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by maggit 16y ago
Yes. It looks like you would have to implement USB on top of PCIe in the monitor, though. > Intel's Thunderbolt controllers interconnect a PC and other devices, transmitting and receiving packetized traffic for both PCIe and DisplayPor
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by maggit 16y ago
That's not really relevant as long as you can't choose the directions for the channels. You are only going to get one channel in each direction. Edit: Whoa. I just re-read parts of the Intel documentation, and it seems there are indeed two
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by maggit 16y ago
In the long run, Thunderbolt aims to replace USB, FireWire, Ethernet, DisplayPort/HDMI/etc, eSATA and be considered an external variant of PCIe. This is feasible and would be a good future, just like the future we live in now where USB has
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by maggit 16y ago
> Electrical or optical cables From http://www.intel.com/technology/io/thunderbolt/index.htm I don't know what that means though. Does the newly released MBP support both or only one?
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by maggit 16y ago
The bandwidth is apparently entirely unimpressive. DisplayPort is currently at 17.28 Gbps, so Thunderbolt can push ... 0.6 monitors? ;) (In the worst case, at least) I have been excited about Light Peak/Thunderbolt for a year or so now, but
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by maggit 16y ago
> the community seems to be genuinely split. Or nuanced, perhaps? I mean, I am very opposed to everything iOS because of politics, but I am very pleased with my MBP. I don't need to downvote Apple's announcement of new MBPs just because
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by maggit 16y ago
The footprint is that different. The volume is smaller, but the HDD, optical drive, keyboard, trackpad, and several other parts stay the same size. Of course the smaller laptop is going to be less stocked with features.
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by maggit 16y ago
I take it you have never had to work with a team in a different time zone? It's hard enough staying in touch with the guys that come into the office at different hours than mine. Any more separation comes at an unbelievably high cost, in my
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by maggit 16y ago
No. The manufacturers that fail to ship a fix are knowingly exposing them to risk. It is perfectly reasonable to assume that an attacker will be able to attain knowledge about the vulnerability whether or not it is publicly exposed.
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by maggit 16y ago
I don't know HTTPS, but it should be just HTTP over SSL. That means regular "Connection: keep-alive" should work just as well on HTTPS as HTTP. In both cases it will keep the connection alive, allowing several requests after one another.
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by maggit 16y ago
I have 4 cores with hyperthreading enabled (so 8 "threads"), and find that -j10 is the fastest.
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by maggit 16y ago
To me it embodies their "don't be evil" company motto. I think Facebook is being evil here, and Google is fighting the good cause. However, I can see your angle as well. It seems that the world is not black and white after all :(
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by maggit 16y ago
While we're pointing out different ways to disable JS, the F12-menu is also nice to have. F12 pops up a menu with some handy settings, including "Enable plugins" and "Enable JavaScript".
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by maggit 16y ago
One obstacle is that you cannot have one million open sockets (for long polling) at the same time on one node. I don't know how easy this is to mitigate.
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by maggit 16y ago
To clarify, I'm not suggesting that you remove the "Brilliant" from the linked post, only from the HN submission title. The Guinness reference is completely lost on me when seeing the picture, and not much clearer when just seeing the title
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by maggit 16y ago
@messel: Interesting find :) But I get a bit suspicious when the title says "Brilliant". Do you agree that removing it would be in the spirit of the submission guidelines for HN? (Though, of course, the guidelines do not say to remove such
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by maggit 16y ago
They have much more interesting videos on the homepage of stringbike itself: http://stringbike.com/ The lowermost video on this page shows the real bike from an angle where you can see what happens to the wires: http://www.stringbike.com
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by maggit 16y ago
> (...) the "naturally" versus "artificially" distinction is a bit, erm, artificial, if you just think of humans as another species (...) "Aritificial" means "man-made", and is a (man-made/artificial) word invented to describe things th
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by maggit 16y ago
This principle is called Diffie-Hellman key exchange ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie–Hellman_key_exchange ) and is vulnerable to a man in the middle attack. The man in the middle would complete key exchanges with both Alice and Bob.
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by maggit 16y ago
It's also working near perfectly in Opera 10.61. (There is a bug initially, when the lines should start in the middle of the chart, rather than on the left)
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by maggit 16y ago
Quantum physics is business as usual, but it is still counter-intuitive. Though I don't think physicists would call it spooky. Leonard Susskind (Stanford) explains why very well in the beginning of this lecture: http://www.youtube.com/watc
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by maggit 16y ago
Aw, nuts! The server product I am working on actually does the same thing. If the program is unable to output log messages to the console (for example if the user has selected some text), Für Elise will play on the PC-speaker, since we don'
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by maggit 16y ago
Is the first sentence in the linked article also intended as humour? "The Swedish Pirate Party, who are at the forefront of anti-copyright lobbying in Sweden, are (...)" The Swedish Pirate Party is indeed trying to reform copyright. Of cour
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by maggit 16y ago
If you think of it as a question of ethics, not law, it's perfectly logical. That is; breaking the GPL does not make you a demon because you are breaking the law, but rather because you are being nasty to nice people. Illegally copying a mo
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by maggit 16y ago
Here's a meta-citation for you: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=971708 In short, Henry Ford did experiments in his factory and decided that 40h/week was optimal. Unfortunately, this figure has stuck, even though newer research indicat
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by maggit 16y ago
If you (like me) would rather like to play the video with VLC, I have had success with these URIs: * Low: http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/jun/1006ad9g4hjk/1006127i... * Medium: http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/jun/1006ad9g4hjk/10061
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by maggit 16y ago
The water isn't heated when they start. It would get to a boil much quicker with a lid on.
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by maggit 16y ago
Yes. This could be an example of steganography, the art of concealing that you are sending a message: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
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by maggit 16y ago
Just for reference, so we can all agree on what consitutes Fitts's law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts_law ---- "Fitts's law is used to model the act of pointing", which means it might be less relevant for netbooks, but it still doe
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by maggit 16y ago
> But they shouldn't dislocate it from the window to which it belongs. In almost all cases on Ubuntu Netbook Remix, the window is maximised, so the menubar would still be attached to it. This is a part of Shuttleworth's argument.

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