Very very cool stuff... I image that with different color LEDs you could also work at simulating color. Though I imagine blue LEDs are hard to come by, you could have some fun with read and green (and the sickly orange the make combined).
Everyone who breaks the law is shit? I don't know where you read that in my post. Stick to responding to what I actually wrote.
As to being up to date, I am certain he was not denied access to technology periodicals and literature - and he had plenty of free time on his hands to study. I am not critizing Mitnick so much for being out of date, but the press for glomming on to him as if he were some technological oracle when he didn't really seem to 'get it' anymore (if he ever did).
...who doesn't worship at the alter of Mitnick. I saw serveral interviews with the guy right after he was released and he did not strike me as being particularly insiteful or up to date. Additionally he had the annoying habit of explaining things at the microscopic level of detail, which is why, I assume, you no longer see him on Good Morning America.
I found it particularly amusing when he was asked to comment on the Melissa virus. What was going through the TV producers head on this one - perhaps something like 'computers, illegal, Mitnick!'
As to what makes Mitnick an authority on biometric identification and identity theft, I have no idea.
Mitnick was a competent cracker in his day who was made an example of by some corporations and the US government. His 15 minutes are now up.
So what is someone like myself to do. If you take this article at face value my prospects are rather grim. I am 29, a 'software engineer', very skilled in my field, but when I have tried to branch out into other fields I have gotten a very cold reception.
My area of expertise will not be around forever - it pays well now and finding work is easy, but what happens to me when the next big thing comes around and I am 33?
Of course I'm only making a qualitative judgement. Maybe you can provide the uptime numbers you're using the make the claim that Hotmail isn't reliable.
Based on my own usage it does not work (I cannot access my mailbox) at least one time a month. This isn't just a single page failed to load - everything I try fails to get me in. In the past it has been much worse. I get spurious bad page hits that a 'reload' fixes, all of the time.
This is just not up to the level of quality I would expect if I am to entrust business and personal documents to.NET. Add to that the fact that.NET is orders of magnitude more complex than a webmail service and I think Microsoft has a lot to prove.
I don't care if it runs on Windows, Linux, or the next create OO operating system. I ain't gunna use it.
"Sorry, the server hosting your documents directory "Business Plan" is temporarily unavailable. Please try back later. We apologize for this inconvenience."
All I am saying is that if Microsoft can't provide a simple, stable web mail service, how can we expect them to reliable handle the complex architecture they have layed out in.NET?
I just priced out a laptop with 256Meg of RAM, cheaper than the one I bought last year with 128Meg. RAM is cheap and plentiful, so is disk space - those that realize this prosper (Microsoft et al.) those that don't whine about the good old days and waste time and money 'optimizing' while their competitors take a free ride on the coattails of Moore's law.
The JVM in windows appears to have an overhead of about 4 meg when I run a simple program, but this may be misleading, as IE might pre-load some of this with whatever components - but still, this won't make a significant dent in the 512Meg laptop I buy next:)
Nope, they can code some native methods to do things like fourier transforms and floating point intensive stuff. They make these native methods part of their SDK.
They can then port their SDK to different platforms and the java plugins will work fine anywhere and execute much closer to native speed.
Plus-wich if you buy all the hype regarding JITs, java isn't taking all that much of a performance hit over native code anyway.
I'd have to agree with you for the most part. In most of the corporations where I have worked easily 50% of what it is done is non-productive. Most places 25-50% of the employees could disappear without anyone noticing (mostly managers).
The problem is it is often very hard for a large organization to realize what is and is not 'non-productive' work. Sure, its easy to say after the fact that when a 80-man month project gets scraped it was a huge waste. But conditions change with time and a project that made sense when started might be counterproductive by the time it is completed.
What is easy to identify as waste work is the huge amount of time people spend in meetings and sending/answering emails. I want to see a company where the CEO decrees only 10% of your time max can be spent in meetings and you are limited to 20 internal emails a day (with a 5 person CC: max). That company's productivity would explode.
Would it be possible/desirable to port this to cygwin? Then I could boot a linux kernel under NT. Not sure if this makes sense but then it seems this would give me binary compatibility with Linux executables.
I just installed PR3 and tried it with a 'thin' java client we use with our ERP package. This is a very complex little java applet which is basically a re-write of the vendor's MS Windows client server application in Java.
It ran flawlessly, and without some display artifacts that I have seen in IE - so actually it ran better than it did in IE.
This guy needs to remove his head from his sphincter.
I know people who are poorer than dirt who manage to afford a cheap (or recycled) PC and AOL access.
PC prices are continually falling, and internet appliances are available for even less. There is absolutely nothing to indicate that web access will not eventually become as ubiquitious as access to a Television.
I would like to see this guy back up his claim that web access will remain limited to the elite. It may have been in the past, but it is no longer.
Just look at the trend in the quality of slashdot postings over time:) No elite here anymore.
With enough energy you can eventually create a system where heat is the only waste product. Basically this would consist of capturing and recycling or storing or re-using all 'toxic' waste products. This would require a lot of energy, as we all know it would result in the production of a lot of waste heat, which due to certain laws of thermodynamics is unavoidable.
I am almost certain that eventually most all of our technology will be 'clean' - it will have to be. We will eventually figure out SOME way of economicaly tapping a small fraction of the energy that the sun disgorges into empty space, and have enough free energy to recycle everything ad-infinitum.
The problem then becomes waste heat. That is a more difficult problem. You have to radiate it away. And since we are on the planet's surface about the only place we have to radiate it is into the atmosphere, where most of it will be absorbed. Sure your factories recycle all of their CO2 or methane, but they now produce waste heat which heats the atmosphere anyway.
Not sure if there is a solution to this, other than perhaps 'piping' heat into space somehow, or reducing the solar input into the atmosphere with orbital 'shades'.
Actually Word would fair quite nicely on an SMP system. It is quite heavily threaded, and likes to do stuff like spelling and grammar checking in the background.
I disabled this feature on my laptop because it took about 45 minutes off my battery life when using Word. A thread that can consumed 50% of my battery in an hour most certainly can benefit from another CPU.
The method they employ actually uses window NT dlls (you must copy them from an existing SP3+ install). The tools create a 'wrapper' environment for the DLLs that tricks them into thinking they are running under NT.
Not sure, but I think this method is a bit more legally palatable.
My heart skipped a beat when I saw the star movies. I think it's awesome that we have been looking long enough and hard enough that we can start to put things like this together. It really makes these things seem 'real' in a way that static images cannot.
i know it was a joke, but CISC can't "code morph" to RISC.. crusoe=CISC PowerPC=RISC:)
Care to explain and substantiate that? Are you saying that a CISC chip cannot emulate a RISC chip? AFAIK any general purpose CPU can emulate any another, with enough memory (and of course possible severe performance hits)
Come on, AOL offers a service, Instant Messenger, which costs them money to maintain and support, for free. The ads allow them to recoup some of their costs.
How does stealing from AOL amount to someone being a 'programmer's hero'?
When is everyone going to get it through their head that most of the services on the internet eventually will not, and cannot continue to be free. You will either have to pay hard cash, or pay with your eyeballs.
The only device I will find usable will be one that has enough color depth and pixel resolution to display normal HTML pages. Heck, the palm pilot does a pretty good job with simple HTML right now.
Work on getting good displays and good bandwith into these devices, not devising dumbed down standards that make an attempt at allowing you to order books in a 50x60 pixel display.
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Very very cool stuff... I image that with different color LEDs you could also work at simulating color. Though I imagine blue LEDs are hard to come by, you could have some fun with read and green (and the sickly orange the make combined).
How is the work on blue LEDs coming?
Everyone who breaks the law is shit? I don't know where you read that in my post. Stick to responding to what I actually wrote.
As to being up to date, I am certain he was not denied access to technology periodicals and literature - and he had plenty of free time on his hands to study. I am not critizing Mitnick so much for being out of date, but the press for glomming on to him as if he were some technological oracle when he didn't really seem to 'get it' anymore (if he ever did).
-josh
...who doesn't worship at the alter of Mitnick. I saw serveral interviews with the guy right after he was released and he did not strike me as being particularly insiteful or up to date. Additionally he had the annoying habit of explaining things at the microscopic level of detail, which is why, I assume, you no longer see him on Good Morning America.
I found it particularly amusing when he was asked to comment on the Melissa virus. What was going through the TV producers head on this one - perhaps something like 'computers, illegal, Mitnick!'
As to what makes Mitnick an authority on biometric identification and identity theft, I have no idea.
Mitnick was a competent cracker in his day who was made an example of by some corporations and the US government. His 15 minutes are now up.
-josh
Seeing as how gambling is really just a tax on stupid people, the interstate restrictions make sense.
What state wants Nevada taxing their residence, they should be paying, er playing the local lottery system.
-josh
So what is someone like myself to do. If you take this article at face value my prospects are rather grim. I am 29, a 'software engineer', very skilled in my field, but when I have tried to branch out into other fields I have gotten a very cold reception.
My area of expertise will not be around forever - it pays well now and finding work is easy, but what happens to me when the next big thing comes around and I am 33?
Management here I come!
-josh
"If your business model is selling water in the desert and it starts to rain, you'd better find a different business model."
-josh
Based on my own usage it does not work (I cannot access my mailbox) at least one time a month. This isn't just a single page failed to load - everything I try fails to get me in. In the past it has been much worse. I get spurious bad page hits that a 'reload' fixes, all of the time.
This is just not up to the level of quality I would expect if I am to entrust business and personal documents to .NET. Add to that the fact that .NET is orders of magnitude more complex than a webmail service and I think Microsoft has a lot to prove.
-josh
I don't care if it runs on Windows, Linux, or the next create OO operating system. I ain't gunna use it.
.NET?
"Sorry, the server hosting your documents directory "Business Plan" is temporarily unavailable. Please try back later. We apologize for this inconvenience."
All I am saying is that if Microsoft can't provide a simple, stable web mail service, how can we expect them to reliable handle the complex architecture they have layed out in
-josh
I just priced out a laptop with 256Meg of RAM, cheaper than the one I bought last year with 128Meg. RAM is cheap and plentiful, so is disk space - those that realize this prosper (Microsoft et al.) those that don't whine about the good old days and waste time and money 'optimizing' while their competitors take a free ride on the coattails of Moore's law.
:)
The JVM in windows appears to have an overhead of about 4 meg when I run a simple program, but this may be misleading, as IE might pre-load some of this with whatever components - but still, this won't make a significant dent in the 512Meg laptop I buy next
-josh
Nope, they can code some native methods to do things like fourier transforms and floating point intensive stuff. They make these native methods part of their SDK.
They can then port their SDK to different platforms and the java plugins will work fine anywhere and execute much closer to native speed.
Plus-wich if you buy all the hype regarding JITs, java isn't taking all that much of a performance hit over native code anyway.
-josh
I'd have to agree with you for the most part. In most of the corporations where I have worked easily 50% of what it is done is non-productive. Most places 25-50% of the employees could disappear without anyone noticing (mostly managers).
The problem is it is often very hard for a large organization to realize what is and is not 'non-productive' work. Sure, its easy to say after the fact that when a 80-man month project gets scraped it was a huge waste. But conditions change with time and a project that made sense when started might be counterproductive by the time it is completed.
What is easy to identify as waste work is the huge amount of time people spend in meetings and sending/answering emails. I want to see a company where the CEO decrees only 10% of your time max can be spent in meetings and you are limited to 20 internal emails a day (with a 5 person CC: max). That company's productivity would explode.
-josh
Would it be possible/desirable to port this to cygwin? Then I could boot a linux kernel under NT. Not sure if this makes sense but then it seems this would give me binary compatibility with Linux executables.
-josh
Oh man, that's UPN where I live. There goes Moesha...
-josh
A ball of cells containing approximately 8 cells is destroyed and this is an abortion?
;)
If killing a cell that has the potential to become a human being is an abortion - I committed several million abortions just last night.
-josh
I just installed PR3 and tried it with a 'thin' java client we use with our ERP package. This is a very complex little java applet which is basically a re-write of the vendor's MS Windows client server application in Java.
It ran flawlessly, and without some display artifacts that I have seen in IE - so actually it ran better than it did in IE.
-josh
This guy needs to remove his head from his sphincter.
:) No elite here anymore.
I know people who are poorer than dirt who manage to afford a cheap (or recycled) PC and AOL access.
PC prices are continually falling, and internet appliances are available for even less. There is absolutely nothing to indicate that web access will not eventually become as ubiquitious as access to a Television.
I would like to see this guy back up his claim that web access will remain limited to the elite. It may have been in the past, but it is no longer.
Just look at the trend in the quality of slashdot postings over time
-josh
With enough energy you can eventually create a system where heat is the only waste product. Basically this would consist of capturing and recycling or storing or re-using all 'toxic' waste products. This would require a lot of energy, as we all know it would result in the production of a lot of waste heat, which due to certain laws of thermodynamics is unavoidable.
I am almost certain that eventually most all of our technology will be 'clean' - it will have to be. We will eventually figure out SOME way of economicaly tapping a small fraction of the energy that the sun disgorges into empty space, and have enough free energy to recycle everything ad-infinitum.
The problem then becomes waste heat. That is a more difficult problem. You have to radiate it away. And since we are on the planet's surface about the only place we have to radiate it is into the atmosphere, where most of it will be absorbed. Sure your factories recycle all of their CO2 or methane, but they now produce waste heat which heats the atmosphere anyway.
Not sure if there is a solution to this, other than perhaps 'piping' heat into space somehow, or reducing the solar input into the atmosphere with orbital 'shades'.
-josh
Actually Word would fair quite nicely on an SMP system. It is quite heavily threaded, and likes to do stuff like spelling and grammar checking in the background.
I disabled this feature on my laptop because it took about 45 minutes off my battery life when using Word. A thread that can consumed 50% of my battery in an hour most certainly can benefit from another CPU.
-josh
With the ability to custom create molecules, perhaps we could created a petrified Natalie Portman on the microscopic scale.
-josh
Seems this process might be able to make a couple thousand synthetic molecules, but how useful will it be at creating bulk quantities?
I wonder if these methods could be scaled up and automated?
-josh
The method they employ actually uses window NT dlls (you must copy them from an existing SP3+ install). The tools create a 'wrapper' environment for the DLLs that tricks them into thinking they are running under NT.
Not sure, but I think this method is a bit more legally palatable.
-josh
My heart skipped a beat when I saw the star movies. I think it's awesome that we have been looking long enough and hard enough that we can start to put things like this together. It really makes these things seem 'real' in a way that static images cannot.
-josh
Care to explain and substantiate that? Are you saying that a CISC chip cannot emulate a RISC chip? AFAIK any general purpose CPU can emulate any another, with enough memory (and of course possible severe performance hits)
-josh
Come on, AOL offers a service, Instant Messenger, which costs them money to maintain and support, for free. The ads allow them to recoup some of their costs.
How does stealing from AOL amount to someone being a 'programmer's hero'?
When is everyone going to get it through their head that most of the services on the internet eventually will not, and cannot continue to be free. You will either have to pay hard cash, or pay with your eyeballs.
-josh
The only device I will find usable will be one that has enough color depth and pixel resolution to display normal HTML pages. Heck, the palm pilot does a pretty good job with simple HTML right now.
Work on getting good displays and good bandwith into these devices, not devising dumbed down standards that make an attempt at allowing you to order books in a 50x60 pixel display.
-josh