Even though the surface of earth changes, but I dont thing the stuff (rocks etc) just disappear. They still remain on earth. So, why can't they be used to find anything about the universe? Maybe they are used, and I don't know about that. But article makes us believe that due to changes on earth's surface, matter here is not as useful as that on moon.
I have the same question but for my old photographs. We have a lot of old (non digital) pictures when I was a kid (when there were no digital cameras). And it would really help if someone have some good suggestions on converting those to digital formats.
I am scanning few of them from time to time, but there are way too much to manually scan each one of them. TIA
No one will try to learn linux from this map. I think of it as a quick guide to see how the control passes from one function to other within the kernel. E.g., if you want to trace how a network packet is transferred from one function to the other, just start from the bottom of the networking portion (device drivers) and follow it to the top (socket call).
This will help those who already have a basic understanding of the linux kernel and are trying to find something quickly.
there is a need to create a tool for website owners that can detect if an isp is throttling the traffic to their website.. and then they should stop serving anymore to that ISP..
If done collectively, this would mean that customers will switch away from that ISP.. and creating that tool should not take more than few lines of code.
of course this would hurt initially to the owners of website (depending on the kind of website) but should benefit in longer term
Not to be mean to microsoft or anything. But its reaaaly difficult for me to understand how in the world someone at microsoft can think that they can take over yahoo and on top of it they will retain the good talent in yahoo.
Yes, you are absolutely right... different countries also have different cup sizes.. If you order a cup of coffee in England, it will come in a really small cup, whereas in US, even the smallest (or tall in starbucks) is quite large comparatively.
According to the author of the article... inorder for engineering to not suck, we should have inflated grades and beautiful textbooks (whatever that it). He says that the textbooks are awful because they are thick and black and white and contain long equations (i don't know if i should laugh or what).. His other reasons are more related to the school in which he is studying and not with engineering
Seriously... I don't think this article is either NEWS FOR NERDS or STUFF THAT MATTERS. Clearly the author should not try to become an engineer and should switch to some other discipline where he gets inflated grades and the incorrect notion that he is bright.
Unfairness problem of transport protocols can not be fixed in today's internet because it requires cooperation from other nodes that forward your data, and these nodes could be anywhere in the world. Specifically for TCP, one can just hack into the OS kernel and force TCP to ignore all the congestion notifications etc.. and thus hogging all the bandwidth...(its not that difficult)
I think it depends what kind of user are you talking about.
If a user is careful about not downloading programs from random sites and installing those, as well as careful in opening email attachments.. i think one should be good to go without antivirus on most of the OS's not only OS-X
OTOH, if one just open every email attachment (s)he gets.. then even antivirus can not help sometimes (e.g. against some new vulnerability)
I understand that this is weekend and hence news will be slow.. but please stop posting a hack about a device that is not yet even released.. who knows the hack will work or not?
And NO, I am not going to read an article about how someone has written a hack about an unreleased piece of hardware. We are not even sure what will be there in the hardware, and its already hacked???
I think its now time that one should start encrypting all voip traffic.. I understand we don't even have https everywhere right now.. use smartphones.. use encrypted voip to make all the phone calls, and use the regular service provider to make emergency calls like 911
I think this is the way to go..
I know some one will say there are attacks possible on encrypted connections... but the question is that its not feasible to attack every connection out there.. atleast make their job as difficult as possible.
We don't have all these things.. i agree... but we do have people ordered by courts to pay in excess of $200,000 as fine for music sharing.. It was difficult for me to digest that thing.. I thing I may leave the planet when all those things you are saying start happening.. seriously.
Are these games and benchmarks actually making.. you know.. use of all the 8 cores? i.e. were they modified so that they can make use of multicores efficiently.
Multicore machines are useful when either you run multiple applications or if you want to run single app and make use of the cores, then the apps have to be updated so that they can make use of these multiple cores.
May be I should clarify.... its not only the web traffic but bit torrent traffic is also stopped.. in other words if I open a p2p app... both the web and p2p traffic is stopped.. and while all this traffic is stopped.. if I VPN into my school i can access everything normally....
I am not serviced by comcast but by NTC communications in blacksburg, va. the worst thing here is that if I try to use bit torrent or some other p2p application, all my web traffic is stopped (yes STOPPED) as long as I let p2p application run. Then, when I close bit torrent, it take few minutes for normal web access to resume. this is really frustrating. I usually VPN to my school and access every thing from there then.
I think Microsoft's surface PC already does this.. although in a slightly different way.. but the idea is same... just give the order without waiting in line and while sitting at your table.
Slashdot Mirror
errr .i mean "solar system", and not "universe"
Even though the surface of earth changes, but I dont thing the stuff (rocks etc) just disappear. They still remain on earth. So, why can't they be used to find anything about the universe? Maybe they are used, and I don't know about that. But article makes us believe that due to changes on earth's surface, matter here is not as useful as that on moon.
I have the same question but for my old photographs. We have a lot of old (non digital) pictures when I was a kid (when there were no digital cameras). And it would really help if someone have some good suggestions on converting those to digital formats.
I am scanning few of them from time to time, but there are way too much to manually scan each one of them. TIA
No one will try to learn linux from this map. I think of it as a quick guide to see how the control passes from one function to other within the kernel. E.g., if you want to trace how a network packet is transferred from one function to the other, just start from the bottom of the networking portion (device drivers) and follow it to the top (socket call).
:).
This will help those who already have a basic understanding of the linux kernel and are trying to find something quickly.
Oh and it looks cool too
there is a need to create a tool for website owners that can detect if an isp is throttling the traffic to their website.. and then they should stop serving anymore to that ISP..
If done collectively, this would mean that customers will switch away from that ISP.. and creating that tool should not take more than few lines of code.
of course this would hurt initially to the owners of website (depending on the kind of website) but should benefit in longer term
Not to be mean to microsoft or anything. But its reaaaly difficult for me to understand how in the world someone at microsoft can think that they can take over yahoo and on top of it they will retain the good talent in yahoo.
Yes, you are absolutely right... different countries also have different cup sizes.. If you order a cup of coffee in England, it will come in a really small cup, whereas in US, even the smallest (or tall in starbucks) is quite large comparatively.
here is my summary and my thoughts
... I don't think this article is either NEWS FOR NERDS or STUFF THAT MATTERS. Clearly the author should not try to become an engineer and should switch to some other discipline where he gets inflated grades and the incorrect notion that he is bright.
According to the author of the article... inorder for engineering to not suck, we should have inflated grades and beautiful textbooks (whatever that it). He says that the textbooks are awful because they are thick and black and white and contain long equations (i don't know if i should laugh or what).. His other reasons are more related to the school in which he is studying and not with engineering
Seriously
Unfairness problem of transport protocols can not be fixed in today's internet because it requires cooperation from other nodes that forward your data, and these nodes could be anywhere in the world.
Specifically for TCP, one can just hack into the OS kernel and force TCP to ignore all the congestion notifications etc.. and thus hogging all the bandwidth...(its not that difficult)
as I understand... they are saying that we do not own the physical copy of the book so that is why we can not sell it..
.. how can *they* sell the electronic copy in the first place?
Then using this same logic
I think it depends what kind of user are you talking about.
If a user is careful about not downloading programs from random sites and installing those, as well as careful in opening email attachments.. i think one should be good to go without antivirus on most of the OS's not only OS-X
OTOH, if one just open every email attachment (s)he gets.. then even antivirus can not help sometimes (e.g. against some new vulnerability)
I understand that this is weekend and hence news will be slow.. but please stop posting a hack about a device that is not yet even released.. who knows the hack will work or not?
And NO, I am not going to read an article about how someone has written a hack about an unreleased piece of hardware. We are not even sure what will be there in the hardware, and its already hacked???
I think its now time that one should start encrypting all voip traffic.. I understand we don't even have https everywhere right now..
use smartphones.. use encrypted voip to make all the phone calls, and use the regular service provider to make emergency calls like 911
I think this is the way to go..
I know some one will say there are attacks possible on encrypted connections... but the question is that its not feasible to attack every connection out there.. atleast make their job as difficult as possible.
We don't have all these things.. i agree... but we do have people ordered by courts to pay in excess of $200,000 as fine for music sharing.. It was difficult for me to digest that thing.. I thing I may leave the planet when all those things you are saying start happening.. seriously.
No..., If they win.. everything will as it is right now... It can not get worse than this.
http://www.betanews.com/article/Defendant_in_RIAA_suit_files_amended_complaint/1205509900
If cops are not doing anything illegal they have nothing to hide..
We should definitely have websites like this.
Well it depends a lot on the city in which the job is... but i think 63K starting salary for a EE/CE/CS graduate is below the market rate.
Linear accelerator at Los Alamos
http://lansce.lanl.gov/
that is very important
Are these games and benchmarks actually making.. you know.. use of all the 8 cores? i.e. were they modified so that they can make use of multicores efficiently.
Multicore machines are useful when either you run multiple applications or if you want to run single app and make use of the cores, then the apps have to be updated so that they can make use of these multiple cores.
yeah.. its off campus... most of the students don't even know and don't care... I work through VPN most of the time.
May be I should clarify.... its not only the web traffic but bit torrent traffic is also stopped.. in other words if I open a p2p app... both the web and p2p traffic is stopped.. and while all this traffic is stopped.. if I VPN into my school i can access everything normally....
I am not serviced by comcast but by NTC communications in blacksburg, va. the worst thing here is that if I try to use bit torrent or some other p2p application, all my web traffic is stopped (yes STOPPED) as long as I let p2p application run. Then, when I close bit torrent, it take few minutes for normal web access to resume. this is really frustrating. I usually VPN to my school and access every thing from there then.
Or you know.... may be it is better to have some standards that the manufactured devices have to conform to before they can be sold.
I think Microsoft's surface PC already does this.. although in a slightly different way.. but the idea is same... just give the order without waiting in line and while sitting at your table.