Yes, and it's the whole point of this supposed exploit. Rutkowska runs AMD's "Pacifica" instructions in Ring -1 that wrap around your usual OS kernel in Ring 0.
Which, by the way, brings up a THIRD faulty assumption from the demo: this tactic is absolutely NOT AMD-specific. Intel's "Vanderpool" offers a slightly different ISA but ends up at an equivalent Ring -1, with the same theoretical risks and rewards.
You (and all the moderators, and most of the repliers) either missed the line saying "amicus curiae brief" or more likely didn't understand what it means. The ACLU, EFF, et al, are *not* Ms Foster's lawyers. They are outside parties with no direct financial stake in the outcome.
However, they do want a particular outcome: sticking it hard to the RIAA. Therefore they have filed their own legal statement trying to aid Ms Foster (and her lawyers, whoever they are). Whether they succeed or not, they don't get any money from anyone in the case.
Yeah, still no word on Mac SLI/Crossfire. Or a $1000ish Mac with a user-serviceable GPU slot (sigh).
FWIW, the Mac Pro build options are up to four GF 7300s (not SLI, so that would mean 4-8 monitors), ATI X1900, or Quadro 4500 (pro version of GF 7800).
I'm also planning to replace my 2003 Powerbook with a nice new 64-bit box. It's just a matter of time.
Dell and other vendors have announced their first Core 2 Merom laptops recently, which will be shipping by the end of the month. Apple really can't afford to wait much longer than that; I'd say early September at the latest.
System Restore? You must be joking. First, it's a system-wide snapshot, all or nothing. Second, you have to pick time points for snapshot creation and let it run. Third, SR is only to protect Windows System files from corruption (which Mac users don't worry about), not user documents.
Time Machine (from what we've seen) is granular to individual files, and works transparently in the background every time you change a file.
Sheesh. You may as well claim that iTunes is an imitation of WMP.
The MacBook *Pro* is not for home users, it's a *Pro* laptop. Gig-E, Firewire, DVI, weight, etc, all matter in that environment. Basically you should redo the entire comparison with a more appropriate base model. For example, an E1505 with stock GMA950 IGP vs the MacBook Amateur. Or the MacBook Pro vs an actual pro-level Dell.
If they're doing this correctly, they aren't looking for individual points or even individual curves. They're (hopefully) trying to see the whole butterfly.
Any particular chaotic equation with a stable set of forcing constants will end up with a semi-predictable structure. The problem is that the weather's input forces are changing. Even so, you should be able to solve how those changes distort the overall shape, with sufficient computing power.
The longer you hold on to movies on average, the less they have to spend on round trip postage. You're paying them a monthly fee whether you go through 15 movies or just 1.
Conroe (Duo-tech) based Xeon chips will be coming out in September
Umm... you apparently haven't been paying attention since 2005. Intel rearranged their ship dates months ago. Xeon 5100 series (aka Woodcrest, aka Core 2 Server) is already shipping and available.
As parent post notes, most of the "reviews" focused on high-end 3D gameplay, which is 99% GPU benchmarking and only slightly affected by the CPU. On the bright side, this is an excellent way to make a list of incompetent overhyped bloggers whose articles should be ignored from now on.
Yeah, anthropic is the popular name. My math geek friends and I like the other name because it allows you to express the exact same proposition as a formula:
Yes, Krauss is talking about vacuum fluctuations and such, well-known concepts. The article is mainly him describing how freaked out he is that there are these two enourmous counter-balancing forces that almost but not quite perfectly cancel each other out, so that out at 120 decimal places there's a positive value left over.
He then proceeds on to the standard "argument from conditional probability" where the universe has exactly these constants because if it didn't we wouldn't be here to see it. Which is a comfortable thing to believe but isn't predictive science.
I'm guessing this essay is a seed for his next book.
Agreed. The human race as a whole will most likely SURVIVE another million years (modulo planet-killing meteors) or more. Humans are very good at figuring out how to keep themselves alive in whatever conditions nature throws at us. As long as there's oxygen in the air and water in some form, humans can live there.
The question that MC Hawking should have asked (and probably intended to ask) is "How can modern mechanized/computerized/semi-enlightened civilization sustain another hundred years?" Now that one is a hard question. A lot of nations probably won't make it. I'm guessing the ones that do will use some combination of draconian law (feudalism or neohippyism? dunno) and giga-death (natural or man-made? probably both).
This guy not only cracked his employer's passwords (many of whom probably have high security clearance), but he actually logged into them routinely and used them as part of his workflow for nearly a year. Hello?
Compare that to the clearly less harmful actions of Randal Schwartz, who went gray-hat (one time, without using the logins, as a security warning). Three felony convictions and a rather severe sentence.
If the sourcebook explicitly refers to it as common mercury, then at worst this is a point discontinuity. Replace the text with "quick-mithril" or some such fantasy element and you're good to go. Even better, just don't allow mercurials and get over it.
encourage class whoring
I think I've identified the problem: YOU ARE GAMING WITH THE WRONG PEOPLE. Min-maxing can be done in ANY ruleset, the correct answer is that your group makes the offender redo their character.
definitely prefered the old multi-classing where you didn't trade 1st level spells in one class for 9th level spells in the other
You mean the old multi-classing with MAXIMUM LEVEL LIMITS so your demihuman caster could NEVER gain the top spells? The highest a multi-wizard (elf) could go is 15th. I really cannot see what you are complaining about. It makes no sense.
And prestige classes come in three groups
I repeat, you really need to learn the phrase "eh, doesn't fit my world design, I'll leave it out".
Side note: New Sun is "set in the far future" the exact same way that Star Wars is "a long time ago". Not that they have a lot in common, but both are science fantasy, where realism takes a back seat to storytelling.
As an old-school (1977 blue-box) life-long RPGer, I disagree on several points. 3E rulset (or 3.5E, same thing, really ought to be 3.1 from a versioning standpoint) is substantially cleaner and more sensible than any previous DND. 1E/2E multiclass rules were annoying and arbitrary, and dualclass was just plain absurd.
Your post was the first I heard of mercurial sword in a DND context (I don't own any 3E books, just read the SRD. Also, I haven't played PNP in years, and if I did I'd use Fuzion, FATE, or some such) but dissing it out of hand reveals you as a gamer with two significant flaws:
You have never read Gene Wolfe's New Sun books
You seem incapable of saying "eh, doesn't fit my world design, I'll leave it out". This also applies to prestige classes, obviously
FWIW, BG2 was actually a hybrid v2.1 ruleset, with sorcerer and other features added from 3E. And like most CRPGs, it was good because of the story content. BG2 under 3.5E (or even the ruleset of, say, Deus Ex) would have been just as good, or better.
...are belong to NeoOffice, at last. I tried one of the earlier alphas and Base wasn't there, but supposedly it's working now.
If so, time to switch from OOo. Like most finicky Mac users I'd rather have lickable widgets and a screen-wide menu bar, but lack of features is a dealbreaker.
...reveals that EXPO is an OWL schema. Exactly as described, it's an attempt to regularize the content of experimental design into machine readable form (XML). So any discussion of whether EXPO is a good idea or not really hinges on whether you think OWL is a good idea or not.
...and I mean literally TODAY, you'll notice that they are presenting their brand new Core2 CPUs at Computex. I suppose it's true that you "won't find a trace" of them in the current retail channel, becuase Core2 starts shipping in 3 weeks.
That's where Intel is focusing, and that's where Intel wants their customers to focus. I bet 80486 sales dried up pretty badly right before the Pentium launched too.
Well at least it appears the cave doesn't contain some cryptovirus that none of the surface world's immune systems can defeat. Although realistically the opposite is more likely to be true, and everything in the cave gets killed by invading crickets or something.
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Yes, and it's the whole point of this supposed exploit. Rutkowska runs AMD's "Pacifica" instructions in Ring -1 that wrap around your usual OS kernel in Ring 0.
Which, by the way, brings up a THIRD faulty assumption from the demo: this tactic is absolutely NOT AMD-specific. Intel's "Vanderpool" offers a slightly different ISA but ends up at an equivalent Ring -1, with the same theoretical risks and rewards.
You (and all the moderators, and most of the repliers) either missed the line saying "amicus curiae brief" or more likely didn't understand what it means. The ACLU, EFF, et al, are *not* Ms Foster's lawyers. They are outside parties with no direct financial stake in the outcome.
However, they do want a particular outcome: sticking it hard to the RIAA. Therefore they have filed their own legal statement trying to aid Ms Foster (and her lawyers, whoever they are). Whether they succeed or not, they don't get any money from anyone in the case.
...then people might actually have a use for the 4 PCIe slots in MacMac Pro.
Of course, having driver support for COTS video cards would be at least 60% better than that. Charging $150 for a card that's $90 retail, sheesh!
Yeah, still no word on Mac SLI/Crossfire. Or a $1000ish Mac with a user-serviceable GPU slot (sigh).
FWIW, the Mac Pro build options are up to four GF 7300s (not SLI, so that would mean 4-8 monitors), ATI X1900, or Quadro 4500 (pro version of GF 7800).
I'm also planning to replace my 2003 Powerbook with a nice new 64-bit box. It's just a matter of time.
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Dell and other vendors have announced their first Core 2 Merom laptops recently, which will be shipping by the end of the month. Apple really can't afford to wait much longer than that; I'd say early September at the latest.
They really don't have any good reason to delay, because Merom chips cost exactly the same as Yonahs at the same clock speed. http://www.google.com/search?q=merom+yonah+same+~
System Restore? You must be joking. First, it's a system-wide snapshot, all or nothing. Second, you have to pick time points for snapshot creation and let it run. Third, SR is only to protect Windows System files from corruption (which Mac users don't worry about), not user documents.
Time Machine (from what we've seen) is granular to individual files, and works transparently in the background every time you change a file.
Sheesh. You may as well claim that iTunes is an imitation of WMP.
If you're looking for a nice solid wood Spock, there is only The One choice: Keanu.
Affleck has nothing on Little Buddha.
The MacBook *Pro* is not for home users, it's a *Pro* laptop. Gig-E, Firewire, DVI, weight, etc, all matter in that environment. Basically you should redo the entire comparison with a more appropriate base model. For example, an E1505 with stock GMA950 IGP vs the MacBook Amateur. Or the MacBook Pro vs an actual pro-level Dell.
BZZT! Thank you for playing.
Sheesh. I submitted a more detailed article than this one on Friday. And Wikipedia has been on it for longer than that.
If they're doing this correctly, they aren't looking for individual points or even individual curves. They're (hopefully) trying to see the whole butterfly.
Any particular chaotic equation with a stable set of forcing constants will end up with a semi-predictable structure. The problem is that the weather's input forces are changing. Even so, you should be able to solve how those changes distort the overall shape, with sufficient computing power.
The longer you hold on to movies on average, the less they have to spend on round trip postage. You're paying them a monthly fee whether you go through 15 movies or just 1.
Umm... you apparently haven't been paying attention since 2005. Intel rearranged their ship dates months ago. Xeon 5100 series (aka Woodcrest, aka Core 2 Server) is already shipping and available.
The absolute best commentary on this horde of Conroe reviews was from Hannibal:
As parent post notes, most of the "reviews" focused on high-end 3D gameplay, which is 99% GPU benchmarking and only slightly affected by the CPU. On the bright side, this is an excellent way to make a list of incompetent overhyped bloggers whose articles should be ignored from now on.
On the bright side, you only need to cling for 28 more days...
Yes, Krauss is talking about vacuum fluctuations and such, well-known concepts. The article is mainly him describing how freaked out he is that there are these two enourmous counter-balancing forces that almost but not quite perfectly cancel each other out, so that out at 120 decimal places there's a positive value left over.
He then proceeds on to the standard "argument from conditional probability" where the universe has exactly these constants because if it didn't we wouldn't be here to see it. Which is a comfortable thing to believe but isn't predictive science.
I'm guessing this essay is a seed for his next book.
Agreed. The human race as a whole will most likely SURVIVE another million years (modulo planet-killing meteors) or more. Humans are very good at figuring out how to keep themselves alive in whatever conditions nature throws at us. As long as there's oxygen in the air and water in some form, humans can live there.
The question that MC Hawking should have asked (and probably intended to ask) is "How can modern mechanized/computerized/semi-enlightened civilization sustain another hundred years?" Now that one is a hard question. A lot of nations probably won't make it. I'm guessing the ones that do will use some combination of draconian law (feudalism or neohippyism? dunno) and giga-death (natural or man-made? probably both).
This guy not only cracked his employer's passwords (many of whom probably have high security clearance), but he actually logged into them routinely and used them as part of his workflow for nearly a year. Hello?
Compare that to the clearly less harmful actions of Randal Schwartz, who went gray-hat (one time, without using the logins, as a security warning). Three felony convictions and a rather severe sentence.
If the sourcebook explicitly refers to it as common mercury, then at worst this is a point discontinuity. Replace the text with "quick-mithril" or some such fantasy element and you're good to go. Even better, just don't allow mercurials and get over it.
I think I've identified the problem: YOU ARE GAMING WITH THE WRONG PEOPLE. Min-maxing can be done in ANY ruleset, the correct answer is that your group makes the offender redo their character.
You mean the old multi-classing with MAXIMUM LEVEL LIMITS so your demihuman caster could NEVER gain the top spells? The highest a multi-wizard (elf) could go is 15th. I really cannot see what you are complaining about. It makes no sense.
I repeat, you really need to learn the phrase "eh, doesn't fit my world design, I'll leave it out".
Side note: New Sun is "set in the far future" the exact same way that Star Wars is "a long time ago". Not that they have a lot in common, but both are science fantasy, where realism takes a back seat to storytelling.
As an old-school (1977 blue-box) life-long RPGer, I disagree on several points. 3E rulset (or 3.5E, same thing, really ought to be 3.1 from a versioning standpoint) is substantially cleaner and more sensible than any previous DND. 1E/2E multiclass rules were annoying and arbitrary, and dualclass was just plain absurd.
Your post was the first I heard of mercurial sword in a DND context (I don't own any 3E books, just read the SRD. Also, I haven't played PNP in years, and if I did I'd use Fuzion, FATE, or some such) but dissing it out of hand reveals you as a gamer with two significant flaws:
FWIW, BG2 was actually a hybrid v2.1 ruleset, with sorcerer and other features added from 3E. And like most CRPGs, it was good because of the story content. BG2 under 3.5E (or even the ruleset of, say, Deus Ex) would have been just as good, or better.
...are belong to NeoOffice, at last. I tried one of the earlier alphas and Base wasn't there, but supposedly it's working now.
If so, time to switch from OOo. Like most finicky Mac users I'd rather have lickable widgets and a screen-wide menu bar, but lack of features is a dealbreaker.
...reveals that EXPO is an OWL schema. Exactly as described, it's an attempt to regularize the content of experimental design into machine readable form (XML). So any discussion of whether EXPO is a good idea or not really hinges on whether you think OWL is a good idea or not.
...and I mean literally TODAY, you'll notice that they are presenting their brand new Core2 CPUs at Computex. I suppose it's true that you "won't find a trace" of them in the current retail channel, becuase Core2 starts shipping in 3 weeks.
That's where Intel is focusing, and that's where Intel wants their customers to focus. I bet 80486 sales dried up pretty badly right before the Pentium launched too.
Well at least it appears the cave doesn't contain some cryptovirus that none of the surface world's immune systems can defeat. Although realistically the opposite is more likely to be true, and everything in the cave gets killed by invading crickets or something.