I was thinking about a similar weapon / defensive weapon the other day. Going in hand with the lakes in the middle of the desert idea, I wondered what would happen if you made one that was a circle, or a spiral, etc. Would it be possible to make one that would head East and hit your enemy? Or keep one locked in place to prevent effective sub-orbital attacks (for at least part of the year in non-tropical areas).
We need to do enough research to make sure it won't cause a hurricane / tsunami first (would make an interesting weapon if they were stealthed).
Israel probably could change their weather, but it would be hard for China as the ocean is to their East and they're above the equator. I suppose they could pipe the water long distances, but that would require a lot of energy.
This is interesting as I've been wondering if making huge lakes by excavating / pumping salt water in the desert would make more predictable weather for the great plains or if it would cause more volatile weather.
Knowing how badly we've created SCADA environments (micro-controllers given [often internet facing] IPs and next to no security, I hope we do a better job with any medical implant devices. Many SCADA controllers will fail if you send them the wrong size ping.
I hope they add a lot more security to the medical ones, or better yet, don't give them any sort of connection with out something touching the individual. Maybe I'm a tad paranoid, but I'd hate to have a wireless IP monitoring my vitals. I can't imagine the havoc on someone's health you could cause by fooling their doctors to think they have diseases they don't. I would hope they are used for early warning only and anything they claim is verified by subsequent tests.
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2. There are ads on./!!
There are adds on run last command?
Or is this a clever way of buffer overrun for/.ers reading off of lynx?
I'm a huge fan of Linux like a lot of the other people here, but I don't see this happening. Linux has made huge strides to make media work out of the box, but the average user is still either too stupid or lazy to want to install proprietary codecs (for the distros that don't automatically) or not be able to use certain media (CNN streaming videos are Windows only, AFIAK, I'm sure there are plenty of other good examples).
Most of the issues are now with third parties not releasing specs for drivers or with proprietary codecs, but the end user doesn't care about that. They want to click play and see something shiny, not go to an error page and try to manually install something. Granted a big company like HP can choose hardware carefully or write their own drivers, but they can't fix all the bells and whistles that users want.
Until there is enough momentum to force Linux compatibility with third party software, HP won't be jumping to Linux only. That's a fanboy pipedream. The best we can hope for is that they continue to make Linux boxes. Hopefully they'll be profitable and that will increase the market share. If HP goes Linux only it won't be to stick it to Microsoft. It will be to make the most money they can. Microsoft did a good job of standardizing software and adding Linux boxes will mean a lot of secondary support overhead. I hope they rapidly continue down that path, But expecting to get there overnight is simply ludicrous.
I disagree, I think it is needed. IE (not counting the 8, as I haven't tried it) is basically a mess in regard to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Firefox, Opera, Konqueror et al all are decent choices but have some security issues or utilization issues.
Granted all of these are updating to fix issues, increase security, etc. There is still a lot of room for improvement. Chrome seems to make a lot of good steps forward for both security and rendering. Plus as a bonus it looks like the UI will take after Googles minimalistic trend. It would be premature to take them at their word, but hopefully others will accept and build on what works.
Ultimately, it sounds like it has potential and I'll be downloading it. I'd be curious to see how it compares to Firefox's record downloads.
On a side note, does anyone else use Avant? I know its based on IE rendering, but it has tons of neat features. I don't think I've ever seen it mentioned in browsing articles though.
Financially there probably isn't to much money to be made in browsers. Yeah they could force you to use their search if they wanted to be jerks, but that would probably land them in monopoly hearings pretty fast. Having open standards on websites is more important for a web-based company.
It would be interesting to see what they could do with searching for things like flash and video formats if they were open standards instead of closed. I'm sure there's a lot of nifty things they'd figure out that I can't even imagine.
And until recently I was running 56k at about blazing 5kbs downloads pretty consistently. And 300kb is about 3x of what I pull down at, so no, it isn't really:-p. On a positive note I've heard FIOS is 2 blocks down, but who knows how many years it will take for it to make it to my house. I guess this is the curse of living in a country with low average population density.
I think I speak for all of the US when I say that I hate you.:-p Seriously though, that's about 1 hr 20 minutes full throttle on my DSL which is the fastest 2 way connection in my area (1.5/384 or I could get 3m/56k cable and tie up a phoneline). Pretty sad considering I'm in a fairly populous area. PA sucks for broadband unless you live next to a Verizon building.
I thought sort of the same thing. I have a few images up on a amateur photography site where they sell the images for you. I think this would be a neat way to see where they are being used, provided they were bought for online use.
Well, blame the dumbshit gamers who keep making it profitable for ID/Raven to pump out the same derivative shit over and over and over and over again.
Part of it is also they don't need to spend as much advertising it because word will spread just because its Doom X, RTCW X, Quake X. Secondly as a gamer series tends to reuse some code so hopefully (stressing hopefully) you will be purchasing a less buggy game that typically will have a decent (and reused) interface.
There's a way to go still. Ray tracing looks promising to clean up the current graphics a little. You might be right after 2-4 GPU cycles, but that will take a while. Ray tracing needs to go mainstream and be fast enough for ~30FPS.
I'm not an expert, so maybe I'm missing something obvious, but if all the switches slow down light, won't it be traveling at different speeds based on the number of hops?
If I understand correctly it is not rebroadcasting the light, its routing it? If this is just to split and route the spectrum to different wavelength repeaters, then I would guess this isn't an issue. Maybe its being slowed so slightly it won't cause an issue either. The article was not very detailed about the process.
And if the government wants you they can just route your car to the nearest police station(or off nearest cliff). I for one won't be welcoming our new robotic car overlords.
I agree. I don't know what the service contract stated, but for online storage, I'd want my critical data mirrored in at least at two locations.
Essentially, if any claims were made guaranteeing the data, they should sue. If there was not a guarantee, than they shouldn't have expected it to be safe as the only copy of their data.
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Yay I can watch on my overpriced Mac! Unlike Netflix. :(
Holy crap! Macs don't even play DVDs?
I was thinking about a similar weapon / defensive weapon the other day. Going in hand with the lakes in the middle of the desert idea, I wondered what would happen if you made one that was a circle, or a spiral, etc. Would it be possible to make one that would head East and hit your enemy? Or keep one locked in place to prevent effective sub-orbital attacks (for at least part of the year in non-tropical areas).
This is interesting as I've been wondering if making huge lakes by excavating / pumping salt water in the desert would make more predictable weather for the great plains or if it would cause more volatile weather.
Knowing how badly we've created SCADA environments (micro-controllers given [often internet facing] IPs and next to no security, I hope we do a better job with any medical implant devices. Many SCADA controllers will fail if you send them the wrong size ping.
I hope they add a lot more security to the medical ones, or better yet, don't give them any sort of connection with out something touching the individual. Maybe I'm a tad paranoid, but I'd hate to have a wireless IP monitoring my vitals. I can't imagine the havoc on someone's health you could cause by fooling their doctors to think they have diseases they don't. I would hope they are used for early warning only and anything they claim is verified by subsequent tests.
2. There are ads on ./!!
There are adds on run last command?
/.ers reading off of lynx?
Or is this a clever way of buffer overrun for
You'll change your mind when Duke Nukem Forever comes out.
I'm a huge fan of Linux like a lot of the other people here, but I don't see this happening. Linux has made huge strides to make media work out of the box, but the average user is still either too stupid or lazy to want to install proprietary codecs (for the distros that don't automatically) or not be able to use certain media (CNN streaming videos are Windows only, AFIAK, I'm sure there are plenty of other good examples).
Most of the issues are now with third parties not releasing specs for drivers or with proprietary codecs, but the end user doesn't care about that. They want to click play and see something shiny, not go to an error page and try to manually install something. Granted a big company like HP can choose hardware carefully or write their own drivers, but they can't fix all the bells and whistles that users want.
Until there is enough momentum to force Linux compatibility with third party software, HP won't be jumping to Linux only. That's a fanboy pipedream. The best we can hope for is that they continue to make Linux boxes. Hopefully they'll be profitable and that will increase the market share. If HP goes Linux only it won't be to stick it to Microsoft. It will be to make the most money they can. Microsoft did a good job of standardizing software and adding Linux boxes will mean a lot of secondary support overhead. I hope they rapidly continue down that path, But expecting to get there overnight is simply ludicrous.
I disagree, I think it is needed. IE (not counting the 8, as I haven't tried it) is basically a mess in regard to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Firefox, Opera, Konqueror et al all are decent choices but have some security issues or utilization issues.
Granted all of these are updating to fix issues, increase security, etc. There is still a lot of room for improvement. Chrome seems to make a lot of good steps forward for both security and rendering. Plus as a bonus it looks like the UI will take after Googles minimalistic trend. It would be premature to take them at their word, but hopefully others will accept and build on what works.
Ultimately, it sounds like it has potential and I'll be downloading it. I'd be curious to see how it compares to Firefox's record downloads.
On a side note, does anyone else use Avant? I know its based on IE rendering, but it has tons of neat features. I don't think I've ever seen it mentioned in browsing articles though.
Financially there probably isn't to much money to be made in browsers. Yeah they could force you to use their search if they wanted to be jerks, but that would probably land them in monopoly hearings pretty fast. Having open standards on websites is more important for a web-based company.
It would be interesting to see what they could do with searching for things like flash and video formats if they were open standards instead of closed. I'm sure there's a lot of nifty things they'd figure out that I can't even imagine.
He has the one ring?
In other news, a team of developers is rushing to co-release a beta version of a distributed computing mail server running on this platform.
And until recently I was running 56k at about blazing 5kbs downloads pretty consistently. And 300kb is about 3x of what I pull down at, so no, it isn't really :-p. On a positive note I've heard FIOS is 2 blocks down, but who knows how many years it will take for it to make it to my house. I guess this is the curse of living in a country with low average population density.
I think I speak for all of the US when I say that I hate you. :-p Seriously though, that's about 1 hr 20 minutes full throttle on my DSL which is the fastest 2 way connection in my area (1.5 /384 or I could get 3m/56k cable and tie up a phoneline). Pretty sad considering I'm in a fairly populous area. PA sucks for broadband unless you live next to a Verizon building.
There's also a lot less latency when you don't have to go the extra few miles between syn and ack packets.
If this 'spot' is so huge that we can detect it - what would be the ramifications if our sun got the same sized spot?
It could be dark for up to half of the day!
BS! The infomercials tell me magnets are good for you.
Some of us happen to store those on CDs, you insensitive clod!
I thought sort of the same thing. I have a few images up on a amateur photography site where they sell the images for you. I think this would be a neat way to see where they are being used, provided they were bought for online use.
Well, blame the dumbshit gamers who keep making it profitable for ID/Raven to pump out the same derivative shit over and over and over and over again.
Part of it is also they don't need to spend as much advertising it because word will spread just because its Doom X, RTCW X, Quake X. Secondly as a gamer series tends to reuse some code so hopefully (stressing hopefully) you will be purchasing a less buggy game that typically will have a decent (and reused) interface.
There's a way to go still. Ray tracing looks promising to clean up the current graphics a little. You might be right after 2-4 GPU cycles, but that will take a while. Ray tracing needs to go mainstream and be fast enough for ~30FPS.
Am I the only one who thinks that sounds a bit paradoxical?
Nah, at nearly the speed of light "slower" and "faster" are relative.
I'm not an expert, so maybe I'm missing something obvious, but if all the switches slow down light, won't it be traveling at different speeds based on the number of hops?
If I understand correctly it is not rebroadcasting the light, its routing it? If this is just to split and route the spectrum to different wavelength repeaters, then I would guess this isn't an issue. Maybe its being slowed so slightly it won't cause an issue either. The article was not very detailed about the process.
And if the government wants you they can just route your car to the nearest police station(or off nearest cliff). I for one won't be welcoming our new robotic car overlords.
I agree. I don't know what the service contract stated, but for online storage, I'd want my critical data mirrored in at least at two locations.
Essentially, if any claims were made guaranteeing the data, they should sue. If there was not a guarantee, than they shouldn't have expected it to be safe as the only copy of their data.
I think the real question we should be asking wrt to diet is 'How can we make farming and agriculture a green process?'
One word: Soylent.