You bet that the MAFIAA folks are regulars on every P2P network and have copies of every MP3 file that was ever shared. Every MP3 file that was compressed individually is different from any other unless it was compressed with the exact same codec with the exact same settings.
Doesn't make a difference for modern (PRML) drives. The data is randomized before it is encoded and written because pathological data patterns decrease the signal/noise ratio in PRML.
Also, the coercivity of the magnetic coating keeps going up. Yesterday's degausser may not be strong enough for today's drives. This applies even more to tape cartridges. Insufficiently degaussed DLT tapes have been a problem every now and then (LTO uses magnetic servo tracks but DLT doesn't so degaussing them is common.)
for my Moravec transfer. Although the more I think about it, I'm not sure that perceptible continuity of consciousness is such a big deal. I mean, I go to sleep every night and wake up the next day believing and feeling that I'm the same person that went to sleep.
How do you know? There is some processing during sleep, so this is not a boolean question. How much of last night's self are you? 99.9%?
You can make a compliant but non-interoperable implementation for any standard if you try hard enough. A standard is written with the premise that the implementor tries to be interoperable. If that is not the case all bets are off.
You're probably wrong. Imagine how many hours it took the devs and testers to get this exactly right. They have whole labs full of usability/interoperability testers.
Obligatory: A few days after the Siemens-Nixdorf merger was announced under the headline "Synergy at Work", two trucks crashed in Hannover on the CeBIT fair grounds. I was a Siemens and a Nixdorf truck.
However the main reason for Linux's backward compatibility is that the system API is simple and clean. Windows has added a new bunch of system calls with every generation, to the point where there is probably nobody on earth now who knows them all.
Why should I download free tools from Microsoft if I can download free cygwin tools that are more powerful? Why should I learn how to use the usually crummy MS tools if they aren't part of the standard Windows install? CMD is bad enough.
That's where correct use of units comes in. I was convinced the author meant "Newtons", plural, as in "lbs", for thrust only. But mostly I thought (s)he didn't have a clue if they didn't know their middle school physics so I didn't bother to read on.
The micropayments don't have to be related to real money at all. Have some central instance(s) create tokens specific to an IP address and everybody gets at most say 1000 per week, more only by special request. If anybody complains, the quota is cut back.
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They're right!
The more annoying those messages are, the sooner a cracked version will be on a torrent somewhere.
Better than
cat foo | cat | cat | cat | grep
!
You bet that the MAFIAA folks are regulars on every P2P network and have copies of every MP3 file that was ever shared. Every MP3 file that was compressed individually is different from any other unless it was compressed with the exact same codec with the exact same settings.
Doesn't make a difference for modern (PRML) drives. The data is randomized before it is encoded and written because pathological data patterns decrease the signal/noise ratio in PRML.
Also, the coercivity of the magnetic coating keeps going up. Yesterday's degausser may not be strong enough for today's drives.
This applies even more to tape cartridges. Insufficiently degaussed DLT tapes have been a problem every now and then (LTO uses magnetic servo tracks but DLT doesn't so degaussing them is common.)
for my Moravec transfer. Although the more I think about it, I'm not sure that perceptible continuity of consciousness is such a big deal. I mean, I go to sleep every night and wake up the next day believing and feeling that I'm the same person that went to sleep.
How do you know? There is some processing during sleep, so this is not a boolean question. How much of last night's self are you? 99.9%?
Amen.
Don't forget to menion http://perlmonks.org/.
The other anti-Christ: Python
Proof is here BTW: http://xkcd.com/224/
Yup, the church of Windows. After all they make a lot of money.
You can make a compliant but non-interoperable implementation for any standard if you try hard enough.
A standard is written with the premise that the implementor tries to be interoperable. If that is not the case all bets are off.
Four times and more, must be the business strategy: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
You're probably wrong. Imagine how many hours it took the devs and testers to get this exactly right. They have whole labs full of usability/interoperability testers.
I thought it was Bloomberg. And he has been re-elected ever since.
Obligatory:
A few days after the Siemens-Nixdorf merger was announced under the headline "Synergy at Work", two trucks crashed in Hannover on the CeBIT fair grounds.
I was a Siemens and a Nixdorf truck.
However the main reason for Linux's backward compatibility is that the system API is simple and clean. Windows has added a new bunch of system calls with every generation, to the point where there is probably nobody on earth now who knows them all.
I thought oxygen free copper is teh win. Gold? Bah.
Why should I download free tools from Microsoft if I can download free cygwin tools that are more powerful? Why should I learn how to use the usually crummy MS tools if they aren't part of the standard Windows install? CMD is bad enough.
Yup. It's been done (google "Dan Egerstad") and you can be pretty sure it's being done.
Imagine... Windows without cygwin. Unusable.
That might be hard to do if it's an HTTP POST (or even GET) to an innocuous address.
On top of that, it's 4/20.
I clicked of course... 2nd entry:
Welcome to the Wisconsin Organization Of Spacemodeling Hobbyists (WOOSH).
http://www.wooshrocketry.org/
Interesting.
That's where correct use of units comes in. I was convinced the author meant "Newtons", plural, as in "lbs", for thrust only. But mostly I thought (s)he didn't have a clue if they didn't know their middle school physics so I didn't bother to read on.
The micropayments don't have to be related to real money at all. Have some central instance(s) create tokens specific to an IP address and everybody gets at most say 1000 per week, more only by special request. If anybody complains, the quota is cut back.
the only feedback available is through manual human intervention, which scales poorly.
You can train and test your OCR code by creating noisy and distorted images that have the same properties as bad scans or faxes.
13 and 77 microseconds? Talk about quick.