Hacktivist

12 years agodiscuss

Lot of posts on twitter saying their orders were cancelled. @Lenovo_Canada said the problem was supposed to be fixed hours ago.

Edit: Someone made a change.org petition

http://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/lenovo-canada-please-h...

Hacktivist

12 years agodiscuss

The F2P game "Path of Exile" (similar to Diablo) does everything on the server and it causes so many problems that you need to avoid certain character skills that are more prone to causing desync issues between server and client. They even include a chat command that will sync you with the server which most people have macro'd to a key on their keyboard or mouse it's so prevalent.

Hacktivist

13 years agodiscuss

Those statistics are pretty useless because you set what platform your contribution goes towards. You could pay 1$ on Linux and set it as Windows.

It would be better if we could see price paid vs. platform the game was downloaded for.

Hacktivist

13 years agodiscuss

The whitelist feature isn't the issue here. You have always been able to whitelist sites in the "Custom Filter > Exceptions." The issue here is the addition of a built in whitelist subscription to a list controlled by the developers.

Hacktivist

14 years agodiscuss

My university had similarly bad security practices. Although not accessible as plain text, the social security number was used when you wanted to change personal information.

For example to reset your university email account you needed the last three digits of the ssn and your date of birth. In my case, the school somehow never got my ssn so my ssn in this case was just "0". So theoretically if anyone wanted to change my password they just needed to use "yyyymmdd0" to access it.

Hacktivist

14 years agodiscuss

My point was that x isn't always better than y. And in the case of turbine blades, monocrystalline is the way they are made.

On the topic of forged turbine blades, the oriented strength of the resultant blade _is_ the advantage of using forging over conventional casting for a polycrystalline blade. Since the load on a turbine blade is mostly axial it makes no sense to not have favorable grain orientation to maximize strength in the axial direction. As a result, turbine blades are forged such that the grain orientation and size is elongated and coarse. This minimizes grain boundary area perpendicular to the load direction and thus minimizes creep at the high operating temperatures of a gas turbine.

Hacktivist

14 years agodiscuss

It isn't quite as simple as saying that forging produces a stronger part since a monocrystalline casting of a turbine blade would be stronger than a forged polycrystalline one.

Hacktivist

15 years agodiscuss

I guess I shouldn't have used such a strong word like "causes this" since the article was more about the force field and not the source of the ionized air.

The point is that if the tape spool can create such a strong field then there is more than likely a visible light being created at the interface of the spool and tape caused by the charged atmospheric nitrogen which releases a photon when leaving the excited state.

Hacktivist

15 years agodiscuss

Here is some more information on the phenomenon that causes this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triboluminescence

The most interesting section is how UCLA researchers created such powerful results that they were able to x-ray fingers.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9613962...

There are also a couple of videos on Youtube that show the effect in action.

Hacktivist

15 years agodiscuss

I'm sure they don't care about people who just loaded up the home page. They are more than likely after the IPs that downloaded the files that are posted on the site (maybe they will try to tie them back to IPs used to acces PSN?)

Hacktivist

15 years agodiscuss

If you aren't familiar with ALS, you might have heard it under the name Lou Gehrig's disease.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyotrophic_lateral_sclerosis

Hacktivist

15 years agodiscuss

Here are the images if you want to cheat.

http://www.google.com/logos/2011/verne-hp-1.png

http://www.google.com/logos/2011/verne-hp-2.png

http://www.google.com/logos/2011/verne-hp-3.png

http://www.google.com/logos/2011/verne-hp-4.png

Hacktivist

16 years agodiscuss

I wish they would make it so that addons and plugins can only be installed inside Firefox (via addons.mozilla.org, File > Open or exceptions for trusted sites.)

I have seven plugins listed and I only installed two of them.

  2007 Microsoft Office system - Installed with Office 2007
  Google Update - Installed with Google Chrome (??)
  Java Deployment Toolkit - Installed with Java (on Firefox blocklist)
  Java Platform - Installed with Java
  Picasa - Installed with Google Picassa
  Shockwave Flash - I installed this
  Silverlight - I installed this

In the extension category only two are there that I didn't installed

  FiddlerHook - Installed with Fiddler (not removed after uninstalling Fiddler, uninstall button greyed out in Firefox)
  Java Console - Installed with Java

Hacktivist

16 years agodiscuss

Personally I look at it like this. While I'm not physically 'stealing' their product, I am still profiting by not paying X amount for its use.

As an example, imagine if you are planning on purchasing a copy of Photoshop at $1000 but before you leave to go to the store you do a quick search on your favorite torrent site. Sure enough it's there and you download it, saving yourself $1000 while still benefiting from the use of the software and using the $1000 on something else.

So while software piracy might not harm the developer directly, it greatly benefits the person who downloads the software.

Hacktivist

16 years agodiscuss

When the Intel Macs were initial released there was a contest to install Windows XP on it natively (before bootcamp was even announced.) Enough people donated to the prize pool that the winner walked away with 14,000 dollars.

Hacktivist

16 years agodiscuss

Does anyone have any sales statistics comparing volume of iPods purchased from apple.com to volume of iPods purchased at retail (including Apple retail stores since they don't offer engraving?)

Because even if what he is saying is true I doubt that the fraction of people that get engraved iPods and then resell can influence the secondary market filled with iPods from almost all technology retailers and Apple's retail stores themselves.

Hacktivist

16 years agodiscuss

Can you expand on what you thought was subpar about using Latex on Windows 7? I use Latex almost exclusively and for such an obscure (compared to Office) document publishing system, Latex has some pretty amazing tools available for Windows.

If you go the full IDE path you have TeXnicCenter, WinEdt, and LEd.

If you go text editor path you have your favorite editor to write the source and latexmk to automatically build when the source file changes.

Combine your favorite way of writing with MiKTex for the core program and package management and you have a bulletproof way of using Latex in Windows.

Hacktivist

16 years agodiscuss

To expand on this. It is illegal in Canada for anyone without a proper engineering degree to call themselves an engineer. For example a computer scientist cannot call themselves an engineer while a computer or software engineer could.

Hacktivist

16 years agodiscuss

Komodo IDE and Komodo Edit by ActiveState is a pretty successful use of the Mozilla platform.

Hacktivist

16 years agodiscuss

If OneNote is anything like Word you can use LaTeX notation once you are inside an equation environment (Alt + =).

For example in Word typing Alt + = \int^1_2 \sum^x_(x+1) \ge \sqrt(25)

Would produce exactly what you would get in LaTeX.

You can even copy/paste between applications that support MathML.

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