They killed civilians. Civilians are dead. That's all that counts.
There are other things that count - like what accomplished. Killing 3000 civilians without cause is murder; Accidently killing 3200 civilians in a war to oust a represive regeme that kills just as many civilians in a month is regretable and sorrowfull.
If I thought any of the recent operations would actually do anything to protect the interests of the US population
Are you really that selfish? Maby the "War on Terrorism" won't help protect me or my frinds, but it has removed the Taliban from power with a much lower civilian death count (~5000) than a traditional cival war.
I strictly enforce "difficult" passwords on all of my clients - but I don't make them rotate them.Why? Because difficult passwords are by defenition hard to rememeber - and I don't want them to write their new-passwords-of-the-month on post-it notes.
In this day in age, it's usually easy to add SSH/IPSec gateways to everything, and filtering all unknown ip addresses helps as well - I use these to augment any system that brain-dead enough to transmit passwords in the clear.
Quite often, password rotation causes passwords to be transmitted in the clear - over help-desk phonelines, in un-secured palm devices and on sticky notes.
Food for thought - and yes, I do know it's against your MCSE training.
Of course we have registerd mail in the US. It's just that the post office won't guarantee that the letter is intact and unmolested - after is has left their hands and left their controll.
Having a document notorised and left under the care of an attouney may be some protection - but for copyright, here in the US, if you want the protection that registering affords - you simply have to register it. It's not that expensive at all, so comming up with clever schemes is dubious legaly and in balance, expensive. Of course, the UK may be diferent and the courts there will allow mailing stuff to yourself has proof - but here in the US, it's considered a rather entertaining fiction to think that a plantif has no motivation to doctor his own evidence, and will under no cercumstances, open a letter and reseal it.
Just a cultural diference, I suppose. Kind of interesting really.
PS: All spelling mistakes in the previous post are not due to my lazyness, I'm just foloowing my American roots to be creative;)
Of course, if you're that paranoid, sending a copy to yourself by registered mail and not opening it is just as safe - and probably a lot cheaper.
This very well may be true in the UK - but for people in the US, this is bad advice. The court will smile and nod and then throw your 'evidence' out. The reason? It's quite easy to mail a stash of unsealed envelopes to yourself and fill them with letters as the need arises.
Check out the Borland C++ compiler. It produces some crappy code but it sure is fast doing it. I use it to start off my projects - I use gcc to finish them off and make them cross platform. Using two comilers can also have debugging benefits - one will balk on somthig that the other passes by, or a logical error will become apparent on one and not the other.
Actually the new version of the C++ STL will have a universe container. It's just that it will take forever for any of the compiler suites to implement it correctly...
Last eclipse, I happened to be looking at the ground under a leafy tree. The tree and it's leaves created bunches of little pin-hole lenses and cast tons of little crecent images of the partially-eclipsed sun on the ground. Worth looking for.
Bill and Paul had all the time in the world to perfect their craft. They sponged off of their millionaire parents untill they got it right. Microsoft is a riches to riches story - backed by papa Gates's law firm and Momma Gates's political connections and topped off with the Allan family chest of money.
So if you fail to get your basic interpreter under 4K don't beat yourself up - you probably have a job to go to.
Fellow Hackers,
Yesterday I downloaded the new Linux 7.2 into my Personal Computer. And let me tell you, the Experience was terrible. The instalation diden't require a security number like Microsoft's operating-systems, and some of the EULA's were very confusing. I invite you to try out the latest in clustering operating systems - Windows XP. You'll get a easy to use environment for all of your digital needs! Where do you want to go today, indeed. Let's go into the future together!
Signed, your typical atroturfer with a Slashdot ID > 500,000.
I have found that most people who purchase these programs want to decrease expenditures
Good post! Let me add:
In general, if you're alreay not wasting money, it's better to focus on inceasing revenue rather than cutting expenses down to the bone. You can only cut expenses down to $0 - but your income, potentially, has no limit. I find it easier to make money, than to ferret out an extra penny by farting around with my expenses. YMMV.
Did they hire a few people away from nvidia? Did they run across some brand new winderkind?
They musta' bought out BitBoys - with their Exciting!, New!, Glaze3D technology. Or perhaps they found the secert fountain of Amiga technology. Or something.
I don't mean to be rude, but either you're exaggerating like crazy or you don't know what you're talking about. I used to work on $800,000 worth of SGI equipment
Jest a bit of exageration I'll admit - but be aware that SGI systems used for visualisation can quickly add up when you start adding graphics hardware. Plus - back then, SGI owned Cray and $800,000 worth of Cray parts could fit in the glove box.
Plus - don't forget the licencing fees for the C compiler. Oh... and the media kit.;)
The Seattle SGI (now mostly defunct) office workers would toss in $800,000 Origin servers into their little-beat-up-imports. Pitty the foo' that rear-ended them. The porn king Seth Warchoski(sp) would get SGI deliveries this way - he'd often hand them a rubber check in return. When AP called Seth to bitch about the check, he'd say "Oh sorry, I was trying to screw a diferent vendor, come back for a real check"
SGI of course, diden't make a big deal about the sales. It doesen't look good on the glossy literature that your servers are being used to stream porn.
I managed to cobble a pretty good Indy system out of crap left in their junk closet when I was told to help myself. MB were tossed in with power supplies and sead SCSI drives. Most of the stuff still worked, even the MB traces were protected with a think gooey film.
In short, the make good stuff, so in hindsight, delivery by Honda wasen't such a dumb idea.
Don't be afraid of filesysems that are really databases - you're using one right now. Even the simpelest of filesystems (unless it's a stack of files) - has an index of files. Most handle file locking. Most can reorder themsleves for efficent lookup of files. So really - most filesystem in existance behave like databases.
Personally, I'd love to see MS use it's Jet (Access) database for their next version of Windows - they'd loose all their marktshare in five days tops.
Mozilla is good, mozilla is great. The only thing keeping me from using it over Konqueror right now is the fact it Konqueror is highly integrated into KDE - everytime I try to remove it, some other app bluescreens and I have to reboot the computer. And this makes Klippy, the helpfull KDE Koffice assistant, very sad.
Actually, joking aside, Konqueror kicks butt. I'm simply amazed what the KDE folks have done with the very little time and resources they have had to make such fine suff. If the Mozilla team was as procudtive at the KDE team, Mozilla would be sentient right about now.
All our bid specify that the cusom software is GPL'es and it's help us squish the competition after we explain the benefits to them:
1) If we die, then they arn't left up a creek without a paddle. 2) Their data can be easily migrated over to a new peice of software if need be. 3) They can extend the program if they later decide that we suck.
It wins contracts, and we don't low-ball our bids.
Aside: Never low-ball a bid, it looks syspicious and makes the prospect nervous.
SubLogic made Flight Simulator for Microsoft to brand - it also made Flight Simulator for other computers, even the TRS-80 CoCo has a version. After Microsoft bought SubLogic outright - the only playform they produce for belongs to Microsoft.
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They killed civilians. Civilians are dead. That's all that counts.
There are other things that count - like what accomplished. Killing 3000 civilians without cause is murder; Accidently killing 3200 civilians in a war to oust a represive regeme that kills just as many civilians in a month is regretable and sorrowfull.
If you're implying that the US and her allies intedded to kill civilians, than you're an idiot. There would be millions dead if that were the case.
If I thought any of the recent operations would actually do anything to protect the interests of the US population
Are you really that selfish? Maby the "War on Terrorism" won't help protect me or my frinds, but it has removed the Taliban from power with a much lower civilian death count (~5000) than a traditional cival war.
I strictly enforce "difficult" passwords on all of my clients - but I don't make them rotate them.Why? Because difficult passwords are by defenition hard to rememeber - and I don't want them to write their new-passwords-of-the-month on post-it notes.
In this day in age, it's usually easy to add SSH/IPSec gateways to everything, and filtering all unknown ip addresses helps as well - I use these to augment any system that brain-dead enough to transmit passwords in the clear.
Quite often, password rotation causes passwords to be transmitted in the clear - over help-desk phonelines, in un-secured palm devices and on sticky notes.
Food for thought - and yes, I do know it's against your MCSE training.
Of course we have registerd mail in the US. It's just that the post office won't guarantee that the letter is intact and unmolested - after is has left their hands and left their controll.
;)
Having a document notorised and left under the care of an attouney may be some protection - but for copyright, here in the US, if you want the protection that registering affords - you simply have to register it. It's not that expensive at all, so comming up with clever schemes is dubious legaly and in balance, expensive. Of course, the UK may be diferent and the courts there will allow mailing stuff to yourself has proof - but here in the US, it's considered a rather entertaining fiction to think that a plantif has no motivation to doctor his own evidence, and will under no cercumstances, open a letter and reseal it.
Just a cultural diference, I suppose. Kind of interesting really.
PS: All spelling mistakes in the previous post are not due to my lazyness, I'm just foloowing my American roots to be creative
Of course, if you're that paranoid, sending a copy to yourself by registered mail and not opening it is just as safe - and probably a lot cheaper.
This very well may be true in the UK - but for people in the US, this is bad advice. The court will smile and nod and then throw your 'evidence' out. The reason? It's quite easy to mail a stash of unsealed envelopes to yourself and fill them with letters as the need arises.
Check out the Borland C++ compiler. It produces some crappy code but it sure is fast doing it. I use it to start off my projects - I use gcc to finish them off and make them cross platform. Using two comilers can also have debugging benefits - one will balk on somthig that the other passes by, or a logical error will become apparent on one and not the other.
I could have done it in 2 Lines with Perl!
Actually the new version of the C++ STL will have a universe container. It's just that it will take forever for any of the compiler suites to implement it correctly...
Last eclipse, I happened to be looking at the ground under a leafy tree. The tree and it's leaves created bunches of little pin-hole lenses and cast tons of little crecent images of the partially-eclipsed sun on the ground. Worth looking for.
Good guys use Apples.
Bad guys use Dells.
Crazy-conspiricy-types use Amigas.
Bill and Paul had all the time in the world to perfect their craft. They sponged off of their millionaire parents untill they got it right. Microsoft is a riches to riches story - backed by papa Gates's law firm and Momma Gates's political connections and topped off with the Allan family chest of money.
So if you fail to get your basic interpreter under 4K don't beat yourself up - you probably have a job to go to.
Jesus - can't people around here take a joke. Note the title of my post: Mode = Astroturfing.
The only thing that XP can cluster is a cluster fuck.
Fellow Hackers,
Yesterday I downloaded the new Linux 7.2 into my Personal Computer. And let me tell you, the Experience was terrible. The instalation diden't require a security number like Microsoft's operating-systems, and some of the EULA's were very confusing. I invite you to try out the latest in clustering operating systems - Windows XP. You'll get a easy to use environment for all of your digital needs! Where do you want to go today, indeed. Let's go into the future together!
Signed, your typical atroturfer with a Slashdot ID > 500,000.
I have found that most people who purchase these programs want to decrease expenditures
Good post! Let me add:
In general, if you're alreay not wasting money, it's better to focus on inceasing revenue rather than cutting expenses down to the bone. You can only cut expenses down to $0 - but your income, potentially, has no limit. I find it easier to make money, than to ferret out an extra penny by farting around with my expenses. YMMV.
No way...
.h files had this at the top:
;
Lasdty time we contracted out to Canadians - all the
#define eh
(just kidding)
It was proved (through observation) many years ago that the moon is made of cheese.
Now we know that it also has a rich-'n-creamy center! Mmmmmm... I'm hopping it's nougat, topped with caramel.
Jesus, this guy get in bed with Microsoft only because Microsoft illeagally stole 80% of the browser market.. and gets bit.
Cry me a river.
If you deal with jerks, don't expect them to not be jerks in the future.
Plus, this twit had a patent on thist stupid "invention"
Did they hire a few people away from nvidia? Did they run across some brand new winderkind?
They musta' bought out BitBoys - with their Exciting!, New!, Glaze3D technology. Or perhaps they found the secert fountain of Amiga technology. Or something.
I don't mean to be rude, but either you're exaggerating like crazy or you don't know what you're talking about. I used to work on $800,000 worth of SGI equipment
;)
Jest a bit of exageration I'll admit - but be aware that SGI systems used for visualisation can quickly add up when you start adding graphics hardware. Plus - back then, SGI owned Cray and $800,000 worth of Cray parts could fit in the glove box.
Plus - don't forget the licencing fees for the C compiler. Oh... and the media kit.
The Seattle SGI (now mostly defunct) office workers would toss in $800,000 Origin servers into their little-beat-up-imports. Pitty the foo' that rear-ended them. The porn king Seth Warchoski(sp) would get SGI deliveries this way - he'd often hand them a rubber check in return. When AP called Seth to bitch about the check, he'd say "Oh sorry, I was trying to screw a diferent vendor, come back for a real check"
SGI of course, diden't make a big deal about the sales. It doesen't look good on the glossy literature that your servers are being used to stream porn.
I managed to cobble a pretty good Indy system out of crap left in their junk closet when I was told to help myself. MB were tossed in with power supplies and sead SCSI drives. Most of the stuff still worked, even the MB traces were protected with a think gooey film.
In short, the make good stuff, so in hindsight, delivery by Honda wasen't such a dumb idea.
Don't be afraid of filesysems that are really databases - you're using one right now. Even the simpelest of filesystems (unless it's a stack of files) - has an index of files. Most handle file locking. Most can reorder themsleves for efficent lookup of files. So really - most filesystem in existance behave like databases.
Personally, I'd love to see MS use it's Jet (Access) database for their next version of Windows - they'd loose all their marktshare in five days tops.
Mozilla is good, mozilla is great. The only thing keeping me from using it over Konqueror right now is the fact it Konqueror is highly integrated into KDE - everytime I try to remove it, some other app bluescreens and I have to reboot the computer. And this makes Klippy, the helpfull KDE Koffice assistant, very sad.
Actually, joking aside, Konqueror kicks butt. I'm simply amazed what the KDE folks have done with the very little time and resources they have had to make such fine suff. If the Mozilla team was as procudtive at the KDE team, Mozilla would be sentient right about now.
All our bid specify that the cusom software is GPL'es and it's help us squish the competition after we explain the benefits to them:
1) If we die, then they arn't left up a creek without a paddle.
2) Their data can be easily migrated over to a new peice of software if need be.
3) They can extend the program if they later decide that we suck.
It wins contracts, and we don't low-ball our bids.
Aside: Never low-ball a bid, it looks syspicious and makes the prospect nervous.
Keeping track of which is the desk-lamp and wich one is the computer is going to get difficult.
SubLogic made Flight Simulator for Microsoft to brand - it also made Flight Simulator for other computers, even the TRS-80 CoCo has a version. After Microsoft bought SubLogic outright - the only playform they produce for belongs to Microsoft.