Thats what the popup window asking if you really want to delete that file and the recycle bin is for. To permanently delete a file in windows you have to use a modifier key (shift-del) as well, but the pop-up still appears.
No, it wouldn't. It would take a finite time, just like when you would try to dive to the ground from the 40th level of a building, unless your speed approaches the speed of light, but even than it wouldn't take an eternity.
I don't know about BSD or any other Unices/Unix-clones but the Solaris kernel doesn't support virtual terminals right now as Linux does, you would definitely notice that if you use console a lot. BTW, am I the only one who thinks that X terminals suck?
A more exact translation for "normalement" is "as it should be" or something like that. "Normalement" I get up at 7am, but today i got up at 6. "Normalement" the French should long have delivered the first Airbus A380 for Singapore Airlines, but they didn't. "Normalement" you watch television, but in Soviet Russia, television watches you!
Or maybe it is a device driver issue regarding a third-party buggy device driver supplied with Toshiba notebooks for Vista? Remember that device drivers usually run in kernel space. A buggy device driver (kernel module) indeed can cause a kernel panic on Linux as well, so perhaps it's not Microsoft's failure this time. Or perhaps, it is.
Sometimes you can even gain performance benefits with SQL if you know a little bit about the low-level stuff. For example if your database server is running on a 32 bit platform, you should consider using INTEGER (the 32 bit one) instead of BIGINT (the 64 bit one), because a 32 bit CPU handles them much faster, you don't use a DOUBLE as a PRIMARY KEY for obvious reasons, and so on.
because now I just have to sit back and wait Google to collapse then I will set up my own search company in a country where frivolous lawsuits like this do not exist AND CONQUER THE WORLD
void main() { printf("Hello Congress! I am the computer.\n"); printf("According to my calculations, Net Neutrality is a good thing. \n"); printf("Goodthingness of Net Neutrality: 97.327653% \n"); printf("Have a nice day.\n"); }
It's quite an interesting dialect of English language you speak... Hell, I don't understand a word of it! Seriously, if you'd like to post to an English-language forum, you should really try learn English. It's not that hard, even I managed to do it.
Wait. Don't you mean this allows an Xbox 360 user to run arbitrary code such as alternative operating systems with full privileges and full hardware access on the machine they rightfully own? How is this an attack, except in the eyes of MS?
I don't know US laws well, but isn't it a DMCA infringement? In that case, it's an attack in the eyes of the jurisdiction of your country.
I don't understand why do you think why dumb terminals will have a come back. Dumb terminals are considered deprecated since the late 80's and even the graphic terminal emulators, like Citrix are used only for auxiliary tasks like remote maintenance, working on multiple systems while sitting before the same desktop or reaching your office desktop from home. The UI latency induced by terminals is a huge trade-off, there is a considerable ergonomic difference between instant UI response and 2-300 ms. I understand that maintaining a single server is much easier than maintaining hundreds of desktops, but I think that would really decrease the work efficiency of the people using it. Does a server even scale to support several hundred simultaneous graphic terminal clients?
Because it has approximately the same features and performance, a more human-friendly UI, no WTFs like VARCHAR3 and empty string IS NULL (if you don't believe it, just try it: oracle actually treats empty char fields as NULL), and it is slightly cheaper?
Don't forget that in Switzerland one can vote by snail mail, and it actually does work. It depends on the maturity of the population, not the technology.
I am not a network guru, in fact I know sh*t about networking, but I always thought that improving bandwidth can be easily solved by laying down some more cables. Am I missing something?
I live in an European country where national ID cards have been introduced for a long time. It is a standard credit card-sized plastic card containing personal data and a photo without any electronic/biometric/etc. stuff in it, so it's quite cheap to produce. Anyway, there are two problems with them:
Identity theft is a real problem here. Once you have lost your ID card, you have lost your identity, and the odds are good that someone will use it for a fraud and even if you have reported it stolen to the police, if the people who used your identity got caught they will say that you have actually sold your card to them and it is quite hard to prove the contrary.
Once it is obligatory to have an ID card with yourself, the police won't stop bugging you at the most random places and times, demanding to show them your card. It's quite annoying. I wish they were as successful in catching criminals as in bugging ordinary people.
You know the problem with that is if there is only one country in the world where there are no anti-spam/bot/etc. laws this thing won't work. And you can bet there would be one. The countries of the world can't even agree on basic principles like "let's have no more war anymore" or "let's stop destroying the planet". So world-wide anti-spam laws are a bit utopian in my opinion.
HYDROGEN! At a boiling point of -252C, they should be able to get about 60 degrees cooler. They should be able to run even faster. I can't imagine any other concerns.
You know, it's kind of... explosive. Now that's a concern.
First of all removing the signature would means you couldn't compute the step sizes, and thus you couldn't correctly decode the file. And if the file was reencoded, you might still be able to extract the watermark by comparing with the original uncompressed movie. You would just have to find enough of the places where quality was increased. (And enough is a lot less than all of them).
I suppose that's true, but I wonder if the watermark could be tampered artificially enough to make the source unidentifiable?
I mean, how much different from voteCount[candidate]++ can it be!??!
That's exactly what I don't understand. I don't live in the US so I didn't have a chance to try these voting machines but their software shouldn't be much less trivial than hello world. I mean, it isn't such a difficult task. I suppose they have a nice GUI because the average voter feels that if the voting machine has nice chrome then his/her tax dollars are well spent, but aside the GUI, how complicated can it be?
Linux also has this problem since distributions theoretically can contain malware as well. It is nothing different. Anybody as stupid to actually install an operation system downloaded from a warez site deserves it.
TFA is simply anti-M$-zealot FUD. I wish there would be some way in Slashdot to moderate articles down. It is (-1 Troll) IMHO.
This is further complicated by a confusing array of Vista offerings. There is Vista Home Basic, Vista Starter, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate.
Simplicity sells better to the average joe. That's why the iPod has the click-wheel. That's why auto makers have only one model in each category.
That's why it's great that there aren't too many linux distros around: because it's simple that way! Umm, wait...
Actually, I'd even expect human accuracy to be 100% (or very close to it). Especially with at least one other person observing. Counting isn't that difficult is it?
Yes, it is. Counting x*1000 votes is really a monotonous job, and you quickly lose your ability to concentrate by doing so. I think that an accuracy of 99.95 would be an acceptable value of accuracy (which means you miscount every 2000th vote) for manual counting. Nonetheless, the accuracy of electronic counting should be no less than 100%. There is really no excuse for anything smaller. If a CPU had an accuracy of 99.99999999%, it would crash just a few seconds after booting.
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Thats what the popup window asking if you really want to delete that file and the recycle bin is for. To permanently delete a file in windows you have to use a modifier key (shift-del) as well, but the pop-up still appears.
No, it wouldn't. It would take a finite time, just like when you would try to dive to the ground from the 40th level of a building, unless your speed approaches the speed of light, but even than it wouldn't take an eternity.
I don't know about BSD or any other Unices/Unix-clones but the Solaris kernel doesn't support virtual terminals right now as Linux does, you would definitely notice that if you use console a lot. BTW, am I the only one who thinks that X terminals suck?
A more exact translation for "normalement" is "as it should be" or something like that. "Normalement" I get up at 7am, but today i got up at 6. "Normalement" the French should long have delivered the first Airbus A380 for Singapore Airlines, but they didn't. "Normalement" you watch television, but in Soviet Russia, television watches you!
Or maybe it is a device driver issue regarding a third-party buggy device driver supplied with Toshiba notebooks for Vista? Remember that device drivers usually run in kernel space. A buggy device driver (kernel module) indeed can cause a kernel panic on Linux as well, so perhaps it's not Microsoft's failure this time. Or perhaps, it is.
Sometimes you can even gain performance benefits with SQL if you know a little bit about the low-level stuff. For example if your database server is running on a 32 bit platform, you should consider using INTEGER (the 32 bit one) instead of BIGINT (the 64 bit one), because a 32 bit CPU handles them much faster, you don't use a DOUBLE as a PRIMARY KEY for obvious reasons, and so on.
because now I just have to sit back and wait Google to collapse then I will set up my own search company in a country where frivolous lawsuits like this do not exist AND CONQUER THE WORLD
It's quite an interesting dialect of English language you speak... Hell, I don't understand a word of it! Seriously, if you'd like to post to an English-language forum, you should really try learn English. It's not that hard, even I managed to do it.
I don't know US laws well, but isn't it a DMCA infringement? In that case, it's an attack in the eyes of the jurisdiction of your country.
I don't understand why do you think why dumb terminals will have a come back. Dumb terminals are considered deprecated since the late 80's and even the graphic terminal emulators, like Citrix are used only for auxiliary tasks like remote maintenance, working on multiple systems while sitting before the same desktop or reaching your office desktop from home. The UI latency induced by terminals is a huge trade-off, there is a considerable ergonomic difference between instant UI response and 2-300 ms. I understand that maintaining a single server is much easier than maintaining hundreds of desktops, but I think that would really decrease the work efficiency of the people using it. Does a server even scale to support several hundred simultaneous graphic terminal clients?
Because it has approximately the same features and performance, a more human-friendly UI, no WTFs like VARCHAR3 and empty string IS NULL (if you don't believe it, just try it: oracle actually treats empty char fields as NULL), and it is slightly cheaper?
Don't forget that in Switzerland one can vote by snail mail, and it actually does work. It depends on the maturity of the population, not the technology.
I am not a network guru, in fact I know sh*t about networking, but I always thought that improving bandwidth can be easily solved by laying down some more cables. Am I missing something?
I can send an invitation for you I you would like.
I can connect to google.cn and search. I live in Europe.
You know the problem with that is if there is only one country in the world where there are no anti-spam/bot/etc. laws this thing won't work. And you can bet there would be one. The countries of the world can't even agree on basic principles like "let's have no more war anymore" or "let's stop destroying the planet". So world-wide anti-spam laws are a bit utopian in my opinion.
You know, it's kind of... explosive. Now that's a concern.
I suppose that's true, but I wonder if the watermark could be tampered artificially enough to make the source unidentifiable?
That's exactly what I don't understand. I don't live in the US so I didn't have a chance to try these voting machines but their software shouldn't be much less trivial than hello world. I mean, it isn't such a difficult task. I suppose they have a nice GUI because the average voter feels that if the voting machine has nice chrome then his/her tax dollars are well spent, but aside the GUI, how complicated can it be?
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
Linux also has this problem since distributions theoretically can contain malware as well. It is nothing different. Anybody as stupid to actually install an operation system downloaded from a warez site deserves it. TFA is simply anti-M$-zealot FUD. I wish there would be some way in Slashdot to moderate articles down. It is (-1 Troll) IMHO.
Yes, it is. Counting x*1000 votes is really a monotonous job, and you quickly lose your ability to concentrate by doing so. I think that an accuracy of 99.95 would be an acceptable value of accuracy (which means you miscount every 2000th vote) for manual counting. Nonetheless, the accuracy of electronic counting should be no less than 100%. There is really no excuse for anything smaller. If a CPU had an accuracy of 99.99999999%, it would crash just a few seconds after booting.