There are some studies regarding car accidents and music listening. If I remember correctly, the listener's emotional attachment to the music could be a bad thing (getting too involved/letting the mind wander).
Just like the license agreement for Java requires you not to put it anywhere near nuclear control systems, I've seen several medical products licenses that either say that "this product should only be used for basic reviewing, not determining the final diagnosis or deciding treatment", or, when that is allowed, required you to not install anything but the image software on the specific machine. Yeah, it's quite likely that this is not respected in practice, but just because the manufacturer chose the Windows platform (which is not too uncommon), it doesn't mean that they want those Windows machines to be exposed to any retarded spyware on the net and still be held responsible for the performance and accuracy of their product.
I think they accept the risk that you might be able to get an idea of the size of Windows in total, and the compressibility of x86/x64 binaries produced by MSVC... in short, they encrypt the compressed files, not the other way round.
Yeah, but it means that you might need to consider how many times the winners were nominated before winning the prize, and verify whether that makes the group stand out from the non-winners, i.e. some individuals that were nominated probably didn't get the prize simply because they happened to die, even though they, in retrospect, were just as worthy. Staying alive increases your chance of being nominated multiple times and getting the recognition needed to get the prize.
Yes, but if you scrap that away, it makes no sense to try to count "years" of existence (as it's clearly so totally different from what we've learned about existence so far).
If the count is large enough, one of them WILL be hit by a couple of muons in just the right places to achieve a program change to disable said generation limit, for example. If we start talking about more than 10^12 units, I would certainly at least call for a design with additional safe-guards to handle mutation. (From the safety point of view, any detected mutation should result in self destruction. If that's too restrictive to maintain a population, then we certainly need to consider full natural selection acting on these things.)
Oh, the/. crowd (that mysterious entity) will at least each month mention how rockets are impractical and how the space elevator will salvage us all. Twice each month, if you count the dupe.
Which propulsion technology did you have in mind? If it would be based on solar power (sails or an ion drive powered by solar cells), you would accelerate away from the source star(s) quickly enough to never reach that speed. Nuclear rockets (à la Orion) would require a lot of warheads for probes of any sensible size, taking into account the shielding needed to keep them going, despite their own and the surrounding radiation. Now, of course, we're in the somewhat special situation that we do have great amounts of already produced nuclear weapons which might be retooled, but I really think you are totally overoptimistic in that "budget".
SYSTEM has been in NT since NT 3.x. It's always been higher than a Vanilla administrator, and it's always required a bit of a hack to get at. It's those kinds of privileges that really no user process should need, only some services that do run as user processes (user as in "user vs kernel"). I guess that the additions of DRM in Vista may complicate things here, but surely you have seen a SYSTEM process in XP before?
It should be noted that the recent Office exploits have been buffer overruns and similar effects, not directly related to macro handling. As the rendering mechanism in the Word Viewer is quite identical, it's not invulnerable. (So for an automated machine stuffed away to do only this, reimaging can be quite needed if no other checks are performed.)
Well, the XML notation for Office 2003 was even more so. They broke that one now, and some changes are to the better. The requirement to be able to represent just about anything that was possible in the previous versions, faithfully, is still a great contaminant, as you say.
"NTFS transactions" is a feature that actually is present in Vista. I don't think it ties in too well with registry operations, but a complex file copy/replace/remove task can be undone atomically, if you want it to. Not that it's really accessible in the GUI, but my guess would be that it will be used a bit more in Longhorn Server, just like Volume Shadow (hey, they're kind of related) was present in XP, while almost not exposed, only slightly used by the crippled backup app.
That's for one lane... 4x is quite normal for slots not intended for graphics, and these days you can find motherboards with 2 true 16x slots and one 16x physical/8x electrical slot.
So, what should the shuttle crew do? Live debugging in space? Bring it back down with them, for you to assemble those teams anyway to at least do the needed debugging. The fact that the reason is unknown (if we assume it really is totally unknown) makes any use of either the existing physical satellite or physcal design complicated, but still possibly cheaper than starting anew with a blank sheet and just hoping to get it right.
On the other hand, when HIV/AIDS is reaching the numbers that we see in many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, it would cause great troubles for any developed nation as well. We might say that "we" didn't allow it to reach that far, but I don't think we will see such a country prosper with the current epidemical spread (South Africa is really a border case here, but I would say that it's certainly not helping their economy either).
I think you are wrong here. Yeah, the GF money is significant, but no single company would attract any significant share of that money. Compared to the total value of publicly traded companies, it's damn insignificant. The foundation's contributions, both to research and foreign-aid style initiatives, is actually a much larger percentage.
I also think that you're downplaying the possible positive outcomes from (for example) HIV and malaria research. It's quite likely that a breakthrough won't come from a Gates-financed project, but it is also quite possible that it will. The costs of these diseases is very significant. Vaccination campagins, when done right, can also have a permanent effect. With determination, smallpox wouldn't be the only global success story in that regard (although we're almost there with a few other viruses, but it just seems even forein aid agencies just drop their interest when the number of infected patients start dwindling, not bothering about the fact that just a few more years could have meant pathogen extinction).
In a way there is. It's hard to tell without knowing the numbers. We have both uncertainty in the classification (the 42) and the uncertainty in the actual behavior of menstruating women (the 30). With what we have been told, it's possible that the classifications were actually always quite consistent (80/20 or something), but the preference regarding "ovulating/not ovulating" in fact shifted depending on the set of pictures shown. If so, we're basically back to 30 coin tosses. We certainly don't have 1260 independent events from a common underlying distribution.
Coelacanths. A specific species within a large group was found in 1938. Established science had assumed them to be extinct, simply because the last fossil records were 70 million years old or so. No European had gone out of their way to really look for it, and when a reward was announced and the news of it trickled out, it was discovered that it was known to exist in the seas around the Comoros.
And that's exactly how you will notice that they do it their own way, you can turn off animations in Windows, Office will still do it. Office 97 would always "roll" down menus, even when used on Windows 2000, where the default setting was "fade-in" with "nice" alpha effects.
It's kind of surprising finding someone mentioning entropy, but ignoring thermodynamic free energy. The thing is that we should still expect disequilibrium on a global scale if life is prevalent. The total entropy might (should) well increase, but entropy is common. What we might detect is the strange patterns within that entropy, like oxygen despite oxides being more efficient, or organic macromolecules.
Dynamic linking will also frequently create thunking tables close together, and lots of C code have other function pointer tables in special places anyway. (In a Win32 environment, you have that table for any COM object, it won't matter if you implement it in C, for example.)
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There are some studies regarding car accidents and music listening. If I remember correctly, the listener's emotional attachment to the music could be a bad thing (getting too involved/letting the mind wander).
Just like the license agreement for Java requires you not to put it anywhere near nuclear control systems, I've seen several medical products licenses that either say that "this product should only be used for basic reviewing, not determining the final diagnosis or deciding treatment", or, when that is allowed, required you to not install anything but the image software on the specific machine. Yeah, it's quite likely that this is not respected in practice, but just because the manufacturer chose the Windows platform (which is not too uncommon), it doesn't mean that they want those Windows machines to be exposed to any retarded spyware on the net and still be held responsible for the performance and accuracy of their product.
I think they accept the risk that you might be able to get an idea of the size of Windows in total, and the compressibility of x86/x64 binaries produced by MSVC... in short, they encrypt the compressed files, not the other way round.
Yeah, but it means that you might need to consider how many times the winners were nominated before winning the prize, and verify whether that makes the group stand out from the non-winners, i.e. some individuals that were nominated probably didn't get the prize simply because they happened to die, even though they, in retrospect, were just as worthy. Staying alive increases your chance of being nominated multiple times and getting the recognition needed to get the prize.
Yes, but if you scrap that away, it makes no sense to try to count "years" of existence (as it's clearly so totally different from what we've learned about existence so far).
If the count is large enough, one of them WILL be hit by a couple of muons in just the right places to achieve a program change to disable said generation limit, for example. If we start talking about more than 10^12 units, I would certainly at least call for a design with additional safe-guards to handle mutation. (From the safety point of view, any detected mutation should result in self destruction. If that's too restrictive to maintain a population, then we certainly need to consider full natural selection acting on these things.)
Oh, the /. crowd (that mysterious entity) will at least each month mention how rockets are impractical and how the space elevator will salvage us all. Twice each month, if you count the dupe.
Which propulsion technology did you have in mind? If it would be based on solar power (sails or an ion drive powered by solar cells), you would accelerate away from the source star(s) quickly enough to never reach that speed. Nuclear rockets (à la Orion) would require a lot of warheads for probes of any sensible size, taking into account the shielding needed to keep them going, despite their own and the surrounding radiation. Now, of course, we're in the somewhat special situation that we do have great amounts of already produced nuclear weapons which might be retooled, but I really think you are totally overoptimistic in that "budget".
SYSTEM has been in NT since NT 3.x. It's always been higher than a Vanilla administrator, and it's always required a bit of a hack to get at. It's those kinds of privileges that really no user process should need, only some services that do run as user processes (user as in "user vs kernel"). I guess that the additions of DRM in Vista may complicate things here, but surely you have seen a SYSTEM process in XP before?
It should be noted that the recent Office exploits have been buffer overruns and similar effects, not directly related to macro handling. As the rendering mechanism in the Word Viewer is quite identical, it's not invulnerable. (So for an automated machine stuffed away to do only this, reimaging can be quite needed if no other checks are performed.)
Well, the XML notation for Office 2003 was even more so. They broke that one now, and some changes are to the better. The requirement to be able to represent just about anything that was possible in the previous versions, faithfully, is still a great contaminant, as you say.
"NTFS transactions" is a feature that actually is present in Vista. I don't think it ties in too well with registry operations, but a complex file copy/replace/remove task can be undone atomically, if you want it to. Not that it's really accessible in the GUI, but my guess would be that it will be used a bit more in Longhorn Server, just like Volume Shadow (hey, they're kind of related) was present in XP, while almost not exposed, only slightly used by the crippled backup app.
That's for one lane... 4x is quite normal for slots not intended for graphics, and these days you can find motherboards with 2 true 16x slots and one 16x physical/8x electrical slot.
So, what should the shuttle crew do? Live debugging in space? Bring it back down with them, for you to assemble those teams anyway to at least do the needed debugging. The fact that the reason is unknown (if we assume it really is totally unknown) makes any use of either the existing physical satellite or physcal design complicated, but still possibly cheaper than starting anew with a blank sheet and just hoping to get it right.
On the other hand, when HIV/AIDS is reaching the numbers that we see in many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, it would cause great troubles for any developed nation as well. We might say that "we" didn't allow it to reach that far, but I don't think we will see such a country prosper with the current epidemical spread (South Africa is really a border case here, but I would say that it's certainly not helping their economy either).
I also think that you're downplaying the possible positive outcomes from (for example) HIV and malaria research. It's quite likely that a breakthrough won't come from a Gates-financed project, but it is also quite possible that it will. The costs of these diseases is very significant. Vaccination campagins, when done right, can also have a permanent effect. With determination, smallpox wouldn't be the only global success story in that regard (although we're almost there with a few other viruses, but it just seems even forein aid agencies just drop their interest when the number of infected patients start dwindling, not bothering about the fact that just a few more years could have meant pathogen extinction).
A Java applet sandbox isn't (supposed to) allow outgoing connections to anything but your codebase server.
In a way there is. It's hard to tell without knowing the numbers. We have both uncertainty in the classification (the 42) and the uncertainty in the actual behavior of menstruating women (the 30). With what we have been told, it's possible that the classifications were actually always quite consistent (80/20 or something), but the preference regarding "ovulating/not ovulating" in fact shifted depending on the set of pictures shown. If so, we're basically back to 30 coin tosses. We certainly don't have 1260 independent events from a common underlying distribution.
Then the developers need to ask themselves exactly why they can't install it user-local, if they really need nothing special.
And up until Office dropped Win9x support, it's quite obvious that they didn't rely too much on the internal NT API...
And that's exactly how you will notice that they do it their own way, you can turn off animations in Windows, Office will still do it. Office 97 would always "roll" down menus, even when used on Windows 2000, where the default setting was "fade-in" with "nice" alpha effects.
It's kind of surprising finding someone mentioning entropy, but ignoring thermodynamic free energy. The thing is that we should still expect disequilibrium on a global scale if life is prevalent. The total entropy might (should) well increase, but entropy is common. What we might detect is the strange patterns within that entropy, like oxygen despite oxides being more efficient, or organic macromolecules.
Dynamic linking will also frequently create thunking tables close together, and lots of C code have other function pointer tables in special places anyway. (In a Win32 environment, you have that table for any COM object, it won't matter if you implement it in C, for example.)
If you think that the flexibility and usefulness provided by C++ is present in Java or C#, then you are only using it as a nicer C.