I keep wondering what sort of programming artifacts (bugs) could exist, how could we find them, and how could we exploit them...
I think that many of the bugs have been patched. For example many cultures remember a time when magic worked, enough people thinking of something with enough concentration could make it real. Some tweaks to the optimisation between the objective reality and our subjective selves sorted that out.
There may be some bugs though, how often are inventions discovered by the same people at the same time, or you think of an old film to find that the guys at the TV company have thought of scheduling it!
There are clues; Quantum randomness is caused by rounding errors.
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Well, if the country in which you abide purports to be a democracy, then you have a stake in ensuring that incompetent people don't run the government.
Fascist! Incompetent people deserver representation too. In my country they certainly are!
If you sit on the glass and photocopy your ass, it just switches to "Enlarge by 50%" mode.
That's with the Japanese to UK English setting. If you set American English it switches to "Enlarge by 100%" mode.
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incompetent people running the government are a real problem
The problem is that you could well be subjected to extrordinary rendition, disappear from the airport and if you are lucky enough to have a family who will continually pursue what happened eventually be found in a Syrian torture camp, like Maher Arar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar. I know quite a few people who won't visit the USA in fear of this happening because of a "fingerprint mixup". This is one more way they could go.
The term symmetric refers to all the processors accessing the same memory and performing identical functions. Things like floating point units and graphics accelerators are examples of non-symmetric multiprocessing. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_multiprocessing
between releases, you need 2 versions of the JVM to run 2 different programs (if those programs require says 1.4 and 5 respectively).
I believe this is wrong. JVMs (though not always javac bytecode compilers) are backwards compatible. You could run a 1.4 program on a 1.5 JVM. You could probably compile it, unless you happened to have used one of the new keywords as a variable name or something similar.
I am not sure why this is marked funny, it is a good point. Lisp can be compiled http://www.cons.org/cmucl/ and does not enforce types in function prototypes. The downside is that types are either atoms or lists, but it shows that this is not impossible.
I haven't got any figures, but subjectively I find konqueror faster than firefox. I don't often use it because so many sites don't render well, but speed wise I would rate it as much faster
I think that the biggest affect would be the social changes. It is well known that for £50 you can get a car license plate traced, even though only the police are supposed to have access. How many people will be tempted to "just check" their paternity and get a surprise? We already have a principle that adopted children have the right to know and contact their natural parents. It won't be long before this right is extended to children of mothers who "don't know" who the father is, plus those discovered to be illegitimate by their fathers "just checking"?
I don't know what the end result will be, and end to normal family based structures or maybe an increase in fidelity as people realise that even a one night stand with someone you don't know could be found out. One thing is certain the social implications are much more than just catching a few more or a few less criminals.
The only way round this would be if there was some enforced method of storing hashes of the results only. This would mean that you could check whether a sample was a compete match for anyone (following up with a full comparison just incase of a hashcode collision) , but not check for partial matching such as family members. I don't know how feasible this is, as there are issues of degraded samples, etc.
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I keep wondering what sort of programming artifacts (bugs) could exist, how could we find them, and how could we exploit them...
I think that many of the bugs have been patched. For example many cultures remember a time when magic worked, enough people thinking of something with enough concentration could make it real. Some tweaks to the optimisation between the objective reality and our subjective selves sorted that out. There may be some bugs though, how often are inventions discovered by the same people at the same time, or you think of an old film to find that the guys at the TV company have thought of scheduling it!
There are clues; Quantum randomness is caused by rounding errors.
Well, if the country in which you abide purports to be a democracy, then you have a stake in ensuring that incompetent people don't run the government.
Fascist! Incompetent people deserver representation too. In my country they certainly are!
If you sit on the glass and photocopy your ass, it just switches to "Enlarge by 50%" mode. That's with the Japanese to UK English setting. If you set American English it switches to "Enlarge by 100%" mode.
incompetent people running the government are a real problem
I thought it was called democracy.
I thought NLPC stood for "no laptops per child". Seems I was close to the mark.
The problem is that you could well be subjected to extrordinary rendition, disappear from the airport and if you are lucky enough to have a family who will continually pursue what happened eventually be found in a Syrian torture camp, like Maher Arar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar. I know quite a few people who won't visit the USA in fear of this happening because of a "fingerprint mixup". This is one more way they could go.
with tazers they are unrestrained as they leave very little to no evidence it was used.
best not used in a room full of people and cameras perhaps.
The term symmetric refers to all the processors accessing the same memory and performing identical functions. Things like floating point units and graphics accelerators are examples of non-symmetric multiprocessing. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_multiprocessing
I've never been unemployed for longer than 2 days in 15 years
You have good long term prospects as a Guantanamo interrogator.
between releases, you need 2 versions of the JVM to run 2 different programs (if those programs require says 1.4 and 5 respectively).
I believe this is wrong. JVMs (though not always javac bytecode compilers) are backwards compatible. You could run a 1.4 program on a 1.5 JVM. You could probably compile it, unless you happened to have used one of the new keywords as a variable name or something similar.
I am not sure why this is marked funny, it is a good point. Lisp can be compiled http://www.cons.org/cmucl/ and does not enforce types in function prototypes. The downside is that types are either atoms or lists, but it shows that this is not impossible.
It might even be long enough for a conservative to change his mind.
But will they support the Office Open XML Standard ;-)
I haven't got any figures, but subjectively I find konqueror faster than firefox. I don't often use it because so many sites don't render well, but speed wise I would rate it as much faster
Konqueror (sp?) feels very fast too (though I have no objective measurements), especially compared to firefox. It would be nice to see a comparison.
Timelines for other platforms
There will be a Vista version of BBC iPlayer available this year. We are actively working on Mac and cross platform support.
It shows where their priority is
I think that the biggest affect would be the social changes. It is well known that for £50 you can get a car license plate traced, even though only the police are supposed to have access. How many people will be tempted to "just check" their paternity and get a surprise? We already have a principle that adopted children have the right to know and contact their natural parents. It won't be long before this right is extended to children of mothers who "don't know" who the father is, plus those discovered to be illegitimate by their fathers "just checking"? I don't know what the end result will be, and end to normal family based structures or maybe an increase in fidelity as people realise that even a one night stand with someone you don't know could be found out. One thing is certain the social implications are much more than just catching a few more or a few less criminals. The only way round this would be if there was some enforced method of storing hashes of the results only. This would mean that you could check whether a sample was a compete match for anyone (following up with a full comparison just incase of a hashcode collision) , but not check for partial matching such as family members. I don't know how feasible this is, as there are issues of degraded samples, etc.
Since he proposes taking samples from all visitors I expect this will do for the UK tourist trade what fingerprinting has done for the US overseas tourist trade. http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/11/29/entry-t o-us-scares-away-tourism-business/
Strange, My Scottish friend tells me that all useful inventions are socttish
That was a real problem for a dyslexic like me in early basics, which did not have "option explicit".
Hmmm. In the UK people have been arrested for making bombs before they set them off!
I doubt if its "anything". Try making a bomb and setting it off in your backyard. Or boring out a disabled firearm.
Like in Italy pre Euro. With the Lira everyone was a millionaire
It was in the English O level in 1978