The gate is one way after its dialed, and transports contiguous lumps of matter, it normally waits until one item is completely in its "buffer" before sending it. I guess you could say the stream is gas-delimited. If they had canisters it would work fine (did they have canisters, could they dial back? I haven't seen it yet)
A computer is a multi-function device its strength is that it can attempt most task. A car is a mono-function device. If you want people to have safe malware-free devices you need to convince them to buy an Email appliance, Web browsing appliance, Movie-playing appliance, Desktop-publishing appliance, etc etc. Then there is a possibility (after the market matures) that these can be secure by-design. But people don't want that, they want a machine that is cheap and does everything, except the things that they don't want it to do, and they want the machine to know the difference even if they don't.
True, I'm worried about New Labour's Authoritarian leanings and this is just another horrific abuse of power. But the problem is: Who do you vote in to stop this? The Conservatives? Their record on civil liberties is just as bad if not worse, also the Financial crisis will not be improved with even more right-wing anti-regulation policies. After all, who deregulated the banks? That was Thatchers doing, (Not that I believe the Thatcher government is to blame to the current crisis, but the Conservative mindset is not one of regulation and not one I'd like to face going into a recession)
If we could get the Liberals in I'd dump Labour in a flash, but I'd rather have Labour over the Tories.
Indeed, the horrible cancer that is the D20 system has torn its way through many good games, gutting them from the inside out. Even my beloved 7th Sea (Now there was a system that suited the genre) heard the sirens call.
WotC tipify everything that wrong with modern roleplaying IMHO.
From TFA "Beyond cyberthreats, the XO laptop will have an anti-theft system designed to render stolen laptops useless. Each XO is assigned a "lease," secured by cryptography, that allows it to operate for a limited period of time. The laptop connects to the internet daily and checks in with a country-specific server to see if it's been reported stolen. If not, the lease is extended another few weeks."
Congratulations, you have destroyed this projects credibility, desirability and much of the good will that the open source community was providing.
I wonder this would rule out any interaction with the GPL v3?
... and I watched the US Mac ads, I found them quite endearing. Full of bullshit but non the less I felt quite sorry for both the machines they represented. The Mac with its "If PC wasn't so stupid I'd never get away with this crap I'm peddling" and the PC's "I really haven't any idea whats going on any more" I kinda liked it.
But these two? I want to smack both of them upside the head and that annoyance made me want to kick both my work PC and the Mac I have to use because our CEO does everything on a powerbook then get annoyed when the rest of the company can't read anything he produces. Surely that not the response they were aiming for.
Mind you I still love my home rig, all of those machine are may babies and I love them.
Actually we have a holiday about Fertility and Growth (hence egg, hence rabbit) Jesus may well have been crucified at that time of year but maybe not. But those who aren't Christian don't celibrate the death and reasurection of Christ at that time of year, they celibrate fertility and growth or maybe they celibrate nothing. Easter as a word has no origin in Christian mythology either, to quote wikipedia:
'The English and German names, "Easter" and "Ostern", are not etymologically derived from Pesach and are instead related to ancient names for the month of April, Eostremonat and Ostaramanoth respectively.' So yeah I can understand a parent getting annoyed at a teacher foisting their mythology on a charge of theirs when the celebration has nothing to do with it.
Basing it off Shadowrun is a bad start! There I said it, I will never understand what perople see in that game, Dear god if we didn't get enough generic fantasy in D&D someone had to copy it wholesale into a Cyberpunk setting? Geez if you were going to add magic into such a dark and gritty setting at _least_ make it sympathetic to the genra rather than shoehorning every D&D fanboys favourite races/classes.
As the other reply posits, we aren't in control, although I disagree on the "why" If the public _would_ complain they make sure that they've paid for legislation that criminalizes most, if not all, of the activity they don't like. So by the time we see the full effect of the tech limitations we may not like it but _its against the law_ to do otherwise.
And once if passes in the US, WTO pressure starts to force other countries to fall in line. Thankfully some governments aren't as spineless as the UK ("my" govt)
I was refering to TFA and I also don't think your argument is as cut and dried as you suggest. Sure they _may_ pull out for a while, but I think the market incentive of an entire country will soon turn someones head.
I simply don't see this resulting in apple licensing Fairplay. It's possible but I think the least likely outcome.
I dont see anything there that suggests that fairplay needs to be opened. Remenber that an ipod can play mp3's and non drm aac. So to offer 'ipod compatable' music you dont need access to fairplay. personally I think this is 'a good thing' the law is there to protect our rights not to protect someones business model.
Um I'm no Assy coder but I'm assuming that you forgot to flip the xsize and the ysize in the second example. I also assume you trying to make a point that writing across memory is quicker then writing once every xsize*pixelsize bytes but surely than depends on the method of screen memory mapping?
If I'm wrong please feel free to correct me, I'm actually quite interested in the answer
And a tape deck that has such a dodgy azumith screw I couldn't save anything (and I couldn't _buy_ games). So I'd type in a listing from "Your Sinclair" each time I wanted to play.
Actually I've been working with perl on and off for 8 years now and I'd say that at least 80% of the perl devs I've met (myself included) used activeperl whenever they needed perl on windows (which we would generally try to avoid mind you) for everything from UI apps that used the same framework as our web apps to mobile demos on windows laptops for the sales guys. It kept everything quick and easy, which gave us more time to work on the core engines for the products we were working on.
Religious education in the UK has always been a joke. Perhaps if it was taken a little more seriously and taught as comparative theology rather than a fact memorising session then issues such as this could be be taught in school, rather than R.E. being dismissed as a second class subject.
I.D. and creationism are not science. But they are important and children should be educated about these beliefs.
I work in Henley-on-Thames, but I was more than a little sleepy getting the train this morning and ended up on a non-stop to Paddington. I hit the station at about 9:00, looking at the Wikipedia article it looks like people were about 10 mins into the attacks.
Thankfully the trains had not yet been stopped and I hopped onto an outbound slow train.
I offer my condolences to those hurt or killed in this attack. However I for one will not change my anti-war viewpoint nor give in to any vengeful feelings that will simply exacerbate the problems.
It may take generations to breed the hate out of the middle east. But even that cannot happen if we perpetuate the hate.
Final interesting point, the term 'Gypsy' was incorrectly attributed to the nomadic Romany speakers of the time as they were believed to be of Egyptian origin.
Personally I agree with the OP, ingrained historicaly-racist terms should be avoided if possible. If their use fades away then so do the implications and the stereotypes associated with them.
Where did you find this? I'd like to quote Estelle Morris. But I'd also like to say where it appeared. Looking through the article and the linked BPI newsletter I can't find these quotes at all.
CompactFlash is produced in greater volume therefore it's cheaper. however CF to IDE adapters are about £20. The problem (as people has said) is that any flashmem based device wears out. The best thing to do is find out the average throughput of the unit (assume all of that are writes, worst case) and look at the write/erase cycle life, from there you can make a guess and how long you'd have until bits started failing.
N.B. cheaper CF is often slower and fails quicker, be sure to check the stats before you buy.
Remember the CF cards CAN opperate in true IDE mode but don't have to. The point being that most CF devices that require the CF to act as memory don't use an IDE chipset as the interface.
In other words you can plug a CF card into an IDE bus, but you (generally) can't plug and IDE device into a CF slot (even allowing for connector converters).
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Is just plain expensive, unless anyone has found a specific laptop range (that caters to your hardware requirements) and has a very simple shell, I just don't think its going to happen.
I looked into this a while ago wanting a high capacity backup that could go off site that would run under linux I didn't mind having a dedicated machine but needed it not to require a reboot each time I wanted to remove/insert a drive.
The problem I found is that regardless of the caddy/drive/controller noone could show me a way to unmount, spin down and safely unpower a drive prior to removal (using IDE drived). Also if some of the bays weren't filled when the machine _does_ need a reboot, once the bios has decided there's nothing there you cant add that drive later.
I trawled the source to hdparam finding nothing much. I found that SCA compatable SCSI cards normally have the ability to safely spin down and power off a drive, but I didn't find any way to use this in the general case let alone in a specific linux enviroment.
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The gate is one way after its dialed, and transports contiguous lumps of matter, it normally waits until one item is completely in its "buffer" before sending it. I guess you could say the stream is gas-delimited. If they had canisters it would work fine (did they have canisters, could they dial back? I haven't seen it yet)
No, the GP isn't right.
A computer is a multi-function device its strength is that it can attempt most task. A car is a mono-function device. If you want people to have safe malware-free devices you need to convince them to buy an Email appliance, Web browsing appliance, Movie-playing appliance, Desktop-publishing appliance, etc etc. Then there is a possibility (after the market matures) that these can be secure by-design. But people don't want that, they want a machine that is cheap and does everything, except the things that they don't want it to do, and they want the machine to know the difference even if they don't.
And that? that will never happen IMHO.
True, I'm worried about New Labour's Authoritarian leanings and this is just another horrific abuse of power. But the problem is: Who do you vote in to stop this? The Conservatives? Their record on civil liberties is just as bad if not worse, also the Financial crisis will not be improved with even more right-wing anti-regulation policies. After all, who deregulated the banks? That was Thatchers doing, (Not that I believe the Thatcher government is to blame to the current crisis, but the Conservative mindset is not one of regulation and not one I'd like to face going into a recession)
If we could get the Liberals in I'd dump Labour in a flash, but I'd rather have Labour over the Tories.
"Ethics" sounds like "Essex" if said with a lisp. The joke made me giggle so yeah, probably a UK thing.
Indeed, the horrible cancer that is the D20 system has torn its way through many good games, gutting them from the inside out. Even my beloved 7th Sea (Now there was a system that suited the genre) heard the sirens call.
WotC tipify everything that wrong with modern roleplaying IMHO.
From TFA
"Beyond cyberthreats, the XO laptop will have an anti-theft system designed to render stolen laptops useless. Each XO is assigned a "lease," secured by cryptography, that allows it to operate for a limited period of time. The laptop connects to the internet daily and checks in with a country-specific server to see if it's been reported stolen. If not, the lease is extended another few weeks."
Congratulations, you have destroyed this projects credibility, desirability and much of the good will that the open source community was providing.
I wonder this would rule out any interaction with the GPL v3?
... and I watched the US Mac ads, I found them quite endearing. Full of bullshit but non the less I felt quite sorry for both the machines they represented. The Mac with its "If PC wasn't so stupid I'd never get away with this crap I'm peddling" and the PC's "I really haven't any idea whats going on any more" I kinda liked it.
But these two? I want to smack both of them upside the head and that annoyance made me want to kick both my work PC and the Mac I have to use because our CEO does everything on a powerbook then get annoyed when the rest of the company can't read anything he produces. Surely that not the response they were aiming for.
Mind you I still love my home rig, all of those machine are may babies and I love them.
Actually we have a holiday about Fertility and Growth (hence egg, hence rabbit) Jesus may well have been crucified at that time of year but maybe not. But those who aren't Christian don't celibrate the death and reasurection of Christ at that time of year, they celibrate fertility and growth or maybe they celibrate nothing. Easter as a word has no origin in Christian mythology either, to quote wikipedia:
'The English and German names, "Easter" and "Ostern", are not etymologically derived from Pesach and are instead related to ancient names for the month of April, Eostremonat and Ostaramanoth respectively.'
So yeah I can understand a parent getting annoyed at a teacher foisting their mythology on a charge of theirs when the celebration has nothing to do with it.
Basing it off Shadowrun is a bad start! There I said it, I will never understand what perople see in that game, Dear god if we didn't get enough generic fantasy in D&D someone had to copy it wholesale into a Cyberpunk setting? Geez if you were going to add magic into such a dark and gritty setting at _least_ make it sympathetic to the genra rather than shoehorning every D&D fanboys favourite races/classes.
I sware that game killed the Cyberpunk RPG genre
As the other reply posits, we aren't in control, although I disagree on the "why"
If the public _would_ complain they make sure that they've paid for legislation that criminalizes most, if not all, of the activity they don't like. So by the time we see the full effect of the tech limitations we may not like it but _its against the law_ to do otherwise.
And once if passes in the US, WTO pressure starts to force other countries to fall in line. Thankfully some governments aren't as spineless as the UK ("my" govt)
I was refering to TFA and I also don't think your argument is as cut and dried as you suggest. Sure they _may_ pull out for a while, but I think the market incentive of an entire country will soon turn someones head.
I simply don't see this resulting in apple licensing Fairplay. It's possible but I think the least likely outcome.
All in all, still a "good thing"(tm)
I dont see anything there that suggests that fairplay needs to be opened. Remenber that an ipod can play mp3's and non drm aac. So to offer 'ipod compatable' music you dont need access to fairplay. personally I think this is 'a good thing' the law is there to protect our rights not to protect someones business model.
Um I'm no Assy coder but I'm assuming that you forgot to flip the xsize and the ysize in the second example. I also assume you trying to make a point that writing across memory is quicker then writing once every xsize*pixelsize bytes but surely than depends on the method of screen memory mapping?
If I'm wrong please feel free to correct me, I'm actually quite interested in the answer
A-Men to that brother.
And a tape deck that has such a dodgy azumith screw I couldn't save anything (and I couldn't _buy_ games). So I'd type in a listing from "Your Sinclair" each time I wanted to play.
Happy days
ZX-81
+16K ram pack
48K Spectrum
128k spectrum
Sinclair QL
Amiga 500
Amiga 1200
Amiga 4000
PC....
I think I kinda consider that the end of my owning actual computers and the start of owning a collection of bits.
Actually I've been working with perl on and off for 8 years now and I'd say that at least 80% of the perl devs I've met (myself included) used activeperl whenever they needed perl on windows (which we would generally try to avoid mind you) for everything from UI apps that used the same framework as our web apps to mobile demos on windows laptops for the sales guys. It kept everything quick and easy, which gave us more time to work on the core engines for the products we were working on.
But yes, I wish CPAN wasn't quite so flakey
Religious education in the UK has always been a joke. Perhaps if it was taken a little more seriously and taught as comparative theology rather than a fact memorising session then issues such as this could be be taught in school, rather than R.E. being dismissed as a second class subject.
I.D. and creationism are not science. But they are important and children should be educated about these beliefs.
I work in Henley-on-Thames, but I was more than a little sleepy getting the train this morning and ended up on a non-stop to Paddington. I hit the station at about 9:00, looking at the Wikipedia article it looks like people were about 10 mins into the attacks.
Thankfully the trains had not yet been stopped and I hopped onto an outbound slow train.
I offer my condolences to those hurt or killed in this attack. However I for one will not change my anti-war viewpoint nor give in to any vengeful feelings that will simply exacerbate the problems.
It may take generations to breed the hate out of the middle east. But even that cannot happen if we perpetuate the hate.
Final interesting point, the term 'Gypsy' was incorrectly attributed to the nomadic Romany speakers of the time as they were believed to be of Egyptian origin.
Personally I agree with the OP, ingrained historicaly-racist terms should be avoided if possible. If their use fades away then so do the implications and the stereotypes associated with them.
Surely you're mixing up OS and Window manager?
I know most end users don't know the difference due to Windows and MacOS but still...
Argh. Just to remind people that Mechwarrior comes from Battletech, and the first Battletech Mechs were ripped straight from Macross (Robotech)
Where did you find this? I'd like to quote Estelle Morris. But I'd also like to say where it appeared. Looking through the article and the linked BPI newsletter I can't find these quotes at all.
CompactFlash is produced in greater volume therefore it's cheaper. however CF to IDE adapters are about £20.
The problem (as people has said) is that any flashmem based device wears out. The best thing to do is find out the average throughput of the unit (assume all of that are writes, worst case) and look at the write/erase cycle life, from there you can make a guess and how long you'd have until bits started failing.
N.B. cheaper CF is often slower and fails quicker, be sure to check the stats before you buy.
Remember the CF cards CAN opperate in true IDE mode but don't have to. The point being that most CF devices that require the CF to act as memory don't use an IDE chipset as the interface.
In other words you can plug a CF card into an IDE bus, but you (generally) can't plug and IDE device into a CF slot (even allowing for connector converters).
Is just plain expensive, unless anyone has found a specific laptop range (that caters to your hardware requirements) and has a very simple shell, I just don't think its going to happen.
I looked into this a while ago wanting a high capacity backup that could go off site that would run under linux I didn't mind having a dedicated machine but needed it not to require a reboot each time I wanted to remove/insert a drive.
The problem I found is that regardless of the caddy/drive/controller noone could show me a way to unmount, spin down and safely unpower a drive prior to removal (using IDE drived). Also if some of the bays weren't filled when the machine _does_ need a reboot, once the bios has decided there's nothing there you cant add that drive later.
I trawled the source to hdparam finding nothing much. I found that SCA compatable SCSI cards normally have the ability to safely spin down and power off a drive, but I didn't find any way to use this in the general case let alone in a specific linux enviroment.