I read my mails in a AJAX based interface by Google called Gmail. It's way faster than my previous mail applications in several ways. Also it's the one application I use the most.
Even if they encrypt and compress the data itself into what looks like white noice or more probably use a language that looks like noice to us, the signal might be packet based in some way or another. If I mail you a perfectly random sequence of bits the data will be enclosed in layer after layer of protocols and although it does not contain any information you can still be sure that it was sent by or at least delivered to you by an intelligent being.
Correct me if I'm wrong but the Black Jack tables at night clubs in finland aren't played by the same rules as in Las Vegas. There is no way you are going to beat them, even if you count.
I never would have thought I would be the one pointing out something that could be positively interpreted for Intel but as it happens Pioneer 10 was powered by the Intel 4004. http://www.geocities.com/thestarman3/epc/40 04.html http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/ 20 011115corp_a.htm
I used to believe that but since Canal+/Conax here in europe hasn't been cracked in four years, reality starts to bite my belief. On the other hand the biggest competition to Conax is Viaccess (correct me if I'm wrong) and from what I heard that system has been cracked.
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>Oh, and it takes a local user to exploit it.
Ever heard of Windows Terminal Server? I guess this could be a huge problem in that kind of environment.
Also I sincerely hope that it's not possible to send Win32 event with JavaScript.
This is not an issue since you would access your static memory just like you access a disk today only much faster and not with average access time but an exact one. There are
I don't see why a hd would heat more just because it's stores more? Magnetic media doesn't have to be refreshed like RAM.
To adress your second concern I would say that the only viable solution for home computing backups has been to backup to another hd for a couple of years now. Backup systems that handles hundreds of GBs are just way too expensive. I solved the problem by just backing up my mail, documents, projects and so on (300MB). The other 50GB I can download from my friends if I ever get a total crash...
The current implementations of NTFS and ext2fs is said to handle 2TB. Figure running a defrag on such a beast!
The police here in Sweden has been using mobile position for a couple of years now. It's been used in some high profile crimes like the murder of two police officers a couple of years back. (80% of the swedish has access to a cellular phone in their home, actually there are more celluars than cars)
Here in Sweden we're not as concered as the USA citizens of the Big Brother/1984 scenarios. Just check out our national statistics also everyone in sweden has a nationwide unique number based on our birthdate. Great to use a unique identifier in databases...
If the company wouldn't have liked it he could always had sold it to http://www.sputnik.com/
Still in this day some newfounded companies forgets to check if the name.com is available. A rumour has it that qxl.com did it the other way and is called that just because the domain was available.
A few years back you had to have a Ltd. to register a.se-domain. Guess what happened?
No, math works because it is intended to model the universe just like a spoon feeds your mouth because that's what it was designed to do or a compiler compiles code or English assists communication or...
There is no spoon.
Mathematics is a developing language used to roughly model some aspects of observed behavior in the universe. Math isn't what the universe does --- math is a tool through which we understand a collection of observations about the universe.
Throughout history there has been an astonishing amount of mathematicians who has studied and found new schools of math just for the fun of it. Later in history some of that math has been found to be very handy. The math geniouses who thought it up hundreds of years before didn't even know that there could be such a thing as electrical currents. I thought we were using physics to describe the universe. Physics uses alot of math but math isn't physics.
Capable of being totally silent if you turn off the two fans and only use the computer a minute at a time?
It looks cool but not being totally silent and not having an AGP-slot are two cons that makes me stay away from it.
Right now I'm sitting in a room with 4 PCs and one laptop. The humming sound is terribly annoying. Not that I hear the laptop in here but even those have fans today. Buy shares in silent computing!
I don't recommend you to read any further. I remember my Amiga1200 with two internal 2.5" HDs fitted it still didn't overheat and it had no fan, not even the PSU. Come to think of it my C64 never made a sound and booted in 0.2s.
Ok, I'm a boring strut but haven't you heard about the Butterfly Effect? In the early sixties a meterologist named Lorenz found out that simple non-linear equations could be extremely dependent on the initial values. Thus it's impossible to predict the weather for more than a couple of days.
Now I wonder if the climate simulation contains non-linear equations with the same behaviour? If that is the case, different starting values that only differs in the 10th decimal could give earthwide Sahara or a frozen planet.
I believe that the biosphere is self regulating. That doesn't mean that we will not melt the poles but I believe that it means that it's really difficult to make the earth completely uninhabitable.
Your right and I'm wrong. Now I will dig a very deep hole and live there until everyone forgot about my previous post.
Here is a nice example of doing what you just proposed: http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/dal.a sp
I still believe that MS should have provided us with a generic DB-layer that the programmer configured to use SqlData, OleDBData or whatever. Now every example is SqlClient or OleDbClient and thus makes idiots like me doing things the wrong way.
> ASP.NET integrates (quite, quite nicely) with MS SQL
But it also integrates it in a way that makes switching to another DB alot harder than with with old ADO/OleDB. If you use System.Data.SqlClient that is. And you do because it is much faster than System.Data.OleDb for alot of simple things like connectiontime. MS should off course have hidden the type of DB from the programmer. Why didn't they do it? Why do they have SqlDataReader and OleDbDataReader and not just a DataReader interface that inherits from Sql or OleDb? My paranoia tells me that MS wants to sell SQL-server licenses instead of helping selling Oracle or DB2.
While we're at it. Isn't "The article itself is allright, but it has a lot of good links" like saying "She's cute but she's sweet." or "The CPU itself is fast but it's cheap."?
Just to make this post a complete waste I would like to add that XBOX is a much better name than.NET. What was the marketing folks at MS thinking? "Let's have one of those cool Internet-symbols in the name to make it unique and easy to remember!". Do you think they ever head of a search engine?
Anyway $300 for all that hardware that is crammed into a XBOX is cheap. PS2 has been around for nearly three years and is actually way behind in features and speed. I'm not saying that this will make the XBOX a winner.
I'm feeling as boring as cold toast so I just have to point out that in Russia a big bottle of Vodka costs more like $2. Also there will be no re-entry because you will never leave.
And to totally scare you off I will also dare to compare this to the trip that Tito took. Tito payed ALOT more than $100,000 (ok he got alot more). http://www.space.com/dennistito/ http://w ww.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/tito_next_step_010501-1.html
>Why do you think these things will be any >different than current computational devices?
How about "massive parallelism" that never can be achieved in the clock-based machines of today.
If there ever will be quantum computers they will certainly differ alot from todays. Maybe your laptop in the year of 2038 wount be using QC but the researchers will simply love and make great things with them.
>but it still won't help you fight, e.g. Gödel's >theorem. (Or will it?)
I don't think so. Even though a quantum computer might be able to test an enourmous amount of coordinates in i.e. the Mandelbrot set the computer will still be limited to the number of bits. It will still be digital.
It's as simple as: The only perfect map of the world is the world.
But why would you fight it? It's pure and it has proven that it can't be proven and thus that some other stuff can't be proven either... or somehting like that.
1. Someone listens to your laptops WLAN-adapter firing up a connection to your AP. 2. If you are using WEP he then decrypts the transmission. 3. He waits until you are not online and then sets his MAC-address to yours. 4. He is a happy camper, you are not. 5. You realize that you want to have your AP outside a FW and VPN yourself to your home LAN or maybe even to reach your Internet connection or you just don't care and are believe it's quite hard to crack into your OS of choice anyway.
>MAC address filtering though... How can it be >bypassed? (other than randomly guessing one of >the addresses on the allow list, extremely >unlikely as that is)
Well your WLAN-enabled device has to tell your access point it's MAC-address, has is not?
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You can be pretty sure we don't brute force in our brain the same way computers does. We tick way too slow.
I read my mails in a AJAX based interface by Google called Gmail. It's way faster than my previous mail applications in several ways. Also it's the one application I use the most.
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I would recommend reading "How Microsoft lost the API war" by Joal Spolsky: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.htm
Even if they encrypt and compress the data itself into what looks like white noice or more probably use a language that looks like noice to us, the signal might be packet based in some way or another. If I mail you a perfectly random sequence of bits the data will be enclosed in layer after layer of protocols and although it does not contain any information you can still be sure that it was sent by or at least delivered to you by an intelligent being.
Correct me if I'm wrong but the Black Jack tables at night clubs in finland aren't played by the same rules as in Las Vegas. There is no way you are going to beat them, even if you count.
I never would have thought I would be the one pointing out something that could be positively interpreted for Intel but as it happens Pioneer 10 was powered by the Intel 4004.0 04.html / 20 011115corp_a.htm
http://www.geocities.com/thestarman3/epc/4
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases
I used to believe that but since Canal+/Conax here in europe hasn't been cracked in four years,
reality starts to bite my belief. On the other hand the biggest competition to Conax is Viaccess
(correct me if I'm wrong) and from what I heard that system has been cracked.
>Oh, and it takes a local user to exploit it.
Ever heard of Windows Terminal Server? I guess this could be a huge problem in that kind of environment.
Also I sincerely hope that it's not possible to send Win32 event with JavaScript.
How about storing HDTV movies? Last I heard that took about 27GB for 2 hours and that's in MPEG-2 not raw. 1000/27=37 movies on a 1TB disk.
This is not an issue since you would access your static memory just like you access a disk today only much faster and not with average access time but an exact one. There are
Not necessarily because higher density means that you will cover more data at the same speed.
Today we have 160GB disks with under 10ms seek time. 1TB isn't that far off and you could always increase the number of heads.
I don't see why a hd would heat more just because it's stores more? Magnetic media doesn't have to be refreshed like RAM.
To adress your second concern I would say that the only viable solution for home computing backups has been to backup to another hd for a couple of years now. Backup systems that handles hundreds of GBs are just way too expensive. I solved the problem by just backing up my mail, documents, projects and so on (300MB). The other 50GB I can download from my friends if I ever get a total crash...
The current implementations of NTFS and ext2fs is said to handle 2TB. Figure running a defrag on such a beast!
The police here in Sweden has been using mobile position for a couple of years now. It's been used in some high profile crimes like the murder of two police officers a couple of years back.
(80% of the swedish has access to a cellular phone in their home, actually there are more celluars than cars)
Here in Sweden we're not as concered as the USA citizens of the Big Brother/1984 scenarios. Just check out our national statistics also everyone in sweden has a nationwide unique number based on our birthdate. Great to use a unique identifier in databases...
Swedens biggest mobile operator has a service where you can find your friends
though I have no idea why you would use it.
Mobile Friendfinder in swedish and only for swedish people.
How did he explain Lenins presence in the logo?
.se-domain. Guess what happened?
If the company wouldn't have liked it he could always had sold it to http://www.sputnik.com/
Still in this day some newfounded companies forgets to check if the name.com is available. A rumour has it that qxl.com did it the other way and is called that just because the domain was available.
A few years back you had to have a Ltd. to register a
No, math works because it is intended to model the universe just like a spoon feeds your mouth because that's what it was designed to do or a compiler compiles code or English assists communication or ...
There is no spoon.
Mathematics is a developing language used to roughly model some aspects of observed behavior in the universe. Math isn't what the universe does --- math is a tool through which we understand a collection of observations about the universe.
Throughout history there has been an astonishing amount of mathematicians who has studied and found new schools of math just for the fun of it. Later in history some of that math has been found to be very handy. The math geniouses who thought it up hundreds of years before didn't even know that there could be such a thing as electrical currents.
I thought we were using physics to describe the universe. Physics uses alot of math but math isn't physics.
Capable of being totally silent if you turn off the two fans and only use the computer a minute at a time?
It looks cool but not being totally silent and not having an AGP-slot are two cons that makes me stay away from it.
Right now I'm sitting in a room with 4 PCs and one laptop. The humming sound is terribly annoying. Not that I hear the laptop in here but even those have fans today. Buy shares in silent computing!
I don't recommend you to read any further.
I remember my Amiga1200 with two internal 2.5" HDs fitted it still didn't overheat and it had no fan, not even the PSU. Come to think of it my C64 never made a sound and booted in 0.2s.
Ok, I'm a boring strut but haven't you heard about the Butterfly Effect? In the early sixties a meterologist named Lorenz found out that simple non-linear equations could be extremely dependent on the initial values. Thus it's impossible to predict the weather for more than a couple of days.
Now I wonder if the climate simulation contains non-linear equations with the same behaviour? If that is the case, different starting values that only differs in the 10th decimal could give earthwide Sahara or a frozen planet.
I believe that the biosphere is self regulating. That doesn't mean that we will not melt the poles but I believe that it means that it's really difficult to make the earth completely uninhabitable.
Your right and I'm wrong. Now I will dig a very deep hole and live there until everyone forgot about my previous post.
a sp
Here is a nice example of doing what you just proposed:
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/dal.
I still believe that MS should have provided us with a generic DB-layer that the programmer configured to use SqlData, OleDBData or whatever. Now every example is SqlClient or OleDbClient and thus makes idiots like me doing things the wrong way.
Thanks for enlightening me!
> ASP.NET integrates (quite, quite nicely) with MS SQL
But it also integrates it in a way that makes switching to another DB alot harder than with with old ADO/OleDB. If you use System.Data.SqlClient that is. And you do because it is much faster than System.Data.OleDb for alot of simple things like connectiontime. MS should off course have hidden the type of DB from the programmer. Why didn't they do it? Why do they have SqlDataReader and OleDbDataReader and not just a DataReader interface that inherits from Sql or OleDb? My paranoia tells me that MS wants to sell SQL-server licenses instead of helping selling Oracle or DB2.
While we're at it. Isn't "The article itself is allright, but it has a lot of good links" like saying "She's cute but she's sweet." or "The CPU itself is fast but it's cheap."?
.NET. What was the marketing folks at MS thinking? "Let's have one of those cool Internet-symbols in the name to make it unique and easy to remember!". Do you think they ever head of a search engine?
Just to make this post a complete waste I would like to add that XBOX is a much better name than
Anyway $300 for all that hardware that is crammed into a XBOX is cheap. PS2 has been around for nearly three years and is actually way behind in features and speed. I'm not saying that this will make the XBOX a winner.
Not Linux but Lunix:
http://lng.sourceforge.net/
and while your at it you could as
well write a driver for TFE
http://dunkels.com/adam/tfe/
I'm feeling as boring as cold toast so I just have to point out that in Russia a big bottle of Vodka costs more like $2. Also there will be no re-entry because you will never leave.
And to totally scare you off I will also dare to compare this to the trip that Tito took. Tito payed ALOT more than $100,000 (ok he got alot more).
http://www.space.com/dennistito/
http://
>Why do you think these things will be any >different than current computational devices?
How about "massive parallelism" that never can be achieved in the clock-based machines of today.
If there ever will be quantum computers they will certainly differ alot from todays. Maybe your laptop in the year of 2038 wount be using QC but the researchers will simply love and make great things with them.
>but it still won't help you fight, e.g. Gödel's >theorem. (Or will it?)
I don't think so. Even though a quantum computer might be able to test an enourmous amount of coordinates in i.e. the Mandelbrot set the computer will still be limited to the number of bits. It will still be digital.
It's as simple as: The only perfect map of the world is the world.
But why would you fight it? It's pure and it has proven that it can't be proven and thus that some other stuff can't be proven either... or somehting like that.
It's a compiler written in the language it compiles. Why? Because the compiler is Open Source and will compile C# on other platforms than Windows.
1. Someone listens to your laptops WLAN-adapter firing up a connection to your AP.
2. If you are using WEP he then decrypts the transmission.
3. He waits until you are not online and
then sets his MAC-address to yours.
4. He is a happy camper, you are not.
5. You realize that you want to have your AP outside a FW and VPN yourself to your home LAN or maybe even to reach your Internet connection or you just don't care and are believe it's quite hard to crack into your OS of choice anyway.
>MAC address filtering though... How can it be >bypassed? (other than randomly guessing one of >the addresses on the allow list, extremely >unlikely as that is)
Well your WLAN-enabled device has to tell your access point it's MAC-address, has is not?