Hosting a bunch of images doesn't do any good unless you have a text (or at least searchable) description of what you're downloading. Without context, warehoused information is useless. And these PNG files are just different representations of the same quasi-legal information (that is, they're still colored bits [sooke.bc.ca].
Hence the suggestion in the summary:
'The difference is that you no longer need an indexing site to host your torrent file. Many forums will allow uploading images but not other types of files.'
I don't think de-orbiting means what you think it means. They did not say "plan to re-entry the ISS." I think de-orbit simply means the ISS will exit Earthly orbit and head off into space on some tangent to be determined by a bunch of really smart scientists.
Says who? De-orbit means either send it off into space or send it crashing to the ground. NASA is likely to do whichever is cheaper, especially when their budget gets cut even further over the next few years.
Since the Aussies seem to have liked the last one we send them, judging by their art in that photo, we should send them this one too.:)
Well, for one, many companies institute obtuse password policies in the first place. So people are forced into using strong passwords. I don't think this means strong passwords are without value, but the fact that keyloggers and phishers exist means that any system that relies exclusively on passwords automatically has several very bad weak points in its security.
I answered this a few months ago on another post. I'll just link to my old post so you guys can follow the links [slashdot.org], but I copied and pasted it below. Languages to know are C/C++ and Java, everything else is derivative.
I wouldn't refer to Python, Perl, Ruby, Lua, or any of the other dynamic languages as 'derivative' of C/C++ or Java. C/C++ and Java are static-typed languages, while the dynamic languages are dynamically-typed, for instance. Also, Python classes only vaguely resemble C++ classes.
Agreed. Programming concepts are far more important than any particular language. It's important to understand at more than one programming paradigm: object-oriented programming is the paradigm de jure (C++, Java, C#, Python), but also understand a traditional imperative structured approach (C, Bash) and a functional approach (Lisp, Scheme) as well. Note that these languages are only examples: Python is actually a mixed-paradigm language that supports imperative structured programming and functional programming in addition to OOP, for instance.
Again, MS is building something better than the people who built it first. (OS, GUI, Office Tools, Chat, Browser, now Flash)
Wow! It's really getting deep in here. *dons waders*. Let's look at comparatively at contemporary examples for the first item in your list.
Microsoft's first OS was MS-DOS. Sure, it compared favorably to the operating system it sought to compete with, CP/M, but what about other contemporary OSes? I mean, it had no multitasking, no decent scripting language, no real memory management support. No, MS-DOS was pretty much a program loader with a very small API (Int 21h) that provided access to the filesystem.
Microsoft's second "OS" was a graphical shell with a 16-bit DOS extender, later partially upgraded to a 32-bit DOS extender called "Windows". The DOS extender was necessary because their first OS was such a schlock piece of crap, it couldn't access any memory beyond 640K, which ought to have been enough for anybody. It crashed more often than not, and in doing so, left its most lasting legacy, the term 'Blue Screen of Death.'
Then, after finally realizing their current crop of programmers couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag, they hired a real operating system architect from away from Digital Equipment Corp. named David Cutler, who had written VMS for his former employer, to write them a real OS. He named his new OS after the old one, adding 1 to each letter (V=W, M=N, S=T, WNT) and so Microsoft marketroids found this out and called it Windows NT.
After releasing it to a corporate market that pretty much ignored it at first, Microsoft then proceeds to add a bunch of crap from their other "operating systems" to make NT more "user friendly". Cutler throws his hands up and walks out the door because he just can't take that sh*t no more. As time marches on, Microsoft "new" operating system starts looking more and more like their old "operating system," gaining more and more destabilization. And the Internet proves that Microsoft still has no idea how to write a secure Internet-worthy operating system. None of the successive releases become useful until Service Pack 2.
Finally, just when they start getting something actually workable (Windows XP SP2), they release the bloated, annoying, and somewhat incompatible horrid piece of flopping crap known as Vista. Everyone hates it, no one buys it, and Microsoft's stock subsequently drops, sending the rest of the tech sector down the toilet with it.
Yep. That sounds like an improvement alright.
Should I continue ripping apart the rest of your festering pile of bullshit?
At some level, in some sense, sure. Typing it into an IDE makes a machine do math. But so does typing a novel in Word. Yet few people would argue that writing a novel is a mathematical exercise, even if one uses a computer.
Yes, but I'm not arguing that point. The fact is, that no matter how you look at it, the very browser you are using right now to read this text used math to put this text on the screen. Software cannot do what it does without math.
Software is mathematical. They don't call them software 'algorithms' for nothing.
There is no such thing as non-mathematical software. Even printing "Hello, World!\n" requires math. Taking math out of software is sort of akin to taking carbon out of food.
Skinnerian radical behaviorism has all but been completely thrown out the window in modern psychology. These days, cognitive psychology is all the rage. Even more modern post-Skinnerian behaviorists like Tolman had began thinking along more cognitive lines.
Thing is that I, along with many others, including my wife who self-identifies as a bevaviorist, believe that Skinnerian radical behaviorism is far too simplistic a view and that with advances in modern technology we have to look beyond simple operant conditioning as causes of human behavior, because at this point, quite frankly, we can.
does not require a cellular phone plan or contract of any kind[1]
oh, and one more thing:
most cellphones do not have a real GPS receiver, but instead use cell tower triangulation to provide a sort of pseudo-GPS, which means that GPS receivers will work in the middle of nowhere, where you're most likely to get lost, whereas a cellphone won't.
IOW, any down-surge in GPS sales will soon correct itself as gazillions of clueless morons realize that the cellphone-as-GPS is completely useless outside of a big city.
[1] But you will need to either purchase map updates separately or by subscription.
Pretty much same thing happened when cell phones came around, all of a sudden, I couldn't remember anyone's phone number.
I'm sure we can all relate to this. I can, to this day, rattle of half a dozen phone numbers from BBSes back in the day that are long since gone, but today I can't even remember my sister's phone number without looking it up.
So yah, we are becoming quite handicapped due to technology, not judging if this is a bad thing or a good thing, however if GPS were to dis-appear today, I have faith that we will recover quite soon, i.e. if GPS don't stick around long enough to effect our evolution.
Why is it that after reading this comment I suddenly had an image of humans being cloned in large vats and electronics being implanted in a factory-like environment?
Being thin, LCD's don't take much desk space. Go for a 20". My Dell 2007WFP has a native resolution of 1680x1050, for example. and uses a little more than 24 sq. inch of desk space. That's less desk space than the 17" Dell Trinitron it replaced.:)
IANAA (Adult, yes) Nuclear is much more efficient when compared to wind farms, but nuclear energy hasn't been developed enough for it to be used as a main energy source.
I've been thinking about ways to utilize human urine for energy for a while now... you can make very powerful high explosives out of it, if you could find a way to harness that, we could make our own fuel.
Looks at formula again:
(NH2)2CO
Hmmmm....yes, yes you could make high order explosives out of it.
<grin type="evil"> Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go blow the piss outta something.... </grin>
Check the mp3 URL's on TFA. Jury tainting is a bullshit excuse. They know damn well if the public knew the facts about what was going on in our courtroom[we pay for]: we would be outside with pitchforks and torches waiting to lynch the plaintiff.
I've got the pitchforks, NYCL has the torches. Care to join us?;)
Slashdot Mirror
Per occurrence.
What I really want to know is this: does this "anti-astroturfing" law apply to "Team Windows"? If so, watch out Softies, Cuomo's got your number....
Forums are very good at performing keyword searches... Need I explain more?
Hosting a bunch of images doesn't do any good unless you have a text (or at least searchable) description of what you're downloading. Without context, warehoused information is useless. And these PNG files are just different representations of the same quasi-legal information (that is, they're still colored bits [sooke.bc.ca].
Hence the suggestion in the summary:
(empasis mine)
Since they know what CPUs are running on every BOINC client and the thermal power of them are generally known, it should be possible to calculate...
That only counts CPU usage. It doesn't count I/O, which would at least include memory I/O, disk I/O, network I/O.
BOINCing computer scientists: now petaphiles x2!
BOINC finally has enough computing power to handle Vista Ultimate and a few applications!
I don't think de-orbiting means what you think it means. They did not say "plan to re-entry the ISS." I think de-orbit simply means the ISS will exit Earthly orbit and head off into space on some tangent to be determined by a bunch of really smart scientists.
Says who? De-orbit means either send it off into space or send it crashing to the ground. NASA is likely to do whichever is cheaper, especially when their budget gets cut even further over the next few years.
Since the Aussies seem to have liked the last one we send them, judging by their art in that photo, we should send them this one too. :)
I can't code is my excuse! Don't go messing that up for me! I have a good thing going.
Muahahaha....we have ways of teaching you to code!
Well, for one, many companies institute obtuse password policies in the first place. So people are forced into using strong passwords. I don't think this means strong passwords are without value, but the fact that keyloggers and phishers exist means that any system that relies exclusively on passwords automatically has several very bad weak points in its security.
I answered this a few months ago on another post. I'll just link to my old post so you guys can follow the links [slashdot.org], but I copied and pasted it below. Languages to know are C/C++ and Java, everything else is derivative.
I wouldn't refer to Python, Perl, Ruby, Lua, or any of the other dynamic languages as 'derivative' of C/C++ or Java. C/C++ and Java are static-typed languages, while the dynamic languages are dynamically-typed, for instance. Also, Python classes only vaguely resemble C++ classes.
Agreed. Programming concepts are far more important than any particular language. It's important to understand at more than one programming paradigm: object-oriented programming is the paradigm de jure (C++, Java, C#, Python), but also understand a traditional imperative structured approach (C, Bash) and a functional approach (Lisp, Scheme) as well. Note that these languages are only examples: Python is actually a mixed-paradigm language that supports imperative structured programming and functional programming in addition to OOP, for instance.
Again, MS is building something better than the people who built it first. (OS, GUI, Office Tools, Chat, Browser, now Flash)
Wow! It's really getting deep in here. *dons waders*. Let's look at comparatively at contemporary examples for the first item in your list.
Microsoft's first OS was MS-DOS. Sure, it compared favorably to the operating system it sought to compete with, CP/M, but what about other contemporary OSes? I mean, it had no multitasking, no decent scripting language, no real memory management support. No, MS-DOS was pretty much a program loader with a very small API (Int 21h) that provided access to the filesystem.
Microsoft's second "OS" was a graphical shell with a 16-bit DOS extender, later partially upgraded to a 32-bit DOS extender called "Windows". The DOS extender was necessary because their first OS was such a schlock piece of crap, it couldn't access any memory beyond 640K, which ought to have been enough for anybody. It crashed more often than not, and in doing so, left its most lasting legacy, the term 'Blue Screen of Death.'
Then, after finally realizing their current crop of programmers couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag, they hired a real operating system architect from away from Digital Equipment Corp. named David Cutler, who had written VMS for his former employer, to write them a real OS. He named his new OS after the old one, adding 1 to each letter (V=W, M=N, S=T, WNT) and so Microsoft marketroids found this out and called it Windows NT.
After releasing it to a corporate market that pretty much ignored it at first, Microsoft then proceeds to add a bunch of crap from their other "operating systems" to make NT more "user friendly". Cutler throws his hands up and walks out the door because he just can't take that sh*t no more. As time marches on, Microsoft "new" operating system starts looking more and more like their old "operating system," gaining more and more destabilization. And the Internet proves that Microsoft still has no idea how to write a secure Internet-worthy operating system. None of the successive releases become useful until Service Pack 2.
Finally, just when they start getting something actually workable (Windows XP SP2), they release the bloated, annoying, and somewhat incompatible horrid piece of flopping crap known as Vista. Everyone hates it, no one buys it, and Microsoft's stock subsequently drops, sending the rest of the tech sector down the toilet with it.
Yep. That sounds like an improvement alright.
Should I continue ripping apart the rest of your festering pile of bullshit?
Unfortunately, it will probably be a double-blind study, so you've got a fifty-fifty shot at winding up in the control group.
But, in this case, if you're double-blind, who cares if you end up in the control group?
At some level, in some sense, sure. Typing it into an IDE makes a machine do math. But so does typing a novel in Word. Yet few people would argue that writing a novel is a mathematical exercise, even if one uses a computer.
Yes, but I'm not arguing that point. The fact is, that no matter how you look at it, the very browser you are using right now to read this text used math to put this text on the screen. Software cannot do what it does without math.
Software is mathematical. They don't call them software 'algorithms' for nothing.
What is "non-mathematical software"?
There is no such thing as non-mathematical software. Even printing "Hello, World!\n" requires math. Taking math out of software is sort of akin to taking carbon out of food.
Skinnerian radical behaviorism has all but been completely thrown out the window in modern psychology. These days, cognitive psychology is all the rage. Even more modern post-Skinnerian behaviorists like Tolman had began thinking along more cognitive lines.
Thing is that I, along with many others, including my wife who self-identifies as a bevaviorist, believe that Skinnerian radical behaviorism is far too simplistic a view and that with advances in modern technology we have to look beyond simple operant conditioning as causes of human behavior, because at this point, quite frankly, we can.
Agreed. Standalone GPS:
oh, and one more thing:
IOW, any down-surge in GPS sales will soon correct itself as gazillions of clueless morons realize that the cellphone-as-GPS is completely useless outside of a big city.
[1] But you will need to either purchase map updates separately or by subscription.
Pretty much same thing happened when cell phones came around, all of a sudden, I couldn't remember anyone's phone number.
I'm sure we can all relate to this. I can, to this day, rattle of half a dozen phone numbers from BBSes back in the day that are long since gone, but today I can't even remember my sister's phone number without looking it up.
So yah, we are becoming quite handicapped due to technology, not judging if this is a bad thing or a good thing, however if GPS were to dis-appear today, I have faith that we will recover quite soon, i.e. if GPS don't stick around long enough to effect our evolution.
Why is it that after reading this comment I suddenly had an image of humans being cloned in large vats and electronics being implanted in a factory-like environment?
Being thin, LCD's don't take much desk space. Go for a 20". My Dell 2007WFP has a native resolution of 1680x1050, for example. and uses a little more than 24 sq. inch of desk space. That's less desk space than the 17" Dell Trinitron it replaced. :)
IANAA (Adult, yes) Nuclear is much more efficient when compared to wind farms, but nuclear energy hasn't been developed enough for it to be used as a main energy source.
Someone should tell that to the French. Nuclear reactors provide more than 75% of France's power requirements..
I've been thinking about ways to utilize human urine for energy for a while now... you can make very powerful high explosives out of it, if you could find a way to harness that, we could make our own fuel.
Looks at formula again:
(NH2)2CO
Hmmmm....yes, yes you could make high order explosives out of it.
<grin type="evil"> Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go blow the piss outta something .... </grin>
I think the problem is that Pickens thinks too big. The real solution is not a centralized one, but a decentralized one, involving personal wind turbines.
Check the mp3 URL's on TFA. Jury tainting is a bullshit excuse. They know damn well if the public knew the facts about what was going on in our courtroom[we pay for]: we would be outside with pitchforks and torches waiting to lynch the plaintiff.
I've got the pitchforks, NYCL has the torches. Care to join us? ;)
Does this mean that Duke Nukem Forever will be released soon?