Error correction does not always fix everything. The bits used for error correction can have errors as well after transmission. And sometimes there can be too many errors in the signal to be fixable with error correction.
That is either for short amounts of time or with proper equipment (G-Suit).
When I flew glider planes, we used to go up to 6.5 -7G and it is really hard work to stay conscience. I have doubts about the elegance and euphoria described though, above 7G things really start to hurt, your nose will be dripping, ear wax will pop out of your ears,... If you're physically weak, you'll probably have small arteries in your legs burst too due to the increases blood pressure.
Why would code compiled on your system run any faster than the same code on someone else's system?
Because many pre-compiled packages use conservative optimization flags and may lack specific code paths for certain processors and instruction sets. They might also have chosen a compiler which doesn't produce the fastest code around. I'm not sure how it stands today, but a few years back, ICC produced code up to 30% faster than GCC or MSVC.
The difference all depends on the type of application of course. Overall, you might only see a performance difference of 1-5%, but for specific parts of the application, performance increase may be anywhere between 10 to 200%.
Last, compiling yourself also means you can choose what gets compiled and what not. Which in turns reduces diskspace and memory usage of the executable and may increase security and performance a bit. For things like Kernels and such, you need to compile it yourself if you want support for specific things (ALTQ for PF under FreeBSD for instance).
No police officer is going to give you a ticket for going 5 over the speedlimit so don't even think of using it as an excuse.
Where I live (the Netherlands), below 100km/h there is a 3 km/h correction (3% correction above 100km/h), so driving 54km/h in a 50km/h zone can get you a fine. Granted, a police officer isn't likely to stop you, but driving past a speed trap (which we have a LOT of) is going to land you a ticket.
I'm using the Scarangel mod by Stulle, which has Maella bandwidth control + NAFC (network adapter feedback control). Plus, cFosSpeed trafficshaping which puts all packets of eMule.exe in the lowest class. Works like a charm, uses 99% of available bandwidth and I can still play EVE Online, login to servers with SSH or browse the web without lag.
Major problems HAVE been reported, especially with people already using their own Traffic Shaping solutions. I've never gotten v2 to work properly. Uploading fluctuates and uses only half of my upstream on average. Even though 100% of the upstream is available without congestion issues. eMule otoh has absolutely no issues using 99% of my upstream bandwidth.
"Greater good", "greater evil" and context are very relative terms and often abused to disguise acts which are just bad or evil. You mention a pretty good example, the CIA.
Parachutes don't work well in downdrafts, or very turbulent conditions where the risk of a parachute collapse is high. But I doubt he would have had the height and time to jump. Which is one of the reasons flying near mountains is so dangerous.
Not only that, it also means we will need to trade in some of our opinions, morals and values.
A nice example; Recently, the Dalai Lama made an unofficial visit to the Netherlands, without meeting important people like the Prime Minister and such. The reason: China would impose trade restrictions if the meeting was official or he would meet the Queen or Prime Minister. Now they only impose mild sanctions on us, such as restricting Visa for politicians.
A better example even: If you'd go to a local department store here in the Netherlands and purchase a Globe (not sure what the proper English name is; a soccerball sized globe with the world map and a lamp inside), produced in China of course (what isn't), you'll notice that some borders around China have been moved. Taiwan is no longer an independent country either, but it is part of China.
Anyhow, a $20 gold coin has a face value of $20. That's what makes it a $20 gold coin.
Well, a tomato is (oversized) berry, which makes it a fruit. But it is (was?) taxed in the US a vegetable. Things are what they are, unless the government says otherwise.
and it's used in tons of video games (precisely because it doesn't need to be licensed, I think)
And because a popular package used in games, http://www.radgametools.com/, has very good support for ogg. So there is little reason why video games shouldn't use ogg. Better, cheaper and usable.
Cowcatchers / Bull-bars are illegal in several countries (Netherlands among others) as they are rather unfriendly to pedestrians when colliding with them.
I believe eMule, for example, is set to open up a max of 800 or 1000 simultaneous connections out of the box.
No. It may allow a user/system to do that, but it uses far fewer connections out of the box, not counting KAD/DHT and such. Same goes for BitTorrent and many other p2p-apps. The problem usually lies the user setting insanely high settings for bandwidth and connections.
The programmers of these P2P apps, either brilliant jerks or unwitting fools (both equally dangerous), have made applications that are so irresponsible on networks that just opening them can bring networks to their knees -- intentionally so, as these apps were specifically designed to break college P2P filters.
Which p2p-app is designed to break college P2P filters by setting up massive amounts of connections? Many home-routers crap out when using 256 or 512 connections, so modern p2p apps shy away from using too many connections. Of course, end-users can change the settings and configuration so that p2p-apps do use a thousand+ connections.
You can question whether or not other people have the right to see images like that. Personally, I consider pictures of someones death and/or mutilated body are more personal/private than ones genitals.
The images of Nikki, including one of her nearly-decapitated head drooping out the shattered car window, were taken as a routine part of a fatal accident response and went viral after being leaked by two CHP dispatchers.
So what is the penalty of leaking images like this? I take it they will lose their jobs and face a civil lawsuit from the parents, but will they be fined or face jail-time?
I've been using I2P on-and-off for quite a while, and it is way faster than 2Kbps. BitTorrent over I2P can reach speeds of 50KBps and it could probably go faster if there was a mature BitTorrent client for I2P. Latency is low as well. Overall, I2P is much more usable than TOR.
Don't have any links at hand, but there is some research that concluded that urban-life induces stress. Apparently, some people naturally go into stress mode in crowded places, which are fairly common in urban environments. All the noises, moving vehicles, flashing lights, etc can also induce additional stress.
Not sure if it is large scale, but it is not uncommon. The issue made it on a large Dutch consumer tv show, because Sony was charging people 200 euro for repairs even though it should fall under warranty (Sony claims there is only a 1 year warranty on the PS3, but Dutch consumer law states that warranty extends to the expected life-time of a product; essentially Sony tried to claim that the PS3 only has a one-year life-time).
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Celsius is no where near that intuitive and was as arbitrarily defined as Fahrenheit was.
~0 degrees Celcius = Melting point of ice; 100 degrees Celcius = Boiling point of water (all at standard atmospheric pressure)
0 degrees Fahrenheit = Stabilized temperature of a mixture of ice, water, and ammonium chloride; 32 degrees Fahrenheit = Melting point of ice; ~ 96 degrees Fahrenheit = Body temperature.
Celcius seems pretty intuitive to me, though originally it was reversed (100 degrees was the freezing point and 0 was the boiling point). Fahrenheit doesn't make sense at all.
Actually, no. If you look at most laws governing Child Pornography, it has jack squat to do with the abuse of children and paying for images of abuse. Virtual CP is illegal and criminal in many countries. Staged CP (adults dressed up as underage teens and purported as such) is illegal as well in most countries. Even actual consensual "CP" is illegal (ok, borderline, but google Traci Lords to see what I mean). If the abuse of children was what is was all about, authorities would do something serious about Human Trafficking, which victimizes 100's to 1000's of underage females yearly.
Don't get me wrong, I have serious issues with Child Abuse, but the whole fight against CP is symbolic and based upon morality. It is not doing much for the actual victims. Most abused children probably never end up in online CP. They remain anonymous in some dark basement or illegal brothel. And how often do you hear someone about that?
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An even bigger ISP in the Netherlands uses/used the very same password for people who forgot their original more secure password.
Error correction does not always fix everything. The bits used for error correction can have errors as well after transmission. And sometimes there can be too many errors in the signal to be fixable with error correction.
That is either for short amounts of time or with proper equipment (G-Suit). When I flew glider planes, we used to go up to 6.5 -7G and it is really hard work to stay conscience. I have doubts about the elegance and euphoria described though, above 7G things really start to hurt, your nose will be dripping, ear wax will pop out of your ears, ... If you're physically weak, you'll probably have small arteries in your legs burst too due to the increases blood pressure.
Why would code compiled on your system run any faster than the same code on someone else's system?
Because many pre-compiled packages use conservative optimization flags and may lack specific code paths for certain processors and instruction sets. They might also have chosen a compiler which doesn't produce the fastest code around. I'm not sure how it stands today, but a few years back, ICC produced code up to 30% faster than GCC or MSVC.
The difference all depends on the type of application of course. Overall, you might only see a performance difference of 1-5%, but for specific parts of the application, performance increase may be anywhere between 10 to 200%.
Last, compiling yourself also means you can choose what gets compiled and what not. Which in turns reduces diskspace and memory usage of the executable and may increase security and performance a bit. For things like Kernels and such, you need to compile it yourself if you want support for specific things (ALTQ for PF under FreeBSD for instance).
No police officer is going to give you a ticket for going 5 over the speedlimit so don't even think of using it as an excuse.
Where I live (the Netherlands), below 100km/h there is a 3 km/h correction (3% correction above 100km/h), so driving 54km/h in a 50km/h zone can get you a fine. Granted, a police officer isn't likely to stop you, but driving past a speed trap (which we have a LOT of) is going to land you a ticket.
I'm using the Scarangel mod by Stulle, which has Maella bandwidth control + NAFC (network adapter feedback control). Plus, cFosSpeed trafficshaping which puts all packets of eMule.exe in the lowest class. Works like a charm, uses 99% of available bandwidth and I can still play EVE Online, login to servers with SSH or browse the web without lag.
Major problems HAVE been reported, especially with people already using their own Traffic Shaping solutions. I've never gotten v2 to work properly. Uploading fluctuates and uses only half of my upstream on average. Even though 100% of the upstream is available without congestion issues. eMule otoh has absolutely no issues using 99% of my upstream bandwidth.
"Greater good", "greater evil" and context are very relative terms and often abused to disguise acts which are just bad or evil. You mention a pretty good example, the CIA.
Impulse is good, IF you live in North America. Many (popular) titles on Impulse are US, Canada and Mexico only.
Parachutes don't work well in downdrafts, or very turbulent conditions where the risk of a parachute collapse is high. But I doubt he would have had the height and time to jump. Which is one of the reasons flying near mountains is so dangerous.
Not only that, it also means we will need to trade in some of our opinions, morals and values.
A nice example; Recently, the Dalai Lama made an unofficial visit to the Netherlands, without meeting important people like the Prime Minister and such. The reason: China would impose trade restrictions if the meeting was official or he would meet the Queen or Prime Minister. Now they only impose mild sanctions on us, such as restricting Visa for politicians.
A better example even: If you'd go to a local department store here in the Netherlands and purchase a Globe (not sure what the proper English name is; a soccerball sized globe with the world map and a lamp inside), produced in China of course (what isn't), you'll notice that some borders around China have been moved. Taiwan is no longer an independent country either, but it is part of China.
On Windows, Hibernate dumps the RAM to the disk, but it DOESN'T use swap space/virtual memory (pagefile.sys). It has its own file (hiberfil.sys).
Anyhow, a $20 gold coin has a face value of $20. That's what makes it a $20 gold coin.
Well, a tomato is (oversized) berry, which makes it a fruit. But it is (was?) taxed in the US a vegetable. Things are what they are, unless the government says otherwise.
and it's used in tons of video games (precisely because it doesn't need to be licensed, I think)
And because a popular package used in games, http://www.radgametools.com/, has very good support for ogg. So there is little reason why video games shouldn't use ogg. Better, cheaper and usable.
Cowcatchers / Bull-bars are illegal in several countries (Netherlands among others) as they are rather unfriendly to pedestrians when colliding with them.
I believe eMule, for example, is set to open up a max of 800 or 1000 simultaneous connections out of the box.
No. It may allow a user/system to do that, but it uses far fewer connections out of the box, not counting KAD/DHT and such. Same goes for BitTorrent and many other p2p-apps. The problem usually lies the user setting insanely high settings for bandwidth and connections.
The programmers of these P2P apps, either brilliant jerks or unwitting fools (both equally dangerous), have made applications that are so irresponsible on networks that just opening them can bring networks to their knees -- intentionally so, as these apps were specifically designed to break college P2P filters.
Which p2p-app is designed to break college P2P filters by setting up massive amounts of connections? Many home-routers crap out when using 256 or 512 connections, so modern p2p apps shy away from using too many connections. Of course, end-users can change the settings and configuration so that p2p-apps do use a thousand+ connections.
Agreed. Yesterdays 3.6a1pre scores 94/100 btw.
You can question whether or not other people have the right to see images like that. Personally, I consider pictures of someones death and/or mutilated body are more personal/private than ones genitals.
The images of Nikki, including one of her nearly-decapitated head drooping out the shattered car window, were taken as a routine part of a fatal accident response and went viral after being leaked by two CHP dispatchers.
So what is the penalty of leaking images like this? I take it they will lose their jobs and face a civil lawsuit from the parents, but will they be fined or face jail-time?
I've been using I2P on-and-off for quite a while, and it is way faster than 2Kbps. BitTorrent over I2P can reach speeds of 50KBps and it could probably go faster if there was a mature BitTorrent client for I2P. Latency is low as well. Overall, I2P is much more usable than TOR.
I live 5km from the Belgium border, in the Netherlands. ~30 euro's for a 10/1.5Mbps connection with a FUP that allows at least 1TB a month.
And if you're over 18 and mentally undeveloped, well, then you're essentially treated like a child.
Than why were mentally retarded people given the death penalty?
Don't have any links at hand, but there is some research that concluded that urban-life induces stress. Apparently, some people naturally go into stress mode in crowded places, which are fairly common in urban environments. All the noises, moving vehicles, flashing lights, etc can also induce additional stress.
Not sure if it is large scale, but it is not uncommon. The issue made it on a large Dutch consumer tv show, because Sony was charging people 200 euro for repairs even though it should fall under warranty (Sony claims there is only a 1 year warranty on the PS3, but Dutch consumer law states that warranty extends to the expected life-time of a product; essentially Sony tried to claim that the PS3 only has a one-year life-time).
Celsius is no where near that intuitive and was as arbitrarily defined as Fahrenheit was.
~0 degrees Celcius = Melting point of ice; 100 degrees Celcius = Boiling point of water (all at standard atmospheric pressure)
0 degrees Fahrenheit = Stabilized temperature of a mixture of ice, water, and ammonium chloride; 32 degrees Fahrenheit = Melting point of ice; ~ 96 degrees Fahrenheit = Body temperature.
Celcius seems pretty intuitive to me, though originally it was reversed (100 degrees was the freezing point and 0 was the boiling point). Fahrenheit doesn't make sense at all.
Actually, no. If you look at most laws governing Child Pornography, it has jack squat to do with the abuse of children and paying for images of abuse. Virtual CP is illegal and criminal in many countries. Staged CP (adults dressed up as underage teens and purported as such) is illegal as well in most countries. Even actual consensual "CP" is illegal (ok, borderline, but google Traci Lords to see what I mean). If the abuse of children was what is was all about, authorities would do something serious about Human Trafficking, which victimizes 100's to 1000's of underage females yearly.
Don't get me wrong, I have serious issues with Child Abuse, but the whole fight against CP is symbolic and based upon morality. It is not doing much for the actual victims. Most abused children probably never end up in online CP. They remain anonymous in some dark basement or illegal brothel. And how often do you hear someone about that?