The lives enjoyed by many math mysteries are being shortened by the technological age. Yet we do not create many new questions to be raised. With such a lopsided affair, what will drive future mathematics?
And this would bring my dream of a wired world closer to reality. When the meat of the computer can be centrally located, we gain the ability to provide access to files from anywhere on the network. This also allows content to be distributed by better means.
Such as this: You have a computer on your desk, but you can't haul it around. Rather than loading the data on to a laptop, you could just go to where you planned on going and login there.
Some will argue about the lack of security involved with this. 'How easy it would be for the police to snoop through one's files!' or 'What, then, of annonymity?' And to this, I do not know.
As I see this tech, it still means you need a 1 to 1 correspondance between the front and back ends. This means it isn't the technology you would want to use for a cheap urbanic network.
Hell. Anyways, just ignore the ramblings, for I am one of those romantic technologists who believed that revolution would be brought with computing technology.
I will not dispute any of your facts presented at the beginning. You argue technicalities based on the really shitty writing. I will take issue with the ending, though.
You say that the common man doesn't know about alternative operating systems. I said as much in my statement. The thing is, wishing for Microsoft's seperation is not the means of enlightening the common man. Microsoft has not abused their market dominance anymore than AOL has. I don't see many of the linux zealots screaming form hari kari over AOL, though. The reason for this is quite simple: Microsoft offers a product that keeps people blissfully ignorant of Linux.
Why cheer for the break up of Microsoft? Here: It would be easier to let the government kill MS then it would be to make Linux user friendly. That is not to say that Linux isn't good today, for if I were to say that here I would be killed by Technobigots, but that linux has a lot of code evolution to go through. It may be powerful, and versatile, but none of the people are going to want to use it if it isn't easy. And for ease of use, Windows, MacOS, BeOS, and QNX all rate far better. Mind you, that this rank is not based quantitatively but qualititatively based on my work with each OS.
I honestly hope the market gets bitten in the ass for its knee jerk reactions about Microsoft. Microsoft managed to bring computing to the modern person. When Jobs stole the idea of a User Friendly GUI from PARC, he was credited with bringing computers to the common person. Yet macintoshes are no the number 1 computer today. Even if Microsoft were fighting unfairly, certainly such 'innovation' would be the wedge Apple needed to dominate the market. But they made a mistake: they restricted the market to a certain type of hardware. And since Unix/Linux was, and still is, not a viable option for simple users, Microsoft stepped in to fill a niche. They did this well and produced software that was actually pretty good for the common man. Now they face the same fate as William Wallace. It would be insane to assume that the OS could maintain its place in the market, as was the intention, which means something will have to give. I doubt quality will give, as Microsoft has seen a steady decline in quality, so price seems to be the next logical move. MS Apps already cost a lot. Do we want to see the OS rising to those prices, and the Apps gorwing even higher yet? Technological elitism needs to stop. Quit poking your fucking Microsoft voodoo dolls, and work on making a product the dumb, the poor, or the disabled can use effectively. The death of the only widescale simple OS will not make Linux better, nor will it make Apple better. You write the fucking kernel, not Microsoft. You shape the future of Linux. Get your shit together and stop worrying about Microsoft. If your OS is truly better for the common man, then he will overcome his ignorance soon enough.
Any alien civilization that would neglect less advanced species scientific pursuits would be better left undiscovered by us. You seem to forget that the smart 'SETI types' aren't searching for the interstellar phone calls of an alien race, they are looking for markers or buoys or sentinels. If this advanced race would abandon all technology once the latest has come out, then I would not consider them more advanced then the fools on our planet.
Perhaps you might consider reading a post over again before approaching a keyboard. You seem to have problems interpreting what you read.
If cookie==change in price, then somehow, the value in the cookie needs to be related to the database. You said as much yourself. Just because it relies on a database to interpret the cookie does not mean it is free from abuse. The author of the news submit said as much himself: clear the cookie and the price is reset. My statement never said the price was stored in the cookie. My statement never even implied how I thought the data might be composed. Your statement is false as a whole because it fails to take into consideration the conjecture of the author.
Don't assume. I did not say the prices or the order would be stored in the cookies. I merely said the possibility for fraud exists: it does by the author's own volition.
Yet you would be hostile in your writing. You speak of over moderation. Your post is uninformative in relation to the post you replied to, and is hostile. I wouldn't call your post informative. I would call it flamebait.
If the price can be modified by cookies, wouldn't this pose some form of security risk? Cookies are supposed to be secure from other people viewing them, but wouldn't it be possible to defraud them, if one were to figure out how it worked?
I find it disgusting that school would sell out to increase the funding available to their programs. It may be nessecary to go corporate to achieve the funding level needed to continue to educate students, but it still makes me wonder if some educational quality is lost in the process.
How would this serial be portrayed? It isn't in the ascii output of the scanner so how would it actually work outside DC's software? Thats probably why they are so angry about competition. Stick with using the linux drivers or windows alternatives.
I look forward to more about freenet in the future. distributed applications are the future of computing, until alternate tech methods are developed. I enjoyed hearing from someone who may actually understand the mini-revolution that is occuring.
Thats exactly what I said. They only work on the PPC chip. None of those apple linux distros work well on anything that isn't a PPC chip. Even BeOS works on PPC. After that, it is guess work. Apple released the specs to the PPC. Linux and BeOS are in the same boat when it comes to mac development. Apple won't release specs for anything past the PPC chip. And when did this fictitous NDA get signed? Do you know who the leak was?
The dream of a real-time full-coverage observing system is finally coming true. Comet LINEAR is the baby of such systems. Too bad the baby just exploded...
Warning to mods: this is mildly off-topic. Do what you will
Apple is very stupid when it comes to business. The PC platform has numerous quality OS's that its users can use, reliably, for free or for cost. The Macintosh platform has one OS that can be used, reliably, at cost. All progress with alternative OS's has been at the expense of hackers, and companies such as Be Inc. I would love to buy an iMac, IF I could load BeOS on it.
Apple has also failed to keep it's users in mind when it comes to the actual design of it's products. Why they would omit a floppy disk drive from their iMac is beyond belief. They have made claims that their chips are great. This is true, if one looks at the FLOPS that it can turn. But the speed is restricted to 500 mhz, app. And they have also ignored their users conerns with the mouse.
Whilst one can understand their wish to remain different from the rest of the tech market, the use of a very bad ergonomic design is ludicrous. Once again, it took the actions of independants to rectify their errors.
And now, they have kicked up their legal department. Suing, or threatening to sue, for any number of trivial things that, in the normal world, would be considered ludicrous. Posting a scoop isn't illegal. Stealing Apple's thunder must be though, right? Has Apple Legal ever done anything smart? The Alto/Mac/Microsoft suit was ludicrous, but not damaging to it's users. Now they have graduated to attacking those who give them their success.
Microsoft may have been a monopoly. But what do you call the actions of Apple? BeOS has stopped development of a Mac version at the PowerPC chip, because Apple refuses to deliver the information needed. Aren't these the actions of a company that has forgotten its users?
I can remember when people whined about Windows being tied to DOS. People would bitch, and moan, and cry about the bad, bad people who hadn't killed DOS when they should have.
So now, when the "great evil" does what some people have been asking for, for a long while, we whine still. You knew that MS-DOS would not be staying around. It was wrong of Microsoft to claim that the OS would be compatible with it's ancestors, but that is it.
With this action, the market is going to fracture. Advanced users probaby won't use ME, and some of those may not switch to 2000. Maybe this stupidity will lead to more BeOS and Linux users.
I almost pity the new computer user. Amiga, BeOS, Windows, MacOS, and all the *nix distros out there. Is it too much? I loved Amiga, but will it be profitable now that the market has been beaten with the Windows stick?
How can the government be so blind as to allow frivolous law suits such as this. It is ridiculous when a corporation can sue over something that is so obviously protected by the first amendment. It is sad when the constitution can be bypassed by civil litigation. The legal system needs a major overhaul. No longer is the defendant innocent at the outset ofr a trial. Technology is a hinderence to a beaurocratic government such as ours. Smaller is better able to cope with problems.
It is an incredible moment. The day will come when everything we use will be grown. Already, people are starting to realize how easy it is to use the passive energy of the sun to fuel the manufacturng process.
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The lives enjoyed by many math mysteries are being shortened by the technological age. Yet we do not create many new questions to be raised. With such a lopsided affair, what will drive future mathematics?
When FOIA request results are released, they blank some stuff out. I can only assume that is what he refers to in encryption.
Government procedings occur, for the most part, under full public scrutiny. Why isn't it natural that the software should be as so, also?
It would have been possible to optimize the Windows version a little more. I would like to think that my rig isn't to blame for the 1/5 fps rate.
And this would bring my dream of a wired world closer to reality. When the meat of the computer can be centrally located, we gain the ability to provide access to files from anywhere on the network. This also allows content to be distributed by better means.
Such as this: You have a computer on your desk, but you can't haul it around. Rather than loading the data on to a laptop, you could just go to where you planned on going and login there.
Some will argue about the lack of security involved with this. 'How easy it would be for the police to snoop through one's files!' or 'What, then, of annonymity?' And to this, I do not know.
As I see this tech, it still means you need a 1 to 1 correspondance between the front and back ends. This means it isn't the technology you would want to use for a cheap urbanic network.
Hell. Anyways, just ignore the ramblings, for I am one of those romantic technologists who believed that revolution would be brought with computing technology.
I will not dispute any of your facts presented at the beginning. You argue technicalities based on the really shitty writing. I will take issue with the ending, though.
You say that the common man doesn't know about alternative operating systems. I said as much in my statement. The thing is, wishing for Microsoft's seperation is not the means of enlightening the common man. Microsoft has not abused their market dominance anymore than AOL has. I don't see many of the linux zealots screaming form hari kari over AOL, though. The reason for this is quite simple: Microsoft offers a product that keeps people blissfully ignorant of Linux.
Why cheer for the break up of Microsoft? Here: It would be easier to let the government kill MS then it would be to make Linux user friendly. That is not to say that Linux isn't good today, for if I were to say that here I would be killed by Technobigots, but that linux has a lot of code evolution to go through. It may be powerful, and versatile, but none of the people are going to want to use it if it isn't easy. And for ease of use, Windows, MacOS, BeOS, and QNX all rate far better. Mind you, that this rank is not based quantitatively but qualititatively based on my work with each OS.
This is quite humorous.
I honestly hope the market gets bitten in the ass for its knee jerk reactions about Microsoft. Microsoft managed to bring computing to the modern person. When Jobs stole the idea of a User Friendly GUI from PARC, he was credited with bringing computers to the common person. Yet macintoshes are no the number 1 computer today. Even if Microsoft were fighting unfairly, certainly such 'innovation' would be the wedge Apple needed to dominate the market. But they made a mistake: they restricted the market to a certain type of hardware. And since Unix/Linux was, and still is, not a viable option for simple users, Microsoft stepped in to fill a niche. They did this well and produced software that was actually pretty good for the common man. Now they face the same fate as William Wallace. It would be insane to assume that the OS could maintain its place in the market, as was the intention, which means something will have to give. I doubt quality will give, as Microsoft has seen a steady decline in quality, so price seems to be the next logical move. MS Apps already cost a lot. Do we want to see the OS rising to those prices, and the Apps gorwing even higher yet? Technological elitism needs to stop. Quit poking your fucking Microsoft voodoo dolls, and work on making a product the dumb, the poor, or the disabled can use effectively. The death of the only widescale simple OS will not make Linux better, nor will it make Apple better. You write the fucking kernel, not Microsoft. You shape the future of Linux. Get your shit together and stop worrying about Microsoft. If your OS is truly better for the common man, then he will overcome his ignorance soon enough.
Probably off topic, but what is the typo site that frames Slashdot?
Any alien civilization that would neglect less advanced species scientific pursuits would be better left undiscovered by us. You seem to forget that the smart 'SETI types' aren't searching for the interstellar phone calls of an alien race, they are looking for markers or buoys or sentinels. If this advanced race would abandon all technology once the latest has come out, then I would not consider them more advanced then the fools on our planet.
Perhaps you might consider reading a post over again before approaching a keyboard. You seem to have problems interpreting what you read.
If cookie==change in price, then somehow, the value in the cookie needs to be related to the database. You said as much yourself. Just because it relies on a database to interpret the cookie does not mean it is free from abuse. The author of the news submit said as much himself: clear the cookie and the price is reset. My statement never said the price was stored in the cookie. My statement never even implied how I thought the data might be composed. Your statement is false as a whole because it fails to take into consideration the conjecture of the author.
Don't assume. I did not say the prices or the order would be stored in the cookies. I merely said the possibility for fraud exists: it does by the author's own volition.
Yet you would be hostile in your writing. You speak of over moderation. Your post is uninformative in relation to the post you replied to, and is hostile. I wouldn't call your post informative. I would call it flamebait.
If the price can be modified by cookies, wouldn't this pose some form of security risk? Cookies are supposed to be secure from other people viewing them, but wouldn't it be possible to defraud them, if one were to figure out how it worked?
I find it disgusting that school would sell out to increase the funding available to their programs. It may be nessecary to go corporate to achieve the funding level needed to continue to educate students, but it still makes me wonder if some educational quality is lost in the process.
I like my religion like I like my hardware: Do-It-Yourself.
A little bit of Hindu reincarnation here, some Celtic gods and goddesses there. Religion is modular, right?
How would this serial be portrayed? It isn't in the ascii output of the scanner so how would it actually work outside DC's software? Thats probably why they are so angry about competition. Stick with using the linux drivers or windows alternatives.
I look forward to more about freenet in the future. distributed applications are the future of computing, until alternate tech methods are developed. I enjoyed hearing from someone who may actually understand the mini-revolution that is occuring.
Oh, but Bush and the CIA didn't do anything! And he certainly didn't pardon most of the people involved before he left office!
Thats exactly what I said. They only work on the PPC chip. None of those apple linux distros work well on anything that isn't a PPC chip. Even BeOS works on PPC. After that, it is guess work. Apple released the specs to the PPC. Linux and BeOS are in the same boat when it comes to mac development. Apple won't release specs for anything past the PPC chip. And when did this fictitous NDA get signed? Do you know who the leak was?
The dream of a real-time full-coverage observing system is finally coming true. Comet LINEAR is the baby of such systems. Too bad the baby just exploded...
Warning to mods: this is mildly off-topic. Do what you will
Apple is very stupid when it comes to business. The PC platform has numerous quality OS's that its users can use, reliably, for free or for cost. The Macintosh platform has one OS that can be used, reliably, at cost. All progress with alternative OS's has been at the expense of hackers, and companies such as Be Inc. I would love to buy an iMac, IF I could load BeOS on it.
Apple has also failed to keep it's users in mind when it comes to the actual design of it's products. Why they would omit a floppy disk drive from their iMac is beyond belief. They have made claims that their chips are great. This is true, if one looks at the FLOPS that it can turn. But the speed is restricted to 500 mhz, app. And they have also ignored their users conerns with the mouse.
Whilst one can understand their wish to remain different from the rest of the tech market, the use of a very bad ergonomic design is ludicrous. Once again, it took the actions of independants to rectify their errors.
And now, they have kicked up their legal department. Suing, or threatening to sue, for any number of trivial things that, in the normal world, would be considered ludicrous. Posting a scoop isn't illegal. Stealing Apple's thunder must be though, right? Has Apple Legal ever done anything smart? The Alto/Mac/Microsoft suit was ludicrous, but not damaging to it's users. Now they have graduated to attacking those who give them their success.
Microsoft may have been a monopoly. But what do you call the actions of Apple? BeOS has stopped development of a Mac version at the PowerPC chip, because Apple refuses to deliver the information needed. Aren't these the actions of a company that has forgotten its users?
Maybe they will redeem themselves with MacOS X.
I already carry around a TI-89 calc, and a palm. Am I going to need to get one of those photographers vests?
I can remember when people whined about Windows being tied to DOS. People would bitch, and moan, and cry about the bad, bad people who hadn't killed DOS when they should have.
So now, when the "great evil" does what some people have been asking for, for a long while, we whine still. You knew that MS-DOS would not be staying around. It was wrong of Microsoft to claim that the OS would be compatible with it's ancestors, but that is it.
With this action, the market is going to fracture. Advanced users probaby won't use ME, and some of those may not switch to 2000. Maybe this stupidity will lead to more BeOS and Linux users.
I almost pity the new computer user. Amiga, BeOS, Windows, MacOS, and all the *nix distros out there. Is it too much? I loved Amiga, but will it be profitable now that the market has been beaten with the Windows stick?
How can the government be so blind as to allow frivolous law suits such as this. It is ridiculous when a corporation can sue over something that is so obviously protected by the first amendment. It is sad when the constitution can be bypassed by civil litigation. The legal system needs a major overhaul. No longer is the defendant innocent at the outset ofr a trial. Technology is a hinderence to a beaurocratic government such as ours. Smaller is better able to cope with problems.
It is an incredible moment. The day will come when everything we use will be grown. Already, people are starting to realize how easy it is to use the passive energy of the sun to fuel the manufacturng process.