You laugh, but 35 years ago, my father was employed by a large empire-wide life insurance company. One day, they decided to honour their oldest pensioned ex-employee. They found him out in India, where he used to be working at the branch office there. At the time, he was 110 years old.
So they sent for him, doubtlessly wondering what secret Indian method he'd been using to prolong his life so much.
Turns out that the guy was illiterate (he was a gardener - this was the time when companies would not outsource menial tasks), and he had been dead for nearly 30 years. Since he was illiterate, he was endorsing his cheques with a fingerprint. When he died, the family simply cut off his thumb and managed to preserve it...
After all, how much more it will cost to track and keep every single goddammed fucking packet flying on the #matrix#??? Surely twice as much as it would cost to implement the same current infrasture another time...
... some smartass oriental company will introduce a cell phone where the owner can either key-in his own ring-tone, or download via USB or whatnot a MP-3 to be used as such.
Of course, you can expect the RIAA to try to have it outlawed...
Any buffer lacking good bounds checking is subject to this.
That's because programmers keep programming in C, which is a glorified assembler, instead of using a HIGHER level language that handles all the plumbing so the programmers have some neurons left to think about the job at hand, instead of the nitty-gritty details of memory allocation.
I've met a tech who was working for a high-school, and 90% of his time was used in fixing Windoze computers after students messed-up with them. That changed when they installed some cards (don't remember the name of the cards) with RAM on them that effectively made the hard disks read-only, and stored in RAM whatever was written on the hard-disks.
So, whenever a PC was screwed-up, all you did was power-cycle it once!
Is it the well-known anglo-saxon ethnocentrism that prevents them from looking elsewhere, say like France, where Clément Ader built working, powered aircraft as early as 1890?
The french word for "airplane", Avion, was coined by Clément Ader in 1894. Many years before the Wright brothers would turn a propeller.
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You laugh, but 35 years ago, my father was employed by a large empire-wide life insurance company. One day, they decided to honour their oldest pensioned ex-employee. They found him out in India, where he used to be working at the branch office there. At the time, he was 110 years old.
So they sent for him, doubtlessly wondering what secret Indian method he'd been using to prolong his life so much.
Turns out that the guy was illiterate (he was a gardener - this was the time when companies would not outsource menial tasks), and he had been dead for nearly 30 years. Since he was illiterate, he was endorsing his cheques with a fingerprint. When he died, the family simply cut off his thumb and managed to preserve it...
Pentiums are forever????
I'd hate to pay for a beowulf cluster of those!!!
After all, how much more it will cost to track and keep every single goddammed fucking packet flying on the #matrix#??? Surely twice as much as it would cost to implement the same current infrasture another time...
Of course, you can expect the RIAA to try to have it outlawed...
I have this terrible pain in all the diodes on my left side, but no one ever listens...
... Spaces probes works 30 years BEFORE launch.
How about a rumour about used record stores, in Chicago, being required to ID used record purchasers???
Or does it seems that "DUPE!" is rapidly replacing "FIRST POST" around here????
Inquiring minds want to know.
I've met a tech who was working for a high-school, and 90% of his time was used in fixing Windoze computers after students messed-up with them. That changed when they installed some cards (don't remember the name of the cards) with RAM on them that effectively made the hard disks read-only, and stored in RAM whatever was written on the hard-disks.
So, whenever a PC was screwed-up, all you did was power-cycle it once!
Stage 4: profit!!!
...it's the robots who get rescued (after they break down).
The french word for "airplane", Avion, was coined by Clément Ader in 1894. Many years before the Wright brothers would turn a propeller.
...it's the robots who get rescued (after they break down).
Sweet Fuck-All.