That much was already revealed over 10 years ago. I'm not sure where, but the "anakin became darth after falling into a volcano in a fight with obi wan" plot point has been well known for some time. Mighta been in a book somewhere or something.
break 2 egg into mixing bowl; pour 1 tsp vanilla into mixing bowl; pour 4 cups flour into mixing bowl;
mix mixing bowl; pour mixing bowl into 12x6 inch pan; place 12x6 inch pan into oven;
bake 15 minutes; }
And when you find your bowl upside-down in a 12x6 pan in the oven, filled with crushed eggshells, a teaspoon, 4 cup measures, and an undentifiable sludge, then it's time to open up the debugger and try again, with slightly stricter requirements.
For years now, during certain commercials, a little icon would pop up during certain ads that did exactly the same thing. The only difference is it takes up a quarter of the screen now, appearantly.
There are some really bad implementations of the shuffle feature out there. I've got an MP3 CD player that has a simple, but craptastic algorythm: 1)select a random folder 2) select a random file from within said directory.
This probably seems all good and fine, until you consider a disk with two directories, one with a single file, and the other with a hundred. On average, every other song you hear will be the song in the lone directory.
With single track CD's like Meshuggah's 'I' in a compilation, this becomes a huge annoyance, if you sort your MP3 CD's like most people: one dir per album.
I canabalized 2 486/33DXs and combined 'em into a single beast 20 meg of ram and dual 250 meg harddrives. The default windows 95 install wouldn't fit on a single drive. Furthermore, once everything was installed, notepad was slow. When *notepad* is slow, you've got a nigh unusable machine.
He grasps at new ways to rape this classic film like a drowning man for a glass of water
Why would a drowning man grasp at new ways to rape a glass of water?
A fresh install solaris is just as vulnerable
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My father recieved his first couple of Sparc-based unix boxes about 4 years ago in the wake of the dot-com collapse. For one reason or another, he decided to reinstall (a somewhat old version of) solaris from a disc he got with the system.
A couple of days later, his cable-modem based lan was nigh unusable; lo and behold, the unpatched solaris box was sending out data as fast as it could. Neither of us had the technical expertise to figure out what exactly had happened, but the process that was causing all the trouble was sitting in a dir full of various tools that seemed to be doing some sort of IP range scaning and self propegation.
If there are enough systems out there with a given hole, someone will exploit it, reguardless of OS.
Well, it's more Lambda MOO than it is WoW, at least.
It's really all about user generated content. Unforetunately, it lacks enough well-polished content to maintain much of a consumer community, so all you're left with is the tiny fraction of users that are interested in content production.
If second life had some of There's refined look and feel, they'd probably be tearing up.
I always loved how microsoft.com is inaccessible from a fresh install of windows NT4 via the bundled version of IE.
If anyone was going to write their pages to support legacy versions of IE, you'd think it'd be microsoft.
...has appearantly linked http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_poker to "autofellatio.jpg".
Wikipedia was a bad choice, what with the inherent ability for *anyone* to alter the page.
Now, is the Pentium-M a 64 bit processor that runs two 32-bit instructions per clock cycle?
All I know is Pentium-Ms benchmark like a desktop Pentium 4 of twice the clockrate (that is, a 1.5 ghz pentium-M performs like a 3.0 ghz desktop). I have no clue *why*.
There are plenty of networks where file integrity is 99% or higher, and people distribute entire albums rather than single songs: namely edonkey and IRC. You can trivially pull 400+ songs/1 gig a night on a decent connection.
No spyware, no sabotaged/mislabeled audio, and no searching for that last song to complete an album.
But if you've ever had a roommate who runs p2p apps with uncapped upload bandwidth, you'd know why sharing a 'net connection sucks. It only takes a single computer on a cable modem based lan to make the connection unusable for everyone else.
Apps like edonkey/emule and limewire will gladly use every bit of upstream bandwidth you have, bringing pings to sites like google and yahoo up to 1000+ ms for the rest of the lan. And of course, the majority of people are do not know that they should limit their apps' network usage, much less how to do so.
I don't know about you, but I'm not interested in sharing my internet connection with people who aren't computer literate enough to be 'good neigbors'.
...So there is not a lot of variation to measure. And the latencies would likely not be able to measured in sub-nanosecond resolution, which is what you would need in order to determine this sort of thing with the type of accuracy that you are describing.
I would imagine that it is like trying to measure the thickness of a penny with a cheap wooden ruler. Yes, you can get a number out of it. But don't expect 5 digits of resolution.
The trick is not to try to measure a single penny at a time, but to take hundreds, or thousand of pennys, stack them, measure their combined length with your cheap wooden ruler, and average them.
Of course if you use even more complex statistical methods, you can create even more accurate estimates. And of course, this doesn't just apply to pennies;)
Flash is a much higher level language than java. Yes, they both (can) run in a browser, but you might as well compare Visual Basic and assembly. Flash, being higher level, is more suited to rapid application development for a fairly limited set of solutions.
While java allows you much more power and flexibility, when it comes to browser based apps there are few if any things java can do that flash can't. Java performs poorly when it comes to GUI-based applications, and requires far more code to get the same result. When it comes down to it, there are only two things Java really does well, portability and reliability, and as a result, it's a great server programming language.
"Parker and Stone"?
We're talking about the same "Parker and Stone" who said "Shut you fucking face uncle fucker! You're a cock sucking ass licking uncle fucker!", right?
Just checking.
It's called a Well Known Service record (WKS).
Actually, rfc 1033 defines the WKS a little differently from what you've purposed.
Either way, the whole concept would only make blocking a given port harder, not impossible. If the world can read your DNS records to determine which port the services they need are on, so can your ISP.
The truth is that P2P networks have made absolutely no effort to provide even minimal safeguards against copyright infringement. The industries have every right to demand that P2P networks be held to the same standards that other transmission methods are held, and to claim that the very Internet is under attack is a red herring.
People were using HTTP, FTP and IRC to transfer mp3s and warez long before napster and it's ilk ever hit the market. None of those protocols offer any copyright protection.
P2P networks simply canabalized the majority of such server-based copyright infringement, primarily because they decentralize network load, and legal accountability.
What if there existed an open standard for an operating system driver API? Such a standard would cover things like how the driver communicated with the kernel, how it was seen by the rest of the operating system, etc. If successful (and sufficiently free of restriction), it might be possible that many different operating systems would support it.
Great idea. But why would microsoft ever comply with such a standard? The current market allows microsoft to _write_ the standards.
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Who initially thought "Crack found in Shuttle Tank" was refering to the discovery of cocaine in a reusable orbital vehicle.
I'll admit, I've got a few beers in me, but when I see "Crack found in..." the first thing that comes to mind is a drug bust.
That much was already revealed over 10 years ago. I'm not sure where, but the "anakin became darth after falling into a volcano in a fight with obi wan" plot point has been well known for some time. Mighta been in a book somewhere or something.
And when you find your bowl upside-down in a 12x6 pan in the oven, filled with crushed eggshells, a teaspoon, 4 cup measures, and an undentifiable sludge, then it's time to open up the debugger and try again, with slightly stricter requirements.
For years now, during certain commercials, a little icon would pop up during certain ads that did exactly the same thing. The only difference is it takes up a quarter of the screen now, appearantly.
There are some really bad implementations of the shuffle feature out there. I've got an MP3 CD player that has a simple, but craptastic algorythm: 1)select a random folder 2) select a random file from within said directory.
This probably seems all good and fine, until you consider a disk with two directories, one with a single file, and the other with a hundred. On average, every other song you hear will be the song in the lone directory.
With single track CD's like Meshuggah's 'I' in a compilation, this becomes a huge annoyance, if you sort your MP3 CD's like most people: one dir per album.
I like the idea of the wheels, where the thing can roll off the night-table (S390, 670MP, etc) and hides is great
How the hell did "(S390, 670MP, etc)" slip in there?
BR I'm pretty sure those are computer models, not nightstands...
Engaging stuff.
I canabalized 2 486/33DXs and combined 'em into a single beast 20 meg of ram and dual 250 meg harddrives. The default windows 95 install wouldn't fit on a single drive. Furthermore, once everything was installed, notepad was slow. When *notepad* is slow, you've got a nigh unusable machine.
He grasps at new ways to rape this classic film like a drowning man for a glass of water
Why would a drowning man grasp at new ways to rape a glass of water?
My father recieved his first couple of Sparc-based unix boxes about 4 years ago in the wake of the dot-com collapse. For one reason or another, he decided to reinstall (a somewhat old version of) solaris from a disc he got with the system.
A couple of days later, his cable-modem based lan was nigh unusable; lo and behold, the unpatched solaris box was sending out data as fast as it could. Neither of us had the technical expertise to figure out what exactly had happened, but the process that was causing all the trouble was sitting in a dir full of various tools that seemed to be doing some sort of IP range scaning and self propegation.
If there are enough systems out there with a given hole, someone will exploit it, reguardless of OS.
If your password is in a text file, there are a lot simpler ways for attackers to get at it then via keyloggers.
Well, it's more Lambda MOO than it is WoW, at least. It's really all about user generated content. Unforetunately, it lacks enough well-polished content to maintain much of a consumer community, so all you're left with is the tiny fraction of users that are interested in content production. If second life had some of There's refined look and feel, they'd probably be tearing up.
I always loved how microsoft.com is inaccessible from a fresh install of windows NT4 via the bundled version of IE. If anyone was going to write their pages to support legacy versions of IE, you'd think it'd be microsoft.
...has appearantly linked http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_poker to "autofellatio.jpg". Wikipedia was a bad choice, what with the inherent ability for *anyone* to alter the page.
Now, is the Pentium-M a 64 bit processor that runs two 32-bit instructions per clock cycle?
All I know is Pentium-Ms benchmark like a desktop Pentium 4 of twice the clockrate (that is, a 1.5 ghz pentium-M performs like a 3.0 ghz desktop). I have no clue *why*.
'How company can make money, if its products are available for free?'
SALES VOLUME! You obviously know nothing about business.
There are plenty of networks where file integrity is 99% or higher, and people distribute entire albums rather than single songs: namely edonkey and IRC. You can trivially pull 400+ songs/1 gig a night on a decent connection.
No spyware, no sabotaged/mislabeled audio, and no searching for that last song to complete an album.
But if you've ever had a roommate who runs p2p apps with uncapped upload bandwidth, you'd know why sharing a 'net connection sucks. It only takes a single computer on a cable modem based lan to make the connection unusable for everyone else.
Apps like edonkey/emule and limewire will gladly use every bit of upstream bandwidth you have, bringing pings to sites like google and yahoo up to 1000+ ms for the rest of the lan. And of course, the majority of people are do not know that they should limit their apps' network usage, much less how to do so.
I don't know about you, but I'm not interested in sharing my internet connection with people who aren't computer literate enough to be 'good neigbors'.
...So there is not a lot of variation to measure. And the latencies would likely not be able to measured in sub-nanosecond resolution, which is what you would need in order to determine this sort of thing with the type of accuracy that you are describing.
;)
I would imagine that it is like trying to measure the thickness of a penny with a cheap wooden ruler. Yes, you can get a number out of it. But don't expect 5 digits of resolution.
The trick is not to try to measure a single penny at a time, but to take hundreds, or thousand of pennys, stack them, measure their combined length with your cheap wooden ruler, and average them.
Of course if you use even more complex statistical methods, you can create even more accurate estimates. And of course, this doesn't just apply to pennies
If it wasn't for people leaving locked doors open, pizza would never get delivered.
Flash is a much higher level language than java. Yes, they both (can) run in a browser, but you might as well compare Visual Basic and assembly. Flash, being higher level, is more suited to rapid application development for a fairly limited set of solutions.
While java allows you much more power and flexibility, when it comes to browser based apps there are few if any things java can do that flash can't. Java performs poorly when it comes to GUI-based applications, and requires far more code to get the same result. When it comes down to it, there are only two things Java really does well, portability and reliability, and as a result, it's a great server programming language.
"Parker and Stone"? We're talking about the same "Parker and Stone" who said "Shut you fucking face uncle fucker! You're a cock sucking ass licking uncle fucker!", right? Just checking.
It's called a Well Known Service record (WKS). Actually, rfc 1033 defines the WKS a little differently from what you've purposed. Either way, the whole concept would only make blocking a given port harder, not impossible. If the world can read your DNS records to determine which port the services they need are on, so can your ISP.
The truth is that P2P networks have made absolutely no effort to provide even minimal safeguards against copyright infringement. The industries have every right to demand that P2P networks be held to the same standards that other transmission methods are held, and to claim that the very Internet is under attack is a red herring. People were using HTTP, FTP and IRC to transfer mp3s and warez long before napster and it's ilk ever hit the market. None of those protocols offer any copyright protection. P2P networks simply canabalized the majority of such server-based copyright infringement, primarily because they decentralize network load, and legal accountability.
What if there existed an open standard for an operating system driver API? Such a standard would cover things like how the driver communicated with the kernel, how it was seen by the rest of the operating system, etc. If successful (and sufficiently free of restriction), it might be possible that many different operating systems would support it.
Great idea. But why would microsoft ever comply with such a standard? The current market allows microsoft to _write_ the standards.