I was looking at SheevaPlugs a couple months back (the Guruplug power supplies were still horrible, IIRC), and then I found out I missed Amazon's sale on the discontinued, PogoPlug-based Seagate Dockstar by a scant few days. $30 for a Plugbox (Arch) Linux server! Unfortunately now it's $80. The pink PogoPlug itself is $50 at the moment, which isn't bad for the upgrade to 256MB RAM, but I have a hard time spending the extra bucks when I know I could have had a better deal. It's not a wall wart and wasn't made to run whatever you want, but it has similar power draw and is cheaper.
AND the Wheel of Time will end next year. If we find out that GNU Hurd is about to be released, I think Slashdot might spontaneously implode for lack of stalling jokes.
Not for long, apparently. Also ignoring the idea that he might want to keep full resolution copies.
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Or do you just think that you know better than everyone else how they should spend their coding time?
This is a key point that pretty much anybody who is not a developer completely misses. Clearly, GP is not a developer. It's the same misunderstanding as thinking that if Valve and Epic and Infinity Ward and Bungie (or whoever develops the big FPSs today) all got together and made one FPS it would turn out better than anything they can do alone. Hopefully even non-developers can see the folly in that.
It's sad when your first thoughts on reading this story is 'oh another windows fail' but the sad reality is that I would bet my life that it was. Assuming I am correct, will Microsoft be held accountable?
Of course Microsoft is not responsible, but also consider, had the laptop-toting person responsible been using something other than Windows, it would be highly unlikely that we would be having this discussion. It occurred to me after I posted (and after reading the article) that the laptop could have been an personal one, and it doesn't really matter what the bank is using if the guy loaded up the database on it and the malware quietly sent it elsewhere.
Perhaps, in defense of the GP, the wording can easily make it sound like you were passing judgment instead of making an observation. You're mostly right, though. Hey, assisted suicide is still a crime in 47 states, and even then it's only legal if the person is terminally ill and can self administer the lethal dose.
But then, it doesn't absolutely have to be certain death with no hope of returning, it is merely going without a way back. It's not inconceivable that we send a return/rescue mission later on, though he'd have to do some serious training to get his body back into shape to survive Earth gravity, let alone the stress of reentry. Maybe by then we have a rotating "reconditioning" spacecraft complete with physician(s) that gently brings him back up to 1g.
I am pretty sure that living on a new mars colony in the first 40 years or so of its inception will pretty much preclude playing video games. While there would be down time, I suspect that leisure activities would be focused on more pragmatic things, like reading, writing, coding, sewing, cooking, etc. If you could waste a few hours on a video game or do something that would add to your chance of survival for the next few months, most will choose the latter.
It can easily be argued that retaining your sanity adds just as much to your chance of survival as sewing a new pair of gloves. I suspect there would be more leisure time than you could even spend doing leisurely but productive things, unless you count reading textbooks or something.
This is of course not to mention the fact that video games can be educational as well, and not just the ones explicitly so. Not every game is as mindless as FarmVille or whatever Facebook game people are gobbling up these days.
I'm not convinced that it's absolutely a one way trip. All it means is that you won't be sent with a way to get home. There are no rules that say we can't send a return/rescue mission separately. And I suspect we would, actually, perhaps as a surprise to the enterprising astronaut. Think of the TV ratings that would get!
What, exactly, is being "explored" here? We already know what's there, we have pictures. Stop aggrandizing this to be anything more than a delusional sci-fi fantasy.
Someday mankind is going to need to leave this planet to survive. We have no idea if the Earth will become uninhabitable tomorrow or 50 billion years from now. We are not at the point where we have enough control over our environment where an asteroid collision, super-volcano eruption, nuclear war, or some other natural or man-made disaster won't at least set us back thousands of years, if not wipe us out completely. Even if we manage to advance technology to the point that we can stop Earth from being burned to death when the Sun expands into a red giant, it would be the height of stupidity to keep all of humanity stuck on this one planet. After all, if we can do that, surely we will have developed many ingenious and efficient ways to kill everybody on the planet.
Sure, we can wait until it's safer and cheaper. But we might also miss our opportunity all together.
Wasn't the OtherOS feature removed from all ps3 systems after 3.15 firmware versions?
This is a common belief (I've seen it many places besides your post) and I'm not sure why. Possibly because 3.20 and 3.21 were released shortly after 3.15, I guess? All I know is that I'm sitting on 3.20 and I can run OtherOS just fine.
Actually the Chinese craft is a canard (the big wings are in the back), which is most often seen in European fighters. That alone changes quite a bit about the design, so if they were indeed just trying to copy they really went all out.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but for whatever reason there is no way to install even signed packages from the XMB. That's actually the only thing this CFW does: allow you to install signed PKG files from the XMB. The developer says on his site that none of the current homebrew will run because none of it is signed.
Now you're getting somewhere. All these comments and not a single one actually says the truth - they failed as soon as they decided to make an MMO. They have said there is enough story for KOTOR 3-12. You know what would have made more money than this MMO? KOTOR 3-12. If Bioware wasn't releasing other cool stuff I'd be even more pissed that they trashed the best Star Wars-licensed games ever.
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He used the work of others, most notably the guys that just got the private keys.
The other guys are the ones truly responsible for this. GeoHot, as he tends to do, is just trying to take credit.
He's a known bullshitter in the scene.
I'd guess it's some kind of superiority complex. On his site he offers an executable that supposedly uses the key but offers no source code or anything other than indirectly mentioning that he used PSL1GHT.
Personally I'm looking forward to getting my hands on fail0verflow's tools. I've been too lazy to do the USB thing, and though I'm still sitting on 2.15 I've been too lazy to pull out my keyboard and mouse and load up my half-assed Yellow Dog install so I could tinker with fgalea's Freezer engine. But, something that I could easily cross compile on my laptop and load from the XMB makes the barrier to entry so low that I'd finally get that motivation to get back into the homebrew scene again.
Content & the thesis mattered more than perfection.
I don't know about you, but when I'm reading something and a word is misspelled, particularly if it's misspelled as a completely different word or has all the same letters as a completely different word, or something like a comma is out of place, I become almost completely derailed by the sentence.
Spell check doesn't fix bad writing though:P
Maybe it's just me, but every time I see the word "loose" instead of "lose," I have trouble even continuing to read without the author's writing immediately losing merit with me. I mean, people have always screwed up your/you're and there/their/they're, but with lose/loose you can't even enjoy the excuse of just mixing up homophones.
Turns out a lot of companies give away free stuff on twitter. I made an account a few weeks ago solely to try and get said free stuff. Also turns out that a lot of other people do this, so it isn't working out too well for its original purpose.
But on the bright side, if you follow the right people it's quite interesting. Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson), for example, is active there and definitely worth following.
Instructions are right there on the page, but you take the md5sum of your email address (e.g. "echo -n email@address.com | md5sum") and check it against the list (click "Show Options" and selected MD5 = . This doesn't mean your password was decrypted, but at the very least the encrypted version is out there. You can check this other Google Fusion table for your password.
I agree with the informative mod, especially this little tidbit from the second link:
It's a tactical mistake, first of all, to focus global warming action on personal restrictions...relying on individuals to voluntarily change their behavior is nowhere near as effective as political change aimed at speeding the transition to an economy far less carbon-intensive than our current one.
Nevermind that it directly contradicts the post.:)
But to answer your question directly, my family has actually cut down significantly on our meat intake for monetary reasons, and we discovered that our toddler actually loves black beans (a fine alternative source of protein) far more than most kinds of meat. It's oddly similar to the entire climate change debate: it costs us more time to make those dishes where we can make the same amount of meat last longer, but it's healthier for everyone and costs less in the long run. It's mind-boggling that people want to fight the changes that "might" help slow climate change even though they are undoubtedly changes for the better. Even if you don't believe the whole "saving the planet" bit, we'll still be reducing dependence on foreign oil.
Since "rape" was actually "consensual but unprotected sex," they just need to come up with a more frightening name than "inciting subversion of state power." Call him a terrorist and they'll have half the U.S. on their side.
Sorry I should have specified that it didn't and probably won't ever launch. It was part of an Air Force competition and we lost, so we didn't get funding to build the final version.
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I was looking at SheevaPlugs a couple months back (the Guruplug power supplies were still horrible, IIRC), and then I found out I missed Amazon's sale on the discontinued, PogoPlug-based Seagate Dockstar by a scant few days. $30 for a Plugbox (Arch) Linux server! Unfortunately now it's $80. The pink PogoPlug itself is $50 at the moment, which isn't bad for the upgrade to 256MB RAM, but I have a hard time spending the extra bucks when I know I could have had a better deal. It's not a wall wart and wasn't made to run whatever you want, but it has similar power draw and is cheaper.
AND the Wheel of Time will end next year. If we find out that GNU Hurd is about to be released, I think Slashdot might spontaneously implode for lack of stalling jokes.
Not for long, apparently. Also ignoring the idea that he might want to keep full resolution copies.
Or do you just think that you know better than everyone else how they should spend their coding time?
This is a key point that pretty much anybody who is not a developer completely misses. Clearly, GP is not a developer. It's the same misunderstanding as thinking that if Valve and Epic and Infinity Ward and Bungie (or whoever develops the big FPSs today) all got together and made one FPS it would turn out better than anything they can do alone. Hopefully even non-developers can see the folly in that.
It's sad when your first thoughts on reading this story is 'oh another windows fail' but the sad reality is that I would bet my life that it was. Assuming I am correct, will Microsoft be held accountable?
Of course Microsoft is not responsible, but also consider, had the laptop-toting person responsible been using something other than Windows, it would be highly unlikely that we would be having this discussion. It occurred to me after I posted (and after reading the article) that the laptop could have been an personal one, and it doesn't really matter what the bank is using if the guy loaded up the database on it and the malware quietly sent it elsewhere.
Oh dear, so many ways to feed the troll. Hmmm, how about a bad car analogy?
That's like a customer wanting a car that has high safety ratings, but calling them a tool because people seldom get in wrecks anyway.
Any banks or credit unions not using Windows?
Perhaps, in defense of the GP, the wording can easily make it sound like you were passing judgment instead of making an observation. You're mostly right, though. Hey, assisted suicide is still a crime in 47 states, and even then it's only legal if the person is terminally ill and can self administer the lethal dose.
But then, it doesn't absolutely have to be certain death with no hope of returning, it is merely going without a way back. It's not inconceivable that we send a return/rescue mission later on, though he'd have to do some serious training to get his body back into shape to survive Earth gravity, let alone the stress of reentry. Maybe by then we have a rotating "reconditioning" spacecraft complete with physician(s) that gently brings him back up to 1g.
I am pretty sure that living on a new mars colony in the first 40 years or so of its inception will pretty much preclude playing video games. While there would be down time, I suspect that leisure activities would be focused on more pragmatic things, like reading, writing, coding, sewing, cooking, etc. If you could waste a few hours on a video game or do something that would add to your chance of survival for the next few months, most will choose the latter.
It can easily be argued that retaining your sanity adds just as much to your chance of survival as sewing a new pair of gloves. I suspect there would be more leisure time than you could even spend doing leisurely but productive things, unless you count reading textbooks or something.
This is of course not to mention the fact that video games can be educational as well, and not just the ones explicitly so. Not every game is as mindless as FarmVille or whatever Facebook game people are gobbling up these days.
I'm not convinced that it's absolutely a one way trip. All it means is that you won't be sent with a way to get home. There are no rules that say we can't send a return/rescue mission separately. And I suspect we would, actually, perhaps as a surprise to the enterprising astronaut. Think of the TV ratings that would get!
What, exactly, is being "explored" here? We already know what's there, we have pictures. Stop aggrandizing this to be anything more than a delusional sci-fi fantasy.
Someday mankind is going to need to leave this planet to survive. We have no idea if the Earth will become uninhabitable tomorrow or 50 billion years from now. We are not at the point where we have enough control over our environment where an asteroid collision, super-volcano eruption, nuclear war, or some other natural or man-made disaster won't at least set us back thousands of years, if not wipe us out completely. Even if we manage to advance technology to the point that we can stop Earth from being burned to death when the Sun expands into a red giant, it would be the height of stupidity to keep all of humanity stuck on this one planet. After all, if we can do that, surely we will have developed many ingenious and efficient ways to kill everybody on the planet.
Sure, we can wait until it's safer and cheaper. But we might also miss our opportunity all together.
Wasn't the OtherOS feature removed from all ps3 systems after 3.15 firmware versions?
This is a common belief (I've seen it many places besides your post) and I'm not sure why. Possibly because 3.20 and 3.21 were released shortly after 3.15, I guess? All I know is that I'm sitting on 3.20 and I can run OtherOS just fine.
Right now your voice is being drowned-out by a minority with money.
I don't know, I don't think the godless, gay, black Asian pacifist community is very politically active to begin with.
Actually the Chinese craft is a canard (the big wings are in the back), which is most often seen in European fighters. That alone changes quite a bit about the design, so if they were indeed just trying to copy they really went all out.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but for whatever reason there is no way to install even signed packages from the XMB. That's actually the only thing this CFW does: allow you to install signed PKG files from the XMB. The developer says on his site that none of the current homebrew will run because none of it is signed.
Except that wouldn't be an MMO.
Now you're getting somewhere. All these comments and not a single one actually says the truth - they failed as soon as they decided to make an MMO. They have said there is enough story for KOTOR 3-12. You know what would have made more money than this MMO? KOTOR 3-12. If Bioware wasn't releasing other cool stuff I'd be even more pissed that they trashed the best Star Wars-licensed games ever.
He used the work of others, most notably the guys that just got the private keys.
The other guys are the ones truly responsible for this. GeoHot, as he tends to do, is just trying to take credit.
He's a known bullshitter in the scene.
I'd guess it's some kind of superiority complex. On his site he offers an executable that supposedly uses the key but offers no source code or anything other than indirectly mentioning that he used PSL1GHT.
Personally I'm looking forward to getting my hands on fail0verflow's tools. I've been too lazy to do the USB thing, and though I'm still sitting on 2.15 I've been too lazy to pull out my keyboard and mouse and load up my half-assed Yellow Dog install so I could tinker with fgalea's Freezer engine. But, something that I could easily cross compile on my laptop and load from the XMB makes the barrier to entry so low that I'd finally get that motivation to get back into the homebrew scene again.
Content & the thesis mattered more than perfection.
I don't know about you, but when I'm reading something and a word is misspelled, particularly if it's misspelled as a completely different word or has all the same letters as a completely different word, or something like a comma is out of place, I become almost completely derailed by the sentence. Spell check doesn't fix bad writing though :P
Maybe it's just me, but every time I see the word "loose" instead of "lose," I have trouble even continuing to read without the author's writing immediately losing merit with me. I mean, people have always screwed up your/you're and there/their/they're, but with lose/loose you can't even enjoy the excuse of just mixing up homophones.
Turns out a lot of companies give away free stuff on twitter. I made an account a few weeks ago solely to try and get said free stuff. Also turns out that a lot of other people do this, so it isn't working out too well for its original purpose.
But on the bright side, if you follow the right people it's quite interesting. Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson), for example, is active there and definitely worth following.
check it against the list (click "Show Options" and select MD5 = [your md5 hash here]).
Fixed that for me.
If you want to check yourself, head to this Google Fusion table
Instructions are right there on the page, but you take the md5sum of your email address (e.g. "echo -n email@address.com | md5sum") and check it against the list (click "Show Options" and selected MD5 = . This doesn't mean your password was decrypted, but at the very least the encrypted version is out there. You can check this other Google Fusion table for your password.
It's a tactical mistake, first of all, to focus global warming action on personal restrictions...relying on individuals to voluntarily change their behavior is nowhere near as effective as political change aimed at speeding the transition to an economy far less carbon-intensive than our current one.
Nevermind that it directly contradicts the post. :)
But to answer your question directly, my family has actually cut down significantly on our meat intake for monetary reasons, and we discovered that our toddler actually loves black beans (a fine alternative source of protein) far more than most kinds of meat. It's oddly similar to the entire climate change debate: it costs us more time to make those dishes where we can make the same amount of meat last longer, but it's healthier for everyone and costs less in the long run. It's mind-boggling that people want to fight the changes that "might" help slow climate change even though they are undoubtedly changes for the better. Even if you don't believe the whole "saving the planet" bit, we'll still be reducing dependence on foreign oil.
Since "rape" was actually "consensual but unprotected sex," they just need to come up with a more frightening name than "inciting subversion of state power." Call him a terrorist and they'll have half the U.S. on their side.
Sorry I should have specified that it didn't and probably won't ever launch. It was part of an Air Force competition and we lost, so we didn't get funding to build the final version.
So not embryonic stem cells. Everybody wins.
Except for wheelchair manufacturers.