It would be far better if Microsoft provided a restricted simple browser that could be used to download other software - a sort of graphical version of lynx.
A simple and restricted browser? IE6 perhaps? We already have it and look what it does.
I find Windows annoying these days when I am forced to use it--everything's so fixed and locked down. It lacks so much stuff out of the box--you mean I can't just read pdf documents? or have virtual desktops? I need to download Firefox?
Now imagine if MS would ship pdf viewer with their system, adobe would shred them to pieces with anti-monopoly laws. Just look at problems IE shipping with windows generates (well, but without IE how will I download firefox?)
Two liters of distilled water won't make you seek. If you drink JUST distilled water AND don't eat anything, then yes, after several days you will have some problems.
This is natural cycle of evolution of such sites. First they are small sites with quality content for friends. Then friends are inviting friends and there is more content. Then content number is enormous, so you are very known site with quality content, anyone will join, many very stupid. You have many moderators, but they eventually can't cope with all that stupidity and it's not funny for them anymore, so they quit leaving only stupid people. Thanks to slashdot's moderation system it has thriven very long, but it's so known, there are millions of stupid users now. Now slashdot community is facing loss of quality users. It will be slow and painful death.
It's been long overdue - the level of surveillance the UK government has set up over the years is really overwhelming... how many more drops can that barrel take before the UK people finally kick them politicians in their well deserving @sses?
Not very soon. Do you know anyone who got arrested because of government spying on communications? over 99,9% of "normal" people neither. They don't know government is spying on them, because it isn't clearly visible. Normal people just want to continue their plain existence without any disruptions like protests, where you sometimes have to spend night in prison (just think what your neighbours would be talking about you!). If there is not any close threat, most people do not want to do anything and they will slowly drop by drop accept what is put on them.
Unlike Blum Blum Shub, the algorithm in its native form is not suitable for cryptography. Observing a sufficient number of iterates (624 in the case of MT19937) allows one to predict all future iterates.
So MT may be good enough for computational physicists, but not for strong cryptography.
Computer geeks laugh at computers in films, pirotechnicians laugh at explosions in films, doctors laugh at depictions of other doctors and astronauts laugh at scenes in space. The same is for lawyers and judges. Presumably for all other things. Hollywood is just one big lie, because reality isn't beautiful enough.
If people realized that their rights were trampled upon routinely by corporations, they would rebel, and the capitalist system - as it currently exists in the U.S. - would be in jeopardy.
Actually they don't care. They watch American Idol instead.
No. I tested my own simple raytracer (started in C++, tried how fast it was in java then moved to java because it's a lot easier and speed penalty is not so bad).
x - execution time of java program
y - execution time of c++ program
x = 1.3 * y
I don't specifically remember exact results now and can't repeat it (java version already very modified). First execution of main program loop was nearly 3 times slower in java. Then after second execution it stabilised for next 98 executions (JIT worked after it had enough data on how to optimize code).
First, you need to consider how much suction would be necessary just to move one packet over more than a few dozen yards. You'd have to set up repeaters at evenly-spaced points throughout the tube network just to keep up the necessary pressure.
Hmm, maybe some FireWire technology (detonating small explosives in the back of a packet) or Fibre Channel (mounting packets on a string, so they would be dragged inside tubes) would help?
With those repeaters in place, you'd still need someone on each end to receive the packet then route it to the next appropriate tube for further transmission.
They should use some form of BGP or RIP.
You could never send anything valuable since any router could remove items as they saw fit. Not only that, but as the recipient, you couldn't know with certainty that the packet was unopened on the way to you.
Good locks should be enough. Also pressurized systems with chemicals which change color on pressure change would indicate opening.
That's not even considering the possibility of badly-routed packets which end up bouncing between wrong endpoints until they finally get routed to the correct destination. A packet that reaches an endpoint without a router to continue the sequence is likely to be lost and dropped. Without error detection, it is possible that you could never see your lost packet again.
This is the same as with current postal service, many packages are badly-routed, many times even dropped (postal services actually have auctions where you can buy some "dropped" packages).
What they should use is a big truck. Not a series of tubes.
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Or telephone captcha, like "Press 3 if you are robot, press 2 if you are a real person". Only pressing 2 will actually make telephone ring.
A simple and restricted browser? IE6 perhaps? We already have it and look what it does.
Now imagine if MS would ship pdf viewer with their system, adobe would shred them to pieces with anti-monopoly laws. Just look at problems IE shipping with windows generates (well, but without IE how will I download firefox?)
Two liters of distilled water won't make you seek. If you drink JUST distilled water AND don't eat anything, then yes, after several days you will have some problems.
In exponential times sublinear growth means regression.
Conspiracy theorists don't really care about facts.
Easy, they would just say you faked their entire flight.
This is natural cycle of evolution of such sites. First they are small sites with quality content for friends. Then friends are inviting friends and there is more content. Then content number is enormous, so you are very known site with quality content, anyone will join, many very stupid. You have many moderators, but they eventually can't cope with all that stupidity and it's not funny for them anymore, so they quit leaving only stupid people. Thanks to slashdot's moderation system it has thriven very long, but it's so known, there are millions of stupid users now. Now slashdot community is facing loss of quality users. It will be slow and painful death.
You mean... cvs?
Not very soon. Do you know anyone who got arrested because of government spying on communications? over 99,9% of "normal" people neither. They don't know government is spying on them, because it isn't clearly visible. Normal people just want to continue their plain existence without any disruptions like protests, where you sometimes have to spend night in prison (just think what your neighbours would be talking about you!). If there is not any close threat, most people do not want to do anything and they will slowly drop by drop accept what is put on them.
Yes, if they were siberian swallows (much more durable and powerfull than european or african swallows) eating algae.
Or a very bad case of too much acronyms.
So MT may be good enough for computational physicists, but not for strong cryptography.
Computer geeks laugh at computers in films, pirotechnicians laugh at explosions in films, doctors laugh at depictions of other doctors and astronauts laugh at scenes in space. The same is for lawyers and judges. Presumably for all other things. Hollywood is just one big lie, because reality isn't beautiful enough.
Actually they don't care. They watch American Idol instead.
They typically come without glossy interface and Jobs' blessing.
Actually it's more like a wigwam. No gates, no windows, only apache inside.
No. I tested my own simple raytracer (started in C++, tried how fast it was in java then moved to java because it's a lot easier and speed penalty is not so bad).
x - execution time of java program y - execution time of c++ program x = 1.3 * y I don't specifically remember exact results now and can't repeat it (java version already very modified). First execution of main program loop was nearly 3 times slower in java. Then after second execution it stabilised for next 98 executions (JIT worked after it had enough data on how to optimize code).
Yes. Sunflow is one example. I did my own tests, java vs c++ (almoste the same code) and java was only about 1.3 times slower.
If we used MicroSD, it would be possible to send terabytes of data in one cylinder.
Hmm, maybe some FireWire technology (detonating small explosives in the back of a packet) or Fibre Channel (mounting packets on a string, so they would be dragged inside tubes) would help?
They should use some form of BGP or RIP.
Good locks should be enough. Also pressurized systems with chemicals which change color on pressure change would indicate opening.
This is the same as with current postal service, many packages are badly-routed, many times even dropped (postal services actually have auctions where you can buy some "dropped" packages).
FedEx
I heard that some people play FPS using joysticks. Now THAT is disgusting!
Just wait till Murdoch sponsors some research of summer civilization. THEN we will be doomed.
ahA! There are only 12 months, so this date is impossible! So earth will not be destroyed!