IAASEA (I am a student engineer), and embedded systems have a completely different architecture than a PC. A PC has operating systems or a cut down version of one, embedded systems have no operating system.
Xbox is a glorified PC and isn't that hard to program with... but embedded systems require a completely different class of programming/hackers. Remember the days when you could get lots of power simply by writing to ports? That's the PS3... an embedded system designed for running games. XBox is similar, but is more a PC than an embedded gaming system.
Ok, I'll admit this is funny as hell. But what I'm really curious about is who mod'ed it as "informative?" Insightful/Informative gives them more karma. BTW, the GP has been modded Funny too. You must be new here.
FTA:
if software distributors continue to sell products with dangerous rootkit software, as Sony BMG Music Entertainment recently did, legislation or regulation could follow. Sony/BMG doesn't have to make another rootkit: if they sell any more CDs with the Win32-$sys$rootkit worm, DHS will introduce the legislation or regulation to stop them. Considering Sony/BMG's slow response to the rootkit's publicity, and that items with the rootkit are still out there getting sold, Sony/BMG is going to get burned.
Besides, I thought willful distribution of computer virii and worms was already illegal.. Why doesn't someone just enforce the existing laws? Isn't there an Act on this?
what natural selection functionally does on a macroevolutionary scale is that it SLOWS DOWN morphological change, rather than speeding it up. Yes, but I believe my point was that in some cases it could stop macroevolution completely.
How do you think the variation of "longer/shorter" legs got to be there in the first place? They did some exercise?
"As the GP said, they adapt by removing genes, they don't mutate new ones."But they do mutate new ones: that's the "noise." Macroevolution works by branching at the tips of the twigs, not on the trunk, so to speak. New species always belong to all the same "older" groups as their direct ancestors. Ok, so you've said Macroevolution though enough microevolutions will stack up to form An Entirely New Species, and yet new species have to belong to do "older" groups of their direct ancestors. Now tell me how this condition can still be satisfied if one day they contain so many "new" genes to no longer be amphibian.
Which completes a process that serves to increase the information content in the gene pool as a whole. You see, first random variation adds noise. Selection is basically putting that noise through an environmental filter. The result is information about the environment encoded into DNA. Filters? Noise? I think you have mixed something up here: DNA is not audio.
Besides, I would think that even if what you said was a good analogy, the filters would be filtering out the resultant DNA and the noise too: i.e. the resultant DNA has less diversity than what it had to start with, noise included. As the GP said, they adapt by removing genes, they don't mutate new ones. Also, genetic 'noise' in an isolated population isn't that large in the first place.
evolution never proposes that descendants move out of older taxonomic groups. But if these 'mutations' are enough to make new ones, (in other words enough to form a macroevolution,) wouldn't that bring the newer species out of the older taxonomic groups?
In other words: Natural Selection > Evolution Natural Selection != Evolution Evolution is flawed. Evolution is history. Bring on the Natural Selection.
no, oxidation is the loss of electrons No, ionization is the loss of electrons. Oxidization is in lay-terms called "rust", not to be confused with Organic Oxidation
Have any of your companies This is slashdot, no one here owns a company... but send me an email if you do happen to chance upon a business I own, and I'll make sure our marketing department gets back to you.;-)
standardized on a language? How well did it go? Over here at DavidHOzAu Pty Ltd, our entire staff consists of one programmer, and our programming standard is that he decides what the company does. We've never encountered any problems with that, productivity remains high, and a bug never lasts for more than a day.
My mere point it, why not rather spend resources enhancing user productivity, than all these "features" ? Because adding features increases user productivity. More features = more things I can do.
That's why extensions, plugins, and shared objects exist: to enhance our programs by adding features.
I read the article, but when reading between the lines I noticed that someone could track your cell phone without any sort technological upgrade on your phone. This means that the tracking technology is on the telco's side, and if they are now offering it as a reliable service to the public, it means that it has been around for a while... sounds like old technology to me. I guess all this means is that now businesses can do what the government has been doing for years. Face it guys, our privacy has been invade-able for a while, and there is little that we (the concerned public) can do about it.
oblig.: "In Russia, you can always find a Cell Phone. In Soviet Britain, Cell Phone finds YOU!"
You probably have seen it before, it's a dupe. Ladies and gentlemen, uh, we've just gone off topic, but what you've read so far speaks for itself. The innocent discussion has apparently been taken over - 'conquered' if you will - by an inferior race of photographic-memory slashdotters. It's difficult to tell at the moment whether they will troll the entire website or merely flame it.
I am certainly not surprised: the prior article was in April last year; dupes will inevitably be here. And I, for one, will never welcome our photographic-memory overlords. I'd like to remind our editors that as an average slashdotter with common sense, I can be helpful in rounding up other idiots to languish in the off topic viewing range.
Agreed. But for the kids who were genuine, were not kidnapped, etc., and wanted nothing more than be a camel racer when they were older, they are now left up the creek without a paddle.
Perhaps they could have had more stringent entry requirements and proper inspections going on rather than banning the sport entirly.
From the Article: child jockeys were banned from the lucrative sport following criticism by human rights groups. Great. If I'm under four and know how to ride a camel better than anyone else, I can't race. My rights have been infringed to protect human rights. Way to go, guys.
As powerful as GIMP is, I find myself struggling to complete tasks that would be easier in Photoshop. There are two words to largely explain that: Layer Effects. Until GIMP has blending effects that can be directly linked to individual layers, it won't be as power. Just look at Outer Glow, Bevel, and Stroke. There's nothing like drawing with the paintbrush and that nice halo automatically appearing along the digital paint's border.
Also: Groups. GIMP can't forming groups from layers, and there is no way to hide (NOT the same as switching them off) a whole swathe of layers in the Layer Dialog without merging them. Photoshop can collapse groups, which is an obvious plus for organising a picture. If I am inking a piece of fanart for someone, I don't want to have to look through all those layers when they are for the other character I am no longer working on.
The other thing I didn't mention is vector masks, which is pretty much self explainatory.
that can be done on the subject of pay-per-use email is covering this news article. Given enough coverage, people will get used to the idea of paying for an email. Then before you know it, we WILL BE paying for an email.
FTA, >His outfit, No Lie MRI Inc., will serve government agencies >and "anybody that wants to demonstrate that they're telling >the truth," he said.
I bet it won't be long until an employer can insist that recruits go through this scanner before getting employed. Not to worry, my geek-'r'-us-certified, size-XL tinfoil hat will protect me.
I had a very similar experience while on holidays, except that my sleep cycles repeated once every 72 hours. For two sleeps, I'd go to bed at mignight and wake up at noon. Every third night was spent staring at the ceiling, and on those days I ended up staying awake for about for about 30 or so hours. This was done with no alarm clocks at all, I slept as long as I wanted to, and I always felt really good when I woke up.
During course time, I usually sleep 8 hours and always wake up grouchy: even though I now know I naturally need 24 hours of monophasic sleep every 72 hours. pfft. AFAIK, you're better off sleeping when you want and for as long as you want. Dare I say it, sleep schedules are for the weak.
They enjoy being challenged by peers. No, I enjoy squashing them. As if a genius can have a "peer". True genius has no equal, and quite simply cannot have peers. In other words, true geniuses don't need to be around other people to convince themselves that they are "smart": they KNOW that they are smart.
I'm beginning to believe that "genius" is just a frame of mind. No it isn't; If it were true then intellectually challenged people could be called geniuses. To a large degree it depends on how quickly and easily our minds can wrap around seemingly-complex problems... like the fact that the universe revolves around ME! (I bet you'll find that one hard to swallow.;-)
You PHP trolls are so cute, with your crappy code full of security holes, barely performant under load even though you run on a blazing fast interpreter.
And I'm sure Chinese is better than English, too. All of us english-speaking people are so limited with only 26 letters to play with.
Oh puhleeze, both are programming languages!, and they can coexist together if you do it right. True hackers don't care what language they program in, they adapt. If the-other-side in the Php-or-Perl issue offends you that much, perhaps you should start thinking in algorithms rather than whatever-language-i-am-coding-in.
But that reasoning implies that Internet Traffic going to and from Christmas Island is a valuable resource. As a born-and-bred Australian, I doubt that.
And it'll also display an SVG inside an IMG tag, even though you're only supposed to use EMBED. But so what? It's a nice feature. The fact that Firefox will display a image with the wrong extension on an operating system that is essentially MIME-less points to good code design in my book. "Hey graphics engine, display these packets for me," can't get much simpler.
It doesn't matter anyway; Firefox doesn't display WMFs to my knowledge. The system is safe unless the luser is stupid enough to open spyware.wmf with an external program/viewer.
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To an embedded system, an operating system is just another name for a BIOS chip.
IAASEA (I am a student engineer), and embedded systems have a completely different architecture than a PC. A PC has operating systems or a cut down version of one, embedded systems have no operating system.
Xbox is a glorified PC and isn't that hard to program with... but embedded systems require a completely different class of programming/hackers. Remember the days when you could get lots of power simply by writing to ports? That's the PS3... an embedded system designed for running games. XBox is similar, but is more a PC than an embedded gaming system.
FYI: They still are selling these infected CDs according to various sightings.
Read my post before replying to it; I already said that.
Ok, I'll admit this is funny as hell. But what I'm really curious about is who mod'ed it as "informative?"
Insightful/Informative gives them more karma. BTW, the GP has been modded Funny too. You must be new here.
it doesn't matter if they do it again.
FTA: if software distributors continue to sell products with dangerous rootkit software, as Sony BMG Music Entertainment recently did, legislation or regulation could follow.
Sony/BMG doesn't have to make another rootkit: if they sell any more CDs with the Win32-$sys$rootkit worm, DHS will introduce the legislation or regulation to stop them. Considering Sony/BMG's slow response to the rootkit's publicity, and that items with the rootkit are still out there getting sold, Sony/BMG is going to get burned.
Besides, I thought willful distribution of computer virii and worms was already illegal.. Why doesn't someone just enforce the existing laws? Isn't there an Act on this?
what natural selection functionally does on a macroevolutionary scale is that it SLOWS DOWN morphological change, rather than speeding it up. Yes, but I believe my point was that in some cases it could stop macroevolution completely.
How do you think the variation of "longer/shorter" legs got to be there in the first place? They did some exercise?
"As the GP said, they adapt by removing genes, they don't mutate new ones." But they do mutate new ones: that's the "noise."
Macroevolution works by branching at the tips of the twigs, not on the trunk, so to speak. New species always belong to all the same "older" groups as their direct ancestors. Ok, so you've said Macroevolution though enough microevolutions will stack up to form An Entirely New Species, and yet new species have to belong to do "older" groups of their direct ancestors. Now tell me how this condition can still be satisfied if one day they contain so many "new" genes to no longer be amphibian.
Excuse me, but that doesn't follow. I call BS.
Which completes a process that serves to increase the information content in the gene pool as a whole. You see, first random variation adds noise. Selection is basically putting that noise through an environmental filter. The result is information about the environment encoded into DNA.
Filters? Noise? I think you have mixed something up here: DNA is not audio.
Besides, I would think that even if what you said was a good analogy, the filters would be filtering out the resultant DNA and the noise too: i.e. the resultant DNA has less diversity than what it had to start with, noise included. As the GP said, they adapt by removing genes, they don't mutate new ones. Also, genetic 'noise' in an isolated population isn't that large in the first place.
evolution never proposes that descendants move out of older taxonomic groups.
But if these 'mutations' are enough to make new ones, (in other words enough to form a macroevolution,) wouldn't that bring the newer species out of the older taxonomic groups?
In other words:
Natural Selection > Evolution
Natural Selection != Evolution
Evolution is flawed.
Evolution is history.
Bring on the Natural Selection.
no, oxidation is the loss of electrons
No, ionization is the loss of electrons.
Oxidization is in lay-terms called "rust", not to be confused with Organic Oxidation
Have any of your companies ;-)
This is slashdot, no one here owns a company... but send me an email if you do happen to chance upon a business I own, and I'll make sure our marketing department gets back to you.
standardized on a language? How well did it go?
Over here at DavidHOzAu Pty Ltd, our entire staff consists of one programmer, and our programming standard is that he decides what the company does. We've never encountered any problems with that, productivity remains high, and a bug never lasts for more than a day.
And no, I am not pulling your leg. Honest.
My mere point it, why not rather spend resources enhancing user productivity, than all these "features" ?
Because adding features increases user productivity. More features = more things I can do.
That's why extensions, plugins, and shared objects exist: to enhance our programs by adding features.
I read the article, but when reading between the lines I noticed that someone could track your cell phone without any sort technological upgrade on your phone. This means that the tracking technology is on the telco's side, and if they are now offering it as a reliable service to the public, it means that it has been around for a while... sounds like old technology to me. I guess all this means is that now businesses can do what the government has been doing for years. Face it guys, our privacy has been invade-able for a while, and there is little that we (the concerned public) can do about it.
oblig.: "In Russia, you can always find a Cell Phone. In Soviet Britain, Cell Phone finds YOU!"
You probably have seen it before, it's a dupe.
Ladies and gentlemen, uh, we've just gone off topic, but what you've read so far speaks for itself. The innocent discussion has apparently been taken over - 'conquered' if you will - by an inferior race of photographic-memory slashdotters. It's difficult to tell at the moment whether they will troll the entire website or merely flame it.
I am certainly not surprised: the prior article was in April last year; dupes will inevitably be here. And I, for one, will never welcome our photographic-memory overlords. I'd like to remind our editors that as an average slashdotter with common sense, I can be helpful in rounding up other idiots to languish in the off topic viewing range.
s/entirly/entirely
Agreed. But for the kids who were genuine, were not kidnapped, etc., and wanted nothing more than be a camel racer when they were older, they are now left up the creek without a paddle.
Perhaps they could have had more stringent entry requirements and proper inspections going on rather than banning the sport entirly.
From the Article:
child jockeys were banned from the lucrative sport following criticism by human rights groups.
Great. If I'm under four and know how to ride a camel better than anyone else, I can't race. My rights have been infringed to protect human rights. Way to go, guys.
As powerful as GIMP is, I find myself struggling to complete tasks that would be easier in Photoshop.
There are two words to largely explain that: Layer Effects.
Until GIMP has blending effects that can be directly linked to individual layers, it won't be as power. Just look at Outer Glow, Bevel, and Stroke. There's nothing like drawing with the paintbrush and that nice halo automatically appearing along the digital paint's border.
Also: Groups.
GIMP can't forming groups from layers, and there is no way to hide (NOT the same as switching them off) a whole swathe of layers in the Layer Dialog without merging them. Photoshop can collapse groups, which is an obvious plus for organising a picture. If I am inking a piece of fanart for someone, I don't want to have to look through all those layers when they are for the other character I am no longer working on.
The other thing I didn't mention is vector masks, which is pretty much self explainatory.
that can be done on the subject of pay-per-use email is covering this news article. Given enough coverage, people will get used to the idea of paying for an email. Then before you know it, we WILL BE paying for an email.
Desensitisation at its very best.
FTA,
>His outfit, No Lie MRI Inc., will serve government agencies
>and "anybody that wants to demonstrate that they're telling
>the truth," he said.
I bet it won't be long until an employer can insist that recruits go through this scanner before getting employed. Not to worry, my geek-'r'-us-certified, size-XL tinfoil hat will protect me.
if your PS3 is broken you just use the dongle with the new PS3. ;-)
And if the dongle breaks, I hot wire it.
I had a very similar experience while on holidays, except that my sleep cycles repeated once every 72 hours. For two sleeps, I'd go to bed at mignight and wake up at noon. Every third night was spent staring at the ceiling, and on those days I ended up staying awake for about for about 30 or so hours. This was done with no alarm clocks at all, I slept as long as I wanted to, and I always felt really good when I woke up.
During course time, I usually sleep 8 hours and always wake up grouchy: even though I now know I naturally need 24 hours of monophasic sleep every 72 hours. pfft. AFAIK, you're better off sleeping when you want and for as long as you want. Dare I say it, sleep schedules are for the weak.
I sincerely hope you're kidding about squashing the less intelligent people.
You are quite right, I was kidding. Bonus points to you for picking it up, but apparently the person who modded my post a troll didn't get it.
They enjoy being challenged by peers.
;-)
No, I enjoy squashing them. As if a genius can have a "peer". True genius has no equal, and quite simply cannot have peers. In other words, true geniuses don't need to be around other people to convince themselves that they are "smart": they KNOW that they are smart.
I'm beginning to believe that "genius" is just a frame of mind.
No it isn't; If it were true then intellectually challenged people could be called geniuses. To a large degree it depends on how quickly and easily our minds can wrap around seemingly-complex problems... like the fact that the universe revolves around ME! (I bet you'll find that one hard to swallow.
You PHP trolls are so cute, with your crappy code full of security holes, barely performant under load even though you run on a blazing fast interpreter.
And I'm sure Chinese is better than English, too. All of us english-speaking people are so limited with only 26 letters to play with.
Oh puhleeze, both are programming languages! , and they can coexist together if you do it right. True hackers don't care what language they program in, they adapt. If the-other-side in the Php-or-Perl issue offends you that much, perhaps you should start thinking in algorithms rather than whatever-language-i-am-coding-in.
She robbed the world of a valuable resource.
But that reasoning implies that Internet Traffic going to and from Christmas Island is a valuable resource. As a born-and-bred Australian, I doubt that.
And it'll also display an SVG inside an IMG tag, even though you're only supposed to use EMBED. But so what? It's a nice feature. The fact that Firefox will display a image with the wrong extension on an operating system that is essentially MIME-less points to good code design in my book. "Hey graphics engine, display these packets for me," can't get much simpler.
It doesn't matter anyway; Firefox doesn't display WMFs to my knowledge. The system is safe unless the luser is stupid enough to open spyware.wmf with an external program/viewer.