Exactly. The whole idea of different distributions is that they address different market segments. People who complain that other distributions aren't more like their favourite distribution are completely missing the point.
I am guessing, but it may only be by reducing the amyloid levels in the brain that it can finally be known for sure what effect amyloid levels have on the brain. It may be (but I think they already know that this is not the case) that amyloid is a byproduct of bio-bitrot, not the cause. Anyway, if they can reduce the amyloid levels then presumably they would be able to determine if the link is causal or not.
If this treatment proves effective then nobody should ever get alzheimers again, but it would indeed be interesting to find out if those currently in the advanced stages of the disease regain their 'lost' memories, or indeed have any recall of the antics they got up to in their demented state (and the stress that their condition placed on those around them, which would be something you might not want to know...).
... by at least 3. I would have posted by slashdot was broken.
The only comment I remember trying to make was that my wife tends to know what's on my mind, but that's because she's known me for over 10 years and my thoughts in that area are pretty predictable:)
I was going to write a comment here about how such an incredibly useful bacteria can't possibly have evolved by itself, and must therefore be a dead giveaway that God exists, thus denying the need for faith (without which He is nothing), and so causing Him to vanish in a puff of logic.
But i'm too tired, so just pretend I wrote it and mod me funny appropriately.
I think that the problem with that is that you have to get to blown-in-half guy and somehow pump him full of the cryogenic fluid. This could work okay in the field, with the appropriate equipment (which sounds a bit bulky) if you can get to the heart, as it's the 'central distribution point' of the body. But blown-in-half guy probably has his blood distribution system split into several different islands, each one of which would have to be flushed.
Now take into account the fact that this is all going to have to be done in pretty much the same place that blown-in-half guy was blown in half... it all sounds a bit impractical.
How many times has windowsupdate.microsoft.com been hacked? Zero?
I know it (or at least one of the servers in the cluster) has been defaced at least once by one of the first 'big' iis worms a few years ago. I know because I saw it:)
Of course a defacement(?) is completely different to a compromise that tries to be undetected, and I don't imagine that Microsoft would make any announcements about it if that happened to them, not until people spotted that they were downloading worms...
originally only see the offending footage live over the net at 4 in the morning
I was absolutely floored when, after the incident occured, suddently everyone is talking about reviewing TV ratings.
IT WAS NEVER ON THE FSCKING TV!!!!!!!
Pieces of the incident were aired on TV during subsequent news programs, but only to illustrate something that was available for viewing on the internet. And really, compared to the footage they've been showing from Iraq and Indonesia lately during prime time news, the incident in question would barely even qualify for a PG rating. And compared to the stuff they showed 24/7 for weeks after the S11 attacks on the WTC, it'd give it a G!
So while pointing the finger of blame at online video streaming is still pretty dumb, at least it's a reduction in dumbness.
Actually I recall the prime ministers words were something to the effect of this incident serving as a trigger to "get that stupid show taken off the air for good". I'm not sure he was talking about censorship, just the fact that the show was stupid, and i'm not sure I can argue with that:)
There should definitely be a clause that in order to retain your patent you have to challenge any infringements as soon as you are aware of them, not just wait until the infringement has gone on long enough to really cash in.
I believe that this sort of thing is written into law in various places, especially civil law (eg adverse possession).
The only problem would be the 'as soon as you are aware of them' bit...
Yes, my eyes were almost blinded by the irony in that sentence!
But it's only irony in an environment where household cooling is required. If you are running a heater to heat your house, then the increase in energy that it takes to run your CPU should be matched by a decrease in energy required to heat your house. There may be some marginal net loss (from an environmental point of view) if your heating is provided by gas rather than electricity, but if you have an electric heater in your house then SHAME ON YOU. Buy some more computers and let those electrons do some useful work before they end up as heat.
Of course if you are currently cooling your house then turn off that computer when you aren't using it. Those CPU cycles are not spare, every unit of energy your CPU (and rest of your computer) uses when you aren't really using it is a unit of energy you have to find a way to get rid of once it has turned into heat. If you have any sort of active cooling then you are using even more energy getting rid of the heat.
If i ever called someone who did this, I would say "James here, call me back, bye" really quickly before they could pick up the phone. And then when they did, i'd let it go to my answering machine and call them back again and do the same thing.
But only if it was raining outside and I had nothing else to do:)
Outlook 2003 introduced 'cached mode', where you are working on a local copy of your data but it is kept up to sync with the server almost constantly. It is very very nice when you are working over a slower-than-lan link!
Previously, you would have to run Outlook in 'offline' mode, and set it to sync frequently.
But other than that, yeah, they all suck the same:)
Sure they do. After mating, the female baby seal lays a cluster of eggs in the igloo that the male baby seal has built for her. The egg hatches revealing a penguin (the penguin is the puapal stage of the baby seal, not an independant organism as was previously thought), which feeds for approximately 8 weeks and then builds a silken coccoon around itself, attached to the underside of an iceberg, where it metomorphosis into an adult baby seal a further 8 weeks later.
And just to be sure, do it hot and cold so that the space between tracks doesn't hold any 'residual' data. And with the drive upside down, and then standing on each end it turn.
The problem with all of this though is that if you write random data to the drive, and some of that random data just happens to be 'the president must die' (hey, it _is_ random:), then you might be in trouble. In fact, given enough random data (250gb should be plenty), someone who's looking for something will probably find it, even if they have to make up a few decryption algorithms to get it.
Here in the great US of A we're not allowed to touch booze until a full 3 years after we're allowed to shoot others in the name of the goverment, vote, and buy porn.
A good thing too. None of the above should be done whilest drunk!
Free porn has been available since the invention of alcohol and anyone with enough nerve to nod suggestively at a lady. That is, free-as-in-"give her a"-beer:)
(I've been waiting a long time for the appropriate place to use that line!)
I know it's a very sensitive issue, but why don't they have programs to test medications like this on people are basically doomed anyway. You don't get better from alzheimers disease. Sometimes you stop getting worse, but you don't get better.
I'd be quite happy to sign something now to the effect of "if I have dementia to the point where I don't even know who I am any more, and there is a potential cure or treatment, sign me up.". If it kills me, or shortens my remaining life then I haven't really lost much, those around me will have gained something as caring for someone like that is a huge burden (and often significantly shortens the life of the spouse if they are still alive), and will benefit the scientists who are testing the treatment, even if its "oh well... so it doesn't work on people afterall".
It's probably a bit late to ask me once my mind is gone though.
With alzheimers though, can they tell yet if it's that or something else without taking your brain out of year head and chopping it up? I remember quite a few years (>10) ago when I had a relative who was thus aflicted, there was lots of initial misdiagnosises (or whatever the plural of that word is), and they basically said that they only way to be sure was to wait until the patient had passed away.
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I don't know that i've ever seen such a spam... but that may be because my spam filtering does url scanning...
I'm sure they can find a way to open another google account, just like they will find another mail server to relay from.
.NET stores the pre-jit-compiled binaries for later use, do Java JIT compilers not do the same thing?
In theory (and in an ideal world), JIT compiled code should actually be faster than pre-compiled code, because optimisations can be made on the basis of actual execution path rather than predicted execution path, and for the current CPU, not just the lowest common denominator. Also, the moment you upgrade your JIT compiler, all bytecode on the system can take advantage of it immediately.
On the other side, the JIT compiler would be a nice place to hide malicious code, especially if the malicious code detection software was itself JIT compiled...
Agreed. If they can make a circular saw that can stop dead the moment it touches human flesh (resulting in a possible scratch rather than a severed finger), then i'm sure they can put some better safety features into robots.
The example they gave could have been prevented by a simple motion sensor. Anything moving within the work area of the robot that wasn't the robot itself would cause an immediate shutdown.
Anyway, I only read the article because it mentioned sexbots:)
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Exactly. The whole idea of different distributions is that they address different market segments. People who complain that other distributions aren't more like their favourite distribution are completely missing the point.
I am guessing, but it may only be by reducing the amyloid levels in the brain that it can finally be known for sure what effect amyloid levels have on the brain. It may be (but I think they already know that this is not the case) that amyloid is a byproduct of bio-bitrot, not the cause. Anyway, if they can reduce the amyloid levels then presumably they would be able to determine if the link is causal or not.
If this treatment proves effective then nobody should ever get alzheimers again, but it would indeed be interesting to find out if those currently in the advanced stages of the disease regain their 'lost' memories, or indeed have any recall of the antics they got up to in their demented state (and the stress that their condition placed on those around them, which would be something you might not want to know...).
Oh come on. It is not that i don't believe you, but you can't make a statement like that and not back it up with at least one source.
... by at least 3. I would have posted by slashdot was broken.
:)
The only comment I remember trying to make was that my wife tends to know what's on my mind, but that's because she's known me for over 10 years and my thoughts in that area are pretty predictable
I was going to write a comment here about how such an incredibly useful bacteria can't possibly have evolved by itself, and must therefore be a dead giveaway that God exists, thus denying the need for faith (without which He is nothing), and so causing Him to vanish in a puff of logic.
But i'm too tired, so just pretend I wrote it and mod me funny appropriately.
I think that the problem with that is that you have to get to blown-in-half guy and somehow pump him full of the cryogenic fluid. This could work okay in the field, with the appropriate equipment (which sounds a bit bulky) if you can get to the heart, as it's the 'central distribution point' of the body. But blown-in-half guy probably has his blood distribution system split into several different islands, each one of which would have to be flushed.
Now take into account the fact that this is all going to have to be done in pretty much the same place that blown-in-half guy was blown in half... it all sounds a bit impractical.
Things sure are changing. Five followup comments and mine is the first one to comment on the spelling of the Subject line!
:)
(unless all the others got modded down
I know it (or at least one of the servers in the cluster) has been defaced at least once by one of the first 'big' iis worms a few years ago. I know because I saw it
Of course a defacement(?) is completely different to a compromise that tries to be undetected, and I don't imagine that Microsoft would make any announcements about it if that happened to them, not until people spotted that they were downloading worms...
I was absolutely floored when, after the incident occured, suddently everyone is talking about reviewing TV ratings.
IT WAS NEVER ON THE FSCKING TV!!!!!!!
Pieces of the incident were aired on TV during subsequent news programs, but only to illustrate something that was available for viewing on the internet. And really, compared to the footage they've been showing from Iraq and Indonesia lately during prime time news, the incident in question would barely even qualify for a PG rating. And compared to the stuff they showed 24/7 for weeks after the S11 attacks on the WTC, it'd give it a G!
So while pointing the finger of blame at online video streaming is still pretty dumb, at least it's a reduction in dumbness.
Actually I recall the prime ministers words were something to the effect of this incident serving as a trigger to "get that stupid show taken off the air for good". I'm not sure he was talking about censorship, just the fact that the show was stupid, and i'm not sure I can argue with that
Linus has a knack for statements like that!
of the *.c files in the linux 2.6.15 source code...
total lines: 5118127 (including comments etc)
total lines with more than 3 tabs: 217129
So... the linux source code is approximately 4.24% screwed
Seriously though, use tabs and set them to whatever indent you want. That's the beauty of tabs.
There should definitely be a clause that in order to retain your patent you have to challenge any infringements as soon as you are aware of them, not just wait until the infringement has gone on long enough to really cash in.
I believe that this sort of thing is written into law in various places, especially civil law (eg adverse possession).
The only problem would be the 'as soon as you are aware of them' bit...
I'm sure it's possible. Which particular bone did you have in mind?
Yes, my eyes were almost blinded by the irony in that sentence!
But it's only irony in an environment where household cooling is required. If you are running a heater to heat your house, then the increase in energy that it takes to run your CPU should be matched by a decrease in energy required to heat your house. There may be some marginal net loss (from an environmental point of view) if your heating is provided by gas rather than electricity, but if you have an electric heater in your house then SHAME ON YOU. Buy some more computers and let those electrons do some useful work before they end up as heat.
Of course if you are currently cooling your house then turn off that computer when you aren't using it. Those CPU cycles are not spare, every unit of energy your CPU (and rest of your computer) uses when you aren't really using it is a unit of energy you have to find a way to get rid of once it has turned into heat. If you have any sort of active cooling then you are using even more energy getting rid of the heat.
If i ever called someone who did this, I would say "James here, call me back, bye" really quickly before they could pick up the phone. And then when they did, i'd let it go to my answering machine and call them back again and do the same thing.
:)
But only if it was raining outside and I had nothing else to do
Outlook 2003 introduced 'cached mode', where you are working on a local copy of your data but it is kept up to sync with the server almost constantly. It is very very nice when you are working over a slower-than-lan link!
:)
Previously, you would have to run Outlook in 'offline' mode, and set it to sync frequently.
But other than that, yeah, they all suck the same
Sure they do. After mating, the female baby seal lays a cluster of eggs in the igloo that the male baby seal has built for her. The egg hatches revealing a penguin (the penguin is the puapal stage of the baby seal, not an independant organism as was previously thought), which feeds for approximately 8 weeks and then builds a silken coccoon around itself, attached to the underside of an iceberg, where it metomorphosis into an adult baby seal a further 8 weeks later.
And just to be sure, do it hot and cold so that the space between tracks doesn't hold any 'residual' data. And with the drive upside down, and then standing on each end it turn.
:), then you might be in trouble. In fact, given enough random data (250gb should be plenty), someone who's looking for something will probably find it, even if they have to make up a few decryption algorithms to get it.
The problem with all of this though is that if you write random data to the drive, and some of that random data just happens to be 'the president must die' (hey, it _is_ random
James
A good thing too. None of the above should be done whilest drunk!
Free porn has been available since the invention of alcohol and anyone with enough nerve to nod suggestively at a lady. That is, free-as-in-"give her a"-beer :)
(I've been waiting a long time for the appropriate place to use that line!)
I know it's a very sensitive issue, but why don't they have programs to test medications like this on people are basically doomed anyway. You don't get better from alzheimers disease. Sometimes you stop getting worse, but you don't get better.
I'd be quite happy to sign something now to the effect of "if I have dementia to the point where I don't even know who I am any more, and there is a potential cure or treatment, sign me up.". If it kills me, or shortens my remaining life then I haven't really lost much, those around me will have gained something as caring for someone like that is a huge burden (and often significantly shortens the life of the spouse if they are still alive), and will benefit the scientists who are testing the treatment, even if its "oh well... so it doesn't work on people afterall".
It's probably a bit late to ask me once my mind is gone though.
With alzheimers though, can they tell yet if it's that or something else without taking your brain out of year head and chopping it up? I remember quite a few years (>10) ago when I had a relative who was thus aflicted, there was lots of initial misdiagnosises (or whatever the plural of that word is), and they basically said that they only way to be sure was to wait until the patient had passed away.
I don't know that i've ever seen such a spam... but that may be because my spam filtering does url scanning...
I'm sure they can find a way to open another google account, just like they will find another mail server to relay from.
.NET stores the pre-jit-compiled binaries for later use, do Java JIT compilers not do the same thing?
In theory (and in an ideal world), JIT compiled code should actually be faster than pre-compiled code, because optimisations can be made on the basis of actual execution path rather than predicted execution path, and for the current CPU, not just the lowest common denominator. Also, the moment you upgrade your JIT compiler, all bytecode on the system can take advantage of it immediately.
On the other side, the JIT compiler would be a nice place to hide malicious code, especially if the malicious code detection software was itself JIT compiled...
I just has to be. I can't see any value in the article except to lure out those foolish enough to respond... ... like me... dammit.
Agreed. If they can make a circular saw that can stop dead the moment it touches human flesh (resulting in a possible scratch rather than a severed finger), then i'm sure they can put some better safety features into robots.
:)
The example they gave could have been prevented by a simple motion sensor. Anything moving within the work area of the robot that wasn't the robot itself would cause an immediate shutdown.
Anyway, I only read the article because it mentioned sexbots
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there's a link to a flash version of the game down the bottom.