I'm not so sure about them sounding that similar when spoken quickly. With the right (or wrong if you prefer) dialect they might sound similar, but with what I consider standard pronunciation they are still pretty distinct even at high speeds. But, region differences could make a big difference here.
I'm American, and English is my primary language, and I often leave the captions on for content, just because it can help me catch odd things that are said or the cases where things are not pronounced clearly. It can help with some obscure accents, before you adjust to them, and is really helpful when I'm deliberately choosing to keep the volume low for whatever reason, as anything spoken softly can become quite difficult to hear.
Despite your intended humor, the video makes it look like they have not actually attached it. Which does not seem like that big a surprises to me, since this limb would be so much heaver than a real hand that they would need to equip what remains of his arm with a bio-assist sleeve to allow him to use it in a way that resembles normal. Plus in order to be able to use this new arm for any signficiant portion of time, he would need to carry around an ungodly amount of additional weight in batteries.
I mean think about how much we complain about battery life in laptops which are mostly solid state. Now image how quickly laptop sized batteries would run out if powering an arm. Imagine just how many batteries you would need to get reasonable battery life in a robotic arm.
I think the fact that the average jury is generally considered to consists of 12 people who were not smart enough to get out of jury duty to be the real problem. Then combined with the fact that the jury selection process is generally designed to weed out anybody with any level of technical expertise that might be able to contradict an expert witness, and the system is clearly broken.
I know for a fact that if I am every on a jury, the other jurors will hate me. I will insist on being the foreman, and work from there. Except in the case of jury nullification, the process will then proceed by looking at the jury instructions to determine the facts in dispute.
Choosing the order carefully such that the minimum number of facts need to be considered, and for each fact we will determine the truth and the level of uncertainty. A guilt verdict will be rendered if and only if there is a sequence of facts found true beyond reasonable doubt such that these facts indicate that the person is indeed guilty.
If necessary combined facts will be considered. For example there might be a reasonable level of doubt about facts A and B, but it might be clear beyond a reasonable doubt that at least one of the two is true. If it is the case that either being true may allow for a guilt verdict then such a combined fact may be considered. The final result will be a list of all facts that we have found to be true or false beyond a reasonable doubt in the course of attempting to find a path a facts that lead to guilt, or show that no such path exists.
Very organized, very methodical, would drive the average apathetic jury nuts if there are a significant number of possible facts to consider.
Of course, determining if the rest of the jury is at all sympathetic to jury nullification should probably come before of all that, as in that case, a less rigidly logical, and more emotional approach to determine if there is a good reason to ignore the law may be needed or desirable.
If you don't own the car yet, nor possess the car, but require the previous owner to bring the car down and have it sniffed before you buy it, then if there are drugs the previous owner gets busted.
They can ask anything they want. First amendment and all, but it is true they can't compel the deletion. They might even be able to get away with refusing all further admittance to the party (banning them) if they don't delete the footage, but that is about it.
The charge here is probably commercial copyright infringement, which is a law on the books, and is the way they stop the bootleg cam copies of movies that used to be popular before the internet made them obsolete. If that is the charge, she may be in luck, since AIUI what she did would not qualify.
Wikipedia makes the claim that GE has already bought out Vivendi's stake, so this is effectively just GE selling Comcast 51% stake in NBC Universal. Granted that the way they are doing this is by creating a new company and transferring assets, but that is just a technicality. The only differences that makes is that a new corporate charter will be drafted, and some executives may not inherit an equivalent position in the new company, plus a handful of obscure accounting issues.
The only achievement he does not have is for an upcoming event. The extra PvP achievement is due to tone of his achievements no longer being possible to earn, so it is not counted in the maximum number of possible achievements.
This s an interesting statement. In all the many, many years I've owned color inkjet printers, photo printing has been something I've almost never done. When I print In color, I'm printing things likes reference charts that use color, or color documents, and other similar things. Color is definitely useful for things other than photo printing.
"would of", "Could of", "should of", etc derive from contractions of the form "would've", "could've", "should've". Those exist only in extremely informal speech, and virtually never in writing of any kind. However it is particularly common in America for children to hear these contractions as two separate words, and they incorporate them into their speech as such. When they go to write it down, they write is as "would of", and they don't see the problem. If they correctly wrote "would've" they might see the issue, and realize that they should write would have. This is not an issue related to spell checking, as this problem long predated spell checking over here in America.
From your surprise about this issue, I'm guessing this is not found in England. My guess is those contractions are never used over there even in really informal speech. Since you are talking about closed captions (American term for subtitles for the hearing impaired, as opposed to translation subtitles) I'm betting the BBC contracted an American company to write the closed captions.
Well, in part that is true. They would be happy to negotiate a license for such use. But it also means that the code was not designed with such purposes in mind, and likely had far less stringent code review, specifications, and coding standards then is normally required for such purposes.
It likely also does not meet the legal standards for those applications.
The only complication there is that all (visible) arcs are at least partially a plasma. If they were not, they would not tend to create an arch shape, since the path of least resistance would be a straight line. It is only because a plasma is formed, which obviously attempts to rise, that an arch shape is formed. Obviously the plasma is better conducting than the regular air, and result is that the arch shape has less resistance than a straight line.
I will not dispute that how plasmatic an arc is differs between arcs. I suspect the primary difference of note is between an arch lamp and a florescent light is that a florescent light uses a gas that forms a better plasma, but at the cost of being primarily UV, requiring phosphors to create visible light, while the arch lamp uses a less efficient gas, producing visible light directly, but requiring more current.
One may claim that the current through the plasma in a floresent light has reached a point where it is no longer reasonable to call it an electric arc. That may very well be the case, but it is still part of the spectrum that includes arcs.
The uncut verion has approximately 5 additional minutes of footage. From wikipedia (whose source is The Star Trek Compendium):
Post-production finished in January 1966, and the episode was presented to NBC for approval; that version differed from the final broadcast cut in that each of the four acts had on-screen titles ("Act I," "Act II," etc.), as well as an epilogue, in the manner of Quinn Martin's television productions. It also featured a much longer opening narration by Shatner. In total almost 5 minutes of additional footage was removed to accommodate the original series 50 minute network broadcast format, allowing for commercials.
The idea of this attack is I upload a GIF to facebook that is also an SWF, and you visit my site where I have an SWF that embed that GIF as an embedded SWF.
The SWF of that GIF can now access/manipulate the content of any browser cookies from this site, and pull content from any URL of that site. So cached credentials are a definite concern. The embedded SWF can pass any gathered information to the host SWF, which could for example HTTP POST the retrieved data to some page on my site. So basically, using the cached credentials, I have effectively full access to your account allowing me to scrape all the data from your profile, friends lists, friends profiles, etc, and could even post links to pornography on your wall in an attempt to get your account banned, etc.
Web browsers give plug-ins full access to cookies, and the ability to requested any URL through the browser's retrieval mechanism. The browser relies on the plug-in to provide security against cross-site attacks. Flash's security model fails badly. IF Adobe does not patch Flash then we have a real problem. Browsers could mitigate the attack by restring the access they give plugins, but this would add significant complexity. Otherwise you are only safe if you use flashblock, or don't have Flash installed at all.
twitter could quite easily bypass the problem, by running their own URL shortener. If they use a second level domain of one character under a country code top level domain, then the domain name is only four characters (like bit.ly's "j.mp" domain). For the second part of the URL, use a counter in base 64, and the result is pretty much the shortest URLs possible for such a service. Having twitter run the service means that as long as twitter stays around, the service will remain around. When twitter goes under, if it is not preserved, then who cares if the URL shortener it uses is not preserved. If it is preserved, whoever preserved it could potentially also preserve the URL shortener.
That does not solve the problem for other usages, but would solve it for twitter.
Well, the slide out portion of the keyboard is a rather typical phone keypad, but the part that faces the back of the phone proper has a miniature qwerty keyboard (with several layers of shift-style modifiers. The separated keyboard communicates with the main phone by Bluetooth, and includes speaker and microphone so it can be used as a handset while allowing you to continue to use the screen to control phone features.
The phone proper also has speaker and microphone of course. So one can leave the keyboard at home if they need a smaller or lighter phone for whatever reason. I think that covers it.
A gimmick that might be fun to fool around with for a while, but not offering much practical.
The United States Postal Service still uses carbon-less copies (You know, the carbon copy format without the black page with the carbon) for at one of it's optional services (The copy is for a receipt as the main portion is affixed to the package or envelope in question.
Also Japan does have top of the line phone related services, even if the average phone lags behind the US, and many phones found in the US do have equivalents there (I'd be very surprised if they did not have a Motorola Razr equivalent for example, even if it was less popular than it is here). It depends on both area, and social class.
Japan has much stronger distinctions between lower class, lower middle class, and upper middle class than the United States does. In fact generally Japan is technologically advanced, but it varies by area and social class.
The really crappy thing is that FreeCreditReport.Com is run by one of the three credit reporting agencies.
I also note that it is rather shitty that the interface the credit agencies provide when using the real annualcreditreport.com actually has places where it is difficult to find the link that says "No I don't want to buy these extra services, I just want to continue to the Free Credit Disclosure."
He said don't allow uploads to trusted domains. If you want users to upload, they should be uploading to a separate domain. For example my-social-networking-site.com should host uploaded files at MSNS-files.com, or something like that. Being able to execute scripts in the context of MSNS-files.com would be worthless, while executing in the context of my-social-networking-site.com is very valuable.
PPJ is a paralegal not a lawyer. (Unless I missed the notification that she took and passed the Bar exam.) (I did not see any indication that this was written by somebody other than PJ, but If you know something I don't about this article, please enlighten me.)
It is not so much that they don't understand, as thee mythical free market collapses badly without growth, or rather it could work, but not in the same way we are used to.
The system assumes that net consumption and net production will both continue to increase at some rate. (It need not be exponential, but there must be non-zero increase). We know that that cannot hold indefinitely. For such to occur, either the population needs to increase, or the population being held steady, that production become more efficient, leaving the population to have more time for consumption. However, there is also limits to how far that can extend, since there is no such thing as a truly unlimited resource. Even the size of the universe is believed to be finite.
An economy with a positive interest rate is sustainable only with growth. Without growth, if you lend out 4 dollars and expect more than 4 dollars back, that could happen, but only with inflation at a rate that makes the four dollars you get back equal the original four dollars in buying power. In such an event, there would be no benefit to ever lending money out, so rate of inflation would tend to zero.
An economy with a positive interest rate is a pyramid scheme, and will eventually fail. However, at the moment, the world literally has so much invested into such economies that they are the only type we can see. They also happen to be what economists study, since they are what exist in the current world. We are rapidly approaching the moment of truth. It may not occur in our lifetime, but, if not, likely only shortly thereafter. At that point the human race must either rethink economics, or some sort of disaster must occur. If say 95% of the human population was wiped out, then the same economic model could almost certainly continue to work, since growth could occur by means of population growth.
Otherwise the human race is in store for a rude awakening.
"It's an example of the old `dog ate my homework' excuse," says Phil Malone, director of the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. "The problem is, sometimes the dog does eat your homework."
When I was in 5th grade or so, a kid in my class brought in her homework (or the remains of her homework) complete with teethmarks. So, yes, it does actually happen.:)
I know of a cat that ate a relative's of mine's homework. He brought in what was left of it and explained what happened. The teacher though it was hilarious. This cat likes to repeatedly tear small chunks off of pieces of paper, using his mouth.
The only potential problem is that I'm not at all sure that all wireless adaptors have full support for the features needed. I believe these VWLANs require that the chips support Monitor mode, which gives software access to all wireless trafic. Similar to promiscous mode, except that it is literally all wireless traffic on the current channel, not just traffic for the given SSID. It also requires support for packet injection wheile in monitor mode, which lets arbitrary packets be crafted in software and sent.
The implications of these features are interesting. For example DDWRT offers a very nice mode called repeater bridge based on this. Like bridge mode, the secondary router connects to the primary router as though it were a standard client, and provides Ethernet attached devices access to the WLAN. It also simulates a repeater by allowing one to set up a VWLAN in AP mode, which is then bridged to the primary VWLAN. If one sets up this second VWLAN with the same SSID and credentials, it can become seamlessly merged into the network.
The net effect is almost identical to having both routers in AP mode, with an ethernet cable between the LAN ports (but obviously, only one acting as DHCP server, and only one acting as a gateway to the attached WAN) except that it is not necessary to run a cable between the two. The one downside is that clients connected to the second router that wish to talk to the WAN have a maximum of half the bandwidth, as the second router needs to use the other half to relay the messages to the primary router.
Also as with any repeater setup that repeats on the same channel interference between the access points is possible. Further some people have ad difficulty getting this setup to work, although that may be due to half the version of DDWRT being unusably buggy, or the fact that the configuration instructions for this mode on the DDWRT wiki being slightly incorrect.
But I myself have had no problem with this setup, although you have two spare routers, a better method that lacks the interference issues, and is more supported would be to set one up as a plain wireless bridge, and connect it to the main AP, and set the other one up as a pure AP with the same credentials and ssd as the main AP, but a channel at least 5 apart form the main AP. Now connect the bridge and the second AP routers with a short piece of ethernet cable.
So by the end I got a little off topic, but I hope somebody finds this post interesting or helpful.
The equivelent to X11 on Mac OS X is a program known as "WindowServer". This program could be argued to be part of the Quartz Compositor, it could be argued that the Quartz Compositor is part of this program.
The second interpretation would argue that the Quartz Compositor creates and generates the images to be displayed, and provides them to WindowsServer for it to place them into video memory. That is not the official interpretation as far as I know. I believe the official interpretation is that WindowServer is a component of Quartz Compositor. That bakes Quartz Compositor both a compositing window manager and a windowing server.
For Microsoft Windows I've been unable to determine what program is closest in nature to X11.
All of this is complicated by the fact that there are X11 for both MacOS and Windows that instead of driving the video card(s) directly like X11 does on Linux, it uses the Windowing servers the host OS, and also provides the option of using the Host OS's window manager as an X11 window manager.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm not so sure about them sounding that similar when spoken quickly. With the right (or wrong if you prefer) dialect they might sound similar, but with what I consider standard pronunciation they are still pretty distinct even at high speeds. But, region differences could make a big difference here.
I'm American, and English is my primary language, and I often leave the captions on for content, just because it can help me catch odd things that are said or the cases where things are not pronounced clearly. It can help with some obscure accents, before you adjust to them, and is really helpful when I'm deliberately choosing to keep the volume low for whatever reason, as anything spoken softly can become quite difficult to hear.
Despite your intended humor, the video makes it look like they have not actually attached it. Which does not seem like that big a surprises to me, since this limb would be so much heaver than a real hand that they would need to equip what remains of his arm with a bio-assist sleeve to allow him to use it in a way that resembles normal. Plus in order to be able to use this new arm for any signficiant portion of time, he would need to carry around an ungodly amount of additional weight in batteries.
I mean think about how much we complain about battery life in laptops which are mostly solid state. Now image how quickly laptop sized batteries would run out if powering an arm. Imagine just how many batteries you would need to get reasonable battery life in a robotic arm.
Interesting tale of jury nullification.
I think the fact that the average jury is generally considered to consists of 12 people who were not smart enough to get out of jury duty to be the real problem. Then combined with the fact that the jury selection process is generally designed to weed out anybody with any level of technical expertise that might be able to contradict an expert witness, and the system is clearly broken.
I know for a fact that if I am every on a jury, the other jurors will hate me. I will insist on being the foreman, and work from there. Except in the case of jury nullification, the process will then proceed by looking at the jury instructions to determine the facts in dispute.
Choosing the order carefully such that the minimum number of facts need to be considered, and for each fact we will determine the truth and the level of uncertainty. A guilt verdict will be rendered if and only if there is a sequence of facts found true beyond reasonable doubt such that these facts indicate that the person is indeed guilty.
If necessary combined facts will be considered. For example there might be a reasonable level of doubt about facts A and B, but it might be clear beyond a reasonable doubt that at least one of the two is true. If it is the case that either being true may allow for a guilt verdict then such a combined fact may be considered. The final result will be a list of all facts that we have found to be true or false beyond a reasonable doubt in the course of attempting to find a path a facts that lead to guilt, or show that no such path exists.
Very organized, very methodical, would drive the average apathetic jury nuts if there are a significant number of possible facts to consider.
Of course, determining if the rest of the jury is at all sympathetic to jury nullification should probably come before of all that, as in that case, a less rigidly logical, and more emotional approach to determine if there is a good reason to ignore the law may be needed or desirable.
If you don't own the car yet, nor possess the car, but require the previous owner to bring the car down and have it sniffed before you buy it, then if there are drugs the previous owner gets busted.
So clearly that is the way to do it.
They can ask anything they want. First amendment and all, but it is true they can't compel the deletion. They might even be able to get away with refusing all further admittance to the party (banning them) if they don't delete the footage, but that is about it.
The charge here is probably commercial copyright infringement, which is a law on the books, and is the way they stop the bootleg cam copies of movies that used to be popular before the internet made them obsolete. If that is the charge, she may be in luck, since AIUI what she did would not qualify.
Wikipedia makes the claim that GE has already bought out Vivendi's stake, so this is effectively just GE selling Comcast 51% stake in NBC Universal. Granted that the way they are doing this is by creating a new company and transferring assets, but that is just a technicality. The only differences that makes is that a new corporate charter will be drafted, and some executives may not inherit an equivalent position in the new company, plus a handful of obscure accounting issues.
The only achievement he does not have is for an upcoming event. The extra PvP achievement is due to tone of his achievements no longer being possible to earn, so it is not counted in the maximum number of possible achievements.
Married a couple of them.
You're doing it wrong.
Legally perhaps, but if I could find a female couple who would marry me, I''d ignore the law too. Two for the price of one, eh?
This s an interesting statement. In all the many, many years I've owned color inkjet printers, photo printing has been something I've almost never done. When I print In color, I'm printing things likes reference charts that use color, or color documents, and other similar things. Color is definitely useful for things other than photo printing.
"would of", "Could of", "should of", etc derive from contractions of the form "would've", "could've", "should've". Those exist only in extremely informal speech, and virtually never in writing of any kind. However it is particularly common in America for children to hear these contractions as two separate words, and they incorporate them into their speech as such. When they go to write it down, they write is as "would of", and they don't see the problem. If they correctly wrote "would've" they might see the issue, and realize that they should write would have. This is not an issue related to spell checking, as this problem long predated spell checking over here in America.
From your surprise about this issue, I'm guessing this is not found in England. My guess is those contractions are never used over there even in really informal speech. Since you are talking about closed captions (American term for subtitles for the hearing impaired, as opposed to translation subtitles) I'm betting the BBC contracted an American company to write the closed captions.
Well, in part that is true. They would be happy to negotiate a license for such use. But it also means that the code was not designed with such purposes in mind, and likely had far less stringent code review, specifications, and coding standards then is normally required for such purposes.
It likely also does not meet the legal standards for those applications.
The only complication there is that all (visible) arcs are at least partially a plasma. If they were not, they would not tend to create an arch shape, since the path of least resistance would be a straight line. It is only because a plasma is formed, which obviously attempts to rise, that an arch shape is formed. Obviously the plasma is better conducting than the regular air, and result is that the arch shape has less resistance than a straight line.
I will not dispute that how plasmatic an arc is differs between arcs. I suspect the primary difference of note is between an arch lamp and a florescent light is that a florescent light uses a gas that forms a better plasma, but at the cost of being primarily UV, requiring phosphors to create visible light, while the arch lamp uses a less efficient gas, producing visible light directly, but requiring more current.
One may claim that the current through the plasma in a floresent light has reached a point where it is no longer reasonable to call it an electric arc. That may very well be the case, but it is still part of the spectrum that includes arcs.
The uncut verion has approximately 5 additional minutes of footage. From wikipedia (whose source is The Star Trek Compendium):
Post-production finished in January 1966, and the episode was presented to NBC for approval; that version differed from the final broadcast cut in that each of the four acts had on-screen titles ("Act I," "Act II," etc.), as well as an epilogue, in the manner of Quinn Martin's television productions. It also featured a much longer opening narration by Shatner. In total almost 5 minutes of additional footage was removed to accommodate the original series 50 minute network broadcast format, allowing for commercials.
The idea of this attack is I upload a GIF to facebook that is also an SWF, and you visit my site where I have an SWF that embed that GIF as an embedded SWF.
The SWF of that GIF can now access/manipulate the content of any browser cookies from this site, and pull content from any URL of that site. So cached credentials are a definite concern. The embedded SWF can pass any gathered information to the host SWF, which could for example HTTP POST the retrieved data to some page on my site. So basically, using the cached credentials, I have effectively full access to your account allowing me to scrape all the data from your profile, friends lists, friends profiles, etc, and could even post links to pornography on your wall in an attempt to get your account banned, etc.
Web browsers give plug-ins full access to cookies, and the ability to requested any URL through the browser's retrieval mechanism. The browser relies on the plug-in to provide security against cross-site attacks. Flash's security model fails badly. IF Adobe does not patch Flash then we have a real problem. Browsers could mitigate the attack by restring the access they give plugins, but this would add significant complexity. Otherwise you are only safe if you use flashblock, or don't have Flash installed at all.
twitter could quite easily bypass the problem, by running their own URL shortener. If they use a second level domain of one character under a country code top level domain, then the domain name is only four characters (like bit.ly's "j.mp" domain). For the second part of the URL, use a counter in base 64, and the result is pretty much the shortest URLs possible for such a service. Having twitter run the service means that as long as twitter stays around, the service will remain around. When twitter goes under, if it is not preserved, then who cares if the URL shortener it uses is not preserved. If it is preserved, whoever preserved it could potentially also preserve the URL shortener.
That does not solve the problem for other usages, but would solve it for twitter.
He was using sartasm? That makes me feel dyslexical.
Well, the slide out portion of the keyboard is a rather typical phone keypad, but the part that faces the back of the phone proper has a miniature qwerty keyboard (with several layers of shift-style modifiers. The separated keyboard communicates with the main phone by Bluetooth, and includes speaker and microphone so it can be used as a handset while allowing you to continue to use the screen to control phone features.
The phone proper also has speaker and microphone of course. So one can leave the keyboard at home if they need a smaller or lighter phone for whatever reason. I think that covers it.
A gimmick that might be fun to fool around with for a while, but not offering much practical.
The United States Postal Service still uses carbon-less copies (You know, the carbon copy format without the black page with the carbon) for at one of it's optional services (The copy is for a receipt as the main portion is affixed to the package or envelope in question.
Also Japan does have top of the line phone related services, even if the average phone lags behind the US, and many phones found in the US do have equivalents there (I'd be very surprised if they did not have a Motorola Razr equivalent for example, even if it was less popular than it is here). It depends on both area, and social class.
Japan has much stronger distinctions between lower class, lower middle class, and upper middle class than the United States does. In fact generally Japan is technologically advanced, but it varies by area and social class.
The really crappy thing is that FreeCreditReport.Com is run by one of the three credit reporting agencies.
I also note that it is rather shitty that the interface the credit agencies provide when using the real annualcreditreport.com actually has places where it is difficult to find the link that says "No I don't want to buy these extra services, I just want to continue to the Free Credit Disclosure."
He said don't allow uploads to trusted domains. If you want users to upload, they should be uploading to a separate domain. For example my-social-networking-site.com should host uploaded files at MSNS-files.com, or something like that. Being able to execute scripts in the context of MSNS-files.com would be worthless, while executing in the context of my-social-networking-site.com is very valuable.
PPJ is a paralegal not a lawyer. (Unless I missed the notification that she took and passed the Bar exam.) (I did not see any indication that this was written by somebody other than PJ, but If you know something I don't about this article, please enlighten me.)
It is not so much that they don't understand, as thee mythical free market collapses badly without growth, or rather it could work, but not in the same way we are used to.
The system assumes that net consumption and net production will both continue to increase at some rate. (It need not be exponential, but there must be non-zero increase). We know that that cannot hold indefinitely. For such to occur, either the population needs to increase, or the population being held steady, that production become more efficient, leaving the population to have more time for consumption. However, there is also limits to how far that can extend, since there is no such thing as a truly unlimited resource. Even the size of the universe is believed to be finite.
An economy with a positive interest rate is sustainable only with growth. Without growth, if you lend out 4 dollars and expect more than 4 dollars back, that could happen, but only with inflation at a rate that makes the four dollars you get back equal the original four dollars in buying power. In such an event, there would be no benefit to ever lending money out, so rate of inflation would tend to zero.
An economy with a positive interest rate is a pyramid scheme, and will eventually fail. However, at the moment, the world literally has so much invested into such economies that they are the only type we can see. They also happen to be what economists study, since they are what exist in the current world. We are rapidly approaching the moment of truth. It may not occur in our lifetime, but, if not, likely only shortly thereafter. At that point the human race must either rethink economics, or some sort of disaster must occur. If say 95% of the human population was wiped out, then the same economic model could almost certainly continue to work, since growth could occur by means of population growth.
Otherwise the human race is in store for a rude awakening.
From TFA:
When I was in 5th grade or so, a kid in my class brought in her homework (or the remains of her homework) complete with teethmarks. So, yes, it does actually happen. :)
I know of a cat that ate a relative's of mine's homework. He brought in what was left of it and explained what happened. The teacher though it was hilarious. This cat likes to repeatedly tear small chunks off of pieces of paper, using his mouth.
The only potential problem is that I'm not at all sure that all wireless adaptors have full support for the features needed. I believe these VWLANs require that the chips support Monitor mode, which gives software access to all wireless trafic. Similar to promiscous mode, except that it is literally all wireless traffic on the current channel, not just traffic for the given SSID. It also requires support for packet injection wheile in monitor mode, which lets arbitrary packets be crafted in software and sent.
The implications of these features are interesting. For example DDWRT offers a very nice mode called repeater bridge based on this. Like bridge mode, the secondary router connects to the primary router as though it were a standard client, and provides Ethernet attached devices access to the WLAN. It also simulates a repeater by allowing one to set up a VWLAN in AP mode, which is then bridged to the primary VWLAN. If one sets up this second VWLAN with the same SSID and credentials, it can become seamlessly merged into the network.
The net effect is almost identical to having both routers in AP mode, with an ethernet cable between the LAN ports (but obviously, only one acting as DHCP server, and only one acting as a gateway to the attached WAN) except that it is not necessary to run a cable between the two. The one downside is that clients connected to the second router that wish to talk to the WAN have a maximum of half the bandwidth, as the second router needs to use the other half to relay the messages to the primary router.
Also as with any repeater setup that repeats on the same channel interference between the access points is possible. Further some people have ad difficulty getting this setup to work, although that may be due to half the version of DDWRT being unusably buggy, or the fact that the configuration instructions for this mode on the DDWRT wiki being slightly incorrect.
But I myself have had no problem with this setup, although you have two spare routers, a better method that lacks the interference issues, and is more supported would be to set one up as a plain wireless bridge, and connect it to the main AP, and set the other one up as a pure AP with the same credentials and ssd as the main AP, but a channel at least 5 apart form the main AP. Now connect the bridge and the second AP routers with a short piece of ethernet cable.
So by the end I got a little off topic, but I hope somebody finds this post interesting or helpful.
The equivelent to X11 on Mac OS X is a program known as "WindowServer". This program could be argued to be part of the Quartz Compositor, it could be argued that the Quartz Compositor is part of this program.
The second interpretation would argue that the Quartz Compositor creates and generates the images to be displayed, and provides them to WindowsServer for it to place them into video memory. That is not the official interpretation as far as I know. I believe the official interpretation is that WindowServer is a component of Quartz Compositor. That bakes Quartz Compositor both a compositing window manager and a windowing server.
For Microsoft Windows I've been unable to determine what program is closest in nature to X11.
All of this is complicated by the fact that there are X11 for both MacOS and Windows that instead of driving the video card(s) directly like X11 does on Linux, it uses the Windowing servers the host OS, and also provides the option of using the Host OS's window manager as an X11 window manager.