Besides, the gun nuts (no offense intended) at this site will tell you that one of the best ways to get shot and killed is to break and enter on an armed person's premesis.
Urm... not sure where you went to college, but where I go, you don't have students walking around armed.
Wish they'd come out with a port for Win32. I've had more programs (usually file sharing services) eat up both memory and processor cycles to the point that everything came to a standstill.
The problem with this idea is that end users generally don't want to know the nitty gritty details about their machines-- they just want the damned things to run. That's why this standards idea is such a good idea-- it keeps the end users happy because programs such as the old AOL versions won't mess with settings without telling you about it, and it makes those more knowledgable happy because they're not having to rebuild IP stacks (as an example) because some buggy code made it into a final release.
...whether this will include the obscure stories that are actually interesting, or whether it'll be just a rehash of the major stories that we can find in ten or twelve other places.
As I see things, if I leave my laptop unattended in a position where an anti theft device would work (i.e., not in my home) then I deserve to have it stolen. I paid for the damned thing-- I know what it's worth. Why would I leave it sitting out unprotected? They're worth a lot more than a stolen mobile...
Not necessarily... I helped run a Lego Robotics competition for gradeschool kids last year-- it's amazing what some of these kids managed to get the Mindstorm kits to do. This addition is only going to add on to that creativity...
...in related news today, Clippy the Talking Paperclip shot himself to death in his home, leaving behind a computer logged into IRC. His suicide note read "The spelling!! OH, GOD, the spelling!!!"
On topic: It might be worthwhile to run a program like this as a listener in IRC, just to check if the key frequency corresponds to letter frequency in "normal" English. And yes, I know that this program doesn't measure letter frequency, which is a damned shame.
It's not like they'll be getting full logs of what you type- that would just be flat out irresponsible. If it's just keycounts, I don't see what the big issue is...
Though I'd like to see the source to make SURE of what they're doing...
Make the code open source. That way, we'll see exactly what's being sent back along with what isn't. I'd like to see it done with key frequency, reporting every twelve hours or so, as opposed to sending complete logs of what you type, which I highly doubt they're stupid enough to try...
True enough, but who's gonna spend that kind of money on a project that won't even begin to show benefits for another five centuries? People have limited vision.
Yeah, but even if it were viable, it would take centuries... I don't beleive we'll still be screwing around exclusively in the solar system by that time, but I'm an optimist...
That's why things need to be locked down tight. Otherwise, they're going to look at the letter of the law, contemplate the spirit of the law, laugh until they throw up, and follow the letter.
Well, what's to stop them from saying "Okay, it's $LUDICROUS_SUM for a license, but if you do $FAVOR for us, we'll give you a "rebate" (or some other incentive)?"
I'm not so sure. This would be valid if MS was just sitting on its hands, but as the.NET initiative and the whole Passport fiasco show, they're doing anything but. The problem lies in the fact that they're no longer innovating so much as they're using their size and market share to do things unilaterally. There NEEDS to be some regulation of this...
If Microsoft could police itself effectively, there wouldn't BE an antitrust lawsuit. They're like a kid in the candy store without parents to tell him "No." The time for this move was +/- ten years ago.
...how the DOJ (and by extension everyone else)can possibly see that MS is anything BUT a monopoly. They're growing, not shrinking, and the government seems to detect no problem with this. Under the Clinton administration, the DOJ was after MS with a vengeance-- when and why did they lose their cojones?
Or even slap the GTA3 disc into a CD or DVD case. If you want to be REALLY careful, you could even use a CD labeler to cover up the GTA3 logo on the CD...
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Besides, the gun nuts (no offense intended) at this site will tell you that one of the best ways to get shot and killed is to break and enter on an armed person's premesis.
Urm... not sure where you went to college, but where I go, you don't have students walking around armed.
Wrong again.
Power attracts the corruptible.
Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible.
Doh-- my bad. Read, THEN post... Durh... *LARTS self*
Wish they'd come out with a port for Win32. I've had more programs (usually file sharing services) eat up both memory and processor cycles to the point that everything came to a standstill.
Sadly, most people would take it if they phased it in properly...
The problem with this idea is that end users generally don't want to know the nitty gritty details about their machines-- they just want the damned things to run. That's why this standards idea is such a good idea-- it keeps the end users happy because programs such as the old AOL versions won't mess with settings without telling you about it, and it makes those more knowledgable happy because they're not having to rebuild IP stacks (as an example) because some buggy code made it into a final release.
...whether this will include the obscure stories that are actually interesting, or whether it'll be just a rehash of the major stories that we can find in ten or twelve other places.
As I see things, if I leave my laptop unattended in a position where an anti theft device would work (i.e., not in my home) then I deserve to have it stolen. I paid for the damned thing-- I know what it's worth. Why would I leave it sitting out unprotected? They're worth a lot more than a stolen mobile...
Because people are sheep. Putting a caster on it isn't sexy, blowing a hundred grand in R&D is.
Not necessarily... I helped run a Lego Robotics competition for gradeschool kids last year-- it's amazing what some of these kids managed to get the Mindstorm kits to do. This addition is only going to add on to that creativity...
...in related news today, Clippy the Talking Paperclip shot himself to death in his home, leaving behind a computer logged into IRC. His suicide note read "The spelling!! OH, GOD, the spelling!!!"
On topic: It might be worthwhile to run a program like this as a listener in IRC, just to check if the key frequency corresponds to letter frequency in "normal" English. And yes, I know that this program doesn't measure letter frequency, which is a damned shame.
It's not like they'll be getting full logs of what you type- that would just be flat out irresponsible. If it's just keycounts, I don't see what the big issue is...
Though I'd like to see the source to make SURE of what they're doing...
AOL's would be M-E T-O-O or A/S/L?
L-O-L would be a close second...
Make the code open source. That way, we'll see exactly what's being sent back along with what isn't. I'd like to see it done with key frequency, reporting every twelve hours or so, as opposed to sending complete logs of what you type, which I highly doubt they're stupid enough to try...
What would replace C programming given massively powerful processors?
If RMS is still following the GNOME project even after losing the election... campaign promises and all that...
If he had won, this might be one of the last GNOMEs with reasonable licensing...
True enough, but who's gonna spend that kind of money on a project that won't even begin to show benefits for another five centuries? People have limited vision.
Yeah, but even if it were viable, it would take centuries... I don't beleive we'll still be screwing around exclusively in the solar system by that time, but I'm an optimist...
That's why things need to be locked down tight. Otherwise, they're going to look at the letter of the law, contemplate the spirit of the law, laugh until they throw up, and follow the letter.
Well, what's to stop them from saying "Okay, it's $LUDICROUS_SUM for a license, but if you do $FAVOR for us, we'll give you a "rebate" (or some other incentive)?"
I'm not so sure. This would be valid if MS was just sitting on its hands, but as the .NET initiative and the whole Passport fiasco show, they're doing anything but. The problem lies in the fact that they're no longer innovating so much as they're using their size and market share to do things unilaterally. There NEEDS to be some regulation of this...
If Microsoft could police itself effectively, there wouldn't BE an antitrust lawsuit. They're like a kid in the candy store without parents to tell him "No." The time for this move was +/- ten years ago.
...how the DOJ (and by extension everyone else)can possibly see that MS is anything BUT a monopoly. They're growing, not shrinking, and the government seems to detect no problem with this. Under the Clinton administration, the DOJ was after MS with a vengeance-- when and why did they lose their cojones?
Or even slap the GTA3 disc into a CD or DVD case. If you want to be REALLY careful, you could even use a CD labeler to cover up the GTA3 logo on the CD...