From my understanding, the technology invented allows for arbitrary insertion of hash values into a file, and does not require tailor engineering a junk file to match the hash.
Bear in mind, I did not RTFA whatsoever, and could quite well be speaking out of my posterior.
Mr. Moller's been building flying cars since forever ago. I saw his cameo on "Invent This!", and he had relatively working prototypes of various models of flying cars in the 60s and 70s.
Really, it's quite amazing what he's accomplished, and has to be the first to market on these things. I can only wonder why it's never "taken off" (pun only slightly intended.)
I want to say I've heard him mention that being the first to market on something so "seemingly" dangerous was his downfall, but I could be misquoting.
Interesting aside: Moller has acres and acres of pecan trees, which he eats as a staple of his diet, because he believes they slow the aging process (and he's quite old now indeed.)
I don't necessarily believe that old black and white movies are good BECAUSE they are black and white. Granted, a lot of "colorized" movies look like crap, and I'll also grant you that a lot of black and white movies are good. I think that the correlation between the two is probably imagined. Colorizing a good movie doesn't necessarily lessen the movie, and can add considerably to it I'd say. The act of adding color (if done well), by itself, is not going to ruin the movie, in my opinion. Adding color, and doing it poorly could, but that's neither here nor there.
I think that the main reason this is not a good idea, to me, would be in the case of a car accident. Unless the system was able to accomodate for the facial differences by bruising, swelling and bleeding, I wouldn't touch one with a ten foot pole.
Tho cell phones are far more common nowadays, a good deal of people I know still carry them primarily for the safety factor, knowing that they can call if stranded by flat tire, etc. (Or at least they're using that as an excuse.)
That I wouldn't be able to use this phone at such a time would make it worthless to me.
Firstly, as has been mentioned, this IS a test flight, with full fuel capacity.
Secondly, the reason they went for "right now", in addition to their feelings of readiness, had to do with taking advantage of tailwinds and updrafts available at this time of year on their given path.
Because, as is the point, the solar panels ABSORB the light, not reflect it back. I don't have any hard numbers, but as PV cells are designed specifically to absorb sunlight, let's assume they do this pretty well. While some (let's say 20%) of a ray of sunlight is reflected back into the chamber, it would surely be caught by the next PV cell and absorbed wholly (unless, possibly, that PV cell is already working at maximum absorption, which, if is the case, negates the point of bothering to reflect in the first place.)
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Considering how frequently he gets sold out, and that he's making a career on his music, I'm thinking your "insult" sounds a little silly on its face.
If you don't like him, then fine. I don't like Britney Spears, but that doesn't prevent me from acknowledging that there seem to be plenty of people out there that do, or she wouldn't have near the money in her pocket that she does.
Of course, that assumes that you're grown up enough to acknowledge that just because you don't like something doesn't mean it sucks.
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Better, go to MCChris.com and download all of his work for free.
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Ordinarily, I'd play you off as a troll, but since so many others are expressing difficulty in understanding the worthiness of this, I'll try and sum up a few points:
1) Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Sealab 2021 are oft-watched shows by geeks (at least the ones I know, self included); MC Chris has roles in each. 1 Geek point.
2) MC Chris' rap is, in now way, anything like the rap you hear on the radio. While I happen to like it, I have no idea why. You're either going to like it, or extremely dislike it I assume, but it's definitely worth a listen. No geek points.
3) MC Chris' music contains many things or topics geeks find appealing. If Star Wars is considered geeky, then a rap by Boba Fett about working for Jabba Hut to pay the bills on his corvette is doubly geek. 2 geek points.
4) MC Chris gives his music away free on his website. Free as in beer. 10 geek points.
Someone else mentioned that the DJing is done on an Apple Powerbook or iBook or something, but I consider that a tool of the trade moreso than anything. Were it a Linux laptop, then I'd award points, but can't award for an industry standard.
Ignoring the baseless accusations made before the question was answered, they are, in fact, PIII Xeons, and yeah, they've been around a while.
How you think I'm "talking out of my ass" when I state that HA applications often utilize proven hardware in big business is anybody's guess. Whether or not you THINK you found a flaw in my solitary example doesn't change that it's true moreso than not.
Depends on the market. When stability is the crucial factor, and not performance, then it's not at all unlikely for that purchaser to stay behind the times.
In our environment, we have top-of-the-line, cutting edge hardware all over the place, but when we speced a box the other day for one of our help desk tools (read: not requiring high performance, but requiring relatively high availablity), we selected a box with quad Xeons.
Proven technology takes the risk out for critical apps like banking, hospitals, airlines, etc. Yeah, it's nice to be on the bleeding edge, but for applications that don't need the performance, or that can be tuned to run well on older hardware, you often see a return in uptime.
Because you have buying power when you're paying the full amount in cash. I have no idea why this is, honestly, but I know it to be true. If you finance a vehicle, even with 0%, you'll pay close to sticket price. One of my close friends came into a small inheritance (trust fund really), and bought a new Durango with it. As he paid cash, he bought the car (fully loaded, with every possible option; including 5.7L hemi, GPS, back-seat video, block heater, AWD, Satellite radio, etc), for just slightly more cost than the base model.
I think with taxes, titling and tags, he ended up paying approximately $28,000 for it, brand new, loaded, including delivery (as they didn't have one on the lot matching his specs). In the negotiation process, he hadn't mentioned that he'd be paying cash, and they were quoting numbers of $38,000-$40,000. As soon as he told them he'd pay cash, they starting cutting the amount.
Again, I don't know why this is for certain, but it's the cold, hard truth.
RedHat doesn't have to give them support anyway, as it is a pay to play sort of affair. The real question regarding support tho, to me, is whether or not RedHat would be willing to support CentOS, for the appropriate amount of money.
I would think it'd be good business for both parties, as CentOS can give away more copies, and RedHat can sell support, without having to justify the (I think loss-leading) cost of the OS sale.
So what? Who cares how long it's in beta for? Some of us prefer the tactic of waiting until they're comfortable that the product is ready for prime time before pushing it out the door.
Also, while google news may not have had any recent developments (I don't know, don't really use it), gMail is getting improvements all the time.
This is probably too late a response to get noticed, but having just put a contract on a new house as well (as of today actually), my mind went to similar directions.
After quite a bit of googling, I've found that Sonos (http://www.sonos.com) has a really nice setup. It's not Linux-friendly, but if you're a Windows household, or can have an old Windows box lying around, it'll be great for you.
The basic setup is as follows: You can have up to 32 base stations, which act as both input and output. Plug a base station into your PC and install the software, and voila, it will now interface with the remote. The base stations communicate with each other wirelessly, acting as repeaters, or a wireless mesh, if you prefer.
You can have multiple sources (with multiple base stations, that is), but I don't know whether or not it is available to the other base stations if it isn't coming through the PC (and through their software), so you'll likely want to check into that.
All in all tho, while it is a little pricy, does involve zero wiring (except power, and ethernet if you don't have wireless), and the cost of putting together a 5-6 room thing with 4 remotes is still cheaper to put together a decent quality multi-zone whole house audio system.
"Ok, I'm a geek and I love to have the Internet wherever I am but why in the kitchen? Like I don't have enough shit on my crappy counter space... Why not do something like those failed Motorola wireless AIM clients and have a docking station and wlan? Why do we have to have a small form factor machine in the kitchen? Most people here seem to be using this machine in the media room because it's small, quiet, and has DVI. That makes more sense to me."
Reasons to have a small form-factor PC in the kitchen:
1) Quick access to recipe sites (ala foodnetwork.com). The ability to browse recipes based on the ingredients I have available is worth its weight in gold.
2) Quick access to drink recipe sites. I like to drink my liquor straight, but my wife is all over the Purple Hearts and Strawberry/Raspberry Daquiri flavors of drink. I don't know how to make them, but when she wants one, it's handy to pull one up on the web and crank it out for her.
3) Grocery inventory. I've written a small "grocery list" type app that has a list of common grocery items we purchase, approximate prices, and when printed, prints the list out in order of the aisles in the store, depending on which store we decide to go to. (Yes, prepopulating this database was a fricking nightmare, but now that it's done, an invaluable resource.)
Those are the reasons I can think of, and it's already worth it to me... YMMV, but I'm sure there are more reasons to the next guy.
I don't know, but the obvious exploit I just came up with as to why that wouldn't work is item rarity.
Using thottbot, I can quickly find the best items in the game, and if I have my own server, I'm likely going to put a couple of those items in it with some of the quests, if for no other reason than to let me log in and go get them.
Why shouldn't I be able to have a +500DPS sword at level 10? It's a persistent world, and while it's not entirely unfeasible that they could allow certain distribution of the environment, they would likely HAVE to be supplemental (and not requisite) to the core, Blizzard-hosted environment, and strict locks would have to be put in place equating quest difficulty with reward.
Otherwise, I would just create a world full of treasure chests, each containing 100 gold pieces, then not advertise the world and just go running around collecting gold. Then of course, I'd sign back on to the Blizz forum, rich as Gates, and proceed to screw the economy.
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From my understanding, the technology invented allows for arbitrary insertion of hash values into a file, and does not require tailor engineering a junk file to match the hash.
Bear in mind, I did not RTFA whatsoever, and could quite well be speaking out of my posterior.
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Mr. Moller's been building flying cars since forever ago. I saw his cameo on "Invent This!", and he had relatively working prototypes of various models of flying cars in the 60s and 70s.
Really, it's quite amazing what he's accomplished, and has to be the first to market on these things. I can only wonder why it's never "taken off" (pun only slightly intended.)
I want to say I've heard him mention that being the first to market on something so "seemingly" dangerous was his downfall, but I could be misquoting.
Interesting aside: Moller has acres and acres of pecan trees, which he eats as a staple of his diet, because he believes they slow the aging process (and he's quite old now indeed.)
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Apple?
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You know what they say. 87% of the time, it works every time.
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I think the fact that you didn't realize the linked article is about Steve Jobs' salary is probably the most lame indeed.
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I don't necessarily believe that old black and white movies are good BECAUSE they are black and white. Granted, a lot of "colorized" movies look like crap, and I'll also grant you that a lot of black and white movies are good. I think that the correlation between the two is probably imagined. Colorizing a good movie doesn't necessarily lessen the movie, and can add considerably to it I'd say. The act of adding color (if done well), by itself, is not going to ruin the movie, in my opinion. Adding color, and doing it poorly could, but that's neither here nor there.
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I think that the main reason this is not a good idea, to me, would be in the case of a car accident. Unless the system was able to accomodate for the facial differences by bruising, swelling and bleeding, I wouldn't touch one with a ten foot pole.
Tho cell phones are far more common nowadays, a good deal of people I know still carry them primarily for the safety factor, knowing that they can call if stranded by flat tire, etc. (Or at least they're using that as an excuse.)
That I wouldn't be able to use this phone at such a time would make it worthless to me.
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Firstly, as has been mentioned, this IS a test flight, with full fuel capacity.
Secondly, the reason they went for "right now", in addition to their feelings of readiness, had to do with taking advantage of tailwinds and updrafts available at this time of year on their given path.
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The Honeymooners?
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Because, as is the point, the solar panels ABSORB the light, not reflect it back. I don't have any hard numbers, but as PV cells are designed specifically to absorb sunlight, let's assume they do this pretty well. While some (let's say 20%) of a ray of sunlight is reflected back into the chamber, it would surely be caught by the next PV cell and absorbed wholly (unless, possibly, that PV cell is already working at maximum absorption, which, if is the case, negates the point of bothering to reflect in the first place.)
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Considering how frequently he gets sold out, and that he's making a career on his music, I'm thinking your "insult" sounds a little silly on its face.
If you don't like him, then fine. I don't like Britney Spears, but that doesn't prevent me from acknowledging that there seem to be plenty of people out there that do, or she wouldn't have near the money in her pocket that she does.
Of course, that assumes that you're grown up enough to acknowledge that just because you don't like something doesn't mean it sucks.
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Better, go to MCChris.com and download all of his work for free.
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Ordinarily, I'd play you off as a troll, but since so many others are expressing difficulty in understanding the worthiness of this, I'll try and sum up a few points:
1) Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Sealab 2021 are oft-watched shows by geeks (at least the ones I know, self included); MC Chris has roles in each. 1 Geek point.
2) MC Chris' rap is, in now way, anything like the rap you hear on the radio. While I happen to like it, I have no idea why. You're either going to like it, or extremely dislike it I assume, but it's definitely worth a listen. No geek points.
3) MC Chris' music contains many things or topics geeks find appealing. If Star Wars is considered geeky, then a rap by Boba Fett about working for Jabba Hut to pay the bills on his corvette is doubly geek. 2 geek points.
4) MC Chris gives his music away free on his website. Free as in beer. 10 geek points.
Someone else mentioned that the DJing is done on an Apple Powerbook or iBook or something, but I consider that a tool of the trade moreso than anything. Were it a Linux laptop, then I'd award points, but can't award for an industry standard.
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Ignoring the baseless accusations made before the question was answered, they are, in fact, PIII Xeons, and yeah, they've been around a while.
How you think I'm "talking out of my ass" when I state that HA applications often utilize proven hardware in big business is anybody's guess. Whether or not you THINK you found a flaw in my solitary example doesn't change that it's true moreso than not.
Ciao,
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Depends on the market. When stability is the crucial factor, and not performance, then it's not at all unlikely for that purchaser to stay behind the times.
In our environment, we have top-of-the-line, cutting edge hardware all over the place, but when we speced a box the other day for one of our help desk tools (read: not requiring high performance, but requiring relatively high availablity), we selected a box with quad Xeons.
Proven technology takes the risk out for critical apps like banking, hospitals, airlines, etc. Yeah, it's nice to be on the bleeding edge, but for applications that don't need the performance, or that can be tuned to run well on older hardware, you often see a return in uptime.
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How would you know if it "falsely" reported a cartridge as empty?
WTF?!?!?
The nice thing is the cartridges are even a clear case so I can easily optically verify whether they are empty or not.
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It probably isn't being modded up because a Tivo/NetFlix coop is already in the works.
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Because you have buying power when you're paying the full amount in cash. I have no idea why this is, honestly, but I know it to be true. If you finance a vehicle, even with 0%, you'll pay close to sticket price. One of my close friends came into a small inheritance (trust fund really), and bought a new Durango with it. As he paid cash, he bought the car (fully loaded, with every possible option; including 5.7L hemi, GPS, back-seat video, block heater, AWD, Satellite radio, etc), for just slightly more cost than the base model.
I think with taxes, titling and tags, he ended up paying approximately $28,000 for it, brand new, loaded, including delivery (as they didn't have one on the lot matching his specs). In the negotiation process, he hadn't mentioned that he'd be paying cash, and they were quoting numbers of $38,000-$40,000. As soon as he told them he'd pay cash, they starting cutting the amount.
Again, I don't know why this is for certain, but it's the cold, hard truth.
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RedHat doesn't have to give them support anyway, as it is a pay to play sort of affair. The real question regarding support tho, to me, is whether or not RedHat would be willing to support CentOS, for the appropriate amount of money.
I would think it'd be good business for both parties, as CentOS can give away more copies, and RedHat can sell support, without having to justify the (I think loss-leading) cost of the OS sale.
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So what? Who cares how long it's in beta for? Some of us prefer the tactic of waiting until they're comfortable that the product is ready for prime time before pushing it out the door.
Also, while google news may not have had any recent developments (I don't know, don't really use it), gMail is getting improvements all the time.
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This is probably too late a response to get noticed, but having just put a contract on a new house as well (as of today actually), my mind went to similar directions.
After quite a bit of googling, I've found that Sonos (http://www.sonos.com) has a really nice setup. It's not Linux-friendly, but if you're a Windows household, or can have an old Windows box lying around, it'll be great for you.
The basic setup is as follows: You can have up to 32 base stations, which act as both input and output. Plug a base station into your PC and install the software, and voila, it will now interface with the remote. The base stations communicate with each other wirelessly, acting as repeaters, or a wireless mesh, if you prefer.
You can have multiple sources (with multiple base stations, that is), but I don't know whether or not it is available to the other base stations if it isn't coming through the PC (and through their software), so you'll likely want to check into that.
All in all tho, while it is a little pricy, does involve zero wiring (except power, and ethernet if you don't have wireless), and the cost of putting together a 5-6 room thing with 4 remotes is still cheaper to put together a decent quality multi-zone whole house audio system.
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From dictionary.com:
revenge
2 [...] a retaliatory measure.
4 An opportunity to retaliate, as by a return sports match after a defeat.
So, yeah, he wants revenge, not whatever preconcieved notion of it that you have, but the dictionary definition. That's all.
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"Ok, I'm a geek and I love to have the Internet wherever I am but why in the kitchen? Like I don't have enough shit on my crappy counter space... Why not do something like those failed Motorola wireless AIM clients and have a docking station and wlan? Why do we have to have a small form factor machine in the kitchen? Most people here seem to be using this machine in the media room because it's small, quiet, and has DVI. That makes more sense to me."
Reasons to have a small form-factor PC in the kitchen:
1) Quick access to recipe sites (ala foodnetwork.com). The ability to browse recipes based on the ingredients I have available is worth its weight in gold.
2) Quick access to drink recipe sites. I like to drink my liquor straight, but my wife is all over the Purple Hearts and Strawberry/Raspberry Daquiri flavors of drink. I don't know how to make them, but when she wants one, it's handy to pull one up on the web and crank it out for her.
3) Grocery inventory. I've written a small "grocery list" type app that has a list of common grocery items we purchase, approximate prices, and when printed, prints the list out in order of the aisles in the store, depending on which store we decide to go to. (Yes, prepopulating this database was a fricking nightmare, but now that it's done, an invaluable resource.)
Those are the reasons I can think of, and it's already worth it to me... YMMV, but I'm sure there are more reasons to the next guy.
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My reply was going to be "So is 'Radiation Storm' going to be open sourced, or is this just another press release?"
Still, not quite making the grade.
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I don't know, but the obvious exploit I just came up with as to why that wouldn't work is item rarity.
Using thottbot, I can quickly find the best items in the game, and if I have my own server, I'm likely going to put a couple of those items in it with some of the quests, if for no other reason than to let me log in and go get them.
Why shouldn't I be able to have a +500DPS sword at level 10? It's a persistent world, and while it's not entirely unfeasible that they could allow certain distribution of the environment, they would likely HAVE to be supplemental (and not requisite) to the core, Blizzard-hosted environment, and strict locks would have to be put in place equating quest difficulty with reward.
Otherwise, I would just create a world full of treasure chests, each containing 100 gold pieces, then not advertise the world and just go running around collecting gold. Then of course, I'd sign back on to the Blizz forum, rich as Gates, and proceed to screw the economy.
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