Not sure how it goes with small devices, but Dasher is an interesting input method that you may want to check out if you're interested in that kind of thing.
No, Microsoft does in fact get it wrong. Using the standard SI-prefixes for something almost but not quite SI is practical in many contexts, but it should never have been allowed to propagate to a consumer product. It's a colloquial usage, really, IT slang.
This kind of ambiguity is unacceptable in engineering as well as marketing, where you need to be able to communicate with clearly defined terms. You can't just say that mega- means 1024 "with computers", because with a lot of things (networks, hard drives, frequencies), it doesn't. That so many people here seem to think that hard drives used to use the 1024-based system until quite recently, just goes to show that confusion is rampant, even among the techies.
If you were leading a project where size was a critical factor, wouldn't you want to specify it with precise terms? This is the kind of problem that crashes Mars orbiters.
I don't know about that... Thinking about the various things that could happen to my data storage media, I'd rather it be a flash chip than a disk drive in the vast majority of cases. The two events I can think of where the data could be unrecoverable from SSD is death of the on-chip controller, and a physically broken flash chip. Anything that would physically break a flash chip would totally waste a disk drive, though. Flash chips tends to handle wear down far more gracefully than hard drives, with all functioning blocks fully readable, and you can anticipate the failure as the damaged block map fills up. And while smashed chips probably can't be partially recovered in the way damaged disk drives can, by removing and examining platters, etc., they are more resistant to shock and humidity and have less surface area.
That's in theory, of course. In practice, I guess few data recovery services have training and equipment relevant to SSD's yet.
Fucking with the ear gyros is probably best done while sitting down. It'd be even worse if you want several users on at once, which seems reasonable given the size of the thing. When your friend started walking, you'd start accelerating, which would either be pretty grating or, if you supressed your motion sensors, would cause you to fall down. I guess one of the reasons for the 'bigger is better' thing is that you can use the extra leeway to get smoother acceleration.
It's rather annoying the way some people tend to label any tabletop computer / multitouch display a "Surface-like" these days. I don't know if Microsoft did it on purpose or not, but it seems a lot of the people frequenting tech sites have been spoonfed into thinking that the concept originated at MS.
You'll have to provide sources for that, since everything I've read says otherwise. E.g. http://blogs.freecode.no/isene/2008/03/30/promoting-the-repair-shop-philosophy/ Frankly, I suspect you are the one spreading misinformation on this. Even so, have you even considered what you are saying? Are you claiming that the vast majority of participants in the voting process claimed that the voting process was faulty, only to be overturned by a few people in charge (Who also were the ones with Microsoft ties?) Yeah, that sounds much better.
So my cautionary tail stands,... Oh, I see. At first I thought you were a bit paranoid for bringing genetic engineering into this, but apparently you have first-hand experience.
Some Nintendo DS games feature limited voice recognition. It hasn't really caught on with gamers. Shouting "Fire photon torpedoes" while you're playing a game feels about as awkward as shouting it while watching TV.
Where on earth do you have it from that fluoride weakens teeth? I've never heard anything like that. What I learned from chemistry is that fluoride strengthens the enamel. Besides, everyone knows the fluoridation of water is a commie plot to impurify our precious bodily fluids.
Are you talking about SATA or eSATA? From the spec, the eSATA connectors are supposed to withstand 5000 insertions and removals. They are deeper than SATA connectors and have small indents for retention springs.
Additionally, it's nice to let hosts on the network setup their own port forwarding without having root access to the router, for example when you rent out a house with several apartments that share the same internet connection. My old router used to have an option to only let hosts modify UPNP bindings to their own IP, which is good enough security for me.
What I don't get about this exploit is, if you already have a flash application running on a victim's machine that can make arbitrary outgoing connections, couldn't you just as easily proxy your connections through the flash application? So it's not like you gain access to anything that you didn't have access to already.
Really? One of the problems I've had with Python is how hard it is to use it as a shell scripting language. Namely, the functions for browsing and manipulating the file system are low-level, OO-hostile, quirky, and scattered seemingly almost randomly between os, os.path and shutil. I find them so unwieldy I'll sometimes just cheat and call.bat files from Python to operate on files. Apparently some people even have it as their CLI of choice, so I may be missing something, but I've been unable to pry out of them what the secret is.
Video of a similar but non-wireless device in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAR89kweEis It looks a bit awkward to use, and not that much smaller than a regular portable mouse. I think I'd rather have a flatter disc/crescent-shaped mouse that I could operate by resting my fingertips on, or a touchscreen, which should be possible by coupling the projector with one or several cameras.
Ultraportable and cheaper than a normal projector? That price sounds too good to be true. I'd buy one, and use it as a secondary screen at home when I'm not carrying it around. I wonder if they could make a better one (higher resolution/clearer picture/cheaper) if they didn't have to worry about the size and power draw? I'll predict severe last-minute delays and at least triple the given price, just for pessimism's sake.
Hardly none of the limitations. It could very well turn out that a lot of what we see as human disadvantages may be inherent limitation of the way the human brain does things, and that the brain is such a tangled mess of spaghetti nodes that you can't rip one function out without rebuilding the entire thing. For example, it seems doubtful that the brain could be meaningfully modified to be able to fully concentrate on more than one thing at a time. And it could be that any simulation of the human brain that is accurate enough to work will also have to simulate the brain decaying in a fashion similar to a real one. And adding more processor power could give the considerable advantage of faster-than-human thinking, but it wouldn't necessarily be able to make it any smarter, meaning that in non-time-critical situations it would only make it go bored more quickly.
Creating artificial intelligence by direct modeling of brains is an ethical problem as well, because you run the risk of creating something with feelings, which is undesirable for worker slaves that would spend their whole life piloting a satellite, etc. If you made an artificial intelligence from the ground up, you would probably build it in a way that tried to avoid the kind of complexity that could hide emotions. Natural brains come with emotions pre-loaded.
If someone search for and finds evidence that you've commited a crime, it's somehow not their fault that they were going through your stuff? Justifying their actions post facto based on whether or not you happened to be a criminal would make for a stupid law that rewarded vigilantism. There should be a line for what constitutes reasonable 'stumbling upon'. I don't know exactly where it should go, but responding to a cry for help from a back alley should be on one side of that line, and deliberately searching through other people's property without warrant and without proper cause should be on the other. Basically, the privacy of 'sealed containers' like private property, houses, safes, letters, hard drives, etc. should be, and mostly is, legally protected, unless you're either invited in or have reason to believe there is immediate danger to person or property. Less urgent reasons for suspicion should be reported to the police, and not privately investigated. There simply were no reason for exploring the file system during the repair of a DVD drive, and I'd expect it to be illegal, no matter what they happened to find.
Hint: They weren't really just "looking for files to use to test the drive". That's an entirely bullshit reason, and makes no sense whatsoever. They rifled through the drives of every customer they had, in search of porn and juicy personal stuff. This time they happened to stumble across something illegal. Evidence such as this should be inadmissible because it encourages professionals to engage in privacy breach of all kinds in the hope of 'accidentally stumble across' illegal material. Do you want your plumber rifling through your closet in search of drugs?
A screenshot of Saturn's rings? Don't you think that's a little redundant? There already are some very nice pictures of the real Saturn. Here's a wonderful look of the rings from above.
Oh, you jest. You know as well as I do that's a typo. They're actually from Aroumd, a small mountain village in Morocco. No one is really sure what attracts so many mathematicians to this small, uneventful place, but surveys have estimated that over 500% of the population have done or are doing work in at least one field of mathematics.
Strange how all of them have audio output and mp3 support, though. Shouldn't they focus on making a good and affordable reading device, rather than yet another 'iPod killer'?
But don't they get it? This could lead to one of the greatest discoveries in all of science. What if we could find the fabled rainbow collection, predicted as early as 1979? Well, fine. If the lovers and dreamers won't help, I'll just have to do it all by myself.
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It sure keeps me using Fortran, though. I'll use Ruby sometimes, too, but I haven't seen it used in a scientific context before, so I were wondering if there existed any good libraries for it. I'm not quite sure what you want me to go figure. Maybe we should reflect together on the difference between the difference between Fortran and Python and the difference between Python and Ruby?
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Not sure how it goes with small devices, but Dasher is an interesting input method that you may want to check out if you're interested in that kind of thing.
Actually, they did use the binary units, but forgot to tell us that they were using 7-bit bytes.
No, Microsoft does in fact get it wrong.
Using the standard SI-prefixes for something almost but not quite SI is practical in many contexts, but it should never have been allowed to propagate to a consumer product. It's a colloquial usage, really, IT slang.
This kind of ambiguity is unacceptable in engineering as well as marketing, where you need to be able to communicate with clearly defined terms.
You can't just say that mega- means 1024 "with computers", because with a lot of things (networks, hard drives, frequencies), it doesn't. That so many people here seem to think that hard drives used to use the 1024-based system until quite recently, just goes to show that confusion is rampant, even among the techies.
If you were leading a project where size was a critical factor, wouldn't you want to specify it with precise terms? This is the kind of problem that crashes Mars orbiters.
I don't know about that... Thinking about the various things that could happen to my data storage media, I'd rather it be a flash chip than a disk drive in the vast majority of cases.
The two events I can think of where the data could be unrecoverable from SSD is death of the on-chip controller, and a physically broken flash chip. Anything that would physically break a flash chip would totally waste a disk drive, though.
Flash chips tends to handle wear down far more gracefully than hard drives, with all functioning blocks fully readable, and you can anticipate the failure as the damaged block map fills up. And while smashed chips probably can't be partially recovered in the way damaged disk drives can, by removing and examining platters, etc., they are more resistant to shock and humidity and have less surface area.
That's in theory, of course. In practice, I guess few data recovery services have training and equipment relevant to SSD's yet.
Fucking with the ear gyros is probably best done while sitting down.
It'd be even worse if you want several users on at once, which seems reasonable given the size of the thing. When your friend started walking, you'd start accelerating, which would either be pretty grating or, if you supressed your motion sensors, would cause you to fall down.
I guess one of the reasons for the 'bigger is better' thing is that you can use the extra leeway to get smoother acceleration.
It's rather annoying the way some people tend to label any tabletop computer / multitouch display a "Surface-like" these days.
I don't know if Microsoft did it on purpose or not, but it seems a lot of the people frequenting tech sites have been spoonfed into thinking that the concept originated at MS.
You'll have to provide sources for that, since everything I've read says otherwise. E.g. http://blogs.freecode.no/isene/2008/03/30/promoting-the-repair-shop-philosophy/
Frankly, I suspect you are the one spreading misinformation on this. Even so, have you even considered what you are saying? Are you claiming that the vast majority of participants in the voting process claimed that the voting process was faulty, only to be overturned by a few people in charge (Who also were the ones with Microsoft ties?)
Yeah, that sounds much better.
Some Nintendo DS games feature limited voice recognition. It hasn't really caught on with gamers. Shouting "Fire photon torpedoes" while you're playing a game feels about as awkward as shouting it while watching TV.
Where on earth do you have it from that fluoride weakens teeth? I've never heard anything like that. What I learned from chemistry is that fluoride strengthens the enamel.
Besides, everyone knows the fluoridation of water is a commie plot to impurify our precious bodily fluids.
We have updated the entry a little. It now says "Mostly harmless."
Are you talking about SATA or eSATA? From the spec, the eSATA connectors are supposed to withstand 5000 insertions and removals. They are deeper than SATA connectors and have small indents for retention springs.
Additionally, it's nice to let hosts on the network setup their own port forwarding without having root access to the router, for example when you rent out a house with several apartments that share the same internet connection.
My old router used to have an option to only let hosts modify UPNP bindings to their own IP, which is good enough security for me.
What I don't get about this exploit is, if you already have a flash application running on a victim's machine that can make arbitrary outgoing connections, couldn't you just as easily proxy your connections through the flash application? So it's not like you gain access to anything that you didn't have access to already.
Really? One of the problems I've had with Python is how hard it is to use it as a shell scripting language. Namely, the functions for browsing and manipulating the file system are low-level, OO-hostile, quirky, and scattered seemingly almost randomly between os, os.path and shutil. I find them so unwieldy I'll sometimes just cheat and call .bat files from Python to operate on files.
Apparently some people even have it as their CLI of choice, so I may be missing something, but I've been unable to pry out of them what the secret is.
Video of a similar but non-wireless device in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAR89kweEis
It looks a bit awkward to use, and not that much smaller than a regular portable mouse.
I think I'd rather have a flatter disc/crescent-shaped mouse that I could operate by resting my fingertips on, or a touchscreen, which should be possible by coupling the projector with one or several cameras.
Ultraportable and cheaper than a normal projector? That price sounds too good to be true. I'd buy one, and use it as a secondary screen at home when I'm not carrying it around.
I wonder if they could make a better one (higher resolution/clearer picture/cheaper) if they didn't have to worry about the size and power draw?
I'll predict severe last-minute delays and at least triple the given price, just for pessimism's sake.
Hardly none of the limitations. It could very well turn out that a lot of what we see as human disadvantages may be inherent limitation of the way the human brain does things, and that the brain is such a tangled mess of spaghetti nodes that you can't rip one function out without rebuilding the entire thing.
For example, it seems doubtful that the brain could be meaningfully modified to be able to fully concentrate on more than one thing at a time. And it could be that any simulation of the human brain that is accurate enough to work will also have to simulate the brain decaying in a fashion similar to a real one. And adding more processor power could give the considerable advantage of faster-than-human thinking, but it wouldn't necessarily be able to make it any smarter, meaning that in non-time-critical situations it would only make it go bored more quickly.
Creating artificial intelligence by direct modeling of brains is an ethical problem as well, because you run the risk of creating something with feelings, which is undesirable for worker slaves that would spend their whole life piloting a satellite, etc. If you made an artificial intelligence from the ground up, you would probably build it in a way that tried to avoid the kind of complexity that could hide emotions. Natural brains come with emotions pre-loaded.
If someone search for and finds evidence that you've commited a crime, it's somehow not their fault that they were going through your stuff? Justifying their actions post facto based on whether or not you happened to be a criminal would make for a stupid law that rewarded vigilantism.
There should be a line for what constitutes reasonable 'stumbling upon'. I don't know exactly where it should go, but responding to a cry for help from a back alley should be on one side of that line, and deliberately searching through other people's property without warrant and without proper cause should be on the other.
Basically, the privacy of 'sealed containers' like private property, houses, safes, letters, hard drives, etc. should be, and mostly is, legally protected, unless you're either invited in or have reason to believe there is immediate danger to person or property. Less urgent reasons for suspicion should be reported to the police, and not privately investigated.
There simply were no reason for exploring the file system during the repair of a DVD drive, and I'd expect it to be illegal, no matter what they happened to find.
Hint: They weren't really just "looking for files to use to test the drive". That's an entirely bullshit reason, and makes no sense whatsoever.
They rifled through the drives of every customer they had, in search of porn and juicy personal stuff. This time they happened to stumble across something illegal. Evidence such as this should be inadmissible because it encourages professionals to engage in privacy breach of all kinds in the hope of 'accidentally stumble across' illegal material.
Do you want your plumber rifling through your closet in search of drugs?
A screenshot of Saturn's rings? Don't you think that's a little redundant?
There already are some very nice pictures of the real Saturn.
Here's a wonderful look of the rings from above.
Oh, you jest. You know as well as I do that's a typo. They're actually from Aroumd, a small mountain village in Morocco. No one is really sure what attracts so many mathematicians to this small, uneventful place, but surveys have estimated that over 500% of the population have done or are doing work in at least one field of mathematics.
Strange how all of them have audio output and mp3 support, though. Shouldn't they focus on making a good and affordable reading device, rather than yet another 'iPod killer'?
But don't they get it? This could lead to one of the greatest discoveries in all of science.
What if we could find the fabled rainbow collection, predicted as early as 1979?
Well, fine. If the lovers and dreamers won't help, I'll just have to do it all by myself.
It sure keeps me using Fortran, though. I'll use Ruby sometimes, too, but I haven't seen it used in a scientific context before, so I were wondering if there existed any good libraries for it. I'm not quite sure what you want me to go figure. Maybe we should reflect together on the difference between the difference between Fortran and Python and the difference between Python and Ruby?