After attending militar excersises with US personell, I can confrim this. In one excercise, our home guard kicked the ass of the USMC. I find that incredible, but not if you analyse the mentality of the USMC. They fly in on choppers, equipped with the baddest and coolest in military technology. They are big fellas with kick-ass war faces. Then their chopper lands and they jump out. And fall into 2 meters of fine grained snow. The the Norway Home Guard (Maybe even that cute girl on the picture) come loafing around on their cheap-ass skis (The skis are called "NATOboards", guess why. See them here: picture). The USMCs are thouroghly stuck in the snow, not able to reach their equipment, and all of the team are killed by headshots, according to MILES.
Also, the american forces are a bit naïve. On another excercise, navy SEALs were to rescue 2 prisoners from a building on the top of a hill. They left a bunch of equipment behind, as the excercise did not allow for CS gas to be used. The Norwegians responded by having only a couple of gunmen in the building, while digging the others into the ground at the foot of the hill. As the SEALs passed the soldiers by 50 meters, the ones in the building pounded the SEALs with CS, and the dig-in soldiers ran up and shot the confused SEALs in the back. The SEALs complained that they iddin't excpect CS to be use and had no ABC equipment with them. Their colonel apparently gave them a chewing out, becaus they were so incredibly naïve to think that every force in the world would obey the rules...
Steve is actually mostly good for one thing. But, he fufills that role a lot better than similar positioned CEOS. He is the visinary. Steve can imagine how people would want to use the computer and create a row of products in that general area. That is to say, he manages tp pick a line of three products, where two fail and one is a smash hit. Others do the technical work (Woz, we love you!) but the projects that Jobs manage are strongly influenced by his vision. That said, I'd rather work for Saddam Hussein or Dubya before Jobs.
Bill Gates is a marketing nerd, wich is the worst kind of nerd.
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Not to flame, but why do you think us (me; 26) under 30 do not know what a VT100 is? We have two of them at work, to set up servers. I never use them, but I know how to if I were to set one up, and I have used them in the past. VT100 is truly a ideal end for most store setups. Why the hell do stores use mouse driven computers any way? A half-skilled clerk will learn to do things way faster on a keyboard. Just have a look at your friendly local video clerk the next time. One store here uses an old system, and push f1 for rent, f2 for return, f3 for info etc. while another store has a gui based system where they click return, scan, move the mous to rent, click, enter name (if not scanned), select it, click etc...
Well, I work in the media and had an interview with him since he was in town. Sadly, the interview was dropped on the desk. Anyway, we talked about the use of the hacker word in the media, and I old him that it is difficult to change the opinion of the people. He agreed, and told me it is a shame thet the hacker definition has been pushed into the mud. I told him about the futile attempts to use the correct definition, but that it often returned a 50/50 percentage of love / hate mail saying "yay! you understand it!" and "asshole! teh hacker = teh cracker y00 unl33t media wh0re!"
maybe I'll just put up the interview somewhere, since it is my own property to publish now...
On, among other things, the definition of hacker. I talked to RMS (while he was in Oslo), on the subject of hacker vs. cracker. I would, no doubt, hire a hacker. I would have serious difficulties hiring a cracker. But, I would consider it. I might even hire two, both unaware of the other, to verify the work.
Technically it's not plagiarism, but quoting. And that is legal, if you keep it to a short blurlb and not the whole text. What would be nice is a short notice like "From the article:" or something.
It is a touchpas, and Synaptics makes practically all the touchpads for Laptops, PDAs and mice. I don't think a lot of people thought that Apple made the touchpad itself. AFAIK, most people know that the Apple genius behind the iPod is quality bought components from companies that make them better than you (Synaptics, PortablePlayer, Sony) combined with Apple design and user friendliness.
How can the TCO of Linux possibly be higher than Windows? I manage the network of a small company, with som PCs and a Linux file server. The Windows machines are taking 90% of the work time to manage. The Linux system sits there humming along, while the Windows machines get infected, clogged down and what not. So far, for the company (a small one), the Linux server has cost them 0$ since they recycled an old server, whereas the Windows is 900$ in new hardware for XP + 4 manhours last week trying to remove the about:blank spyware shit. And they are even running in non-priveliged accounts! + Countless more man-hours setting it up, trying to locate drivers etc. Windows has not a lower TCO than Linux, in my experince.
And that's exactly what shit like this is. It ain't bad news for apple, it's bad news for the fuckwits who get suckered into buying trojan horse bullshit GARBAGE.
What the fuck are you talking about? I have some DRM'd CDs that won't play in my friends Audi Bose CD changer or in my Harman / Kardon DVD player. But they both mount and play without error and automatically on my Mac. That's why I ripped them and made a CD to listen in the car.
(The music, by the way, is Kent and Bertine Zetliz. Odds are that I 'll meet Bertine since she livesjust down from my block. If I do, I'll tell her how dumb the thing her record company force her to do, is.)
Excet for losing 5-10 minutes every sixth day? Having to reboot for small crappy things that somehow other OS manage to avoid? Just because it is the simplest solution, doesn't mean it is the right one.
You're missing the point of escalation. In Norway, most people don't have eeasy access to firearms in their homes. The burglars know this, and it is very, very seldom they carry a piece. Why? Since they want to be as little incarcerated as possible. Rob a house, 3 years. Rob a hous, get caught with a gun, 5 years while the possible benefit of having a gun is slim to fuck all.
now, be do have our fair share of murders and stuff (Approx. 60 murders in a population of 4,5 million) but remarably few of them are done with guns. On the other hand, we hav A LOT of MP3s (sub machine gun, full auto), AG3s (Assault rifle, full auto) and Glocks in private homes due to the national guard. But I have never, ever heard of a case where someone has picked up thir rifle to scare the thief away. There are several reasons: If the thief is armed, there's a chance he'll assult you and not run awa since he thinks attack is the best defense. You might end up killing an unarmed person, that is murder unless you were defending yourseld. (note to texans: shooting a garden gnome thief in the back is not self defence). If you detect the thief, the odds of hum bolting away is a lot greater than him attacking you, since it will make him face potentially more problems.
I'm pretty sure the US intelligence hav a nice map with most of the bunkers.But they have to disable A LOT of them in a very short time. Very short. A conservative estimate is that the10 000 + artillery cannons in reach of Seoul and bombard the city with a maximum of 500 000 shells an hour! It is truly an immense conventional force, and Seoul will be a smoking pile of rubble before the US can reach and destroy most of the artillery.
This deterrent is, in fact, a light version of the Mutually Assured Destruction system. Touch us, and your capital gets it. Not to mention the WMD that the North posesses, like gas and bio.
I1m not sure about this. I have read travel stories where people have turned on their phones (gsm) in NK, but no dice. Once they got to Panjunmong (or something like that), it worked a treat. Of course, they were not journalists.
Not forgetting, this people is 100% indoctrinated with the almost sickening respect of the "dear leader". They will not, for a long time, believe that this is a liberating mission. The afghans wanted to be liberated, so it happened quickly. The iraqis enjoyed a lot more freedom than the afghans, but initally welcomed the US troops who since have overstayed their welcome. The north koreans will fight what they know for a fact from their scholling since kids, is imperialists. And it certainly doesn't help if the US strikes first. Not that it matters, since to the NK media the US will always strike first.
Because the rest of us know that the NK is a media blackout zone on the planet. To enlighten you, let me give you the rules for a journalist to enter NK:
1. No cellphones. 2. No cameras above 4 megapixels 3. No tele lenses for your camera. 4. NO CELLPHONES! That goes twice for sat phones 5. No recording devices.
Now, this is provided that you actually get in to the country. Because you don't want to enter it without a vise, since they WILL treat you as a spy and you don't want that. I applied for a visa and was denied, since I work as a journalist.
Trust me, if I had the opportunity to uncover this, reporting from the country, my (tabloid) editor would have it on the front page. Because, if this is nuclear (which I guess it isn't) it would be the foreign fucking story of the year.
and i'm sure he'll become more sane, have less weapons, and become less desperate as time goes on.
That is not the issue here. The NK leader is a loon, but he is not the actual leader. While not democratic, the NK has its share of power fractions, and the military-industrial complex is extremely powerful there. Given that they are about the only income making industry in the country.Invasion at this point is not an option. Unless you ignore the total destruction of Seoul of course. You remember 11/9, right? It will be the same amount of casualties, every five minutes 24/7 until SK and US troops manage to stop the artillery fire from the immensly dug-in bunkers.
You are quite correct, just a couple of corrections to the facts.
Seoul gets hit by 50,000 missiles before our troops can even step across the border.
I don't think they'll hit Seoul with missiles, but eoul is in fact within artillery range. And we know for a fact that NK has chemical and biological weapons (WMD) so it will be hell on earth in SK.
Another interesting fact is the placement of the US troops in SK. They are placed in a invasion corridor from NK to SK, where the infantry troops will have massive losses if NK decides to invade. This placement is insisted upon by the SK government, since massive losses of US troops will make sure te US commit enough troops quickly...
I've also seen the "grey screen of death", three times. AFAIK, it is the Azeurus Bittorrent client that severerly crashes the system if it is put to sleep while it closes. Since Mac has error logs that actually tell me something, I know the problem and can avoid it now.
The third time I saw the GSOD was a t a Mac press conference, where they booted an iMac from an iPod, with only 2 kB of space left on the iPod. Ouch!
Given that I've just proved that everybody goes there,
OK, I'll prove you wrong. I never use windows update. Neither does my mother, after converting to Mac. Neither does my GF after converting to Mac. My father is moving abroad, he'll never have to use windows update since a moving gift is a iMac. I spent the weekend in a summer house of a friend, now there are two possible Mac converts in the loop.
I agree. The uninstalling of apps is so radically different, you could argue it is the biggest HID / OS difference between Windows (and for that sake, Linux) and Mac OS. This is the kinda a feature that make you go: "THAT'S IT? It can't be it's too simple!". And maybe it is. It is annoyingly simple.
You don't want that program? Throw it in the thrash! vs.
You don't want that program? Start > Programs > Control panel > Uninstall > Find program > Yes, I'm sure > Automatic uninstall > Wait > Ok, I understand that it is uninstalled > Google to finde the leftover DLLs > Remove the DLLs..
If your printer isn't supported in native OSX 10.3.5 then look into the free CUPS and GIMP print apps. I can print to anything but a daisywheel....
Yes, he CUPS is a very cool system.My GF's iBook wasn't very supportive of her multi-function HP printer / fax / scanner / coffemaker. But after some googling and the Apple discussion boards I found a rather easy solution to the problem. Just install the open source HP drivers. My point here is: it is very easy to do make the system do things it really isn't meant to do. Apple probably waited for HP to release the drivers, HP had them on track "in a month or two" but I wanted them now. So circumventing the problem was quite easy.
As for the daisywheel:
cat foo.txt >/dev/lpr
will still work, since it's unix, baby!
As a sidenote: I use the onebutton Bluetooth mouse and I kinda like it. Them mouse was a gift from Apple to say "sorry" for screwing up one of my orders (long story) and I kinda like the simplisity. A scroll touchpad would be nice, but I have learned to cope without being less effective.
A weird one: Where I went to school, if you lived in the better part of town, you were MUCH more likely to have your stuff stolen, even if you took precautions. If you lived in the "bad" part of town, you could leave your doors unlocked---and this is New Jersey we're talking here.
A local newspaper (Aftenposten) once published crime stats for Oslo, Norway. The city is pretty much divided by a river (Akerselven) and the west side har the higher housing costs, income etc. The statistic showed that surprisingly, the "bad" parts of the town had a low burgular rate then the "good" part. But the "good" part of town had a much, much lower (per capita) rate of cirminals comitting these crimes. conclusion: Criminals live in the "bad" part and steal from the "good" part of town.
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After attending militar excersises with US personell, I can confrim this. In one excercise, our home guard kicked the ass of the USMC. I find that incredible, but not if you analyse the mentality of the USMC. They fly in on choppers, equipped with the baddest and coolest in military technology. They are big fellas with kick-ass war faces. Then their chopper lands and they jump out. And fall into 2 meters of fine grained snow. The the Norway Home Guard (Maybe even that cute girl on the picture) come loafing around on their cheap-ass skis (The skis are called "NATOboards", guess why. See them here: picture). The USMCs are thouroghly stuck in the snow, not able to reach their equipment, and all of the team are killed by headshots, according to MILES.
Also, the american forces are a bit naïve. On another excercise, navy SEALs were to rescue 2 prisoners from a building on the top of a hill. They left a bunch of equipment behind, as the excercise did not allow for CS gas to be used. The Norwegians responded by having only a couple of gunmen in the building, while digging the others into the ground at the foot of the hill. As the SEALs passed the soldiers by 50 meters, the ones in the building pounded the SEALs with CS, and the dig-in soldiers ran up and shot the confused SEALs in the back. The SEALs complained that they iddin't excpect CS to be use and had no ABC equipment with them. Their colonel apparently gave them a chewing out, becaus they were so incredibly naïve to think that every force in the world would obey the rules...
(Remember, you saw it here first!)
Bill Gates is a marketing nerd, wich is the worst kind of nerd.
Not to flame, but why do you think us (me; 26) under 30 do not know what a VT100 is? We have two of them at work, to set up servers. I never use them, but I know how to if I were to set one up, and I have used them in the past. VT100 is truly a ideal end for most store setups. Why the hell do stores use mouse driven computers any way? A half-skilled clerk will learn to do things way faster on a keyboard. Just have a look at your friendly local video clerk the next time. One store here uses an old system, and push f1 for rent, f2 for return, f3 for info etc. while another store has a gui based system where they click return, scan, move the mous to rent, click, enter name (if not scanned), select it, click etc...
Yeah, that would qualify to social engineering... ;)
maybe I'll just put up the interview somewhere, since it is my own property to publish now...
On, among other things, the definition of hacker. I talked to RMS (while he was in Oslo), on the subject of hacker vs. cracker. I would, no doubt, hire a hacker. I would have serious difficulties hiring a cracker. But, I would consider it. I might even hire two, both unaware of the other, to verify the work.
Technically it's not plagiarism, but quoting. And that is legal, if you keep it to a short blurlb and not the whole text. What would be nice is a short notice like "From the article:" or something.
It is a touchpas, and Synaptics makes practically all the touchpads for Laptops, PDAs and mice. I don't think a lot of people thought that Apple made the touchpad itself. AFAIK, most people know that the Apple genius behind the iPod is quality bought components from companies that make them better than you (Synaptics, PortablePlayer, Sony) combined with Apple design and user friendliness.
How can the TCO of Linux possibly be higher than Windows? I manage the network of a small company, with som PCs and a Linux file server. The Windows machines are taking 90% of the work time to manage. The Linux system sits there humming along, while the Windows machines get infected, clogged down and what not. So far, for the company (a small one), the Linux server has cost them 0$ since they recycled an old server, whereas the Windows is 900$ in new hardware for XP + 4 manhours last week trying to remove the about:blank spyware shit. And they are even running in non-priveliged accounts! + Countless more man-hours setting it up, trying to locate drivers etc. Windows has not a lower TCO than Linux, in my experince.
What the fuck are you talking about? I have some DRM'd CDs that won't play in my friends Audi Bose CD changer or in my Harman / Kardon DVD player. But they both mount and play without error and automatically on my Mac. That's why I ripped them and made a CD to listen in the car.
(The music, by the way, is Kent and Bertine Zetliz. Odds are that I 'll meet Bertine since she livesjust down from my block. If I do, I'll tell her how dumb the thing her record company force her to do, is.)
Excet for losing 5-10 minutes every sixth day? Having to reboot for small crappy things that somehow other OS manage to avoid? Just because it is the simplest solution, doesn't mean it is the right one.
now, be do have our fair share of murders and stuff (Approx. 60 murders in a population of 4,5 million) but remarably few of them are done with guns. On the other hand, we hav A LOT of MP3s (sub machine gun, full auto), AG3s (Assault rifle, full auto) and Glocks in private homes due to the national guard. But I have never, ever heard of a case where someone has picked up thir rifle to scare the thief away. There are several reasons: If the thief is armed, there's a chance he'll assult you and not run awa since he thinks attack is the best defense. You might end up killing an unarmed person, that is murder unless you were defending yourseld. (note to texans: shooting a garden gnome thief in the back is not self defence). If you detect the thief, the odds of hum bolting away is a lot greater than him attacking you, since it will make him face potentially more problems.
This deterrent is, in fact, a light version of the Mutually Assured Destruction system. Touch us, and your capital gets it. Not to mention the WMD that the North posesses, like gas and bio.
I1m not sure about this. I have read travel stories where people have turned on their phones (gsm) in NK, but no dice. Once they got to Panjunmong (or something like that), it worked a treat. Of course, they were not journalists.
Yes because: "fool me once...
Not forgetting, this people is 100% indoctrinated with the almost sickening respect of the "dear leader". They will not, for a long time, believe that this is a liberating mission. The afghans wanted to be liberated, so it happened quickly. The iraqis enjoyed a lot more freedom than the afghans, but initally welcomed the US troops who since have overstayed their welcome. The north koreans will fight what they know for a fact from their scholling since kids, is imperialists. And it certainly doesn't help if the US strikes first. Not that it matters, since to the NK media the US will always strike first.
Because the rest of us know that the NK is a media blackout zone on the planet. To enlighten you, let me give you the rules for a journalist to enter NK:
1. No cellphones.
2. No cameras above 4 megapixels
3. No tele lenses for your camera.
4. NO CELLPHONES! That goes twice for sat phones
5. No recording devices.
Now, this is provided that you actually get in to the country. Because you don't want to enter it without a vise, since they WILL treat you as a spy and you don't want that. I applied for a visa and was denied, since I work as a journalist.
Trust me, if I had the opportunity to uncover this, reporting from the country, my (tabloid) editor would have it on the front page. Because, if this is nuclear (which I guess it isn't) it would be the foreign fucking story of the year.
That is not the issue here. The NK leader is a loon, but he is not the actual leader. While not democratic, the NK has its share of power fractions, and the military-industrial complex is extremely powerful there. Given that they are about the only income making industry in the country.Invasion at this point is not an option. Unless you ignore the total destruction of Seoul of course. You remember 11/9, right? It will be the same amount of casualties, every five minutes 24/7 until SK and US troops manage to stop the artillery fire from the immensly dug-in bunkers.
Seoul gets hit by 50,000 missiles before our troops can even step across the border.
I don't think they'll hit Seoul with missiles, but eoul is in fact within artillery range. And we know for a fact that NK has chemical and biological weapons (WMD) so it will be hell on earth in SK.
Another interesting fact is the placement of the US troops in SK. They are placed in a invasion corridor from NK to SK, where the infantry troops will have massive losses if NK decides to invade. This placement is insisted upon by the SK government, since massive losses of US troops will make sure te US commit enough troops quickly...
The third time I saw the GSOD was a t a Mac press conference, where they booted an iMac from an iPod, with only 2 kB of space left on the iPod. Ouch!
OK, I'll prove you wrong. I never use windows update. Neither does my mother, after converting to Mac. Neither does my GF after converting to Mac. My father is moving abroad, he'll never have to use windows update since a moving gift is a iMac. I spent the weekend in a summer house of a friend, now there are two possible Mac converts in the loop.
You don't want that program? Throw it in the thrash!
vs.
You don't want that program? Start > Programs > Control panel > Uninstall > Find program > Yes, I'm sure > Automatic uninstall > Wait > Ok, I understand that it is uninstalled > Google to finde the leftover DLLs > Remove the DLLs..
Yes, he CUPS is a very cool system.My GF's iBook wasn't very supportive of her multi-function HP printer / fax / scanner / coffemaker. But after some googling and the Apple discussion boards I found a rather easy solution to the problem. Just install the open source HP drivers. My point here is: it is very easy to do make the system do things it really isn't meant to do. Apple probably waited for HP to release the drivers, HP had them on track "in a month or two" but I wanted them now. So circumventing the problem was quite easy.
As for the daisywheel:
will still work, since it's unix, baby!As a sidenote: I use the onebutton Bluetooth mouse and I kinda like it. Them mouse was a gift from Apple to say "sorry" for screwing up one of my orders (long story) and I kinda like the simplisity. A scroll touchpad would be nice, but I have learned to cope without being less effective.
A local newspaper (Aftenposten) once published crime stats for Oslo, Norway. The city is pretty much divided by a river (Akerselven) and the west side har the higher housing costs, income etc. The statistic showed that surprisingly, the "bad" parts of the town had a low burgular rate then the "good" part. But the "good" part of town had a much, much lower (per capita) rate of cirminals comitting these crimes. conclusion: Criminals live in the "bad" part and steal from the "good" part of town.