They've taken the image processing section down "for maintenance". You can now read the article and look at the pictures, just not convert photos to 3d.
It really is just a very very fast moving bullet. Well, shell. Big shell.
The kinetic energy in a block of metal moving at mach 8 is enough to give a pretty good impression of a powerful explosion if something (eg enemy ship) stops it.
It's also horrifically accurate for an unguided projectile weapon.
What the? How the heck does it take 5-10 sec to delete a file? You must be running something really wonky there. He's running Vista. That wonky enough?
Incidentally, you talk about "made back in 2003" like it was designed to run on the ENIAC! There was no excuse for releasing such a piece of garbage in the era of OS X, KDE 2 and whatever Windows was current then. XP.
Windows XP was released in 2002. Yes, it really is that old.
A large number of people were probably still running '98 at home and 2000 at work too.
Actually, the biggest problem isn't people who don't seed, the bittorrent protocol already favours those who upload.
The problem with transfer rates is caused by the fact that a large majority of bittorrent users are on ADSL. ADSL can have as bad as 1/100th the upload speed to its download speed. Bittorrent depends very heavily on users' upload bandwidth to work: You can't download faster than the seeds you're connected to can upload.
Now that is a better response than the person who accused me of not going out enough.
In all truth, I love a good book, just as I love a good film, or love a good game. In fact, I have said before that a good reader will kind of phase out the whole actual "reading the book" part, and will more sit there absently turning the pages in front of their eyes while watching and listening to what their imagination makes of it. You will end up remembering details that were never in the book, particularly what characters' voices sounded like.
All it really takes to foster an interest in books in a child is reading to them at bedtime when they're young, followed by reading with them, followed by letting them read. If instead you sit them in front of a TV or video game then naturally they aren't going to get much experience of books.
A good parent entertains their children, they don't let the TV do it for them. At least not all the time. Though to have the time to raise a child properly generally means having a whole family, two parents, only one who goes out to work and the other taking care of the children all day. This seems to be too difficult for most people nowadays for some reason.
Silly question... but... what is the difference between sitting on the couch reading a book and sitting on the couch and playing a video game? Good questions. I guess you know it's silly because obviously a book works the brain in so many rich ways--so far, a good book is better for personal and social development than any video game. A book works the brain more than a video game? Last time I checked (last night) there isn't much strategic planning or difficult choices to be made in reading a book. A book may work your imagination, but trying to predict what will happen if you do such-and-such, or trying to figure out how to do whatever, in a video game works your imagination quite effectively as well. No games really match the mindlessness portrayed of them by the media.
And one last point. Books are better for social development than a video game? Last I checked people don't tend to get together to read books, but frequently get together to play games. Either in front of one TV or over the internet using voice chat to communicate, makes little difference.
Blizzard Entertainment didn't start out with World of Warcarft. He didn't say they did.
He complained about the summary saying "World of Warcraft was launched in 2001" when it was ANNOUNCED in 2001, and not launched until 3 years after that.
He didn't say anything was wrong with "The Warcraft brand was first introduced in 1994".
I've already made this comment elsewhere in this article's comments, but it's relevant here too.
BT's newest "home hub" routers come with their wireless password set unique to the router (not sure what it's generated from) and admin password set to the router's serial number.
My parents' new BT "home hub" router comes with a default wireless password set and unique to the router, and an admin password set to the router's serial number.
I was surprised, I was expecting it to be completely unsecured, like every other home router.
It's boiling point is the same, but it can "superheat" more easily, that is, go over boiling point without actually boiling, until brought into contact with any impurities, and then it will boil explosively. If anything, that's even more dangerous than boiling water.
But anyway, not everyone uses distilled water, and not everyone avoids pretty UV additives, which would affect the boiling point (up or down I don't know).
Distilled water is recommended because it is less electrically conductive, doesn't deposit crap in your pump, pipes and waterblocks and is much less likely to have algae grow in it.
A pc can run perfectly fine with multiple cpu (cores) running at different speeds, but it mucks up anything that uses the RDTSC instruction for timing. Then again, using the RDTSC instruction as a timer is also broken on if a cpu changes speed, so it shouldn't be used for that nowadays anyway.
Due to a glitch I once had Windows Server 2003 running on a machine with one 2000MHz cpu and one 600MHz cpu. Everything ran fine except the dedicated server for Counter-Strike: Source, whose "uptime" counter kept flickering between an accurate time and a negative one. It seems it read the instruction counter and speed of the faster core when it started, then got a negative time by reading the instruction counter of the slower core and subtracting the "start time" it got from the other core.
And nVidia GPUs (don't know about ATI) won't shut off until 120C. The 6800 Ultra was apparently set at 132C. That's considerably more than water boiling point (which is 100C for you Fahrenheit people).
This is quite important if you have a watercooling kit installed, as if the pump fails or something like that that compromises the cooling of the gpu, it'll boil the water in the pipes, blow the seals and spray water/steam on running components. Best to lower the shutoff temp of your gpu to BELOW boiling point, or use an additive that increases the boiling point, if you watercool an nVidia gpu.
That's similar to Barclays Bank's new online banking login system.
It goes like this: 1: Enter your Surname and online banking membership number (12 digits). Both can optionally be saved after a successful login. 2: Enter the last 4 digits of one of your cards, put that card into the provided PINsentry(TM) card reader, press "IDENTIFY" and enter your PIN. Enter the 8-digit number you are given into the website. 3: You are now logged in.
Basically someone would need your membership number, card and pin to be able to log into your account online and steal your money. Just sniffing the typed info isn't good enough, because the ID given by the card reader can only be used once.
It's probably still vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack though, but that's pretty difficult to pull off.
right, another thing about 3d mice is that generally they're less precise- just clicking things can move the cursor elsewhere. It's even worse when you consider that there are people who have trouble clicking the buttons on a normal mouse without moving it.
That was true in the past, but nowadays malware is mostly spread by the good old "User wants free porn" method.
A.k.a social engineering.
I don't remember encountering any malware since at least before 2000 that could spread itself without relying on the user to infect their own machine. I've had several pieces of malware try to email or even msn file transfer themself to me from an infected pc though.
But a Sata power plug does have a 3.3V pin. A lot of sata hard-disks work without it, but this is either because they were designed for molex power (and may even have a molex socket), or have been designed to step 5V down to 3.3V if they need it and it isn't available.
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They've taken the image processing section down "for maintenance". You can now read the article and look at the pictures, just not convert photos to 3d.
It's not a guided projectile.
It really is just a very very fast moving bullet. Well, shell. Big shell.
The kinetic energy in a block of metal moving at mach 8 is enough to give a pretty good impression of a powerful explosion if something (eg enemy ship) stops it.
It's also horrifically accurate for an unguided projectile weapon.
I kid, I kid...
I have Windows 3.1 installed in dosbox, which works suprisingly well.
Possibly one in management, if you can find one.
Or just by saying "lol".
Windows XP was released in 2002. Yes, it really is that old.
A large number of people were probably still running '98 at home and 2000 at work too.
Actually, the biggest problem isn't people who don't seed, the bittorrent protocol already favours those who upload.
The problem with transfer rates is caused by the fact that a large majority of bittorrent users are on ADSL. ADSL can have as bad as 1/100th the upload speed to its download speed. Bittorrent depends very heavily on users' upload bandwidth to work: You can't download faster than the seeds you're connected to can upload.
Now that is a better response than the person who accused me of not going out enough.
In all truth, I love a good book, just as I love a good film, or love a good game. In fact, I have said before that a good reader will kind of phase out the whole actual "reading the book" part, and will more sit there absently turning the pages in front of their eyes while watching and listening to what their imagination makes of it. You will end up remembering details that were never in the book, particularly what characters' voices sounded like.
All it really takes to foster an interest in books in a child is reading to them at bedtime when they're young, followed by reading with them, followed by letting them read. If instead you sit them in front of a TV or video game then naturally they aren't going to get much experience of books.
A good parent entertains their children, they don't let the TV do it for them. At least not all the time. Though to have the time to raise a child properly generally means having a whole family, two parents, only one who goes out to work and the other taking care of the children all day. This seems to be too difficult for most people nowadays for some reason.
Heheh, I'd forgotten about those.
I used to read those as a kid.
I had a bunch of the "Fighting Fantasy" ones too, but they were more of a pen&paper rpg than a book.
You're assuming that I'm missing any of the world, and not spending enough time outside.
Any particular reason?
Apart from the fact that I'm posting on slashdot. We're not all stereotypical here.
No games really match the mindlessness portrayed of them by the media.
And one last point. Books are better for social development than a video game? Last I checked people don't tend to get together to read books, but frequently get together to play games. Either in front of one TV or over the internet using voice chat to communicate, makes little difference.
He complained about the summary saying "World of Warcraft was launched in 2001" when it was ANNOUNCED in 2001, and not launched until 3 years after that.
He didn't say anything was wrong with "The Warcraft brand was first introduced in 1994".
Can't you even read two sentences correctly?
You have to be careful what you download, as "woooooosh.iso" is an old version.
I've already made this comment elsewhere in this article's comments, but it's relevant here too.
BT's newest "home hub" routers come with their wireless password set unique to the router (not sure what it's generated from) and admin password set to the router's serial number.
I wish more home routers defaulted to this.
My parents' new BT "home hub" router comes with a default wireless password set and unique to the router, and an admin password set to the router's serial number.
I was surprised, I was expecting it to be completely unsecured, like every other home router.
Or, if you're only counting desktop/workstation OSs, not server, there's also Windows XP x64 Edition (5.2).
It's boiling point is the same, but it can "superheat" more easily, that is, go over boiling point without actually boiling, until brought into contact with any impurities, and then it will boil explosively. If anything, that's even more dangerous than boiling water.
But anyway, not everyone uses distilled water, and not everyone avoids pretty UV additives, which would affect the boiling point (up or down I don't know).
Distilled water is recommended because it is less electrically conductive, doesn't deposit crap in your pump, pipes and waterblocks and is much less likely to have algae grow in it.
A pc can run perfectly fine with multiple cpu (cores) running at different speeds, but it mucks up anything that uses the RDTSC instruction for timing. Then again, using the RDTSC instruction as a timer is also broken on if a cpu changes speed, so it shouldn't be used for that nowadays anyway.
Due to a glitch I once had Windows Server 2003 running on a machine with one 2000MHz cpu and one 600MHz cpu. Everything ran fine except the dedicated server for Counter-Strike: Source, whose "uptime" counter kept flickering between an accurate time and a negative one. It seems it read the instruction counter and speed of the faster core when it started, then got a negative time by reading the instruction counter of the slower core and subtracting the "start time" it got from the other core.
And nVidia GPUs (don't know about ATI) won't shut off until 120C. The 6800 Ultra was apparently set at 132C. That's considerably more than water boiling point (which is 100C for you Fahrenheit people).
This is quite important if you have a watercooling kit installed, as if the pump fails or something like that that compromises the cooling of the gpu, it'll boil the water in the pipes, blow the seals and spray water/steam on running components. Best to lower the shutoff temp of your gpu to BELOW boiling point, or use an additive that increases the boiling point, if you watercool an nVidia gpu.
It still shows a BSOD, then reboots after it's finished displaying it. You might only see a flash of blue, but it is still there.
That's similar to Barclays Bank's new online banking login system.
It goes like this:
1: Enter your Surname and online banking membership number (12 digits). Both can optionally be saved after a successful login.
2: Enter the last 4 digits of one of your cards, put that card into the provided PINsentry(TM) card reader, press "IDENTIFY" and enter your PIN. Enter the 8-digit number you are given into the website.
3: You are now logged in.
Basically someone would need your membership number, card and pin to be able to log into your account online and steal your money. Just sniffing the typed info isn't good enough, because the ID given by the card reader can only be used once.
It's probably still vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack though, but that's pretty difficult to pull off.
That was true in the past, but nowadays malware is mostly spread by the good old "User wants free porn" method.
A.k.a social engineering.
I don't remember encountering any malware since at least before 2000 that could spread itself without relying on the user to infect their own machine. I've had several pieces of malware try to email or even msn file transfer themself to me from an infected pc though.
But a Sata power plug does have a 3.3V pin. A lot of sata hard-disks work without it, but this is either because they were designed for molex power (and may even have a molex socket), or have been designed to step 5V down to 3.3V if they need it and it isn't available.