lines. I shouldn't have to do the grocery store's work for them.
Not the ones searching but the ones creating the content.
They'll be some idiot out there (like there is now) that will code his data in a way that guarantees that he gets the most page views etc. So often searched terms will turn up on search indexes and other ilk.
It's a loosing proposition unless you come up with filters but then they have their own set of problems.
This is my method : I list out all the steps necessary for the task to be completed. I then make an initial estimate on how long each task should take. I then go back over the list and add a confidence interval which is a percentage certainty that I am on how long each task should take. I then create a min/max time for each task based upon the confidence interval.
Draw a line through the min column. Min column is just for amusement. Total the max column and then double it.
If you feel like you need more fudge factor create a confidence interval for your confidence interval and then double that resulting max. Repeat until comfortable.:-)
Ya know, phrased like that I might actually support the RIAA. No more ultra bad versions of Stairway to Heaven when I walk in the musical instrument store.
Actually, in most states you don't have to pay insurance companies as long as you are able to post a bond for a certain amount to cover any potential damages you may inflict while driving - I believe the amount is usually $50,000 or so (not positive and it would vary from state to state anyway). The reason that you have to have insurance or a bond is to make sure that other people's potential losses are covered.
Listening to music is a solo event (typically) and does not involve potentially crashing into other people, places, things or space aliens. The worst harm you could do to somebody with music is offending them with either the lyrics, music or volume. The two are not equivlent to compare.
Now - the RIAA is seeking to extort $$ from easy targets. They've identified a population they believe are the usual suspects and are trying to extort money (and indirectly raise awareness / paranoia). I view it the same as people suing McDonalds for having fat in their fries. In one case, people commit evil deeds (eat fat laden fries) and then complain about it - in the other case companies produce awful music and then complain about people wanting to freely listen to it. It's the same degree of ridiculous.
( I know the last part of the paragraph didn't make 100% sense but my whole point is the justice system is often used for abuse way too much. Abuse to extort(Record Companies) or abuse to try to gain ill-gotten riches (McDonald's). )
Is it me or is this guy with way too much time on his hands? He speaks of saving 30 hours in a years time but I wonder how much time he actually lost 1) recording the data and 2) waiting through the periods of time where the traffic was longer than his normal route.
For wind, I'm assuming the plane would fly at a sufficient altitude for the wind to be a near constant or not that much of an issue.
As for targeting - I'm no rocket scientist (although I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night) but assuming that the computers can compensate for the near lineal motion of the plane against the motion of the satellite then computers can calculate 1000 times a second the most accurate trajectory to point the laser at the satellite. A system like this is not impossible - everything just needs to be calculated, coded and manufactured correctly.
GPS - you're right is not accurate enough for this however it could provide you with the initial area of the sky to search for the satellite. The plane would then establish a beacon signal with the satellite that would allow the satellite to orient the mirror so it bounces at the correct angle. After the beacon has been established (possibly two to four beacons so as to provide a "center" where the laser can be transmitted to) the laser can go off.
I've not fully figured out how the beacons can be found but anything from RF transmissions to visible light patterns on the satellite.
Another poster mentioned the scattering effect the mirror could have - actually, given the right construction the satellite mirror could be constructed to flex in the proper manner to help focus the laser to the right elevation.
>>That's a pretty impressive feat. Does it shoot the laser straight through the Earth's core? Or have they managed to get the jumbo to fly at the speed of light?
Or more likely, they could be floating mirrors up in space. Wouldn't be too hard to coordinate with a satellite to bounce off of them. I'd just be concerned about the laser transmission loss going through the atmosphere for that long of a distance.
Yeah but the problem I have with putting the phone on the seat next to me is that when I'm running from the cops or the girlfriend I just pissed off the phone tends to slide around quite a bit and gets in bad places.
Yeah, like under the break pedal so I can't stop and the car keeps moving and moving. That's the reason officer that I couldn't stop - I was hearing the buzzing noise from the cell phone when I was on speaker phone with my girlfriend - I put it in the seat - it slid off the seat and got stuck under the brake.
Between the buzzing which was still going on, my girlfriend yapping on the speaker phone and Rush playing on the stereo and the road noise this car seems to want to let in I didn't hear you.
Slashdot Mirror
(How many issues can we find? )
In addition, the FOR loop should go from 0 to 15, technically albeit it will work with 1 to 16. From 0 to 15 defines the color. The 1-16 just happens to map the lower nybble (lowest 4 bits) to 0-15 so... close but not exactly the same.
Just as an explanation for those who haven't clicked on Parent enough times to read the original post...the original thread stated "I am horny" ... hence the above comment.
He was moderated off-topic, which seems fair however this being slash-dot I thought redundant might be a better moderation.
*ducks*
Heh, he's right:
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/performance?mode_u=off&errors=0&explain=0&mode_p=on&by=collector&mode_w=off&sd=0&site=www.sun.com&site1=&sample=2&submit=Examine&range=5d&maxy=0
>> Embrace, Extend!
>> what comes after that again?
4. Profit?
>> I like the hard drive noises. Lets be honest here, they are soft clicks and chirps, not chainsaw noises. It gives me a non-visual feel of what the computer's up to.
I can see it now - someone will come out with a driver for people like yourselves that insist on having more noise in their environment. I'll then be tortured by sounds of car engines taking off, "That's my hard drive sound driver - cool huh?", birds tweating and for the joker in the crowd, a huge burp or fart sound as the drive spins up.
Joy.
The drive on this laptop is fairly quite but as with all things, I wouldn't mind it being better - speed would be my primary gain albeit I'd also appreciate the utter sound of silence.
>> Yes, and I've also had Linux do the same thing. It didn't give an error, but no matter how many times I "kill -9"ed it the process never paid attention to the command and carried on churning away. I guess that's the process rather than the OS, but it's still not always "all-powerful root".
The reason is typically because the process is a Zombie process that no longer 'truly' exists. To remove it from the process list you'll need to kill the parent process. (See http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum40/1032.htm last comment for more details on what Zombie / Defunct process's really mean).
With windows it never makes any sense when a process refuses to die - at least with Linux I know there's a reason (and if you understand the details - they make sense).
>> Hmm, CC++AN sounds pretty dumb. It'd never catch on. Oh well.
Or alternativly, you could call it CCPPAN... but that sounds too much like the perl CPAN besides the fact that you'd have turret's jokes about it....
Anytime that you know the format, or partial content of the original document (such as knowing it's XML and hence will have the same opening and closing tags, and presumably a DTD declaration) you make life much much easier for those attempting to crack it.
:-)
Based upon the md5 routine in a software package, I can get the initial set of random sequences and stepping for the first so many characters - that will allow me a much higher chance of calculating the rest of the random sequencing / stepping that is occurring instead of having to approach the problem brute force.
Take the paragraphs above and replace all words less than 6 characters with long mathmatical sounding ones and if it doesn't make sense now it'll sound right then.
There is no such thing as security - only illusions of security - someone's always watching.
Geesh - You're new to slashdot aren't you?
See - the way it works is this: Wait for everyone to post Anti-MS rants and _then_ loose your comments among the many number of them.
First posts always deserve a "First Post" message. I'm disappointed.
the keyboard came out just fine... But the laptop display didn't come on and the laptop fan didn't show up..
:-)
*Doh* I just read the article... _Regular_ keyboards...
Shift-Clicking to enforce constraints has been a common approach used in a variety of graphic drawing programs for some time.
I'm not aware of Gimp's documentation but don't knock GIMP due to one person's documentation. I note that you _were_ able to find the documentation -- you just didn't care for it's tone.
I've recently had to try and find documentation on a closed product and the vendor's documentation suck.
OK, I'll bite.
Remember that what one person percieves as non resulsts-oriented activity another group will perceive it as taking proper action.
Hate to bring polotics into it - but as a corollary: Neither the democarts or repubelicans are right; they merely have a difference of opinion. Same here.
Actually, I would pitty the fool more who sends Mr. T and advertisement for breast enlargement.
>> Even more simple would be hash some posts here on /.
:-)
>>
>> There are some pretty fricken random posts
Uh, actually no - you're almost always guarentted the following:
1) First Post in the 2nd message. (The first post usually has nothing to do with the article as the person never read it).
2) The 1, 2, 3, 4) Profit?? posts.
3) Natalie Portman and Grits.
4) (Old School) GoatSe posts.
5) Spwelling und Grammmer Misteaks
6) In my day we did it with a 1 bit computer that had 1 value posts.
Nope - Slashdot is far from random.
Actually, it was briefly discussed after Katrina but cities after a natural disaster typically tend to rebuild to a much larger economic base than they had 10 years after the event happens.
However, although the news-folks were discussing the floods et al I'm not sure it would apply for a disaster of that scale when base infrastructure is severly affected.
However, mass damage that doesn't impact the overall infrastructure can be a good thing as it provides jobs, ability to implement things "right" - you get a fresh start to straighten out Lombard street for example and it provides for an influx of workers and with them an economic boom.
If they'd lower the prices of my groceries I'd go through the lines but since they don't / won't - I won't.
The more efficiencies that you put in the market the less you cycle the money: IE: Spend $100 paying an individual. That person will then spend $50 of that $100 on something. The 3rd person will then spend $5 of that $50 spending something. Fourth person spending $1 - total money in circulation for spending money is $156.
In real life the multipliers for money are much higher (8x I think). The more you cut individuals at low-end jobs the more you decrease the overall US economy, or at least drive the profits into the higher income segment.
Again, lower the price to get me to go through the lines. I shouldn't have to do the grocery store's work for them.
is the users.
Not the ones searching but the ones creating the content.
They'll be some idiot out there (like there is now) that will code his data in a way that guarantees that he gets the most page views etc. So often searched terms will turn up on search indexes and other ilk.
It's a loosing proposition unless you come up with filters but then they have their own set of problems.
This is my method : I list out all the steps necessary for the task to be completed. I then make an initial estimate on how long each task should take. I then go back over the list and add a confidence interval which is a percentage certainty that I am on how long each task should take. I then create a min/max time for each task based upon the confidence interval.
:-)
Draw a line through the min column. Min column is just for amusement. Total the max column and then double it.
If you feel like you need more fudge factor create a confidence interval for your confidence interval and then double that resulting max. Repeat until comfortable.
Ya know, phrased like that I might actually support the RIAA. No more ultra bad versions of Stairway to Heaven when I walk in the musical instrument store.
Actually, in most states you don't have to pay insurance companies as long as you are able to post a bond for a certain amount to cover any potential damages you may inflict while driving - I believe the amount is usually $50,000 or so (not positive and it would vary from state to state anyway). The reason that you have to have insurance or a bond is to make sure that other people's potential losses are covered.
Listening to music is a solo event (typically) and does not involve potentially crashing into other people, places, things or space aliens. The worst harm you could do to somebody with music is offending them with either the lyrics, music or volume. The two are not equivlent to compare.
Now - the RIAA is seeking to extort $$ from easy targets. They've identified a population they believe are the usual suspects and are trying to extort money (and indirectly raise awareness / paranoia). I view it the same as people suing McDonalds for having fat in their fries. In one case, people commit evil deeds (eat fat laden fries) and then complain about it - in the other case companies produce awful music and then complain about people wanting to freely listen to it. It's the same degree of ridiculous.
( I know the last part of the paragraph didn't make 100% sense but my whole point is the justice system is often used for abuse way too much. Abuse to extort(Record Companies) or abuse to try to gain ill-gotten riches (McDonald's). )
Is it me or is this guy with way too much time on his hands? He speaks of saving 30 hours in a years time but I wonder how much time he actually lost 1) recording the data and 2) waiting through the periods of time where the traffic was longer than his normal route.
Geesh.
For wind, I'm assuming the plane would fly at a sufficient altitude for the wind to be a near constant or not that much of an issue.
As for targeting - I'm no rocket scientist (although I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night) but assuming that the computers can compensate for the near lineal motion of the plane against the motion of the satellite then computers can calculate 1000 times a second the most accurate trajectory to point the laser at the satellite. A system like this is not impossible - everything just needs to be calculated, coded and manufactured correctly.
GPS - you're right is not accurate enough for this however it could provide you with the initial area of the sky to search for the satellite. The plane would then establish a beacon signal with the satellite that would allow the satellite to orient the mirror so it bounces at the correct angle. After the beacon has been established (possibly two to four beacons so as to provide a "center" where the laser can be transmitted to) the laser can go off.
I've not fully figured out how the beacons can be found but anything from RF transmissions to visible light patterns on the satellite.
Another poster mentioned the scattering effect the mirror could have - actually, given the right construction the satellite mirror could be constructed to flex in the proper manner to help focus the laser to the right elevation.
Your tax dollars at work....
I hate to nitpick but if you had read my original post more clearly you would have noticed I commented about atmospheric disturbances.
>>That's a pretty impressive feat. Does it shoot the laser straight through the Earth's core? Or have they managed to get the jumbo to fly at the speed of light?
Or more likely, they could be floating mirrors up in space. Wouldn't be too hard to coordinate with a satellite to bounce off of them. I'd just be concerned about the laser transmission loss going through the atmosphere for that long of a distance.
Yeah but the problem I have with putting the phone on the seat next to me is that when I'm running from the cops or the girlfriend I just pissed off the phone tends to slide around quite a bit and gets in bad places.
Yeah, like under the break pedal so I can't stop and the car keeps moving and moving. That's the reason officer that I couldn't stop - I was hearing the buzzing noise from the cell phone when I was on speaker phone with my girlfriend - I put it in the seat - it slid off the seat and got stuck under the brake.
Between the buzzing which was still going on, my girlfriend yapping on the speaker phone and Rush playing on the stereo and the road noise this car seems to want to let in I didn't hear you.
Was I going too fast?