Your sig, is that a program that repeatedly forks (IIRC fork is syscall 2) itself, with each of those duplicates repeatedly forking themselves, resulting in exponential process growth?!? Evil!
It is worth noting that that screen is using alternating circular polarities rather than alternating linear polarities, which has the benefit that in normal mode (non-3d mode) standard polarized lenses (linear polarization) will have no impact on the image. (For that matter they would have no impact in 3d mode either, but looking at 3d mode without the correct glasses would just be stupid.
Your web site shares its IP address with over 4348 other sites, most of which are typo-squatting style parked domains run by the owner of the server your site is hosted on. However, one of the sites hosted on that IP address is probably the objectionable one.
Put labels on them and keep them in a credit card pocket of your wallet.
This is seriously not a difficult enough problem to warrant a/. story..
And even THAT is far more than most people would ever do. Talk about a non-story. Here's my "routine". My 8GB card sits inside my Canon camera, where it stays. 8GB, even at 10mp RAW file size is far more memory than I need for any one shoot. I'll ALWAYS be near a computer to dump the pics to if I ever need to take 500 + RAW files.
Right. All my SD cards call one device Home, and except when plugged into my computer temporarily to add files or something the cards are always in their devices.
I'm sorry to report that the it is not a complete shuttle. Only an oribiter, and one that has been stripped down by NASA too! If you really want your own, I suggest stowing away on the next flight, and then space-jacking it. Please be warned that doing so would be considered an act of war (Grand Theft Spacecraft, space piracy, kidnapping and unlawful detention of US military personnel, kidnapping and unlawful detention of US Citizens, etc.), so be sure you have your militarized satellite system full operational in time.;D
The iPod had always been feature conservative, for very good reason. First all, if there is even one feature of the iPod that feels like a poorly coded, highly buggy, after-thought (the vast majority of MP3 players have at least one such feature), it reflects very poorly on the device as a whole.
Second, it is critically important to Apple that the device be highly intuitive to use, such that even people who almost never have used an electronic device before can just pick it up and use it. While they may not quite have reached that goal, they have done better than many other MP3 players in that respect. Creating an interface for the radio that is as intuitive as the rest of the iPod is actually fairly difficult. Combine that with the fact that too many features can cause confusion to the average person.
Apple really cannot takes risks with the iPod brand. Virtually all other mp3 player brands have included at least one model that was an absolute lemon. For example, you mention your Sansa player. Which model? Some Sansa players are all but complete garbage, where as others are very good. Just saying "Sansa" gives no indication of the quality of the particular device. Saying iPod on the other hand, gives a great deal more information about the quality of the device.
Always keep in mind that the target demographic of the iPod is not the Readers of Slashdot, but an average person (Joe Sixpack, anybody?). The members of this demographic rarely have more than around six major pieces of software that they use with any real frequency on a PC. (Web browser, Office Suite, Acrobat Reader, one or two occupation related software tools, and one or two computer games, and perhaps some form of Media Player).
They required special training in Microsoft Office, and honestly don't know how to search through the program to find some feature that they know must be there but have never learned.
That is an honest an accurate portrayal of the average American anyway, and surprisingly I've found that the application count portion even applies to the average college student at even some of the better Universities. (Obviously it can very by major. I'd be very surprised If a CS major did not use more applications on a regular basis).
Even if one is using a proper reference frame (not a rotating one), there is still an outward force in the system, namely the reactionary force to the centripetal force. Said reactionary force could legitimately be called a centrifugal force, but it is a force applied to the central object, not on the outer object, which distinguishes it from what people usually mean when they say centrifugal force.
Well, some installer probably do take hours, since some installers take hours on windows. I've always wondered why that happens.
My guess is that these installers compress everything with algorithms that are not particularly fast to decompress, and where individual files cannot be extracted without decompressing everything. And what happens is that the stupid installer decompresses the whole bundle, takes one file from it, and puts it on disk, and then frees the memory containing the decompressed bundle, and then does it all again for each file.
Indeed, I've fairly convinced that one of the slowest versions of the Visual Studio Installer did exactly that. (Although to be fair, it had many such bundles, not just one insanely large one.)
They both are useful for quickly looking something up on the internet if Wifi is available. Extensive browsing or e-book reading is preferable on a net book though.
While a Personalized search is likely to give you results that would probably most interest you, it is also likely to exclude results that don't fit your "profile" but are relevant to what you are looking for.
So the search engine is always returning results it thinks you would like to see, but not results that you probably should see.
Indeed. Further Google's track record with suggestions based on past searches, (there is a Google Gadget that attempts to recommend sites, videos/etc that you might be interested in) is terrible. Those tools chose one or two searches, usually those least similar to all your other searches, and makes suggestions based on those. So if you ever perform a one-off search on some topic, Google will assume that topic is just as important to you as any other search you have ever entered, even though grouping searches by topic area, and focus sing on topic areas most searches is very possible, and for recommendations would usually give better results.
Right now for example, Google Eecomends I watch "Doctor Who - Regeneration, 2nd Doctor." because I have allegedly watched "Doctor Who - The Genesis Of The Daleks/Davros Clip...." I may have at some point ended up on that page, but I never watched said clip. Further, I don't watch Dr. Who at all.
That said, the suggestion at least does match a topic area of interest (Science Fiction), so it is not terrible.
It also recommends I watch "Dr. Stephen Hawking on the future of humanity", because I watch some other video with Dr. Hawkings. That video actually does sound interesting, and I may watch it, but my primary reason for watching the other clip was only obverve his rather unique communications system.
The web search suggestions are only a little better.
I now look at SearchWiki. That is worthless to me. I can modify the results of a search, so that I get the same results the next time I perform EXACTLY the same search? Big deal!
There are not very many searches I run more than a few times, so unless Google analyzes my changes and incorporates them into the initial "personalized search results", the feature is completely worthless to me.
No man, the International Date Line will never help. First of all it's a darn 900 number, so the fees are outrageous, and it still did not help me find a date (neither a local one, nor a International date). I think it is a scam.;D
The source code for everything (except potentially a few G1 specific device drivers) is available, and there is no signature checking on firmware, so you could modify any system-level library, the kernel, the virtual machine, the "java" libraries, and all of the programs within the sandbox. You could even run true native apps.
I'm not sure if you can really completely disable SMS, as it is part of the GSM protocol, and so some of the functionality may be part of the modem (which is a completely separate system that communicates with the phone via a serial port). Depending on how the functionality is split, it may or may not really be possible. (Removing the SMS application and features from the main software definitely is possible.)
As for the number whitelist, if you are talking about a whitelist of outgoing numbers, then yes, that is very possible. If you are talking about incoming numbers, then you can have the phone software ignore (not display or ring, or allow the green button to pickup the call) an incoming call based on whitelist. If there is a modem command to refuse an incomming call, then that works even better.
Yes. You could even put Windows Mobile on it if you had the Ce Platform Builder (with Windows Mobile modules) and were willing to write some drivers. It is fully open in that sense, although I'm not sure just home complete the android source code is, and some hardware might not be publicly documented beyond the source code.
Of note, such forbidden modifications include changing an ESN (on a cdma phone) or IMEI number (on a GSM phone), since the phone would then conflict with whatever phone was legitimately assigned the number to changed to. (Granted changing an IMEI number on a GSM phone is less useful except to circumvent a stolen-phone ban).
CDMA providers (virtually) never network-lock phones, but instead simply refuse to activate any CDMA phone that is not a model they sell (or have sold), identifying models by ESN when necessary. So there is some significant reason for people to want to change a phone's ESN. (Please note that while they (virtually) never network-lock phones, at least one major US carrier does lock the provisioning interface, which is similar to a card-specific SIM-lock, and of course, acts much like a network lock in practice.)
Electromagnetic radiation is longitudinal vibration (waves) of an electric field line.
'longitudinal' is never used to describe EM wave propagation. I know exactly how light travels but I am having an impossible time visualizing what you mean by "longitudinal vibration of an E-field line"
Correct, I did indeed mean transverse vibration. I was writing that when my mind was half-asleep.
For polarizations, the M-field is irrelevant, because if there is an E-field wave there is an M-field wave perpendicular to it by definition. What is important is are the amplitude differences and phase offsets between two perpendicular components of the oscillating E-field.
Embedded device toolchains often let you use a subset of C++ that includes part of the the STL, since EC++ does include an STL Subset.
However, there is no real reason for that, as full C++ can work just fine, assuming a good C++ implementation. I'll admit that on a micro-controller, you might have severe issues with C++ (because even a tiny bit of unnecessary overhead in unacceptable on those), but somewhat less constrained applications full C++ is definitely possible. (Even though many people refuse to believe it, because of major misconceptions about C++ code size and speed, caused by some early and very poor quality compilers and libraries.)
For what it is worth, I;ve herd that the Denon Link feature of dennon-devices, is an alalog transport system, that happens to use Ethernet-style cabling. Because it is analog, signal quality is important, and thus a very cheap cable would indeed cause "muddyness", although the cable they are selling is overkill even for analog signals, is overpriced, and has some really questionable features (directional arrows).
As I understand it: Electromagnetic radiation is longitudinal vibration (waves) of an electric field line. (One could view it it vibrations of a magnetic field line too, but that view is not common.)
Now since light travels in a straight line, so the vibrations are not in that dimension. However, there are two other dimensions. If you are looking straight down the path of a beam of light there are two dimensions along with the field line vibrations could occur, namely up-down and left-right.
Those two components could have different amplitudes, but the same phase, which results in linear polarization, and could occur along any possible orientation. If the left-right and up-down components of the vibration (waves) have a phase difference, circular or elliptical polarization can occur.
See the nice images on the Wikipedia polarization article.
For a short period of time, it was a really useful technique on LiveCDs if there was no swap partition on-disk, or you wanted to preserve the on-disk swap partition for forensic analysis. I'm fairly certain it has been much improved since then to the point where this does not really buy you anything. I was never aware of the technical reason for this to be true, but it clearly was some sort of inefficiency in the use of "plain" RAM, which the swap system did not suffer from.
Interestingly, at least for a short period of time, even a GNU/Linux system would have better performance with swap on a ramdisk than with no swap at all.
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Re: your sig: Which apt-based distro was that from, and how did it arise?
Your sig, is that a program that repeatedly forks (IIRC fork is syscall 2) itself, with each of those duplicates repeatedly forking themselves, resulting in exponential process growth?!? Evil!
Calling Dr. Freeman. Grab your HEV suit and crowbar, 'cause Dr. Breen is at it again!
It is worth noting that that screen is using alternating circular polarities rather than alternating linear polarities, which has the benefit that in normal mode (non-3d mode) standard polarized lenses (linear polarization) will have no impact on the image. (For that matter they would have no impact in 3d mode either, but looking at 3d mode without the correct glasses would just be stupid.
Your web site shares its IP address with over 4348 other sites, most of which are typo-squatting style parked domains run by the owner of the server your site is hosted on. However, one of the sites hosted on that IP address is probably the objectionable one.
Put labels on them and keep them in a credit card pocket of your wallet.
This is seriously not a difficult enough problem to warrant a /. story..
And even THAT is far more than most people would ever do. Talk about a non-story. Here's my "routine". My 8GB card sits inside my Canon camera, where it stays. 8GB, even at 10mp RAW file size is far more memory than I need for any one shoot. I'll ALWAYS be near a computer to dump the pics to if I ever need to take 500 + RAW files.
Right. All my SD cards call one device Home, and except when plugged into my computer temporarily to add files or something the cards are always in their devices.
He sneaks into the theater, you insensitive clod! (Paying the theater by means of buying concessions instead.) ;-D
I'm sorry to report that the it is not a complete shuttle. Only an oribiter, and one that has been stripped down by NASA too! If you really want your own, I suggest stowing away on the next flight, and then space-jacking it. Please be warned that doing so would be considered an act of war (Grand Theft Spacecraft, space piracy, kidnapping and unlawful detention of US military personnel, kidnapping and unlawful detention of US Citizens, etc.), so be sure you have your militarized satellite system full operational in time. ;D
The iPod had always been feature conservative, for very good reason. First all, if there is even one feature of the iPod that feels like a poorly coded, highly buggy, after-thought (the vast majority of MP3 players have at least one such feature), it reflects very poorly on the device as a whole.
Second, it is critically important to Apple that the device be highly intuitive to use, such that even people who almost never have used an electronic device before can just pick it up and use it. While they may not quite have reached that goal, they have done better than many other MP3 players in that respect. Creating an interface for the radio that is as intuitive as the rest of the iPod is actually fairly difficult. Combine that with the fact that too many features can cause confusion to the average person.
Apple really cannot takes risks with the iPod brand. Virtually all other mp3 player brands have included at least one model that was an absolute lemon. For example, you mention your Sansa player. Which model? Some Sansa players are all but complete garbage, where as others are very good. Just saying "Sansa" gives no indication of the quality of the particular device. Saying iPod on the other hand, gives a great deal more information about the quality of the device.
Always keep in mind that the target demographic of the iPod is not the Readers of Slashdot, but an average person (Joe Sixpack, anybody?). The members of this demographic rarely have more than around six major pieces of software that they use with any real frequency on a PC. (Web browser, Office Suite, Acrobat Reader, one or two occupation related software tools, and one or two computer games, and perhaps some form of Media Player).
They required special training in Microsoft Office, and honestly don't know how to search through the program to find some feature that they know must be there but have never learned.
That is an honest an accurate portrayal of the average American anyway, and surprisingly I've found that the application count portion even applies to the average college student at even some of the better Universities. (Obviously it can very by major. I'd be very surprised If a CS major did not use more applications on a regular basis).
Even if one is using a proper reference frame (not a rotating one), there is still an outward force in the system, namely the reactionary force to the centripetal force. Said reactionary force could legitimately be called a centrifugal force, but it is a force applied to the central object, not on the outer object, which distinguishes it from what people usually mean when they say centrifugal force.
But this is really quite off-topic.
Well, some installer probably do take hours, since some installers take hours on windows. I've always wondered why that happens.
My guess is that these installers compress everything with algorithms that are not particularly fast to decompress, and where individual files cannot be extracted without decompressing everything. And what happens is that the stupid installer decompresses the whole bundle, takes one file from it, and puts it on disk, and then frees the memory containing the decompressed bundle, and then does it all again for each file.
Indeed, I've fairly convinced that one of the slowest versions of the Visual Studio Installer did exactly that. (Although to be fair, it had many such bundles, not just one insanely large one.)
They both are useful for quickly looking something up on the internet if Wifi is available.
Extensive browsing or e-book reading is preferable on a net book though.
While a Personalized search is likely to give you results that would probably most interest you, it is also likely to exclude results that don't fit your "profile" but are relevant to what you are looking for.
So the search engine is always returning results it thinks you would like to see, but not results that you probably should see.
Indeed. Further Google's track record with suggestions based on past searches, (there is a Google Gadget that attempts to recommend sites, videos/etc that you might be interested in) is terrible. Those tools chose one or two searches, usually those least similar to all your other searches, and makes suggestions based on those. So if you ever perform a one-off search on some topic, Google will assume that topic is just as important to you as any other search you have ever entered, even though grouping searches by topic area, and focus sing on topic areas most searches is very possible, and for recommendations would usually give better results.
Right now for example, Google Eecomends I watch "Doctor Who - Regeneration, 2nd Doctor." because I have allegedly watched "Doctor Who - The Genesis Of The Daleks/Davros Clip...." I may have at some point ended up on that page, but I never watched said clip. Further, I don't watch Dr. Who at all.
That said, the suggestion at least does match a topic area of interest (Science Fiction), so it is not terrible.
It also recommends I watch "Dr. Stephen Hawking on the future of humanity", because I watch some other video with Dr. Hawkings. That video actually does sound interesting, and I may watch it, but my primary reason for watching the other clip was only obverve his rather unique communications system.
The web search suggestions are only a little better.
I now look at SearchWiki. That is worthless to me. I can modify the results of a search, so that I get the same results the next time I perform EXACTLY the same search? Big deal!
There are not very many searches I run more than a few times, so unless Google analyzes my changes
and incorporates them into the initial "personalized search results", the feature is completely worthless to me.
No man, the International Date Line will never help. First of all it's a darn 900 number, so the fees are outrageous, and it still did not help me find a date (neither a local one, nor a International date). I think it is a scam. ;D
The source code for everything (except potentially a few G1 specific device drivers) is available, and there is no signature checking on firmware, so you could modify any system-level library, the kernel, the virtual machine, the "java" libraries, and all of the programs within the sandbox. You could even run true native apps.
I'm not sure if you can really completely disable SMS, as it is part of the GSM protocol, and so some of the functionality may be part of the modem (which is a completely separate system that communicates with the phone via a serial port). Depending on how the functionality is split, it may or may not really be possible. (Removing the SMS application and features from the main software definitely is possible.)
As for the number whitelist, if you are talking about a whitelist of outgoing numbers, then yes, that is very possible. If you are talking about incoming numbers, then you can have the phone software ignore (not display or ring, or allow the green button to pickup the call) an incoming call based on whitelist. If there is a modem command to refuse an incomming call, then that works even better.
Yes. You could even put Windows Mobile on it if you had the Ce Platform Builder (with Windows Mobile modules) and were willing to write some drivers. It is fully open in that sense, although I'm not sure just home complete the android source code is, and some hardware might not be publicly documented beyond the source code.
Of note, such forbidden modifications include changing an ESN (on a cdma phone) or IMEI number (on a GSM phone), since the phone would then conflict with whatever phone was legitimately assigned the number to changed to. (Granted changing an IMEI number on a GSM phone is less useful except to circumvent a stolen-phone ban).
CDMA providers (virtually) never network-lock phones, but instead simply refuse to activate any CDMA phone that is not a model they sell (or have sold), identifying models by ESN when necessary. So there is some significant reason for people to want to change a phone's ESN. (Please note that while they (virtually) never network-lock phones, at least one major US carrier does lock the provisioning interface, which is similar to a card-specific SIM-lock, and of course, acts much like a network lock in practice.)
Electromagnetic radiation is longitudinal vibration (waves) of an electric field line.
'longitudinal' is never used to describe EM wave propagation. I know exactly how light travels but I am having an impossible time visualizing what you mean by "longitudinal vibration of an E-field line"
Correct, I did indeed mean transverse vibration. I was writing that when my mind was half-asleep.
For polarizations, the M-field is irrelevant, because if there is an E-field wave there is an M-field wave perpendicular to it by definition. What is important is are the amplitude differences and phase offsets between two perpendicular components of the oscillating E-field.
Embedded device toolchains often let you use a subset of C++ that includes part of the the STL, since EC++ does include an STL Subset.
However, there is no real reason for that, as full C++ can work just fine, assuming a good C++ implementation. I'll admit that on a micro-controller, you might have severe issues with C++ (because even a tiny bit of unnecessary overhead in unacceptable on those), but somewhat less constrained applications full C++ is definitely possible. (Even though many people refuse to believe it, because of major misconceptions about C++ code size and speed, caused by some early and very poor quality compilers and libraries.)
For what it is worth, I;ve herd that the Denon Link feature of dennon-devices, is an alalog transport system, that happens to use Ethernet-style cabling. Because it is analog, signal quality is important, and thus a very cheap cable would indeed cause "muddyness", although the cable they are selling is overkill even for analog signals, is overpriced, and has some really questionable features (directional arrows).
As I understand it:
Electromagnetic radiation is longitudinal vibration (waves) of an electric field line. (One could view it it vibrations of a magnetic field line too, but that view is not common.)
Now since light travels in a straight line, so the vibrations are not in that dimension. However, there are two other dimensions. If you are looking straight down the path of a beam of light there are two dimensions along with the field line vibrations could occur, namely up-down and left-right.
Those two components could have different amplitudes, but the same phase, which results in linear polarization, and could occur along any possible orientation. If the left-right and up-down components of the vibration (waves) have a phase difference, circular or elliptical polarization can occur.
See the nice images on the Wikipedia polarization article.
For a short period of time, it was a really useful technique on LiveCDs if there was no swap partition on-disk, or you wanted to preserve the on-disk swap partition for forensic analysis. I'm fairly certain it has been much improved since then to the point where this does not really buy you anything. I was never aware of the technical reason for this to be true, but it clearly was some sort of inefficiency in the use of "plain" RAM, which the swap system did not suffer from.
Interestingly, at least for a short period of time, even a GNU/Linux system would have better performance with swap on a ramdisk than with no swap at all.
Very funny, but I know better than to click on a link to a tinyurl-style site in a discussion of Rick Astley.
What the hell is this Shampoo meme that has been rather popular on slashdot for around a month?