We only use knifes when we take dogs. Its pretty easy to kill a boar with a knife, and I have never been "tusked" badly. Its also cheaper. When my Dad was hunting they used their fists.
Boars have fists in your area ? Where are you hunting, Tchernobyl ?
Except for one massive difference: watching TV is NOT the primary use of broadband.
Maybe not the *primary* use, but here (FR), most ISPs will give you a set top box with their ADSL modem (or the modem itself doubles as a STB) which will decode mpeg data streamed from the ISP, hold a hard disk to record programs and for time shifting, plus assorted gadgets (they're typically little Linux machines). Some also integrate a decoder for terrestrial digital television (you'll have to add your antenna). You get roughly 100 "free" channels as a standard packaged deal when you open an ADSL2+ line (plus VOIP that's free to most ground phones worldwide). The cost is around 30 €s / month.
So here, watching TV certainly is a common use of broadband. Out of the 10-15 Mb that you typically get out of the 22 to 24 Mb theoretical throughput of ADSL2+, a TV stream isn't really that much of a problem.
Presumably this kind of set up is also deployed elsewhere in Europe.
If I know the right value, then fixing the Wikipedia facts is not actually that important to me any more. I might offer the information and citation as a general public service, but taking a photograph of the engine, downloading it to my computer at work (which doesn't have the cable for my camera), then uploading it and justifying the interpretation just to correct some trivial error? It wouldn't be worth it to most people.
That might be worth it, but even then there's a fair chance you'd *still* have to edit the page a dozen times after that because some "independent researcher" discovered a random web page on AOL that proved you wrong. This is Wikipedia after all...
I mean, this guy actually did work at 3DRealms and this is his blog, but seriously, CliffyB and Marc Rein threatening developers with broken chairs? Tim Sweeny tackling people and holding them down for gang beatings?
Obviously you've never worked at a game development company... Programmers there aren't worth much. At least this guy got away with all his limbs and no oil burns. And they didn't use the spiders...
OTOH, a tricky part of Star Trek-style warp drive is coming up with a way of generating such an effect that will selectively move the object you want moved at FTL speeds over a vast distance without disrupting a vast swath of the universe near the path of movement.
While *also* generating cool rainbow effects.
So, would this have any effect at all on the current Kessel Run record ?
And don't forget: there is a non-zero chance that the universe WAS created by a 7-foot tall bunny made of spaghetti, used video tape, and lug nuts! Everybody panic!!!
The first rule of the universe is : "don't talk of the Spaghetti Bunny" ! What did they teach you in advanced physics class ?
Yup, the church of Windows. After all they make a lot of money.
I've never met Windows cultists.
I've only met :
- clueless Windows users (everybody else does it) - rational Windows users (I'm using Windows because everybody else does so)
And yes there is a difference.
But people who actually *like* Windows ? Never met one. Probably because most of the users that run Windows that I've met never had a choice. And the few that did picked Windows because of one of the two reasons above. The few that switched away, to Linux, BSD or Mac OS (the only realistic current options) often keep a Windows partition, on and off, either through virtualisation, emulation or on a spare disk for games or to test software (or for the few pieces of software they cannot do without... which is rare but happens, especially in enterprise settings).
In short, nobody likes Windows. Most people have to make do with Windows.
Mac OS was a joke (it lacked preemptive multitasking for years, programs used static memory alocation, it crashed if you coughed nearby etc), no comments on Windows 3.x, Windows 95 was not immediately viable. OS/2 worked well, but it was heavy and lacked apps (then it died).
I worked at a large commercial Mac oriented BBS in France which ended up being among the first ISPs (French computer users may recognise it) but I wasn't a Mac user. And I remember how awed the rabid Mac users were in the mid 1990s when on my mighty 486 DX50 (running what was one of the first Slackware releases), I could run FTP, *and* an X11 desktop, *and* a DOS emulator (to run the crappy DOS batch client for our BBS), and assorted light crap.
They were already pretty arrogant at the time, but of course they couldn't run several programs at the same time (but then neither could Windows -- 3.11 at the time), unless you counted cooperative multitasking as running "multiple programs" (although it did, for a while, until one of them croaked, happened pretty soon, usually).
It was lots of fun at the time anyway. Especially when I told them it was a free (as in *free*) operating system (and yes, it *does* work better than yours). How I loved to watch their mind try to process that (I still do btw).
Whether Linux still is better than OS X is mostly a matter of taste (and of requirements, I'm a photographer and I do fine in Linux, you definitely don't *need* PhotoShop, or Gimp for that matter). I ran both for a while and I know which I like better. And I also know which one most Unix users tend to like better (hint : Mac users and I tend to disagree on this).
Yes, yes. Let's waste our time and money in court costs and lawyers fees to get $200 for a laptop screen out of the airline because you were too much of an idiot to either pack the laptop properly (assuming, as the airline states, it wasn't broken before hand) or carry it with you.
Without going as far as lawyers and courts, a few well aimed letters could do wonders. "It might have been broken before" basically means the airline can destroy whatever it likes and get away with it. "Yes, your luggage is covered in gasoline, and torn to shreds, but it might have been that way before". "Yes your children have large tyre tracks across their forehead but they could have been that way before".
I don't see why people are supposed to accept just anything from clueless corporations. It's a matter of principle. They break it, they fix it.
Of course. IF you watch or listen to anything made by the "mainstream" movie and music industries you clearly aren't as hip and cool as the non-conformists who only watch/listen to indy garbage.
What, you think all those indie artsy 1-D films are made on a shoestring budget ?
Computers slow down when you turn them off, or lower their clock rate. They don't slow down when you use them; you just put those cycles to (local) use.
Apparently they also "freeze as capacity runs out in cyberspace" (whatever that means)... It's been written by professionals so it has to be true.
I don't understand why eating cash, in a figurative or literal sense, makes them monsters. They have done you a service - what makes you think you shouldn't have to pay for it?
Presumably because since it's information it should be free. At least that's what I read on the Intarwebs so it has to be true.
Yeah, I've stuck with corded mice too. Every time I've used someone else's wireless I hear the stories. From the WoW tank who's mouse battery died while the guild had the last boss to 1% hp for the first time, to the intermittent rolling and clicking. It just all sucks.
Honestly, I dislike corded mice because the cable is always a bit annoying.
However having through the years tried a lot of cordless mice, I've always had a number of problems with them, from button 2 (click wheel) dying (ok, not cordless related) on my first MX 1000 some years ago to (more common problem with later mice) my latest attempt with a MS model going haywire with something apparently interfering on the frequency it was using.
So I'm back to a corded Logitech G5 and the cord is a bit annoying. But at least it works consistently. And I was surprised to see that all the buttons worked in both Gnome and KDE without having to set up anything. In Windows it doesn't work as well (didn't install the Logitech drivers though, I just run a few games so I didn't see the point).
What runs on a microkernel? Services. And if you exploit a highly privileged service, you've exploited the whole system. Or what am I missing?
Not much. The microkernel / Monolithic kernel debate is a bit like the RISC / CISC debate... Both are by now mostly religious in nature. Whatever the type of the kernel is has very little impact on the security of the system as a whole.
In this case Minix was presumably chosen by the researchers because it's a very simple system (because it doesn't do much and doesn't change much either). If they had gone with a BSD or Linux, it would have been much more complicated to track the repercussions of whatever change they made.
Whether anything usable will come of this is another story.
Of course, Tannenbaum is also partly responsible for the creation of Linux. Torvalds would regularly engage in heated debate regarding Minix's non-monolithic architecture.
I read those as they unfolded.
It's true that Tannenbaum is in part responsible for the creation of Linux. But only because at the time (I think it was available then) Minix was the only option on a PC and nobody wanted to run that. Tannenbaum failed at creating something decent so a better system was called for. Later on he may have whined for all he was worth, his system is still ignored (although I, and many others read and appreciated his book, nobody cares about Minix, it's a toy).
I ran Linux on my own machine (I never could have afforded my own Unix machine before that) in 1994 for the first time (mostly to run TeX, oddly enough, long story), and it's been my desktop system since (except for the small gaming Windows partition I've kept on and off for I've never managed to get into consoles).
I did boot Minix several times but even compared to the very first Linux versions, it has always felt like a toy (I mean no X ? come on...). I did run a number of BSD systems though. I also ran an OS X laptop for a bit over a year but it was just Windows with a smiley face to me so it quickly became a paperweight. The Unix side had been perverted enough that it was completely unusable.
So I run Linux, a bit of BSD (and Windows games) and I'm happy that way. I even buy commercial Linux apps when I need them. To each his own of course, people get what suits them.
The question is, can you make a system that actually works very well?
I'm glad someone finally got to asking this question.
Who cares ? That question was answered a long time ago and the provided answer, while perfectly adequate, proved to be too expensive for a lot of users.
So yes, you can have a system that can work very well in pretty much any situation. It does cost a bit though.
My hero is G. H. Hardy, the number theorist who loved his field because it had no practical application. He would never have guessed that his concepts would be vital for public-key encryption and other things which are used by millions of people every day.
Great story:) I hope he didn't have to switch fields;)
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We only use knifes when we take dogs. Its pretty easy to kill a boar with a knife, and I have never been "tusked" badly. Its also cheaper. When my Dad was hunting they used their fists.
Boars have fists in your area ? Where are you hunting, Tchernobyl ?
...you can record it. Case closed.
"Lala describes an invention that monitors every access, allows only authorized devices (so far there are none) [ ... ]"
Except you *can't* hear it. That's why it's brilliant.
Except for one massive difference: watching TV is NOT the primary use of broadband.
Maybe not the *primary* use, but here (FR), most ISPs will give you a set top box with their ADSL modem (or the modem itself doubles as a STB) which will decode mpeg data streamed from the ISP, hold a hard disk to record programs and for time shifting, plus assorted gadgets (they're typically little Linux machines). Some also integrate a decoder for terrestrial digital television (you'll have to add your antenna).
You get roughly 100 "free" channels as a standard packaged deal when you open an ADSL2+ line (plus VOIP that's free to most ground phones worldwide). The cost is around 30 €s / month.
So here, watching TV certainly is a common use of broadband. Out of the 10-15 Mb that you typically get out of the 22 to 24 Mb theoretical throughput of ADSL2+, a TV stream isn't really that much of a problem.
Presumably this kind of set up is also deployed elsewhere in Europe.
If I know the right value, then fixing the Wikipedia facts is not actually that important to me any more. I might offer the information and citation as a general public service, but taking a photograph of the engine, downloading it to my computer at work (which doesn't have the cable for my camera), then uploading it and justifying the interpretation just to correct some trivial error? It wouldn't be worth it to most people.
That might be worth it, but even then there's a fair chance you'd *still* have to edit the page a dozen times after that because some "independent researcher" discovered a random web page on AOL that proved you wrong. This is Wikipedia after all...
I mean, this guy actually did work at 3DRealms and this is his blog, but seriously, CliffyB and Marc Rein threatening developers with broken chairs? Tim Sweeny tackling people and holding them down for gang beatings?
Obviously you've never worked at a game development company... Programmers there aren't worth much.
At least this guy got away with all his limbs and no oil burns. And they didn't use the spiders...
Didn't it occur to Ensign Hopper that there's a reason mathematicians don't work in plain language?
Of course not, they work in FORTRAN !
OTOH, a tricky part of Star Trek-style warp drive is coming up with a way of generating such an effect that will selectively move the object you want moved at FTL speeds over a vast distance without disrupting a vast swath of the universe near the path of movement.
While *also* generating cool rainbow effects.
So, would this have any effect at all on the current Kessel Run record ?
And don't forget: there is a non-zero chance that the universe WAS created by a 7-foot tall bunny made of spaghetti, used video tape, and lug nuts! Everybody panic!!!
The first rule of the universe is : "don't talk of the Spaghetti Bunny" !
What did they teach you in advanced physics class ?
Yup, the church of Windows. After all they make a lot of money.
I've never met Windows cultists.
I've only met :
- clueless Windows users (everybody else does it)
- rational Windows users (I'm using Windows because everybody else does so)
And yes there is a difference.
But people who actually *like* Windows ?
Never met one. Probably because most of the users that run Windows that I've met never had a choice. And the few that did picked Windows because of one of the two reasons above.
The few that switched away, to Linux, BSD or Mac OS (the only realistic current options) often keep a Windows partition, on and off, either through virtualisation, emulation or on a spare disk for games or to test software (or for the few pieces of software they cannot do without... which is rare but happens, especially in enterprise settings).
In short, nobody likes Windows. Most people have to make do with Windows.
Mac OS was a joke (it lacked preemptive multitasking for years, programs used static memory alocation, it crashed if you coughed nearby etc), no comments on Windows 3.x, Windows 95 was not immediately viable. OS/2 worked well, but it was heavy and lacked apps (then it died).
I worked at a large commercial Mac oriented BBS in France which ended up being among the first ISPs (French computer users may recognise it) but I wasn't a Mac user.
And I remember how awed the rabid Mac users were in the mid 1990s when on my mighty 486 DX50 (running what was one of the first Slackware releases), I could run FTP, *and* an X11 desktop, *and* a DOS emulator (to run the crappy DOS batch client for our BBS), and assorted light crap.
They were already pretty arrogant at the time, but of course they couldn't run several programs at the same time (but then neither could Windows -- 3.11 at the time), unless you counted cooperative multitasking as running "multiple programs" (although it did, for a while, until one of them croaked, happened pretty soon, usually).
It was lots of fun at the time anyway. Especially when I told them it was a free (as in *free*) operating system (and yes, it *does* work better than yours). How I loved to watch their mind try to process that (I still do btw).
Whether Linux still is better than OS X is mostly a matter of taste (and of requirements, I'm a photographer and I do fine in Linux, you definitely don't *need* PhotoShop, or Gimp for that matter). I ran both for a while and I know which I like better. And I also know which one most Unix users tend to like better (hint : Mac users and I tend to disagree on this).
So all that's left is "how does it hold in front of humidity" ?
This is a major advantage of laser printing vs. a number of inkjets. Does soy make a difference ?
Here's the VR headseat, too.
Her "headseat" is broken, she seems to be standing in those images.
Yes, yes. Let's waste our time and money in court costs and lawyers fees to get $200 for a laptop screen out of the airline because you were too much of an idiot to either pack the laptop properly (assuming, as the airline states, it wasn't broken before hand) or carry it with you.
Without going as far as lawyers and courts, a few well aimed letters could do wonders.
"It might have been broken before" basically means the airline can destroy whatever it likes and get away with it. "Yes, your luggage is covered in gasoline, and torn to shreds, but it might have been that way before". "Yes your children have large tyre tracks across their forehead but they could have been that way before".
I don't see why people are supposed to accept just anything from clueless corporations. It's a matter of principle. They break it, they fix it.
Of course. IF you watch or listen to anything made by the "mainstream" movie and music industries you clearly aren't as hip and cool as the non-conformists who only watch/listen to indy garbage.
What, you think all those indie artsy 1-D films are made on a shoestring budget ?
No need for that when you can just reverse the network's polarity.
Computers slow down when you turn them off, or lower their clock rate. They don't slow down when you use them; you just put those cycles to (local) use.
Apparently they also "freeze as capacity runs out in cyberspace" (whatever that means)... It's been written by professionals so it has to be true.
Though, in general, LotR should be public domain.
It is not a matter of opinion. Copyright is Life + 70 in the USA. Tolkien passed in 1973. In 2043, his work will enter public domain.
Unless some sort of law related to copyright issues happens to pass in the mean time.
I wouldn't be surprised if copyright became without time limit at some point.
I don't understand why eating cash, in a figurative or literal sense, makes them monsters. They have done you a service - what makes you think you shouldn't have to pay for it?
Presumably because since it's information it should be free. At least that's what I read on the Intarwebs so it has to be true.
Yeah, I've stuck with corded mice too. Every time I've used someone else's wireless I hear the stories. From the WoW tank who's mouse battery died while the guild had the last boss to 1% hp for the first time, to the intermittent rolling and clicking. It just all sucks.
Honestly, I dislike corded mice because the cable is always a bit annoying.
However having through the years tried a lot of cordless mice, I've always had a number of problems with them, from button 2 (click wheel) dying (ok, not cordless related) on my first MX 1000 some years ago to (more common problem with later mice) my latest attempt with a MS model going haywire with something apparently interfering on the frequency it was using.
So I'm back to a corded Logitech G5 and the cord is a bit annoying. But at least it works consistently.
And I was surprised to see that all the buttons worked in both Gnome and KDE without having to set up anything. In Windows it doesn't work as well (didn't install the Logitech drivers though, I just run a few games so I didn't see the point).
I'm not saying that WV or Bolivia could use the discussed areas for it but what about farming?
It has been considered too, but batteries don't grow on trees. That's precisely the problem.
What runs on a microkernel? Services. And if you exploit a highly privileged service, you've exploited the whole system. Or what am I missing?
Not much.
The microkernel / Monolithic kernel debate is a bit like the RISC / CISC debate... Both are by now mostly religious in nature.
Whatever the type of the kernel is has very little impact on the security of the system as a whole.
In this case Minix was presumably chosen by the researchers because it's a very simple system (because it doesn't do much and doesn't change much either). If they had gone with a BSD or Linux, it would have been much more complicated to track the repercussions of whatever change they made.
Whether anything usable will come of this is another story.
Of course, Tannenbaum is also partly responsible for the creation of Linux. Torvalds would regularly engage in heated debate regarding Minix's non-monolithic architecture.
I read those as they unfolded.
It's true that Tannenbaum is in part responsible for the creation of Linux. But only because at the time (I think it was available then) Minix was the only option on a PC and nobody wanted to run that. Tannenbaum failed at creating something decent so a better system was called for. Later on he may have whined for all he was worth, his system is still ignored (although I, and many others read and appreciated his book, nobody cares about Minix, it's a toy).
I ran Linux on my own machine (I never could have afforded my own Unix machine before that) in 1994 for the first time (mostly to run TeX, oddly enough, long story), and it's been my desktop system since (except for the small gaming Windows partition I've kept on and off for I've never managed to get into consoles).
I did boot Minix several times but even compared to the very first Linux versions, it has always felt like a toy (I mean no X ? come on...). I did run a number of BSD systems though. I also ran an OS X laptop for a bit over a year but it was just Windows with a smiley face to me so it quickly became a paperweight. The Unix side had been perverted enough that it was completely unusable.
So I run Linux, a bit of BSD (and Windows games) and I'm happy that way. I even buy commercial Linux apps when I need them. To each his own of course, people get what suits them.
Your arms are going to get tired very quickly using this interface...
Of course not, now you don't have to hold that heavy 5 gram light pen. No more gorilla arm syndrome !
This guy is a genius !
Um, wait.
Do the people who keep on re-inventing those interfaces actually ever ponder why each previous instance failed ?
The question is, can you make a system that actually works very well?
I'm glad someone finally got to asking this question.
Who cares ? That question was answered a long time ago and the provided answer, while perfectly adequate, proved to be too expensive for a lot of users.
So yes, you can have a system that can work very well in pretty much any situation. It does cost a bit though.
My hero is G. H. Hardy, the number theorist who loved his field because it had no practical application. He would never have guessed that his concepts would be vital for public-key encryption and other things which are used by millions of people every day.
Great story :) I hope he didn't have to switch fields ;)