Because then wave-particle duality are really just the same thing? I don't know much about this subject, but it seems that we have to rethink light rays... ? We can measure light as both a wave and a particle. But they are both physical? So is the particle a dot which waves? Or springs back to a dot and out again to a wave?
I agree for the most part with your post, except the computer thing.
No I don't expect people to know what the NT kernel is, or how to compile C with classes on Mac OS X. What I do expect people to be able to do is find the fscking web browser icon, just as I expect someone to know how to start a car that has the ignition two centimeters off compared to their previous car.
Why do I do this? Because it's 2011 and when some internet cable gets cut, people can't even get food delivired to supermarkets anymore.
It's a matter of brain damage; not able to adapt.
Of course there are there people who never grew up with personal computers, so they are in the clear right? Right... except the people who invented them mostly are either dead now or 80 years old. So there goed that excuse.
The only kernel panic I ever had was a bad burned iso image from disc that had corrupted files.
If you hardware isn't failing, try disabling hardware and writing down what happened before the BSOD (playing sound, 3D graphics, image manipulation (2D), etc.) and isolating the driver. Then try alternative drivers and alternative driver versions;)
Bullshit. Everybody forgets old skills whenever they are not needed anymore. The fastest way to get it is a search engine, but if a sciency book was right in front of me, I'd hit that instead.
The brain adapts, and so in this day and age; it's adapted to suit the environment, so guess what? That's good. If an internet meltdown were to suddenly start happening, I'd grab my programming, math and physics book form the shelf and start adapting to the new environment.
If I'm on vacation; I don't have access to the intenet and a personal computer (except an internet cafe for reading my mail every four days or so for half an hour) and guess what? I don't care! I start doing other fun stuff like exploring the surroundings, meeting new people, go swimming, diving, clubbing, whatever.
Blue screens of death have nothing to do with Windows 7, because NT6.x is rock solid. The only way to get a BSOD with NT6.x is faulty hardware and/or drivers.
I haven't had a software caused BSOD since DOS based Windows (95, 98). I did get sudden restards around Windows XP SP3, due to faulty hardware. These restarts are happening instead of a BSOD due to settings (BSOD or instant reboot?). When the malfunctioning GPU card was replaced, the sudden restarts were gone.
The reason I haven't dumped Windows is not because I don't use other operating systems. It's because of MS Office and games. First of all MS Office beats the shit out of every office suite. Period. The most good games on the planet have been made for Windows. That doesn't change anytime soon. Other games are ofcourse consoles.
So what other operating systems do I like? I used to love Linux, but now I hate it (thanks to FreeBSD, because not having a base OS is just always biting people in the ass). Other interests are AROS and BeOS. The last two are pretty much hobby and programmer stuff. FreeBSD the best UNIX for me, but as an interim solution I still use Fedora, because I bought my hardware with Linux and Windows in mind, not with FreeBSD. I'm also looking realy forward to an Amiga PPC netbook, because AROS hardware support is a joke.
The people that run the business at AMD are all geeks, and very good ones.
That said AMD is probably the first company that gets it (next to Apple, for that matter) in the sense that the product that you're making should sell itself.
I'm not a fan of Apple at all, but the point here is that I've never bought something because of an emotional response (marketing) but rather because I wanted something for a reason, like: I need something to do x, what is it and where can I get it?
AMD has already done lots of thing that keep me a customer, like for example their GPU and chipset documentation, helping FLOSS developpers create GPU drivers and Coreboot.
We all know Intel pwns the market. That's marketing you cannot beat in the short term. But the best marketing is word-of-mouth and is a long term investment anyways. Companies that are in it for the long term end up being the healthiest and the best.
And it's not as if PC gamers weren't checking the benchmarks first in order to buy the best card. Same with the admins who want to have a BIOS replacement.
Steve Jobs made no such contribution to the modern computing era.
Steve's contribution to the Amiga 1000 is the only good contribution to what could have been, but it was insignificant in itself.
Steve's company has never introduced something radically new. Most of anything Apple has ever made, had already been made before them. That's not to say that the products weren't elegantly thought-through; they were just household objects that the majority of people could realy use to their (limited) full extend, as opposed to just the programmers and the enthousiasts who know all the ins and outs.
Dennis had made something that is to this day in everything. Even modern Windows has UNIX compatibility backed in, for the sake of porting over UNIX to Windows executeables. NT is, ofcourse, written in C.
The point in all of this is that Ritchie contributed to the entire computing industry, while all that Jobs has ever did was create more intuitive itterations of products already created by others. Even Braun design was shamelessly recycled.
Now what if Oracle's CEO would die, do we get the same ceremonies? No we don't. So why does this freaking UNIX electronics CEO gets so much attention that I have to fight his name in defence of the computer God Dennis Ritchie?Marketing, you slaves! Have you not figured out how stupid that is?
People with PTSD see nothing but horror. Dreams can been seen as in images, but they won't feel so happy.
All they need is a MDMA pill and actually feel happy, so they can remember what real happyness actually is. It has proved to work, but then some nutjobs banned it because "OMG drugs!111 one one eleven".
Sony Vaio E-series with Fedora 15; KDE spin; x86_64.
You'll have a cheaper, higher quality component laptop that's extremely sturdy, with better windows management and trackpad.
Throw Apple care out of the window. If I call Sony, they are at my fscking doorstep the next day. Oh and 2 year warrenty, no freaking stupid complaints that you'd expect from some other companies.
And dear God; it can be ordered in trendy blue, so it doesn't look like a brick.
KDE multitouch is bliss.Seriously. Even on that trackpad.
Just make sure you enable RPMFusion and the world is yours.
Simple. At install time, the bootsector isn't even touched by the BIOS, so the rootkit does't load. The OS can then know exactly what space it has and hasn't. Based on that, a small piece of the kernel binary could be compiled to make use of these outer edges, to store some pages and some critical logic and values.
When the rootkit launches it must sit next to the BIOS and then launch the OS loader. The OS loader loads the kernel.
The kernel is now going to load random pages with unused logic in the first few MB of RAM it can touch (as it was compiled). And among these random pages, there will be logic that will get used. The rootkit can hide, but eventualy it can't store all these pages and at some point a page has to be loaded or the OS doesn't work anymore. Even if the rootkit stores these pages somewhere else in the RAM, it risks overwriting used RAM and it cannot know what's used because of all the RAM caching today.
Simply put, a virus cannot live without a living host.
Even the BIOS could be engineered so that it tracks how many cycles the CPU has gone threw before being able to ACPI process kernel calls. If this is too much, there has been something else that's going on, meaning infection.
Couldn't the rootkit just take control of the actual boot sector, and then present something else to the OS?
It can't represent the exact same values to the OS, without being larger than the bootsector. Otherwise it can be considdered a bug in the OS.
And isn't the point of modding the boot sector to make the rootkit boot before the OS, thereby making (the first stage of) the rootkit independent of OS?
There is a lot to be learned from OS design in regards to the BIOS. The BIOS also runs next to the OS and it has to reserve some memory. The OS can be made so that, even if the rootkit lies about the free memory footprint for the OS, the OS can do a lot of tricks to outsmart the rootkit and decide to completely crash. This would render the rootkit unusable.
Imagine a BSOD saying "OS corrupted by virus. Boot from OS disk to repair boot sector.".
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Because then wave-particle duality are really just the same thing? I don't know much about this subject, but it seems that we have to rethink light rays... ?
We can measure light as both a wave and a particle. But they are both physical? So is the particle a dot which waves? Or springs back to a dot and out again to a wave?
Who knows...
I agree for the most part with your post, except the computer thing.
No I don't expect people to know what the NT kernel is, or how to compile C with classes on Mac OS X. What I do expect people to be able to do is find the fscking web browser icon, just as I expect someone to know how to start a car that has the ignition two centimeters off compared to their previous car.
Why do I do this? Because it's 2011 and when some internet cable gets cut, people can't even get food delivired to supermarkets anymore.
It's a matter of brain damage; not able to adapt.
Of course there are there people who never grew up with personal computers, so they are in the clear right? Right... except the people who invented them mostly are either dead now or 80 years old. So there goed that excuse.
It's realy just that fscking stupid.
The only kernel panic I ever had was a bad burned iso image from disc that had corrupted files.
If you hardware isn't failing, try disabling hardware and writing down what happened before the BSOD (playing sound, 3D graphics, image manipulation (2D), etc.) and isolating the driver. Then try alternative drivers and alternative driver versions ;)
Bullshit. Everybody forgets old skills whenever they are not needed anymore. The fastest way to get it is a search engine, but if a sciency book was right in front of me, I'd hit that instead.
The brain adapts, and so in this day and age; it's adapted to suit the environment, so guess what? That's good. If an internet meltdown were to suddenly start happening, I'd grab my programming, math and physics book form the shelf and start adapting to the new environment.
If I'm on vacation; I don't have access to the intenet and a personal computer (except an internet cafe for reading my mail every four days or so for half an hour) and guess what? I don't care! I start doing other fun stuff like exploring the surroundings, meeting new people, go swimming, diving, clubbing, whatever.
Tin foil hats...
Blue screens of death have nothing to do with Windows 7, because NT6.x is rock solid. The only way to get a BSOD with NT6.x is faulty hardware and/or drivers.
I haven't had a software caused BSOD since DOS based Windows (95, 98). I did get sudden restards around Windows XP SP3, due to faulty hardware. These restarts are happening instead of a BSOD due to settings (BSOD or instant reboot?). When the malfunctioning GPU card was replaced, the sudden restarts were gone.
The reason I haven't dumped Windows is not because I don't use other operating systems. It's because of MS Office and games. First of all MS Office beats the shit out of every office suite. Period. The most good games on the planet have been made for Windows. That doesn't change anytime soon. Other games are ofcourse consoles.
So what other operating systems do I like? I used to love Linux, but now I hate it (thanks to FreeBSD, because not having a base OS is just always biting people in the ass). Other interests are AROS and BeOS. The last two are pretty much hobby and programmer stuff. FreeBSD the best UNIX for me, but as an interim solution I still use Fedora, because I bought my hardware with Linux and Windows in mind, not with FreeBSD. I'm also looking realy forward to an Amiga PPC netbook, because AROS hardware support is a joke.
The people that run the business at AMD are all geeks, and very good ones.
That said AMD is probably the first company that gets it (next to Apple, for that matter) in the sense that the product that you're making should sell itself.
I'm not a fan of Apple at all, but the point here is that I've never bought something because of an emotional response (marketing) but rather because I wanted something for a reason, like: I need something to do x, what is it and where can I get it?
AMD has already done lots of thing that keep me a customer, like for example their GPU and chipset documentation, helping FLOSS developpers create GPU drivers and Coreboot.
We all know Intel pwns the market. That's marketing you cannot beat in the short term. But the best marketing is word-of-mouth and is a long term investment anyways. Companies that are in it for the long term end up being the healthiest and the best.
And it's not as if PC gamers weren't checking the benchmarks first in order to buy the best card. Same with the admins who want to have a BIOS replacement.
Steve Jobs made no such contribution to the modern computing era.
Steve's contribution to the Amiga 1000 is the only good contribution to what could have been, but it was insignificant in itself.
Steve's company has never introduced something radically new. Most of anything Apple has ever made, had already been made before them. That's not to say that the products weren't elegantly thought-through; they were just household objects that the majority of people could realy use to their (limited) full extend, as opposed to just the programmers and the enthousiasts who know all the ins and outs.
Dennis had made something that is to this day in everything. Even modern Windows has UNIX compatibility backed in, for the sake of porting over UNIX to Windows executeables. NT is, ofcourse, written in C.
The point in all of this is that Ritchie contributed to the entire computing industry, while all that Jobs has ever did was create more intuitive itterations of products already created by others. Even Braun design was shamelessly recycled.
Now what if Oracle's CEO would die, do we get the same ceremonies? No we don't. So why does this freaking UNIX electronics CEO gets so much attention that I have to fight his name in defence of the computer God Dennis Ritchie?Marketing, you slaves! Have you not figured out how stupid that is?
On a stick?
Commodore Amiga marketing?
+5 Insightful (sarcasm understood)
Correct ;D
P does not equal NP (stupid filter/me).
I still believe that P NP.
If they get powerfull enough to think, we can either rest in a grave or all rest, living the high life.
I don't think you understand the metaphor.
Nobody is looking to find sadness. If you ask people what they truely want, it's always happiness.
Maybe that's also your problem.
Thanks :)
I think not. First paragraph, third sentence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Wheeler_Wilcox
(print "World says goodbye")
*Cough* Network admins of the Playstation network have nothing to do with Sony's computer division *Cough*
I hate to break it down to you, but Sony is a very large company with a shitload of business units.
If anything Sony doesn't ask questions when you visit for warrenty.
Every other computer company screws you over, including Apple.
People with PTSD see nothing but horror. Dreams can been seen as in images, but they won't feel so happy.
All they need is a MDMA pill and actually feel happy, so they can remember what real happyness actually is. It has proved to work, but then some nutjobs banned it because "OMG drugs!111 one one eleven".
BTW... MDMA was developped by the US army.
NO. NO. NO.
Sony Vaio E-series with Fedora 15; KDE spin; x86_64.
You'll have a cheaper, higher quality component laptop that's extremely sturdy, with better windows management and trackpad.
Throw Apple care out of the window. If I call Sony, they are at my fscking doorstep the next day. Oh and 2 year warrenty, no freaking stupid complaints that you'd expect from some other companies.
And dear God; it can be ordered in trendy blue, so it doesn't look like a brick.
KDE multitouch is bliss.Seriously. Even on that trackpad.
Just make sure you enable RPMFusion and the world is yours.
You already have a TC chip. The only joke is that Linux hands the key ownership to... the user. Meaning you are in control.
Simple. At install time, the bootsector isn't even touched by the BIOS, so the rootkit does't load. The OS can then know exactly what space it has and hasn't. Based on that, a small piece of the kernel binary could be compiled to make use of these outer edges, to store some pages and some critical logic and values.
When the rootkit launches it must sit next to the BIOS and then launch the OS loader. The OS loader loads the kernel.
The kernel is now going to load random pages with unused logic in the first few MB of RAM it can touch (as it was compiled). And among these random pages, there will be logic that will get used. The rootkit can hide, but eventualy it can't store all these pages and at some point a page has to be loaded or the OS doesn't work anymore. Even if the rootkit stores these pages somewhere else in the RAM, it risks overwriting used RAM and it cannot know what's used because of all the RAM caching today.
Simply put, a virus cannot live without a living host.
Even the BIOS could be engineered so that it tracks how many cycles the CPU has gone threw before being able to ACPI process kernel calls. If this is too much, there has been something else that's going on, meaning infection.
C'mon, be a little more creative...
I said logic, not values.
Couldn't the rootkit just take control of the actual boot sector, and then present something else to the OS?
It can't represent the exact same values to the OS, without being larger than the bootsector. Otherwise it can be considdered a bug in the OS.
And isn't the point of modding the boot sector to make the rootkit boot before the OS, thereby making (the first stage of) the rootkit independent of OS?
There is a lot to be learned from OS design in regards to the BIOS. The BIOS also runs next to the OS and it has to reserve some memory. The OS can be made so that, even if the rootkit lies about the free memory footprint for the OS, the OS can do a lot of tricks to outsmart the rootkit and decide to completely crash. This would render the rootkit unusable.
Imagine a BSOD saying "OS corrupted by virus. Boot from OS disk to repair boot sector.".
Byebye rootkits.
But not me, which is the point.
Just make sure you're not the low-hanging fruit