You most probably have not used Nokia's PC suite. It sucks. I mean, it sucks real hard. E.g. the database saved with the older Content Copier is not compatible with the newer version's datadump tool. It failed to recognize user-defined folders on the 8310. Some SMSes were rendered as garbage. I could not find a way to backup my ringing tone. 3rd pty solutions (O2 shareware for windows, gnokii for linux) work much better. As for the install:
apt-get install gtkpod
is not really more troublesome than unpack the CD, insert it into the CD tray, click on install and whatever.
In the case of Vortex2 (or, to be precise, all Aureal Vortex chipsets) there was incentive for the new owner (Creative Labs) NOT to keep on working on the driver and NOT to release specs. Fortunately, some good people managed to create an ALSA driver for the Vortex cards with all the stuff (equaliser, 3d audio, etc)
Yeah, that Nazcar race car works best that you can find in Sunshine Autos after stealing all the cars on the wish list in the basement:)
BTW, at this mission I was somewhat flabbergasted as this is "cheating" or is this a "legit" the way to make this mission. I mean, you play the role of a gangster, you are supposed to cheat.
First, not all the "work of hands" has been taken out of the USA - or at least I suppose (since I don't live there) that there are still people collecting trash, flipping burgers, driving trucks, etc. So, there are still blue collar jobs that are still in the USA - because it did not make sense to move it to elsewhere for whatever reason.
Second, what I see in big multinationals is that it is the lower tier of the work that gets "outsourced" (done in branches in poorer countries) - high level design, project managment, etc tends to stay where it is.
Third, outsourcing is not that cheap. Chances are that once cheap programmers will demand more and more and you have to move to another country and thus lose much of the accumulated knowledge and experience. Witness it in Europe: rates in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, etc are getting more and more closer to the German level so new branches are founded in Roumania, Ukraine, etc - but there is only so much you can move to the East: sooner or later you'll find yourself on the West Coast;)
Your create a problem by taking a trend to the extremes - but if history teaches us anything, it is that trends DO change.
Well, I don't think so - I mean I doubt they were nervous about this SCO nonsense in the first place. Actually, I work for a Germany-based big corp and there is work on transitioning from SCO UnixWare to Linux as they clearly see that: 1. SCO will die soon 2. Linux will not
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There's one thing that makes VIA CPUs very interesting performance-wise: the xcrypt instruction. Using it the VIA CPUs just beat - and beat badly - anything else in certain task.
Despite the name, CF is NOT flash memory. The CompactFlash Association's definition is this: "CompactFlash(R) is a small, removable mass storage device."
So you are correct in noting that he is actually using HDDs, not flash, but in the same time, he is using CompactFlash (BTW the CF pinout is IDE compatible, so to hook up your CF to your IDE bus all you have to do is to manage to connect the wires of the IDE cable and the power cable to the card)
Well, it seems that I did not manage to come through to you:)
By "making up things" I meant that in mathematics you are free to make your axioms, you are not bound by the physical reality as you are in other sciences. The fact that we have Bolyai-geometry does not invalidate Euclid's geometry.
And of course, I realise that physical representation of mathematics is something like an illustration in a book - you should not take it as something absolutely authorative.
As for aliens: yes, they most probably could understand our mathematics - but that does not necessitate that theirs should be like ours. There's an infinite number of possible mathematical systems - they could use something different, something that is totally counterintuitive for us, and that would mean that their entire scientefic system could be wildly different (if they haveone, that is: science as it is today is basically a Greek invention - the Chinese had a very different view on life so they did not got around to build a scientefic system)
Re:Mathematics not universal?
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Mathematics clearly may not be universal as it is a purely human thing - it's not like physics or biology where you have to follow existing things. There are lots of things in mathematics that is/was completely "made up" (Boolean algebra springs to mind) - in the end, math is just as human as poetry.
Aliens does not have different rules of physics - but they probably have different models about it,but that should not come as surprise as we, humans had lots of different models of physics (and nature in general) throughout our history (Newton's mechanic view, quantum mechanics' probability approach, etc) - but it does not mean that Heidelberg did not exist as Newton did.
Sokal was basically trolling (to demonstrate that "postmodern scientefic criticism" is BS) - and probably that's what you do too.
Technology is not the problem. The problem is (as always was and always will be) how people use a technology. RFID (or any other technology) is not necessary for a police state as demonstrated by many examples in the past. You privacy can be (or most probably: was) violated without RFID too. To protect your privacy you need a society that values privacy and have laws that express this. If you do not have that then you are swimming against the flow and your are doomed to failure, no matter if RFID is used or not. I would like to point out Europe: there are privacy laws that basically say the following:
Personal information can only be collected with your approval (or if mandated by a law)
This information can only be gathered for specific purposes (of which you must be informed) and may only stored for a set period of time, which can not be unreasonably long.
You can request access to the information about you and request correction or deletion
Your info must be kept confidental and correct
Your personal information can be given to a third party only if the above requirements are fulfilled
If you have such laws (and have them enforced) then there is no need to fear RFIDs - but if you don't have them, RFIDs should be the least of your worries.
Well, I can remember the times when "there's a virus that spreads via e-mail" was a joke. Outlook running attachments and Windows' UI hiding extensions - while they may not be sec holes in a sense a buffer overflow is - are certainly the factors needed for the spread of these kind of worms. And it's not like a new problem (iloveyou was released four years ago) and it is exploited by lots of worms - yet MS has not done anything to solve the problem.
"I rather suspect that this is a trick from Soviet officials the draw attention from the fact that this piece of internet terrorism comes from Russia and that their security is beyond repair."
Jesus, are you trolling or is it just stupidity? First, there are no "Soviet officials" as the Soviet Union ceased to exist more than a decade ago. Second, it does very little to draw attention from the USSR - you know, the guy's name could be Andrej. Third, what do you mean by "their security"? It's MS's security that seems to be beyond repair, as Windows + Outlook is their product, not Russia's.
Well, you seem to forget about capital. Of course, IP is a form of capital, but in the current economy money still has a very important role - and that's what the countries in the thirld world really lack.
Well, this posting is not about "news" but more about an interesting idea - an idea's "interesting" factor does not depend on its source. It is intriguing and worth think about, a lot more than, say, eweek's zero-content article about the wishlist for linux 2.7.
Well, the Norwegian system is different: basically all lawyers are "public defenders", so you can have a pretty well-known lawyer as your defender for free (as in paid indirectly by your taxes:-) )
"I hope the okokrim sues the MPAA for getting them into his mess in the first place..."
You are smoking exactly what? MPAA could not get the Okokrim into this trouble as the MPAA has no authority over the Norwegian police. It was the Okokrim's decision to pursue this case - geez, it would be a major scandal if it turned out that some foreign organization has a say in what the police does.
Well, it seems that you get it ("that's because of that awful KDE or GNOME cruft, try running a real window manager and real apps"), yet you somehow manage not to get it.
So, in a nutshell: X is not slow and broken. KDE/GNOME is. So, you should critize them instead.
"So you believe that privacy protection and the use of RFID tags are completely separate things that don't cross and affect one another?"
Of course, there is a relation. But also computers, cameras and even eyes and ears affect your privacy: yet you don't go off talking about to blind everyone, do you?
And if you can't get laws to protect your privacy then you are in big trouble and RFID tags should be the least of your worries.
Really, I can not really understand this big uproar here, on/.
This is a new technology, you can do great and not so great things with it - just like with every other technology. We have laws (and moral and ethics) to deal with the not-so-great aspects.
This approach has more or less worked in the past centuries - and I expect it to work further.
So, if you do not want WalMart or anyone else to infringe on your privacy then get some goddamn laws to protect your privacy - beacuse your REAL concern is protecting your privacy, not the usage of the next-gen barcode.
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It sucks.
I mean, it sucks real hard.
E.g. the database saved with the older Content Copier is not compatible with the newer version's datadump tool. It failed to recognize user-defined folders on the 8310. Some SMSes were rendered as garbage. I could not find a way to backup my ringing tone.
3rd pty solutions (O2 shareware for windows, gnokii for linux) work much better.
As for the install: is not really more troublesome than unpack the CD, insert it into the CD tray, click on install and whatever.
In the case of Vortex2 (or, to be precise, all Aureal Vortex chipsets) there was incentive for the new owner (Creative Labs) NOT to keep on working on the driver and NOT to release specs.
Fortunately, some good people managed to create an ALSA driver for the Vortex cards with all the stuff (equaliser, 3d audio, etc)
Well, I for one, would not be surprised if SCO PAID EV1Servers to be able to use their name.
Yeah, that Nazcar race car works best that you can find in Sunshine Autos after stealing all the cars on the wish list in the basement :)
BTW, at this mission I was somewhat flabbergasted as this is "cheating" or is this a "legit" the way to make this mission. I mean, you play the role of a gangster, you are supposed to cheat.
First, not all the "work of hands" has been taken out of the USA - or at least I suppose (since I don't live there) that there are still people collecting trash, flipping burgers, driving trucks, etc. So, there are still blue collar jobs that are still in the USA - because it did not make sense to move it to elsewhere for whatever reason.
;)
Second, what I see in big multinationals is that it is the lower tier of the work that gets "outsourced" (done in branches in poorer countries) - high level design, project managment, etc tends to stay where it is.
Third, outsourcing is not that cheap. Chances are that once cheap programmers will demand more and more and you have to move to another country and thus lose much of the accumulated knowledge and experience. Witness it in Europe: rates in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, etc are getting more and more closer to the German level so new branches are founded in Roumania, Ukraine, etc - but there is only so much you can move to the East: sooner or later you'll find yourself on the West Coast
Your create a problem by taking a trend to the extremes - but if history teaches us anything, it is that trends DO change.
Well, I don't think so - I mean I doubt they were nervous about this SCO nonsense in the first place. Actually, I work for a Germany-based big corp and there is work on transitioning from SCO UnixWare to Linux as they clearly see that:
1. SCO will die soon
2. Linux will not
There's one thing that makes VIA CPUs very interesting performance-wise: the xcrypt instruction. Using it the VIA CPUs just beat - and beat badly - anything else in certain task.
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Check out Theo de Raadt's little benchmark:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=10
Despite the name, CF is NOT flash memory. The CompactFlash Association's definition is this:
"CompactFlash(R) is a small, removable mass storage device."
So you are correct in noting that he is actually using HDDs, not flash, but in the same time, he is using CompactFlash (BTW the CF pinout is IDE compatible, so to hook up your CF to your IDE bus all you have to do is to manage to connect the wires of the IDE cable and the power cable to the card)
Jesus, would it be too much to ask for some more legible spelling?
...is just to learn some proper manners.
Don't shout loudly if it bothers people and don't jam other people's cell phones.
Well, it seems that I did not manage to come through to you :)
By "making up things" I meant that in mathematics you are free to make your axioms, you are not bound by the physical reality as you are in other sciences. The fact that we have Bolyai-geometry does not invalidate Euclid's geometry.
And of course, I realise that physical representation of mathematics is something like an illustration in a book - you should not take it as something absolutely authorative.
As for aliens: yes, they most probably could understand our mathematics - but that does not necessitate that theirs should be like ours. There's an infinite number of possible mathematical systems - they could use something different, something that is totally counterintuitive for us, and that would mean that their entire scientefic system could be wildly different (if they haveone, that is: science as it is today is basically a Greek invention - the Chinese had a very different view on life so they did not got around to build a scientefic system)
Mathematics clearly may not be universal as it is a purely human thing - it's not like physics or biology where you have to follow existing things. There are lots of things in mathematics that is/was completely "made up" (Boolean algebra springs to mind) - in the end, math is just as human as poetry.
Aliens does not have different rules of physics - but they probably have different models about it,but that should not come as surprise as we, humans had lots of different models of physics (and nature in general) throughout our history (Newton's mechanic view, quantum mechanics' probability approach, etc) - but it does not mean that Heidelberg did not exist as Newton did.
Sokal was basically trolling (to demonstrate that "postmodern scientefic criticism" is BS) - and probably that's what you do too.
The problem is (as always was and always will be) how people use a technology.
RFID (or any other technology) is not necessary for a police state as demonstrated by many examples in the past.
You privacy can be (or most probably: was) violated without RFID too.
To protect your privacy you need a society that values privacy and have laws that express this. If you do not have that then you are swimming against the flow and your are doomed to failure, no matter if RFID is used or not.
I would like to point out Europe: there are privacy laws that basically say the following:
If you have such laws (and have them enforced) then there is no need to fear RFIDs - but if you don't have them, RFIDs should be the least of your worries.
my mistake, this guy has confused me with his nonsense ;)
Well, I can remember the times when "there's a virus that spreads via e-mail" was a joke.
Outlook running attachments and Windows' UI hiding extensions - while they may not be sec holes in a sense a buffer overflow is - are certainly the factors needed for the spread of these kind of worms. And it's not like a new problem (iloveyou was released four years ago) and it is exploited by lots of worms - yet MS has not done anything to solve the problem.
Jesus, it's you again.
I have just countered your
recent troll, and you still keep on churning out your BS.
"An attacker who comprises Fermi Lab's systems has usually also access to the control of the large hadron collider they have there."
Yeah, because an attack on the lab happens that often and the controller is right on the internet, of course!
Please, shut up.
"I rather suspect that this is a trick from Soviet officials the draw attention from the fact that this piece of internet terrorism comes from Russia and that their security is beyond repair."
Jesus, are you trolling or is it just stupidity?
First, there are no "Soviet officials" as the Soviet Union ceased to exist more than a decade ago.
Second, it does very little to draw attention from the USSR - you know, the guy's name could be Andrej.
Third, what do you mean by "their security"? It's MS's security that seems to be beyond repair, as Windows + Outlook is their product, not Russia's.
Well, you seem to forget about capital.
Of course, IP is a form of capital, but in the current economy money still has a very important role - and that's what the countries in the thirld world really lack.
Well, this posting is not about "news" but more about an interesting idea - an idea's "interesting" factor does not depend on its source.
It is intriguing and worth think about, a lot more than, say, eweek's zero-content article about the wishlist for linux 2.7.
Well, the Norwegian system is different: basically all lawyers are "public defenders", so you can have a pretty well-known lawyer as your defender for free (as in paid indirectly by your taxes :-) )
"I hope the okokrim sues the MPAA for getting them into his mess in the first place..."
You are smoking exactly what?
MPAA could not get the Okokrim into this trouble as the MPAA has no authority over the Norwegian police. It was the Okokrim's decision to pursue this case - geez, it would be a major scandal if it turned out that some foreign organization has a say in what the police does.
As this was a criminal case, he got a free defender from the Norvegian state.
Well, it seems that you get it ("that's because of that awful KDE or GNOME cruft, try running a real window manager and real apps"), yet you somehow manage not to get it.
So, in a nutshell: X is not slow and broken. KDE/GNOME is.
So, you should critize them instead.
"So you believe that privacy protection and the use of RFID tags are completely separate things that don't cross and affect one another?"
Of course, there is a relation. But also computers, cameras and even eyes and ears affect your privacy: yet you don't go off talking about to blind everyone, do you?
And if you can't get laws to protect your privacy then you are in big trouble and RFID tags should be the least of your worries.
Really, I can not really understand this big uproar here, on /.
This is a new technology, you can do great and not so great things with it - just like with every other technology. We have laws (and moral and ethics) to deal with the not-so-great aspects.
This approach has more or less worked in the past centuries - and I expect it to work further.
So, if you do not want WalMart or anyone else to infringe on your privacy then get some goddamn laws to protect your privacy - beacuse your REAL concern is protecting your privacy, not the usage of the next-gen barcode.