The Seagate Barracuda IV drives were the first consumer / IDE series to come with these "bearings", which were previously only available on high-end SCSI drives. I bought the 80GB model, and it runs so quietly it has to be heard to be believed. You have to literally stick your ear hard against the drive to hear it. The seeking is almost silent too.
Buy one, or try and find someone who has one. They are amazing.
The click through license for Java explicity states "Customer acknowledges that Products are not designed for or intended for use in on-line control of aircraft, air traffic, aircraft navigation or aircraft communications; or in the the design, construction, operation or maintenance of any nuclear facility. sun disclaims any express or implied warrany of fitness for suchs uses".
The inventor of television is widely acknowledged (at least in non-US circles) to be John Logie Baird (a Scot).
Philo Taylor Farnsworth built on Bairds ideas to produce an all electric television. It is quite incredible to me that this seems to go unnoticed by so many.
On my P4 1.7Ghz work PC, with 100KB/sec capped net connection, news.bbc.co.uk takes about 8 seconds to long. Mozilla does it 1.4
FEEL THE SPEED.
Such an improvement since the last time I played with it! I'm very impressed.
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In the UK this is pretty much what happens anyway. It becomes more expensive each year to renew a patent. (However, the rate increases are more linear than geometric).
From http://www.patent.gov.uk/patent/forms/euro renew.ht m
Renewal - 5th year 50.00 Renewal - 6th year 70.00 Renewal - 7th year 90.00 Renewal - 8th year 110.00 Renewal - 9th year 130.00 Renewal - 10th year 150.00 Renewal - 11th year 170.00 Renewal - 12th year 190.00 Renewal - 13th year 210.00 Renewal - 14th year 230.00 Renewal - 15th year 250.00 Renewal - 16th year 270.00 Renewal - 17th year 300.00 Renewal - 18th year 330.00 Renewal - 19th year 360.00 Renewal - 20th year 400.00
Actually, what is says is when you are acting a super node, up to 10% of your CPU may be used by virtue of the fact that you are acting as a search engine type host for many of the nodes connected to you...
It does not imply that they can take 10% of your CPU and then use it to crack encryption codes or whatever...
If your comment is supposed to be ironic, or funny. I'd give it +1:funny, but I think what it really deserves is -5:clueless.
A tumour in the shape of a cell phone? WHAT??? I guess its possible, but really... Are you going to draw any conclusion for the single time it (maybe) occured?
Furthermore, the power of a signal is unrelated to its frequency.
i.e. A 1 watt transmission at 1 Ghz will have as much of a heating effect as 1 watt at 2Ghz (assuming equal tissue absortion characteristics).
AFAIK, around the microwave range, higher frequencies have less of a heating effect on human tissue.
It seems extremely unlikely that the pin is stored on the card in any form whatsoever. It is trivial to read all the data from the magnetic strip on a card. If were "one-way encrypted", it would be easy to brute force (though I hestitate to even call it brute force) it.
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A good review is here:
http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/review/353792.html
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The other problem with it is the amount of coffee you actually get. The Nescafe product comes in what looks like a regular 330ml coke can size package. However, it only only holds ~200 ml of coffee. The other ~100ml being taken up by the heating mechanism.
Its interesting that they also sell two variants. One can with sugar and one without. Both come with milk.
I take it that their slogan "Four years without a remote hole in the default install!" will not being changed to "Five years without a remote hole in the default install!" then?
How does the OTP lack the feature of being protected from a known-plaintext attack?
It is a requirement of the technique that the
key is used ONCE only. If you know the plaintext and the ciphertext you can obviously work out the key, but it won't be any use to you because the key will never be used again...
Simply not true. Apart from the fact that waves do not travel in "LINES", radio waves can diffract around objects (just like visible light can). Higher frequencies diffract less.
If this takes off, how long do you think it will take until all the pron sites start calling every single image on their page titillating names, with huge alt tags? Alternatively, they may call them 1.jpg 2.jpg 3.jpg
Then they will start calling their salacious images things like "summersday.jpg" "sunset.jpg" and "concorde.jpg" i.e. things people might genuinally search for.
I don't think google would handle that very well.
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Buy one, or try and find someone who has one. They are amazing.
Thats why they're not using Java...
Philo Taylor Farnsworth built on Bairds ideas to produce an all electric television. It is quite incredible to me that this seems to go unnoticed by so many.
Indeed, http://www.inventorsmuseum.com/television.htm fails to even mention Bairds name!
An excellent resource for those interested is http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/baird . tml
Its soooo fast!
On my P4 1.7Ghz work PC, with 100KB/sec capped net connection, news.bbc.co.uk takes about 8 seconds to long. Mozilla does it 1.4
FEEL THE SPEED.
Such an improvement since the last time I played with it! I'm very impressed.
In the UK this is pretty much what happens anyway. It becomes more expensive each year to renew a patent. (However, the rate increases are more linear than geometric).
o renew.ht m
From
http://www.patent.gov.uk/patent/forms/eur
Renewal - 5th year 50.00
Renewal - 6th year 70.00
Renewal - 7th year 90.00
Renewal - 8th year 110.00
Renewal - 9th year 130.00
Renewal - 10th year 150.00
Renewal - 11th year 170.00
Renewal - 12th year 190.00
Renewal - 13th year 210.00
Renewal - 14th year 230.00
Renewal - 15th year 250.00
Renewal - 16th year 270.00
Renewal - 17th year 300.00
Renewal - 18th year 330.00
Renewal - 19th year 360.00
Renewal - 20th year 400.00
You can't just let the market decide because there is no competition. These folks would have a monopoly over .pro
.pro really the next one which should be added???
What exactly did they do to deserve this?
How on Earth would they judge who is a professional or not? What about professional in a 3rd world country? Would they be willing to pay $300
Basically it sounds like this company wants to set up a kind of upper class boys club...
Considering the very small number of generic TLDs is
Actually, what is says is when you are acting a super node, up to 10% of your CPU may be used by virtue of the fact that you are acting as a search engine type host for many of the nodes connected to you...
It does not imply that they can take 10% of your CPU and then use it to crack encryption codes or whatever...
If your comment is supposed to be ironic, or funny. I'd give it +1:funny, but I think what it really deserves is -5:clueless.
A tumour in the shape of a cell phone? WHAT??? I guess its possible, but really... Are you going to draw any conclusion for the single time it (maybe) occured?
Furthermore, the power of a signal is unrelated to its frequency.
i.e. A 1 watt transmission at 1 Ghz will have as much of a heating effect as 1 watt at 2Ghz (assuming equal tissue absortion characteristics).
AFAIK, around the microwave range, higher frequencies have less of a heating effect on human tissue.
Presumably you're oblivious to the fact that this would likely render you unable to peruse Slashdot?
Err... thats what a cell phone jammer is!
It seems extremely unlikely that the pin is stored on the card in any form whatsoever. It is trivial to read all the data from the magnetic strip on a card. If were "one-way encrypted", it would be easy to brute force (though I hestitate to even call it brute force) it.
A good review is here: http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/review/353792.html
Its interesting that they also sell two variants. One can with sugar and one without. Both come with milk.
I actually think it tastes quite nice!
Vendor informed : 20020304
Shame...
They could be meaning 3 miles / second. But that seems equally improbably since it equates to 10800mph, or ~ mach 15
Actually, I think you'll find that its whole story which is redundant...
Exactly the same story available at
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/11/131
I don't recall writing 512Mib or 512Mb.
The author states that the first generation of their chip will be a 512 million bit device. i.e. 64Mb. That doesn't seem like a lot to me...
I don't think so!
How does the OTP lack the feature of being protected from a known-plaintext attack?
It is a requirement of the technique that the
key is used ONCE only. If you know the plaintext and the ciphertext you can obviously work out the key, but it won't be any use to you because the key will never be used again...
Simply not true. Apart from the fact that waves do not travel in "LINES", radio waves can diffract around objects (just like visible light can). Higher frequencies diffract less.
Things they could do to boost hits include
1) Give their images salacious filenames/alt tages
2) Give their images innocuous, but popular filenames/alt tags
Things they could do to hide their images:
1) Give their images names like 1.jpg 2.jpg etc.
If this takes off, how long do you think it will take until all the pron sites start calling every single image on their page titillating names, with huge alt tags? Alternatively, they may call them 1.jpg 2.jpg 3.jpg Then they will start calling their salacious images things like "summersday.jpg" "sunset.jpg" and "concorde.jpg" i.e. things people might genuinally search for. I don't think google would handle that very well.