I think you either overestimate the gravity of a chat with the president. You may have him confused with a king. We don't have one of those in the US, and a healthy disrespect for elected officials, particularly those unworthy of respect, is one of the things that keeps it that way.
Personally, I think it's an after-the-fact rationalization anyway. I can easily see someone coming back onto the server after it crashes, seeing no President_Clinton, followed by:
/nick President_Clinton
just to see what would happen. I would guess that he was so blown away by the fact that it worked that he couldn't think of anything funnier than porn jokes.
Yes, I can filter him out, and no, I don't want to. The comments on his articles are usually a good read. Barring, of course, the 200 comment religious flamewar on his last -real- article. (Re: God hates fags, or does he?)
I think you're right about it being possible in software, but I personally am more interested in having it happen with the latest and greatest in 3d hardware.
conspicuosity all depends on what you're looking for, and I don't think it's at all clear that this is going to be a closed solution.
Pessimism is bad for your lifespan; besides, if the OSS community can come up with something faster, great. If not, also great. I'll take a closed fast 3d subsystem over an slower open one.
A friend of mine has one of these things, and it's really really neat. It exhibits some weird behavior occasionally, but that may be more the fault of an outdated cable box. The UI is great, and the preferences thing is really the killer app. Watching tv with it is like channel surfing in some world where tv only shows things you like....
Even if you're under deadline pressure or otherwise typing in a frenzy, you should always keep your shoulders, arms, and hands relaxed when typing. It doesn't take a great deal of force or movement to type quickly, so don't overexert.
These injuries are not inevitable, even if you sit and type for long periods of time. In college, I majored in piano, and they repeatedly told us that RSI is preventable as long as you make sure you don't tense up when playing. The same applies to typing, or any fine motor activity.
"further out into the ultrasonic range" being the point that I don't understand. Current technology already exceeds our capacity to hear. If you're sampling in 16bit/44.1kHz, sampling errors are already ultrasonic to all but the most sensitive human ears. If you can hear the sampling errors, go to a rock concert and stand near the speakers. The aliasing will never bother you again.
Of course, if the content being sampled has a lot of REALLY high ultrasonics, then some of that may creep back into the extreme low end via aliasing, but it'd have to be very high in both frequency and amplitude.
If you want to spend a lot of money, spend it on equipment and cables with great conductivity and shielding, and speakers with a wide flat response.
Personally, I would like DVD audio to be the same quality as CD, and use that extra space for more music.
Yes, but it is precisely this licensing model that is the problem, and it is Microsoft that had this stroke of evil genius. If I buy product X, which is essentially identical to product X+, but crippled to sell it cheaper, I feel ripped off.
Consider DivX. The movie was there on the disc, but you couldn't watch it unless you agreed to the merchant's terms. After all, when you buy a movie on DVD, are you paying for the bits, or are you paying for a license? There are certain implied restrictions on how you can use those bits, but those fall under IP law, not under the terms of the license agreement. No one thinks that movies should be controlled by this kinds of license, so DivX died. This happened not only because the terms were lousy, but because it got a lot of bad press as a result. I wonder what would have happened if there had been a similar stink about the difference between NT Server and NT workstation. The idea that MS can set its license requirements to whatever it likes is specious. THE central theme of the trial is the underhanded way in which MS used its power as the dominant OS maker to position its applications. Why did they use such sneaky techniques? If you put "You cannot install any non-MS browser on this operating system" in the license, that would have made the DoJ's case MUCH easier. Such a license would be an obvious antitrust violation. But, this is essentially what they did, making it economically unfeasible from a business perspective to install a non-MS webserver on NT. It's a classic example of predatory behavior on the part of a monopoly.
I don't hate Christians, and I don't think they're all the same.
BUT
A very vocal contingent has undue influence in this country, opposing science, reason, and personal freedoms at every turn. These people are trying with their righteous fury to take us back to the Dark Ages.
This game is at least ostensibly designed to train this point of view into young people.
from the eternal warfare site: "Each of THE WAR IN HEAVEN's twelve levels incorporates a distinct Biblical lesson relating to the consequences of following the Divine path of Obedience or the Fallen path of Knowledge. "
In early '97, i was out of work and running out of money fast. I visited a number of job sites and found nothing useful. Frustrated, I went to dfw.jobs (I didn't want to relocate). The.jobs groups have zillions of postings, and i lacked either qualifications or interest for most of them. Still, after a couple of weeks of so much volume, I found a posting that: a) I was qualified for b) looked interesting c) was being offered directly rather than through a recruiter.
It was a ton of tedious wading, but well worth it in the end.
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The computer industry isn't mainstream? The sales figures at places like Compaq and Dell would tend to disagree. Computers are ubiquitous, and they are, by and large, ugly. If I want my computer to run like some far-out futuristic technology, I would love it if it looks like some far-out futuristic technology.
Function and form are _not_ mutually exclusive goals.
While I don't know the details, if the FBI is going after people that they have reason to believe violated government computers, that's the breaks. You mess with The Man, he'll mess right back.
But, assuming that they ARE angry with good reason, retaliation, particularly non-violent retaliation, is a completely acceptable answer. That's one reason we have the 2nd Amendment in the US, and it's also the reason that we have a US instead of a bunch of British colonists paying outrageous taxes on their tea.
these are just a couple of random thoughts I picked up from this item.
I think it's interesting that an OS is being given a prize as computer art. What is it about linux that they considered to be art? The source? the kernel? the means of development? The whole GNU/linux shebang?
I believe really good art should be appreciable by all. If source code is art, how does the uninitiated appreciate it?
There are many parallels between programming and fine arts work; notably, the exhausting creative effort and the feeling of pride and accomplishment that the finished product can bring.
I could ramble on, but I think I'll just wait to see who gets the first Pulitzer for elegant coding:)
That's undeniably true; however, that doesn't make the situation here ok.
Just because someone somewhere has it worse doesn't mean that we shouldn't strive to improve things here. In fact, comparing the experiences of outcast high school kids to famine victims or refugees should scream "This is not a war! This is not a drought! This is _not_ an intractable problem!"
This problem is so widespread, causes so much lingering pain, and could easily be fixed with just a teeny bit of human decency.
My copy of this book is falling apart from thumbing through it again and again, often to show a friend a particularly interesting passage or idea. Now I have an excuse to get a new copy.
I went to SMU, and (overbroad generalization coming up) most of the students there have the financial resources to get fantastic lawyers (it wasn't unheard of for daddy to build some knob a $500K+ house so he wouldn't have to live in the dorms but could still stay close to campus).
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I think you either overestimate the gravity of a chat with the president. You may have him confused with a king. We don't have one of those in the US, and a healthy disrespect for elected officials, particularly those unworthy of respect, is one of the things that keeps it that way.
Personally, I think it's an after-the-fact rationalization anyway. I can easily see someone coming back onto the server after it crashes, seeing no President_Clinton, followed by:
/nick President_Clinton
just to see what would happen. I would guess that he was so blown away by the fact that it worked that he couldn't think of anything funnier than porn jokes.
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Daily News
Solaris and Linux Vulnerable To Hack
By Sherman Fridman, Newsbytes.
February 11, 2000
Due to flagrant inaccuracies this article has been pulled and is being re-written.
Occasionally one of these slips through the editorial process. Computer Currents regrets the error.
February 11,2000 11:17:00 AM PST
this may be redundant, but
Yes, I can filter him out, and no, I don't want to. The comments on his articles are usually a good read.
Barring, of course, the 200 comment religious flamewar on his last -real- article. (Re: God hates fags, or does he?)
I thought I was the only one that felt that way.
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I think you're right about it being possible in software, but I personally am more interested in having it happen with the latest and greatest in 3d hardware.
conspicuosity all depends on what you're looking for, and I don't think it's at all clear that this is going to be a closed solution.
Pessimism is bad for your lifespan; besides, if the OSS community can come up with something faster, great. If not, also great. I'll take a closed fast 3d subsystem over an slower open one.
A friend of mine has one of these things, and it's really really neat. It exhibits some weird behavior occasionally, but that may be more the fault of an outdated cable box. The UI is great, and the preferences thing is really the killer app. Watching tv with it is like channel surfing in some world where tv only shows things you like....
>sometime in the future, it might be a grad student exercise to synthesize an organism based on stereoisomers of amino acids.
It might even be a grad student exercise to synthesize a grad student based on stereoisomers of amino acids...
Even if you're under deadline pressure or otherwise typing in a frenzy, you should always keep your shoulders, arms, and hands relaxed when typing. It doesn't take a great deal of force or movement to type quickly, so don't overexert.
These injuries are not inevitable, even if you sit and type for long periods of time. In college, I majored in piano, and they repeatedly told us that RSI is preventable as long as you make sure you don't tense up when playing. The same applies to typing, or any fine motor activity.
"further out into the ultrasonic range" being the point that I don't understand. Current technology already exceeds our capacity to hear. If you're sampling in 16bit/44.1kHz, sampling errors are already ultrasonic to all but the most sensitive human ears. If you can hear the sampling errors, go to a rock concert and stand near the speakers. The aliasing will never bother you again.
Of course, if the content being sampled has a lot of REALLY high ultrasonics, then some of that may creep back into the extreme low end via aliasing, but it'd have to be very high in both frequency and amplitude.
If you want to spend a lot of money, spend it on equipment and cables with great conductivity and shielding, and speakers with a wide flat response.
Personally, I would like DVD audio to be the same quality as CD, and use that extra space for more music.
Yes, but it is precisely this licensing model that is the problem, and it is Microsoft that had this stroke of evil genius. If I buy product X, which is essentially identical to product X+, but crippled to sell it cheaper, I feel ripped off.
Consider DivX. The movie was there on the disc, but you couldn't watch it unless you agreed to the merchant's terms. After all, when you buy a movie on DVD, are you paying for the bits, or are you paying for a license? There are certain implied restrictions on how you can use those bits, but those fall under IP law, not under the terms of the license agreement. No one thinks that movies should be controlled by this kinds of license, so DivX died. This happened not only because the terms were lousy, but because it got a lot of bad press as a result. I wonder what would have happened if there had been a similar stink about the difference between NT Server and NT workstation.
The idea that MS can set its license requirements to whatever it likes is specious. THE central theme of the trial is the underhanded way in which MS used its power as the dominant OS maker to position its applications. Why did they use such sneaky techniques? If you put "You cannot install any non-MS browser on this operating system" in the license, that would have made the DoJ's case MUCH easier. Such a license would be an obvious antitrust violation. But, this is essentially what they did, making it economically unfeasible from a business perspective to install a non-MS webserver on NT. It's a classic example of predatory behavior on the part of a monopoly.
I don't hate Christians, and I don't think they're all the same.
BUT
A very vocal contingent has undue influence in this country, opposing science, reason, and personal freedoms at every turn. These people are trying with their righteous fury to take us back to the Dark Ages.
This game is at least ostensibly designed to train this point of view into young people.
from the eternal warfare site:
"Each of THE WAR IN HEAVEN's twelve levels incorporates a distinct Biblical lesson relating to the consequences of following the Divine path of Obedience or the Fallen path of Knowledge. "
I think I'll take the low road, thanks.
that I would have expected to see here: WARNING: Use of this product will contribute to the heat death of the universe.
Oh, and I have to give that disclaimer a big WOW.
In early '97, i was out of work and running out of money fast. I visited a number of job sites and found nothing useful. Frustrated, I went to dfw.jobs (I didn't want to relocate). The .jobs groups have zillions of postings, and i lacked either qualifications or interest for most of them. Still, after a couple of weeks of so much volume, I found a posting that:
a) I was qualified for
b) looked interesting
c) was being offered directly rather than through a recruiter.
It was a ton of tedious wading, but well worth it in the end.
The computer industry isn't mainstream? The sales figures at places like Compaq and Dell would tend to disagree. Computers are ubiquitous, and they are, by and large, ugly. If I want my computer to run like some far-out futuristic technology, I would love it if it looks like some far-out futuristic technology.
Function and form are _not_ mutually exclusive goals.
I disagree.
I don't think they are angry with good reason.
While I don't know the details, if the FBI is going after people that they have reason to believe violated government computers, that's the breaks. You mess with The Man, he'll mess right back.
But, assuming that they ARE angry with good reason, retaliation, particularly non-violent retaliation, is a completely acceptable answer. That's one reason we have the 2nd Amendment in the US, and it's also the reason that we have a US instead of a bunch of British colonists paying outrageous taxes on their tea.
these are just a couple of random thoughts I picked up from this item.
:)
I think it's interesting that an OS is being given a prize as computer art. What is it about linux that they considered to be art? The source?
the kernel? the means of development? The whole GNU/linux shebang?
I believe really good art should be appreciable by all. If source code is art, how does the uninitiated appreciate it?
There are many parallels between programming and fine arts work; notably, the exhausting creative effort and the feeling of pride and accomplishment that the finished product can bring.
I could ramble on, but I think I'll just wait to see who gets the first Pulitzer for elegant coding
That's undeniably true; however, that doesn't make the situation here ok.
Just because someone somewhere has it worse doesn't mean that we shouldn't strive to improve things here. In fact, comparing the experiences of outcast high school kids to famine victims or refugees should scream "This is not a war! This is not a drought! This is _not_ an intractable problem!"
This problem is so widespread, causes so much lingering pain, and could easily be fixed with just a teeny bit of human decency.
My copy of this book is falling apart from thumbing through it again and again, often to show a friend a particularly interesting passage or idea. Now I have an excuse to get a new copy.
I went to SMU, and (overbroad generalization coming up) most of the students there have the financial resources to get fantastic lawyers (it wasn't unheard of for daddy to build some knob a $500K+ house so he wouldn't have to live in the dorms but could still stay close to campus).
Still, I hope they get laughed out of court.
nah, Inferno is an allegory the OSI layers. Literary circles debate endlessly about the two extra levels, though...
No, you're living in the future :)