Personally I hope they don't bother to put book 12 together, I stopped at 9.
There are thousands of people who have hung on for 17 years to reach the end of the tale, regardless of how much it had deteriorated in the later books. I have been unhappy with the most recent books myself, but I still wanted to find out what happens nonetheless. I probably speak for the majority of his readers in this. I'm saddened by his passing, and it would be even sadder if the story were never finished. It's almost certainly what he would have wanted.
I hope his notes at least reveal the outcome to whomever picks up the story. (Orson Scott Card, are you available?)
I'm not sure I understand why they had to use asymmetric encryption. A plain old symmetric algorithm would suffice, since asymmetric methods are only necessary when passing messages between parties. Since the save files are both encrypted and decrypted on-machine, only symmetric encryption is required. This would possibly simplify things, as well as potentially speed them up (since symmetric algorithms are faster). A good symmetric algorithm is usually very compact codewise as well, and much less complicated to implement and maintain. Odd choice on their part, though admittedly for security purposes either can be used to effectively protect the save files (and both are equally vulnerable should the encryption key be plundered from the device).
I don't think I've ever had a rebate form honored by Fry's. I've given up submitting them, and treat the money as lost if/when I buy the item in the first place. I think it's a bit unfair to blame a single "bad employee", when by all indications the problem seems systemic and widespread. Does anyone really think that suddenly this problem will just go away now that they've found and fired the single bad apple employee responsible for disposing of the rebate forms?
This would have been a perfect victory, except the troller apparently apologized a short while later. In so marring what would have otherwise been a perfect victory, he showed signs of weakness not acceptable from a master troll.
The monks showed their weakness as well, by whining about legal action against the troll. The posting that started it all is believed to be an attack on the temple's growing commercialism. The leader of the temple drives an expensive chauffeured car and markets the temple in very non-monklike ways. The implication is that they are no longer true warriors, but rather mere showmen now. I guess the truth hurts, in this case enough to break their faux Zen composure.
Or someone who thinks the human body is a little too complex to just randomly form over billions of years.
All evolutionists think this. I'm glad you agree. I'm guessing you didn't actually mean to agree, but only did so by accident. You might want to read up a little before you spout ignorant opinions on topics you know nothing about. Evolution is the exact opposite of randomness.
...then why do hardware manufacturers design their products to automatically join unsecured networks by default? You could get cited simply for buying a laptop and turning it on. Some unsecured networks actually are intended to be used freely. How are you supposed to tell?
Seems to me that the law should clearly state the legal difference between an "open" and "closed" wifi network, presumably with password protection being the key difference.
Wikipedia rules are lame, particularly rules about "experts" editing pages (including the person/entity who is the subject of the article). Not only does this often lead to dumbed down and incorrect articles, it can also lead to very one-sided articles. In cases where there is contention, such as this, why should biased outsiders be allowed to say whatever they want, while biased insiders are banned? Anyone should be able to edit, or everyone except actual professional/expert editors should be banned from editing. There are hundreds of examples where someone had a bone to pick and wrote hurtful, incorrect and crazy things in a wikipedia article, because it gives them a platform to hurt others or stand on an unassailable soapbox (see the Greater Internet Dickwad Theory if you don't get what I mean). Editors should be required to pass some scrutiny by wikipedia before editing is allowed, and anonymity should be removed. Moreover, wikipedia should be about facts, not opinions or whatever the latest news articles say in lieu of actual facts.
I fully support anyone, even the bad guys mentioned in this article, in editing articles about them or things that are important to them. Otherwise it's life out of balance, tilted quite unfairly.
then your code is too complicated and needs to be modularized. Or so said a professor of mine. He believed if you hit the 80th column that you should probably break your function down further into one or more additional functions. As a rule of thumb, this has served me well, about 95% of the time at least. Really, if your code is so many levels deep that it runs over 80 columns, it's probably difficult to keep track of things in there.
So, am I supposed to cover my entire house with this stuff, or just the windows? If the latter, then am I supposed to build a Faraday cage into the walls of my house too? If not, this window shielding is pretty pointless. If I cared about keeping signals in/out that much, why would I install windows on the part of the building I want to keep secure in the first place?
If Gateway arranges it so that the EULA is only presented after you've paid for the computer and taken delivery of it, they are using unfair tactics to essentially force/trick customers into swallowing the thing whole. After going through the hassle of buying, unpacking and installing a computer, who's going to return it because they disagreed with the EULA? I'm sure it's never happened.
If they were to play straight and display the EULA to the user during the purchase process, before credit card and other info was gathered, then they would have some argument for fairness. But not much. It seems completely illegal to require consumers to chuck their rights in the trash before they will be allowed to buy a given product. If Gateway can get away with it, why not car manufacturers? Food producers? Makers of baby products? If this were okay, conceivably every product you buy could require you to suspend your rights, making moot the fact that you even have rights at all. Why bother having rights?
Why not store digital data on microfiche at a high resolution, but not so high that it can't be scanned in later? Or why not even on paper as little black dots? From what I understand, you can get multiple megabytes of data on an 8.5x11" sheet of paper. Either of these would be exceptionally stable, and probably exist in some commercial form already.
I don't understand your criticism. My point is that children must learn about exercise and make it a part of their lives for reasons other than simply keeping slim while they're kids. Body awareness is something kids should learn early to stay fit their entire lives. (I have my doubts that exercise doesn't help keep kids slim anyway.)
Even if sports don't help children keep slim, it is proven that it helps adults (in addition to genetics and diet, of course). People who start out as active young children are probably more likely to stay active into adulthood, at least moreso than less active kids. So in that sense, by teaching kids to exercise and be fit, you will potentially increase adult fitness. This alone justifies fitness programs in school.
This is an extremely common problem, and affects everyone I know that has a Macbook Pro. It's not just a case of a single bad laptop. This happens to everyone at some time or another. Apple even issued a firmware update to help the problem, but it sure didn't make it go away. Don't believe me? Check out macfixit, macosxhints, etc.
If you have a macbook of any kind, you have to admit that shutdown sux compared to the old powerbooks and previous models. My powerbook would sleep in about 3 seconds when the lid was shut. Now, this stupid "safe sleep" feature of apple's makes the laptop dump all of RAM to disk, which seriously slows down sleeping. You have to wait and wait while the disk and fan run like crazy before you can put it away. This is most definitely not a "bug", but a feature of all macbooks. It's completely retarded. I finally figured out that I could disable the safe sleep "feature" with a command line utility, and now it shuts down like my old powerbook. The OS still gets into a state once in a while where it won't detect the lid being shut, and stays running when you close it. This is not a bad unit either. As I said, this happens to just about everyone. It also happened a few times with my old powerbook.
Don't know why you haven't experienced this stuff, except perhaps you don't use it heavily enough. I keep going without reboot for months sometimes (because this is a mac, after all). I constantly have 6 desktops with dozens of windows, and all RAM is consumed at all times. The OS pages quite a bit despite having 2 GB RAM. Under these conditions (which are not unreasonable, considering it's *supposed* to work this way), the OS is taxed to the limit. It could be that such heavy use makes the sleep problem more common, who knows. I do know that when you use it this hard, it exposes the extreme lameness of some of the OS problems. I have gotten the OS into a paging deadlock of sorts more than once, and the other bugs are numerous and plentiful as well. It's far better than windows, but it's not like apple's sh*t don't stink too.
The sleep problems that plague Macbooks take the cake. When you shut the lid, it's a crapshoot whether or not it
will actually shut down at all. And you have to wait about a minute to find out, because it spends that long dumping RAM to disk for some twisted reason (I know the reason, so no flames. It's just that it's a lame reason.) I don't know how many times I've shut the lid and stuffed it in my pack, only to find that the damn thing has been running for an hour full tilt in a closed space. It's so hot it can't be touched without pain when this happens.
This is just about the lamest thing about Macs. And it's been this way a long time. I finally had to disable the safe sleep functionality, which means you can't swap batteries w/o losing state. And they don't make it easy to do this. A small price to pay for not frying your computer, though. Does Vista do anything this lame? Probably not.
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Personally I hope they don't bother to put book 12 together, I stopped at 9.
There are thousands of people who have hung on for 17 years to reach the end of the tale, regardless of how much it had deteriorated in the later books. I have been unhappy with the most recent books myself, but I still wanted to find out what happens nonetheless. I probably speak for the majority of his readers in this. I'm saddened by his passing, and it would be even sadder if the story were never finished. It's almost certainly what he would have wanted.
I hope his notes at least reveal the outcome to whomever picks up the story. (Orson Scott Card, are you available?)
I'm not sure I understand why they had to use asymmetric encryption. A plain old symmetric algorithm would suffice, since asymmetric methods are only necessary when passing messages between parties. Since the save files are both encrypted and decrypted on-machine, only symmetric encryption is required. This would possibly simplify things, as well as potentially speed them up (since symmetric algorithms are faster). A good symmetric algorithm is usually very compact codewise as well, and much less complicated to implement and maintain. Odd choice on their part, though admittedly for security purposes either can be used to effectively protect the save files (and both are equally vulnerable should the encryption key be plundered from the device).
I don't think I've ever had a rebate form honored by Fry's. I've given up submitting them, and treat the money as lost if/when I buy the item in the first place. I think it's a bit unfair to blame a single "bad employee", when by all indications the problem seems systemic and widespread. Does anyone really think that suddenly this problem will just go away now that they've found and fired the single bad apple employee responsible for disposing of the rebate forms?
Isn't it all a bit late?
No. It's never too late for a better operating system than Linux, which Solaris is in just about every respect that matters.
I kinda miss the Tourist Guy. This guy sort of reminds me of a Tourist Guy where everything comes to him instead of the other way around.
Someone just won at Internet trolling.
This would have been a perfect victory, except the troller apparently apologized a short while later. In so marring what would have otherwise been a perfect victory, he showed signs of weakness not acceptable from a master troll.
The monks showed their weakness as well, by whining about legal action against the troll. The posting that started it all is believed to be an attack on the temple's growing commercialism. The leader of the temple drives an expensive chauffeured car and markets the temple in very non-monklike ways. The implication is that they are no longer true warriors, but rather mere showmen now. I guess the truth hurts, in this case enough to break their faux Zen composure.
Or someone who thinks the human body is a little too complex to just randomly form over billions of years.
All evolutionists think this. I'm glad you agree. I'm guessing you didn't actually mean to agree, but only did so by accident. You might want to read up a little before you spout ignorant opinions on topics you know nothing about. Evolution is the exact opposite of randomness.
That's only 9 months of manufacturing, it took over a billion years of R&D to flesh out the design
It took less than a day, if you're a member of the mindless horde of Americans who adhere to fundamentalist christianity.
I've probably seen this a hundred times before, literally. Sometimes there are firmware bugs in drives. What an amazing mystery!
It's almost as if the author had never before imagined such a mundane thing. Next story...
...then why do hardware manufacturers design their products to automatically join unsecured networks by default? You could get cited simply for buying a laptop and turning it on. Some unsecured networks actually are intended to be used freely. How are you supposed to tell?
Seems to me that the law should clearly state the legal difference between an "open" and "closed" wifi network, presumably with password protection being the key difference.
Wikipedia rules are lame, particularly rules about "experts" editing pages (including the person/entity who is the subject of the article). Not only does this often lead to dumbed down and incorrect articles, it can also lead to very one-sided articles. In cases where there is contention, such as this, why should biased outsiders be allowed to say whatever they want, while biased insiders are banned? Anyone should be able to edit, or everyone except actual professional/expert editors should be banned from editing. There are hundreds of examples where someone had a bone to pick and wrote hurtful, incorrect and crazy things in a wikipedia article, because it gives them a platform to hurt others or stand on an unassailable soapbox (see the Greater Internet Dickwad Theory if you don't get what I mean). Editors should be required to pass some scrutiny by wikipedia before editing is allowed, and anonymity should be removed. Moreover, wikipedia should be about facts, not opinions or whatever the latest news articles say in lieu of actual facts.
I fully support anyone, even the bad guys mentioned in this article, in editing articles about them or things that are important to them. Otherwise it's life out of balance, tilted quite unfairly.
I pay more - a lot more - for a lot less speed than these guys advertise. Sign me up!
If only it was really that easy out here in the boondocks.
Yawn, did some sci fi author think this up, and some scientist thought it was cool or something and wrote a paper about it or something? Schnoz.
then your code is too complicated and needs to be modularized. Or so said a professor of mine. He believed if you hit the 80th column that you should probably break your function down further into one or more additional functions. As a rule of thumb, this has served me well, about 95% of the time at least. Really, if your code is so many levels deep that it runs over 80 columns, it's probably difficult to keep track of things in there.
So, am I supposed to cover my entire house with this stuff, or just the windows? If the latter, then am I supposed to build a Faraday cage into the walls of my house too? If not, this window shielding is pretty pointless. If I cared about keeping signals in/out that much, why would I install windows on the part of the building I want to keep secure in the first place?
... who thought this story had something to do with sysadmins dribbling cracker crumbs in places where they don't belong?
If Gateway arranges it so that the EULA is only presented after you've paid for the computer and taken delivery of it, they are using unfair tactics to essentially force/trick customers into swallowing the thing whole. After going through the hassle of buying, unpacking and installing a computer, who's going to return it because they disagreed with the EULA? I'm sure it's never happened.
If they were to play straight and display the EULA to the user during the purchase process, before credit card and other info was gathered, then they would have some argument for fairness. But not much. It seems completely illegal to require consumers to chuck their rights in the trash before they will be allowed to buy a given product. If Gateway can get away with it, why not car manufacturers? Food producers? Makers of baby products? If this were okay, conceivably every product you buy could require you to suspend your rights, making moot the fact that you even have rights at all. Why bother having rights?
No company should be allowed to do this.
Why not store digital data on microfiche at a high resolution, but not so high that it can't be scanned in later? Or why not even on paper as little black dots? From what I understand, you can get multiple megabytes of data on an 8.5x11" sheet of paper. Either of these would be exceptionally stable, and probably exist in some commercial form already.
I don't understand your criticism. My point is that children must learn about exercise and make it a part of their lives for reasons other than simply keeping slim while they're kids. Body awareness is something kids should learn early to stay fit their entire lives. (I have my doubts that exercise doesn't help keep kids slim anyway.)
Even if sports don't help children keep slim, it is proven that it helps adults (in addition to genetics and diet, of course). People who start out as active young children are probably more likely to stay active into adulthood, at least moreso than less active kids. So in that sense, by teaching kids to exercise and be fit, you will potentially increase adult fitness. This alone justifies fitness programs in school.
This is an extremely common problem, and affects everyone I know that has a Macbook Pro. It's not just a case of a single bad laptop. This happens to everyone at some time or another. Apple even issued a firmware update to help the problem, but it sure didn't make it go away. Don't believe me? Check out macfixit, macosxhints, etc.
If you have a macbook of any kind, you have to admit that shutdown sux compared to the old powerbooks and previous models. My powerbook would sleep in about 3 seconds when the lid was shut. Now, this stupid "safe sleep" feature of apple's makes the laptop dump all of RAM to disk, which seriously slows down sleeping. You have to wait and wait while the disk and fan run like crazy before you can put it away. This is most definitely not a "bug", but a feature of all macbooks. It's completely retarded. I finally figured out that I could disable the safe sleep "feature" with a command line utility, and now it shuts down like my old powerbook. The OS still gets into a state once in a while where it won't detect the lid being shut, and stays running when you close it. This is not a bad unit either. As I said, this happens to just about everyone. It also happened a few times with my old powerbook.
Don't know why you haven't experienced this stuff, except perhaps you don't use it heavily enough. I keep going without reboot for months sometimes (because this is a mac, after all). I constantly have 6 desktops with dozens of windows, and all RAM is consumed at all times. The OS pages quite a bit despite having 2 GB RAM. Under these conditions (which are not unreasonable, considering it's *supposed* to work this way), the OS is taxed to the limit. It could be that such heavy use makes the sleep problem more common, who knows. I do know that when you use it this hard, it exposes the extreme lameness of some of the OS problems. I have gotten the OS into a paging deadlock of sorts more than once, and the other bugs are numerous and plentiful as well. It's far better than windows, but it's not like apple's sh*t don't stink too.
The sleep problems that plague Macbooks take the cake. When you shut the lid, it's a crapshoot whether or not it will actually shut down at all. And you have to wait about a minute to find out, because it spends that long dumping RAM to disk for some twisted reason (I know the reason, so no flames. It's just that it's a lame reason.) I don't know how many times I've shut the lid and stuffed it in my pack, only to find that the damn thing has been running for an hour full tilt in a closed space. It's so hot it can't be touched without pain when this happens.
This is just about the lamest thing about Macs. And it's been this way a long time. I finally had to disable the safe sleep functionality, which means you can't swap batteries w/o losing state. And they don't make it easy to do this. A small price to pay for not frying your computer, though. Does Vista do anything this lame? Probably not.
... a whole new era in bird-killing window technology. We'll never go hungry.
Sorry, I was admittedly trolling here ever so slightly. I'm not a huge fan of Java or its VM.
I.e, it's a high level language implemented as a Java application?