Your point is well taken. It does make me wonder though, if we imagine an scale of immersion into violence; from talking about irl genocide at the water cooler, to really getting into singing along with a heavy metal song about all the killing in war, to reading a violent spy book, to D n D, to watching violent movies, to playing today's most immersive and violent games (to playing them in 3D?); I do see that this scale has a top and that we're crawling toward utterly-convincing, but still not real, violent experiences. I hate video game legislation as much as the next guy, but frankly, I pause at the thought of tomorrow's kids who'll go to school with the kid with no parenting and easy access to purchase "Stabby McGee; Reign of the High School Shank-Master III" to go on an utterly-realistic random stabbing-spree, in a school, for four hours a night.
Of course the other half of me is screaming all of those concerns are idiotic, that his inability to handle a video game is, in fact, the parents fault and that by the time immersion like that is possible, it will be just like books and today's video games--easily separated from reality.
multifail. As the other said, you say the Express cannot send audio; it can. Your link is to the higher-ed Apple Education Store, which requires filling out a form (and lying in my case) to click through. You link to the Extreme not the Express.
$99, portable, 802.11n wireless access point, print server, and airTunes music streaming client, AirPort Express.
*shudder* Created out of desperation to sidestep Adobe's closed Type 1 font standard, disseminated by Microsoft because of its cheapness, now widely used as most will overlook its comparative weaknesses; you are not alone in defaulting to it, Arial.
drifting OT here, but just... WOW. I'd not seen that. How sublime. Throw everything you've ever known about bleed and contrast ratio out the window; Blackle says displaying dark images and backgrounds on your monitors saves energy. Brillant! (ah; to be fair, they do make the plasma/lcd distinction in their faq.)
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however many you want. curve of constant width Known of since the 1800s at the latest. Oo, found it; this video is more fun and has been around for almost 50 yrs.
You're seriously comparing the historical significance one individual's recognition in her own time or her "social station" to the holocaust, slavery, and the "morons" of the American Revolution. Did I get all that right? Maybe her social strata is still relevant today, but I'm edging toward "bring up the nazis and you immediately lose."
I'm utterly convinced those hardware limitations are well beyond the performance we trudge through. As a gamer and programmer, this just irks me to no end. When a game is first launching, screw the 3d map loading to display behind the main menu (*cough* HL2, et al.), just give us text and load the pretty if it has time to idle. While a cut/intro movie is playing, the disc drive's lens motor should be going nuts, scanning back and forth between buffering the movie and reading data for the next level (or better yet, the disc would be laid out appropriately for this). With the same tack, do something awesome during the unavoidable en masse loadings; have us read a briefing, let us tweak our tires, show us eye candy, whatever! If Pacman was 13.4 Kb, Dr. Mario was on a 28 Kb chip, and a pair of hackers fit.kkrieger into 97 Kb, deep pocketed houses should manage more than a spinning icon. Again on en masse loadings, why do we need them at all? When you walk through an areaportal, it shouldn't just take the nearby rooms' load off of the graphics card, it should start trashing and loading distant geometry.
I actually dislike twisted applications of peoples' faith and politics, and furthermore want no part of this discussion, heh. But I know the logical response when any theistic system is confronted with your reduction to "omnipotent or impotent?". That question assumes that their deity is only motivated to make everything perfect. It usually boils down to the God or gods or whatever not wanting a world of 'mindless robot people' and, accordingly, leaving us free to screw it up (even by very circuitous or elaborate means like drunk airline pilots and corrupt politicians).
It follows, then, that in order for it to take more energy to produce the device than it will generate over its useful lifetime, the manufacturer would effectively need to spend twice as much on electricity as they sell the finished product for... And that ignores other overhead such as labor and raw materials.
Uh. Or they could just set the price above their total costs and still manage to sell them. Companies sell lots of things that make no sense, and successfully. Particularly in this case, people will obviously pay more for something "green" and their 'pay'ing price doesn't not have to have anything to do with the 'pay'back period.
Your overall point is still, of course, correct. This subject has been around long enough that even Googling finds some straight talk. The closest to the doom-and-gloom, "don't use solar power at all" articles and papers I could find were about heavy metal emissions, but even they put the ratio at 9:1 in favor of solar. http://www.livescience.com/environment/080227-solar-power-green.html
Speaking of the test before matching actual load vs. using defaults, am I the only one perturbed by the same movie being encoded twice by different engines but at the same fixed bitrate...somehow coming out at different sizes?...and by a couple hundred megs! constant unit time of media * (constant unit data / constant unit time) == inconsistent unit data
Yeah, this is like a programmer muttering that Spore'll hit shelves right after Duke Nukem Forever, which is going GM right after the end of World War III. "Insider Sources: WWIII CONFIRMED!"
The iBook G4 series didn't get drop sensors for HD park and the multi-touch, 'scrolling trackpad' features until the "Mid-2005" models (1.33 GHz, 12-inch and 1.42 GHz 14-inch)...the very last iBooks before the series was discontinued. Ref, everymac.com: http://tinyurl.com/4zx8x6
heh, don`t frown; you`re not alone. I vaguely remembered backticks in the prose of man pages and found an example first try. From LS(1) here`s some double backtick love: -1 (The numeric digit ``one''.) Force output to be one entry per
line. This is the default when output is not to a terminal.
...you don't stick in a DVD. You use Ghost or similar to mass produce hard drive images You use ghost or similar to mass produce har drive images...which you made by sticking in the DVD. It's anecdotal and I cannot speak to the intent of my GP, but the last linux lappy I bought had an utterly un-tweaked install. It worked great, but nothing was any different from a first boot if I'd done the install myself.
"thousands of compromised machines working together would make a fairly effective cluster."
Except that the notion of brute forcing a 128 bit key is ludicrous. A powerful cluster? Yes. An effective cluster? No.
We could all go into great depth on why big keys can make archives genuinely uncrackable, but I'll just rub some wikipedia on it:
"The amount of time required to break a 128 bit key is also daunting. Each of the 2^{128} possibilities must be checked. This is an enormous number, 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 in decimal. A device that could check a billion billion keys (10^{18}) per second would still require about 10^{13} years to exhaust the key space. This is longer than the age of the universe, which is about 13,000,000,000 (1.3 *10^{10}) years.
AES permits the use of 256 bit keys. Breaking a 256 bit key by brute force requires 2^{128} time more computational power than a 128 bit key. A device that could check a billion billion (10^{18}) AES keys per second would require about 3 *10^{51} years to exhaust the 256 bit key space.
Hence, 128 bit keys are impractical to attack by brute force methods using current technology and resources, and 256 bit keys are not likely to be broken by brute force methods using any obvious future technology
Yeah, I experience that all the time... "Whoa! Where the hell did this wireless-n router come from? I don't even have a.11 n compatible nic! Ooooooooh; it must have been that ad I didn't consciously read and was thusly unable to resist last week. I guess I must need it after all."...WTF?
Or maybe you're totally right. Sigh. Everyone I know is both not bankrupt but still perpetually broke. Their money is going somewhere.
My physics book says Voyager is coming back some day but in the real world, other accelerations, the cliff at the edge of the universe, and our mortality make the concept silly. Approaching from another standpoint, I haven't had any coffee this morning so I cannot reconcile my parent poster's idea with book lernin' physics. If I aim toward that area where all the geosynchronous satellites hang out and fire infinite number of equal-mass projectiles at velocities increasing across their escape velocity, somewhere in there, isn't one of them is going to end up 'stopped;' not falling and not escaping?...its tendency to go in a straight line away from us exactly balanced on the edge of its acceleration due to Earth and said influence decreasing with distance?
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Your point is well taken. It does make me wonder though, if we imagine an scale of immersion into violence; from talking about irl genocide at the water cooler, to really getting into singing along with a heavy metal song about all the killing in war, to reading a violent spy book, to D n D, to watching violent movies, to playing today's most immersive and violent games (to playing them in 3D?); I do see that this scale has a top and that we're crawling toward utterly-convincing, but still not real, violent experiences. I hate video game legislation as much as the next guy, but frankly, I pause at the thought of tomorrow's kids who'll go to school with the kid with no parenting and easy access to purchase "Stabby McGee; Reign of the High School Shank-Master III" to go on an utterly-realistic random stabbing-spree, in a school, for four hours a night.
Of course the other half of me is screaming all of those concerns are idiotic, that his inability to handle a video game is, in fact, the parents fault and that by the time immersion like that is possible, it will be just like books and today's video games--easily separated from reality.
wow. wii remote controlling your flashlight in a legit-3D horror game. *wets self*
multifail. As the other said, you say the Express cannot send audio; it can. Your link is to the higher-ed Apple Education Store, which requires filling out a form (and lying in my case) to click through. You link to the Extreme not the Express.
$99, portable, 802.11n wireless access point, print server, and airTunes music streaming client, AirPort Express.
*shudder* Created out of desperation to sidestep Adobe's closed Type 1 font standard, disseminated by Microsoft because of its cheapness, now widely used as most will overlook its comparative weaknesses; you are not alone in defaulting to it, Arial .
drifting OT here, but just... WOW. I'd not seen that. How sublime.
Throw everything you've ever known about bleed and contrast ratio out the window; Blackle says displaying dark images and backgrounds on your monitors saves energy. Brillant!
(ah; to be fair, they do make the plasma/lcd distinction in their faq.)
Convenient.
however many you want.
curve of constant width Known of since the 1800s at the latest. Oo, found it; this video is more fun and has been around for almost 50 yrs.
You're seriously comparing the historical significance one individual's recognition in her own time or her "social station" to the holocaust, slavery, and the "morons" of the American Revolution. Did I get all that right? Maybe her social strata is still relevant today, but I'm edging toward "bring up the nazis and you immediately lose."
I'm utterly convinced those hardware limitations are well beyond the performance we trudge through. As a gamer and programmer, this just irks me to no end. .kkrieger into 97 Kb, deep pocketed houses should manage more than a spinning icon. Again on en masse loadings, why do we need them at all? When you walk through an areaportal, it shouldn't just take the nearby rooms' load off of the graphics card, it should start trashing and loading distant geometry.
When a game is first launching, screw the 3d map loading to display behind the main menu (*cough* HL2, et al.), just give us text and load the pretty if it has time to idle. While a cut/intro movie is playing, the disc drive's lens motor should be going nuts, scanning back and forth between buffering the movie and reading data for the next level (or better yet, the disc would be laid out appropriately for this). With the same tack, do something awesome during the unavoidable en masse loadings; have us read a briefing, let us tweak our tires, show us eye candy, whatever! If Pacman was 13.4 Kb, Dr. Mario was on a 28 Kb chip, and a pair of hackers fit
It's like they're not trying. On the flip side, some recent loading screen news off the top of my head:
Dungeon Siege http://games.slashdot.org/games/07/09/08/0354231.shtml
Resistance 2 interview
I actually dislike twisted applications of peoples' faith and politics, and furthermore want no part of this discussion, heh. But I know the logical response when any theistic system is confronted with your reduction to "omnipotent or impotent?". That question assumes that their deity is only motivated to make everything perfect. It usually boils down to the God or gods or whatever not wanting a world of 'mindless robot people' and, accordingly, leaving us free to screw it up (even by very circuitous or elaborate means like drunk airline pilots and corrupt politicians).
Uh. Or they could just set the price above their total costs and still manage to sell them. Companies sell lots of things that make no sense, and successfully. Particularly in this case, people will obviously pay more for something "green" and their 'pay'ing price doesn't not have to have anything to do with the 'pay'back period.
Your overall point is still, of course, correct. This subject has been around long enough that even Googling finds some straight talk. The closest to the doom-and-gloom, "don't use solar power at all" articles and papers I could find were about heavy metal emissions, but even they put the ratio at 9:1 in favor of solar. http://www.livescience.com/environment/080227-solar-power-green.html
I did find one that clearly says solar may sometimes be bad for a bad install location (duh), and that solar is universally bad for gadget-scale use: http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/03/the-ugly-side-o.html
Speaking of the test before matching actual load vs. using defaults, am I the only one perturbed by the same movie being encoded twice by different engines but at the same fixed bitrate ...somehow coming out at different sizes? ...and by a couple hundred megs!
constant unit time of media * (constant unit data / constant unit time) == inconsistent unit data
Yeah, this is like a programmer muttering that Spore'll hit shelves right after Duke Nukem Forever, which is going GM right after the end of World War III.
"Insider Sources: WWIII CONFIRMED!"
The iBook G4 series didn't get drop sensors for HD park and the multi-touch, 'scrolling trackpad' features until the "Mid-2005" models (1.33 GHz, 12-inch and 1.42 GHz 14-inch) ...the very last iBooks before the series was discontinued.
Ref, everymac.com: http://tinyurl.com/4zx8x6
Er... um... "skynet"?
really?
heh, don`t frown; you`re not alone. I vaguely remembered backticks in the prose of man pages and found an example first try. From LS(1) here`s some double backtick love:
-1 (The numeric digit ``one''.) Force output to be one entry per line. This is the default when output is not to a terminal.
...you don't stick in a DVD. You use Ghost or similar to mass produce hard drive images You use ghost or similar to mass produce har drive imagesI understand your point. Just so we're all clear, though; Phoenix sits on legs, not wheels, so there will be no 'puttering around' the pole.
Except that the notion of brute forcing a 128 bit key is ludicrous. A powerful cluster? Yes. An effective cluster? No.
We could all go into great depth on why big keys can make archives genuinely uncrackable, but I'll just rub some wikipedia on it:
"The amount of time required to break a 128 bit key is also daunting. Each of the 2^{128} possibilities must be checked. This is an enormous number, 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 in decimal. A device that could check a billion billion keys (10^{18}) per second would still require about 10^{13} years to exhaust the key space. This is longer than the age of the universe, which is about 13,000,000,000 (1.3 *10^{10}) years.
AES permits the use of 256 bit keys. Breaking a 256 bit key by brute force requires 2^{128} time more computational power than a 128 bit key. A device that could check a billion billion (10^{18}) AES keys per second would require about 3 *10^{51} years to exhaust the 256 bit key space.
Hence, 128 bit keys are impractical to attack by brute force methods using current technology and resources, and 256 bit keys are not likely to be broken by brute force methods using any obvious future technology
c'mon, now... Spore 1 activation servers going offline because of spore 2 going gold master? That won't be for at least thirty years...
better link: http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pictures/a-f/chou/
capped tubes?
Yeah, I experience that all the time... "Whoa! Where the hell did this wireless-n router come from? I don't even have a .11 n compatible nic! Ooooooooh; it must have been that ad I didn't consciously read and was thusly unable to resist last week. I guess I must need it after all." ...WTF?
Or maybe you're totally right. Sigh. Everyone I know is both not bankrupt but still perpetually broke. Their money is going somewhere.
They'll have to use boardwalks after all. The tubes are set aside for the internet.
My physics book says Voyager is coming back some day but in the real world, other accelerations, the cliff at the edge of the universe, and our mortality make the concept silly. Approaching from another standpoint, I haven't had any coffee this morning so I cannot reconcile my parent poster's idea with book lernin' physics. If I aim toward that area where all the geosynchronous satellites hang out and fire infinite number of equal-mass projectiles at velocities increasing across their escape velocity, somewhere in there, isn't one of them is going to end up 'stopped;' not falling and not escaping? ...its tendency to go in a straight line away from us exactly balanced on the edge of its acceleration due to Earth and said influence decreasing with distance?