if you slam on the breaks, it flies to the back of the car because all the air is rushing forward, and the balloon's relative vacuum gets pushed backward.
No. First, of all, if you slam on the brakes, the balloon flies to the front of the car. The balloon only flies to the back if you slam on the gas. Second, the reason for the balloons behavior doesn't have anything to do with its "relative vacuum", but is because of Newton's first law - an object at rest tends to remain at rest, and an object in motion tends to remain in motion. In this case, the balloon tends to remain in motion when you slam on the brakes, leading it to hit the front of the car, at which point the car's windshield exerts a force to stop the balloon. Finally, balloons are not a "relative vacuum". In fact, they are quite the opposite - the interior of the balloon is at a higher pressure than the exterior, not lower. The reason that the balloon rises is because the stuff inside the balloon is lighter than the stuff outside the balloon, not because there's proportionally less stuff in the balloon.
I don't normally say this, but whoever modded this interesting needs to be taken out back and beaten over the head with an introductory physics textbook until concussed.
Sure, you're getting 200Mb/s, but you need four drives to do it. A SSD can give you the same performance and reliability as a RAID array in a single drive. Sure, right now, that single drive will cost as much as your entire array, but that situation will improve as manufacturing volumes increase and prices come down.
The black hats and script kiddies can always move faster than the vendors.
Nonsense. For closed source products, there's no reason that the manufacturer shouldn't be able to move faster than the black-hat. After all, doesn't the manufacturer have access to the source code, while the black hat has to work at reverse engineering?
Did Microsoft ever recoup their investment in Internet Explorer?
Of course. Sure, Microsoft didn't gain anything by giving away Internet Explorer for free. But, by making sure that Netscape was killed, they gained de facto control of the HTML standard, and so were able to sell "enhanced web development tools" like Frontpage that allowed you to quickly set up a "rich web experience" for your clients.
In fact, you can view this as the same business model as Adobe's or Macromedia's - give away the viewer program and charge heftily for the creation tools. In this case, the viewer was Internet Explorer, while the creation tool was something like Frontpage/IIS/ASP.
No. Intent is inherent to the nature of any social engineering attack. Why would they even ask for data that would compromise the system, if they didn't intend to at least threaten to use said data? Its one thing if Comcast left this data in a publicly viewable location or a company representative let it slip. But, by taking active measures to procure private data, these two have fully demonstrated their intent.
Put another way, its pretty hard to "accidentally" ask someone for their password.
Well, yeah. Saying that the effect of tagging an abandoned warehouse is the same as the effect of tagging the Washington Monument is like saying the cost of denting a rusted out Geo Metro is the same as the cost of denting a brand new Ferrari.
How do you know it wasn't a couple of punk kids just screwing around and not realizing what they were getting themselves into?
These kids used social engineering to deliberately steal the domain name of one of the largest ISPs in the nation. This isn't equivalent to a kid stumbling across a XSS or SQL injection attack in some web app.
Windows doesn't have this problem because Windows libraries don't change nearly as much (and this has its own disadvantages). Also, you don't remember the bad ol' days of "DLL Hell", do you?
Which is all fine and good, if you don't have a lot of bookmarks. If, on the other hand, you have a rather full history and lots of bookmarks, the bar freezes for a few seconds while it has to search through everything you've visited and all your bookmarks to try to find the thing you're looking for. And heaven help you if you've got many pages with similar titles in the history. In the old address bar, pages appeared chronologically, so you could easily go to the most recently visited page out of the set. Now, the pages appear in an arbitrary order, making such navigation difficult.
No. The grandparent is right, I'm not downloading Firefox 3 until there's an extension to make the location bar act like the location bar from Firefox 2.
Your response actually agrees with the parent poster's experience. Dell's Inspiron line is is their business class laptop (their consumer class is called Latitude IIRC). So, of course you got good service - you presumably bought a more expensive bit of kit.
Martha Stewart was not incarcerated for anything that her corporation did. She was incarcerated for lying under oath regarding a completely different company - ImClone. In the ImClone case she wasn't an officer of the company, but a mere shareholder who traded illegally based on insider information.
The nice thing about "mechanical" storage (since when was optical storage "mechanical") is that it is cheap. The amount of storage space on a hard drive has more than outpaced Moore's Law. Optical media hasn't quite kept up with that sort of spectacular growth, but there have been significant advances there too. In my eyes, anything that promises cheaper (in terms of $/GB) storage can only be a GOOD THING.
If you read the article, this was an issue in a single store. There's no evidence to indicate that this was a nationwide, or even regional practice. I'm not sure that the WSJ or NYT would have taken a story with little more than local significance.
And, going back to my original point, neither cryptographic algorithms nor video codecs are multithreaded. In fact, video and audio encoding are some of the few things that really benefit from massively long pipelines and high clock speeds (which is why the old P4s used to do that sort of thing well).
Perhaps he didn't trust that the reporter would keep his identity secret? Or, more likely, perhaps there wasn't a reporter interested in the matter. The increasing declines in local journalism, combined with the fact that reporters and technology have traditionally gotten along about as well as oil and water, has meant that often there are no reporters willing to take on a data-breach story. Especially if the person cannot make some kind of sensationalist "your credit cards just got handed to the Russian Mafia", or "Think of the children!!" kind of plea, its quite likely that no reporter was interested in taking the story.
He never said that Java had surpassed C in speed, he said that Java had surpassed C++. C++ library classes are not the same as C library classes, and many C++ libraries (especially the ones outside STL and Boost) are woefully under optimized. Java has many more optimized libraries "packaged in" with the language itself.
Second, neither the Doom or Unreal engines are multi-threaded. Java has threading support built into the language. To get the same with C you'd have to use POSIX threads (killing Windows compatibility) or the Windows threading API (killing POSIX compatibility). With Java, you don't have to make that choice.
At this point, I don't think we'll ever see the year of the Linux desktop, just like we never saw the year of the Firefox web browser. Linux adoption on the desktop is increasing, and, while Microsoft remains firmly entrenched in its dominant position, the increasing presence of Linux is having benefits, especially with regards to drivers and open hardware specifications.
So far, we've have 0, as in ZERO consecutive quarters of economic shrinkage.
Well, you don't know that. Economic statistics are often subject to revisions, and the initial versions that get all the headlines are often quite some distance away from the "official" final reports. Especially in periods of weak growth, like the past two quarters of.6% growth, the initial reports might have been overestimates of the actual growth, which may very well have been negative.
In short, while its not possible to determine if we are in a recession right now, that doesn't mean that we aren't in a recession. It only means that the data isn't clear.
Nonsense. All your graph shows is that the price of both gold and oil have increased by roughly the same amounts. It says nothing about the relative strength or weakness of the dollar.
For a much better look at the impact of money supply on the price of oil, compare the charts of oil denominated in dollars, euros, yen, yuan, and rupees. You'll see a steady upward curve on all those graphs, showing that the price of oil is indeed increasing on a real basis, and that not all of the growth in said price can be explained by America's loose monetary policy.
You don't have the right to confiscate the property, but you also have the right to not allow with people with cell phones onto your private property. The "drop off" point that this amusement park is providing is nothing more than a convenience. You're free to leave your phone in your car or at home if you choose.
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No. First, of all, if you slam on the brakes, the balloon flies to the front of the car. The balloon only flies to the back if you slam on the gas. Second, the reason for the balloons behavior doesn't have anything to do with its "relative vacuum", but is because of Newton's first law - an object at rest tends to remain at rest, and an object in motion tends to remain in motion. In this case, the balloon tends to remain in motion when you slam on the brakes, leading it to hit the front of the car, at which point the car's windshield exerts a force to stop the balloon. Finally, balloons are not a "relative vacuum". In fact, they are quite the opposite - the interior of the balloon is at a higher pressure than the exterior, not lower. The reason that the balloon rises is because the stuff inside the balloon is lighter than the stuff outside the balloon, not because there's proportionally less stuff in the balloon.
I don't normally say this, but whoever modded this interesting needs to be taken out back and beaten over the head with an introductory physics textbook until concussed.
I'm not sure what kind of grocery store you go to, but I certainly wouldn't patronize any grocery store where prices changed multiple times per day.
Sure, you're getting 200Mb/s, but you need four drives to do it. A SSD can give you the same performance and reliability as a RAID array in a single drive. Sure, right now, that single drive will cost as much as your entire array, but that situation will improve as manufacturing volumes increase and prices come down.
Nonsense. For closed source products, there's no reason that the manufacturer shouldn't be able to move faster than the black-hat. After all, doesn't the manufacturer have access to the source code, while the black hat has to work at reverse engineering?
Of course. Sure, Microsoft didn't gain anything by giving away Internet Explorer for free. But, by making sure that Netscape was killed, they gained de facto control of the HTML standard, and so were able to sell "enhanced web development tools" like Frontpage that allowed you to quickly set up a "rich web experience" for your clients.
In fact, you can view this as the same business model as Adobe's or Macromedia's - give away the viewer program and charge heftily for the creation tools. In this case, the viewer was Internet Explorer, while the creation tool was something like Frontpage/IIS/ASP.
No. Intent is inherent to the nature of any social engineering attack. Why would they even ask for data that would compromise the system, if they didn't intend to at least threaten to use said data? Its one thing if Comcast left this data in a publicly viewable location or a company representative let it slip. But, by taking active measures to procure private data, these two have fully demonstrated their intent.
Put another way, its pretty hard to "accidentally" ask someone for their password.
Monetary cost has always had a role in deciding the punishment. If it were not the case, stealing $1 would have the same penalty as stealing $1000.
Well, yeah. Saying that the effect of tagging an abandoned warehouse is the same as the effect of tagging the Washington Monument is like saying the cost of denting a rusted out Geo Metro is the same as the cost of denting a brand new Ferrari.
These kids used social engineering to deliberately steal the domain name of one of the largest ISPs in the nation. This isn't equivalent to a kid stumbling across a XSS or SQL injection attack in some web app.
Windows doesn't have this problem because Windows libraries don't change nearly as much (and this has its own disadvantages). Also, you don't remember the bad ol' days of "DLL Hell", do you?
Now that's nonsense if I've ever heard it. If that were true, Linux distros wouldn't need package managers.
Which is all fine and good, if you don't have a lot of bookmarks. If, on the other hand, you have a rather full history and lots of bookmarks, the bar freezes for a few seconds while it has to search through everything you've visited and all your bookmarks to try to find the thing you're looking for. And heaven help you if you've got many pages with similar titles in the history. In the old address bar, pages appeared chronologically, so you could easily go to the most recently visited page out of the set. Now, the pages appear in an arbitrary order, making such navigation difficult.
No. The grandparent is right, I'm not downloading Firefox 3 until there's an extension to make the location bar act like the location bar from Firefox 2.
Your response actually agrees with the parent poster's experience. Dell's Inspiron line is is their business class laptop (their consumer class is called Latitude IIRC). So, of course you got good service - you presumably bought a more expensive bit of kit.
Martha Stewart was not incarcerated for anything that her corporation did. She was incarcerated for lying under oath regarding a completely different company - ImClone. In the ImClone case she wasn't an officer of the company, but a mere shareholder who traded illegally based on insider information.
The nice thing about "mechanical" storage (since when was optical storage "mechanical") is that it is cheap. The amount of storage space on a hard drive has more than outpaced Moore's Law. Optical media hasn't quite kept up with that sort of spectacular growth, but there have been significant advances there too. In my eyes, anything that promises cheaper (in terms of $/GB) storage can only be a GOOD THING.
No, the British form of cue is still cue. You might be thinking of "queue", which is the British form of "to get in line".
Well, if you're already abstracting away that much, why not go to Java where you don't have to worry about your abstraction being under-optimized?
If you read the article, this was an issue in a single store. There's no evidence to indicate that this was a nationwide, or even regional practice. I'm not sure that the WSJ or NYT would have taken a story with little more than local significance.
And, going back to my original point, neither cryptographic algorithms nor video codecs are multithreaded. In fact, video and audio encoding are some of the few things that really benefit from massively long pipelines and high clock speeds (which is why the old P4s used to do that sort of thing well).
Perhaps he didn't trust that the reporter would keep his identity secret? Or, more likely, perhaps there wasn't a reporter interested in the matter. The increasing declines in local journalism, combined with the fact that reporters and technology have traditionally gotten along about as well as oil and water, has meant that often there are no reporters willing to take on a data-breach story. Especially if the person cannot make some kind of sensationalist "your credit cards just got handed to the Russian Mafia", or "Think of the children!!" kind of plea, its quite likely that no reporter was interested in taking the story.
He never said that Java had surpassed C in speed, he said that Java had surpassed C++. C++ library classes are not the same as C library classes, and many C++ libraries (especially the ones outside STL and Boost) are woefully under optimized. Java has many more optimized libraries "packaged in" with the language itself.
Second, neither the Doom or Unreal engines are multi-threaded. Java has threading support built into the language. To get the same with C you'd have to use POSIX threads (killing Windows compatibility) or the Windows threading API (killing POSIX compatibility). With Java, you don't have to make that choice.
At this point, I don't think we'll ever see the year of the Linux desktop, just like we never saw the year of the Firefox web browser. Linux adoption on the desktop is increasing, and, while Microsoft remains firmly entrenched in its dominant position, the increasing presence of Linux is having benefits, especially with regards to drivers and open hardware specifications.
Well, you don't know that. Economic statistics are often subject to revisions, and the initial versions that get all the headlines are often quite some distance away from the "official" final reports. Especially in periods of weak growth, like the past two quarters of .6% growth, the initial reports might have been overestimates of the actual growth, which may very well have been negative.
In short, while its not possible to determine if we are in a recession right now, that doesn't mean that we aren't in a recession. It only means that the data isn't clear.
Nonsense. All your graph shows is that the price of both gold and oil have increased by roughly the same amounts. It says nothing about the relative strength or weakness of the dollar.
For a much better look at the impact of money supply on the price of oil, compare the charts of oil denominated in dollars, euros, yen, yuan, and rupees. You'll see a steady upward curve on all those graphs, showing that the price of oil is indeed increasing on a real basis, and that not all of the growth in said price can be explained by America's loose monetary policy.
You don't have the right to confiscate the property, but you also have the right to not allow with people with cell phones onto your private property. The "drop off" point that this amusement park is providing is nothing more than a convenience. You're free to leave your phone in your car or at home if you choose.