Of course, if he really was a "1337 h4x0r" he'd have only bumped up a few of his grades, not given himself straight "A"s.
Additionally, the trial would have gone something like this: "The charges are... uhmmm, sorry, but we can't seem to find anything about this guy in our system, hour honor. [mumble] I *know* I saw it yesterday...[/mumble]"
well, since it has come to this, i am hereby accusing all MPAA, RIAA members of child abuse, child pornography, treason. remember, PROOF IS NOT REQUIRED.
Seeing as they MPAA is advocating the removal - for them only - of the guarantees outlined in the law in general, and the Constitution in particular, a charge of treason, or at least sedition, might actually fly.
You could have their trial at the same time as Bush and Cheney's.
Those who ignore history aren't only doomed to repeat it, they'll end up looking like MS shills on slashdot.
Read what I wrote. Microsoft had disbanded the IE dev. team, saying that "people have no interest in tabbed browsing, etc., and that the future was in net-based apps, not browser-based ones."
(in fact, the Internet Explorer team was disbanded shortly after the release of IE6)
It only took a few secs to come up with a link, and there are plenty more where that came from, so stop with the "rewriting MS history" bullshit, please. Every move microsoft has made was to try to move people onto a different platform that they could control. C#, and also.NET, were supposed to be the tools to do that, and get people away from java and web-based apps, neither of which have a platform lockin. Both attempts are miserable failures. Java now runs on over a billion devices, and.NET is a piece of crap, and will be replaced within the next 5 years by the "next great thing", while people will still be using java and browser-based apps.
You're free to do whatever you want, including working on.net or mono, but be prepared to make yet another shift within the next 5 years. In the meantime, people who are working with "the old standbys" c, c++, and (now) java, will just be increasing their experience level and ubiquitousness.
Performance is irrelevant in most situations these days. You don't need bleeding fucking edge C/C++ performance for a business-logic app.
No, performance is NOT irrelevant. Unless, of course, the app you're writing is trivial.
I *do* unserstand the situation. Microsoft is in the habit of trying to introduce new standards that they can control. They tried this when they declared IE dead, and.NET to be the future. Of course, when devs refused to drop support for browser apps, Microsoft had to reconstitute the IE team.
We saw the same fiasco before that with java. Microsoft introduced an incompatible version, then, when they lost in court, introduced c# as a java competitor, rather than support existing standards.
We see this sort of behaviour all the time, most recently with the OLPC, and also with MSOOXML vs ODF.
The performance of managed code sucks - and it always will.
Why would Mono be bad when Samba and WINE are good?
Never said samba was any good - I don't use it. As for wine, the c code I'm writing at work today is targeted to the linux and bsd platforms (like always), and the rest (web stuff), I still develop under linux. For me, the only useful wine is something that comes in a bottle.
As for the CLR, why? I have neither need nor desire for "managed code." If I wanted that, I could use java - at least it's mature, open-source, and has good support on my platform of choice.
intentionally accesses a computer without authorization
Today's watches, wall clock displays, etc., have embedded computers with more brain power than those vacuum tube jobs a generation ago - so purposefuly looking at the time is "accessing a computer". Did you get authorization?
How about that clock radio? Or that big-screen display in the store? Did you get authorization before accessing the data that was being displayed?
Or the display at the local checkout counter, that tallies up your bill? That cash register has an embedded computer. Did you get authorization before watching it total up your bill?
The person further on who makes the analogy between an unsecured wifi and an unlocked door misses one important difference - I am doing more than "opening an unlocked door", I also am trespassing. I can access an unsecured wifi without any physical trespass.
However, to make things more obvious, I have 2 wireless routers. I'll be reflashing one of them to provide public access on a limited basis; more people should, since it's darned convenient to be able to look up google maps when you're lost (and google does a better job than a gps).
What does Microsoft do with a Linux distributor at first place?
As I pointed out, Novell is more than a linux distributor.
I *do* believe that Mono and Moonlight, in their current guise, are trojans, and that Miguel de Icaza should be given the boot, asap, but that's another story. Novell has done a lot of the heavy lifting for the community, including the SCO crap. OpenSUSE is a good product; it should be judged on its' merits, and not on any FID from Microsoft. After all, Microsoft is claiming that *ALL* linux distros "may violate Microsoft IP". Of course, since they use the weasel-word "may", anyone with 2 brain cells would immediately recognize the fud, but PHBs don't seem to be able to afford the grey matter necessary.
Don't drink the Microsoft kool-aid. Novell has continually stated that the deal had nothing to do with patent protection for "Microsoft IP in Linux" - only Microsoft has been pushing that fud. Funny how, if this was such a deal, Microsoft hasn't revealed their supposed IP.
One of the biggest reasons that people are pissed off at spammers is the differential between the time a spammer invests in spamming you, and the time you spend dealing with the spam.
If you want me to deal with you, at least invest the same level of effort into it that you expect me to expend. It's a sort of "social contract" - something that spammers are oblivious to.
Funny how cops, heavy-equipment drivers, truckers, etc., manage to drive at or under the limit w/o becoming road pizza.
The last two _are_ the ones that are going to turn you into road pizza when you drive too far below the speed limit.
Nonsense - I've driven everything from dump trucks to tractors to road graders on the roads, and I've never unintentionally turned anyone into road pizza. YMMV.
I guess it depends on where you live. If you are only going 65 on a hwy down here...you WILL get run over.
That excuse won't cut it in traffic court. Besides, you and everyone else who is speeding ARE wasting fuel. Instead of complaining about high gas prices, why not *do* something about it? Why not demand that existing speed limits be enforced? It'll be a "stupidity tax" on people who can't/won't obey speed limits, and it will help reduce dependence on foreign oil.
Funny how cops, heavy-equipment drivers, truckers, etc., manage to drive at or under the limit w/o becoming road pizza.
I've seen people try to justify going 30-40mph in a school zone "because it's impossible to go only 20mph". If you can't drive at or under the limit, irrespective of the road conditions, you lack one of either the confidence necessary, or the skill, to drive.
"They forced me to drive over the speed limit" won't cut it in traffic court.
Try again. Cars have changed a LOT since the 70's... back then, it was true. Not today, at least on cars that have decent aerodynamics. But if you don't want to open the window, just turn on the fan, and suck air in from outside. Most of the time, you just need to get the car down to the ambient temperature.
but then the limits are 65-70 and driving 55 where the slowest is going 70 is just a bit dangerous
Everyone says the same thing. Someone has to be the first. Try going slower in the right-hand land, and watch how other people, many of whom are just "driving by habit" end up following you at the (slower) speed you're going. Those who want you to go faster, let them pass on the left - otherwise, by speeding up, they're robbing you of both gas money AND vehicle wear and tear.
Mazda 626 Cronos. But, every car I've driven, I've managed to get way more than the rated mileage. Heck, I was even able to get 20mpg on an old 3-ton Ford Econoline van w.351v8 on long trips. Driving less than the speed limit, avoiding jackrabbit starts, and lugging the engine (manual shift) will make a huge difference on almost any vehicle.
People don't want to believe it, but a stick-shift will save LOTS of $$$. I had two identical minivans - one with a 3-speed automatic + electric overdrive (hence, a 6-speed), and one with a 5-speed manual transmission. I couldn't break 30mpg on the slushbox, but with a bit of attention, I'd beat 40mpg on the stick during the summer months. If everyone switched to a manual transmission and drove under the limit, there'd be a fuel glut!
Also, don't use AC. In the days of the big V8's you could argue that the extra horsepower was minimal. Today, AC sucks an extra 10% off the top - with today's streamlined cars, you're better off driving with the window open - contrary to expectations, you don't increase the air resistance that much any more, especially when rolling under the speed limit.
My car is supposed to get 20mpg cit, 26mpg highway, 20mpg combined. On a fillup-to-fillup basis, I'm consistently getting well over 30 mpg (35.5 mpg combined as of my last fillup yesterday). That's a 45% saving. It's almost like getting every second tank for free.
Driving under the speed limit, upshifting early, keeping an eye on the traffic up ahead, checking your tire pressure on a regular basis, emptying the trunk of useless junk, it all helps to save money.
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Of course, if he really was a "1337 h4x0r" he'd have only bumped up a few of his grades, not given himself straight "A"s.
Additionally, the trial would have gone something like this: "The charges are ... uhmmm, sorry, but we can't seem to find anything about this guy in our system, hour honor. [mumble] I *know* I saw it yesterday ...[/mumble]"
Hanging them would probably meet "acceptable community standards".
Seeing as they MPAA is advocating the removal - for them only - of the guarantees outlined in the law in general, and the Constitution in particular, a charge of treason, or at least sedition, might actually fly.
You could have their trial at the same time as Bush and Cheney's.
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Those who ignore history aren't only doomed to repeat it, they'll end up looking like MS shills on slashdot.
Read what I wrote. Microsoft had disbanded the IE dev. team, saying that "people have no interest in tabbed browsing, etc., and that the future was in net-based apps, not browser-based ones."
It only took a few secs to come up with a link, and there are plenty more where that came from, so stop with the "rewriting MS history" bullshit, please. Every move microsoft has made was to try to move people onto a different platform that they could control. C#, and also .NET, were supposed to be the tools to do that, and get people away from java and web-based apps, neither of which have a platform lockin. Both attempts are miserable failures. Java now runs on over a billion devices, and .NET is a piece of crap, and will be replaced within the next 5 years by the "next great thing", while people will still be using java and browser-based apps.
You're free to do whatever you want, including working on .net or mono, but be prepared to make yet another shift within the next 5 years. In the meantime, people who are working with "the old standbys" c, c++, and (now) java, will just be increasing their experience level and ubiquitousness.
No, performance is NOT irrelevant. Unless, of course, the app you're writing is trivial.
We saw the same fiasco before that with java. Microsoft introduced an incompatible version, then, when they lost in court, introduced c# as a java competitor, rather than support existing standards.
We see this sort of behaviour all the time, most recently with the OLPC, and also with MSOOXML vs ODF.
The performance of managed code sucks - and it always will.
Never said samba was any good - I don't use it. As for wine, the c code I'm writing at work today is targeted to the linux and bsd platforms (like always), and the rest (web stuff), I still develop under linux. For me, the only useful wine is something that comes in a bottle.
As for the CLR, why? I have neither need nor desire for "managed code." If I wanted that, I could use java - at least it's mature, open-source, and has good support on my platform of choice.
They only make the "promise not to sue" to people who don't do commercial development. In other words, non-competitors. f*ck that.
Today's watches, wall clock displays, etc., have embedded computers with more brain power than those vacuum tube jobs a generation ago - so purposefuly looking at the time is "accessing a computer". Did you get authorization?
How about that clock radio? Or that big-screen display in the store? Did you get authorization before accessing the data that was being displayed?
Or the display at the local checkout counter, that tallies up your bill? That cash register has an embedded computer. Did you get authorization before watching it total up your bill?
The person further on who makes the analogy between an unsecured wifi and an unlocked door misses one important difference - I am doing more than "opening an unlocked door", I also am trespassing. I can access an unsecured wifi without any physical trespass.
However, to make things more obvious, I have 2 wireless routers. I'll be reflashing one of them to provide public access on a limited basis; more people should, since it's darned convenient to be able to look up google maps when you're lost (and google does a better job than a gps).
As I pointed out, Novell is more than a linux distributor.
I *do* believe that Mono and Moonlight, in their current guise, are trojans, and that Miguel de Icaza should be given the boot, asap, but that's another story. Novell has done a lot of the heavy lifting for the community, including the SCO crap. OpenSUSE is a good product; it should be judged on its' merits, and not on any FID from Microsoft. After all, Microsoft is claiming that *ALL* linux distros "may violate Microsoft IP". Of course, since they use the weasel-word "may", anyone with 2 brain cells would immediately recognize the fud, but PHBs don't seem to be able to afford the grey matter necessary.
Don't drink the Microsoft kool-aid. Novell has continually stated that the deal had nothing to do with patent protection for "Microsoft IP in Linux" - only Microsoft has been pushing that fud. Funny how, if this was such a deal, Microsoft hasn't revealed their supposed IP.
One of the biggest reasons that people are pissed off at spammers is the differential between the time a spammer invests in spamming you, and the time you spend dealing with the spam.
If you want me to deal with you, at least invest the same level of effort into it that you expect me to expend. It's a sort of "social contract" - something that spammers are oblivious to.
Nonsense - I've driven everything from dump trucks to tractors to road graders on the roads, and I've never unintentionally turned anyone into road pizza. YMMV.
That excuse won't cut it in traffic court. Besides, you and everyone else who is speeding ARE wasting fuel. Instead of complaining about high gas prices, why not *do* something about it? Why not demand that existing speed limits be enforced? It'll be a "stupidity tax" on people who can't/won't obey speed limits, and it will help reduce dependence on foreign oil.
Funny how cops, heavy-equipment drivers, truckers, etc., manage to drive at or under the limit w/o becoming road pizza.
I've seen people try to justify going 30-40mph in a school zone "because it's impossible to go only 20mph". If you can't drive at or under the limit, irrespective of the road conditions, you lack one of either the confidence necessary, or the skill, to drive.
"They forced me to drive over the speed limit" won't cut it in traffic court.
Try again. Cars have changed a LOT since the 70's ... back then, it was true. Not today, at least on cars that have decent aerodynamics. But if you don't want to open the window, just turn on the fan, and suck air in from outside. Most of the time, you just need to get the car down to the ambient temperature.
First, just because the upper limit is 65+ doesn't mean you HAVE to go that fast ...
Second, if it's that noisy with the window open, your car has lousy aerodynamics to begin with. MOre turbulence == more noise + more drag.
It's also impossible at this point. just tried (1:08 PM EDT, so it's past the 10:00 AM Pacific start time, and the servers are totally hosed.
It won't really matter in 10 years anyway. Once Lake Mead goes dry, you'll be moving to better climes.
I've been stuck in 100 degree traffic w/o ac - I didn't die, and neither will you.
Everyone says the same thing. Someone has to be the first. Try going slower in the right-hand land, and watch how other people, many of whom are just "driving by habit" end up following you at the (slower) speed you're going. Those who want you to go faster, let them pass on the left - otherwise, by speeding up, they're robbing you of both gas money AND vehicle wear and tear.
Opera works faster, with way LESS ram usage. Maybe bloated code in firefox has something to do with it?
Mazda 626 Cronos. But, every car I've driven, I've managed to get way more than the rated mileage. Heck, I was even able to get 20mpg on an old 3-ton Ford Econoline van w.351v8 on long trips. Driving less than the speed limit, avoiding jackrabbit starts, and lugging the engine (manual shift) will make a huge difference on almost any vehicle.
People don't want to believe it, but a stick-shift will save LOTS of $$$. I had two identical minivans - one with a 3-speed automatic + electric overdrive (hence, a 6-speed), and one with a 5-speed manual transmission. I couldn't break 30mpg on the slushbox, but with a bit of attention, I'd beat 40mpg on the stick during the summer months. If everyone switched to a manual transmission and drove under the limit, there'd be a fuel glut!
Also, don't use AC. In the days of the big V8's you could argue that the extra horsepower was minimal. Today, AC sucks an extra 10% off the top - with today's streamlined cars, you're better off driving with the window open - contrary to expectations, you don't increase the air resistance that much any more, especially when rolling under the speed limit.
My car is supposed to get 20mpg cit, 26mpg highway, 20mpg combined. On a fillup-to-fillup basis, I'm consistently getting well over 30 mpg (35.5 mpg combined as of my last fillup yesterday). That's a 45% saving. It's almost like getting every second tank for free.
Driving under the speed limit, upshifting early, keeping an eye on the traffic up ahead, checking your tire pressure on a regular basis, emptying the trunk of useless junk, it all helps to save money.