The problem is, without any resources they can't practice and improve their aim...
You need to give them enough money so they get it right first time. If the US Government wasn't taking their budget away they would probably have already put a probe on the Mars.
And then the trolls will just create false accounts and troll from them...
What the site needs is a full time team of moderators that scan the comments of every 'live' article and remove definite trolls.
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Sure reverse engineering isnt the fairest way of doing things, but if you create a product which is better than anything else out there your sales should reflect this. Or the product may not have to be the best, just have good marketing, ie M$.
Has someone managed to reverse engineer the.doc format properly yet? Last I heard they are still trying, it aint a good format but it could have been intentionally been made that way deliberately making it hard to reverse engineer.
Reverse engineering aint fair but you can do your best to prevent it.
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In relation to opening up a car engine and building a 'free' copy, it has been done for years. Whenever an auto manufacturer comes out with a new car, the other competing companies buy said car and pull it apart to see what makes it tick.
When Honda/Acura brought VTEC engines to the mass market they didnt put a clause in the sales agreement saying that only Honda/Acura registered repairers are allowed to pull the engine apart. Other manufacturers bought VTEC Civics, pulled the engine apart and found out how the VTEC system worked, of course they couldnt build an exact copy, patents etc, but they put Honda's ideas together with theirs to come up with a systenm that did the same job, just through a slightly different method.
I dont see how this is much different to reverse engineering a computer program. A difference is that a program can be encrypted (imagine an encrypted engine), and when this encryption is broken people scream murder.
If someone breaks the RSA encryption, I would hope that RSA doesnt sue them (do they?), RSA go back to their computers and try and make a better encryption system.
The Challenger disaster was a result of a management decision to save some money by removing the secondary o-ring on a seal. Although the primary o-ring had never failed before the engineers insisted that the secondary should stay.
A stupid decision was made by most likely a non-engineering type person, it killed 7 people and set the space program back by 5-10 years at least.
Most stupid decisions these days are all made to save money. Give NASA more money I say
Skylab came down not too far from where I live and my dad has a piece of oxygen tank encased in perspex as a paperweight. Pretty cool souveneir I think. I was too young at the time to remember it.
If Skylab had of stayed up as long as Mir has, I wonder how much further ahead the space program would be...
I have a Celeron 500 with a TNT2 and can get 80+ fps @ 640x480. What resolution are you running at? It must be something large for that amount of framerate difference. People ask me why dont I run 1024x768, I would rather have framerate over resolution.
For one, isn't most white-collar crime against a company or business. How does that affect individual people?
Over the past few years I have noticed that people who steal money from a company seem to get harsher gaol terms than a lowlife who has raped a few women. Is that fair? I don't think so.
If I stole $500,000 from a bank without the use of weapons (introduces other factors, ie. intention to harm), do I deserve to get a longer gaol term than if I murdered someone?
A crime against society is a crime against the people, white-collar crime does not seem to fit.
This is the problem of being a open source OS being developed by many people. The Certified for Windows system works because there is very few versions of Windows that it has to work on, and therefore is easy to test.
With linux every machine can and probably is different, with such variety it makes it hard to test for.
Only if linux was to go into closed source and being developed by one group would certification become much easier.
Also, dont the hardware/software manufacturers have to pay a fee to get MS and Novell certification?
I was the 'flappant' one who posted this story in the first place, so direct some of your weak flame over here.
How can you say that genetic engineering has no good reason? If this research allows people with growth disorders to be 'normal' then I am all for it. Also, if genetically modified plants can help stop hunger in the world, I am all for it.
How can you sit there proclaiming christian decency, when the focus of your religion, God (if he/she/it exists, which I dont believe for a second), does nothing to help millions of starving people around the world when they have done nothing wrong.
About your ethics comittee you want set up, what happens if a scientist performs something that the ethics comittee does not allow and a cure for Parkinson's disease was found (first disease that came to mind). If the cure is available but the ethics comittee said it shouldnt be done, what do you do? I know I'd take the cure over a bunch of people talking lots of hot air.
But look at all of the spinoffs that came from NASA's efforts, like teflon and stronger ceramics and plastics, etc...
I thought teflon was developed by nuclear chemistry guys. It was used to coat the inside of containers housing uranium gas I believe, which is very corrosive.
...for Pakistan to announce a moon program of their own...
Then they will fight over the rights to the moon, then the US will nuke em (cos the US got their first), thus reducing the Earth's population by a sixth.:)
When I hear "Pentium" I don't associate it with anything; it could be a very obsolete p1 166 or a plenty fast P3-800. On the other hand, when I hear 'Athlon', I do associate that with at least a fairly fast computer.
A couple of years down the track and you will be the same way about the Athlon as you are with the Pentium.
All product names get old and stale... Just look at Cadillac, if you say you bought a Cadillac I would think you bought a car that handles and looks like shit from years ago... then again it could be the new ones too...
Both of my machines are Win98SE, I can't run Linux as I am a VB developer...
The Celery 500 is my main machine, the P133 is used for testing. I am considering fiddling with the clock on the Celery but dunno if it is worth it, not for VB but for games...
What used to take 66+ hours on the K6-2 350 is now taking only 18 or so hours.. Pretty good huh ?
Fast? hehe, thats funny... Which machine takes 18 hours to do a Seti unit? I hope it aint the 700 or 900, cos my Celery 500 does a seti unit in just over 11 hours...
Sorry to crash your little world...
Even my P133 with 48 meg o RAM can do a work unit in 38 hours...
Offtopic : Shouldnt that be a new Slashdot poll? How quick can your machine do a Seti unit?
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The problem is, without any resources they can't practice and improve their aim...
You need to give them enough money so they get it right first time. If the US Government wasn't taking their budget away they would probably have already put a probe on the Mars.
I always go by the rule: Don't touch anything MS with an even numbered service pack...
It seems all the odd packs improve the product, the even ones add shit you don't need and don't fix any bugs.
PHB's do exist, if only in spirit. I used to have three when i worked at *beeeep*.
Spam that can lock your computer...
Or spit more ads at you...
And then the trolls will just create false accounts and troll from them...
What the site needs is a full time team of moderators that scan the comments of every 'live' article and remove definite trolls.
Sure reverse engineering isnt the fairest way of doing things, but if you create a product which is better than anything else out there your sales should reflect this. Or the product may not have to be the best, just have good marketing, ie M$.
.doc format properly yet? Last I heard they are still trying, it aint a good format but it could have been intentionally been made that way deliberately making it hard to reverse engineer.
Has someone managed to reverse engineer the
Reverse engineering aint fair but you can do your best to prevent it.
In relation to opening up a car engine and building a 'free' copy, it has been done for years. Whenever an auto manufacturer comes out with a new car, the other competing companies buy said car and pull it apart to see what makes it tick.
When Honda/Acura brought VTEC engines to the mass market they didnt put a clause in the sales agreement saying that only Honda/Acura registered repairers are allowed to pull the engine apart. Other manufacturers bought VTEC Civics, pulled the engine apart and found out how the VTEC system worked, of course they couldnt build an exact copy, patents etc, but they put Honda's ideas together with theirs to come up with a systenm that did the same job, just through a slightly different method.
I dont see how this is much different to reverse engineering a computer program. A difference is that a program can be encrypted (imagine an encrypted engine), and when this encryption is broken people scream murder.
If someone breaks the RSA encryption, I would hope that RSA doesnt sue them (do they?), RSA go back to their computers and try and make a better encryption system.
The way gnutella is structured it can theoretically handle more people than Napster can anyway.
But it hasn't got one thing that would make it so much better... You need to be able to restart your downloads from where you left off.
If they implement that, I will actually use Napster.
Ok, I'll bite...
The Challenger disaster was a result of a management decision to save some money by removing the secondary o-ring on a seal. Although the primary o-ring had never failed before the engineers insisted that the secondary should stay.
A stupid decision was made by most likely a non-engineering type person, it killed 7 people and set the space program back by 5-10 years at least.
Most stupid decisions these days are all made to save money. Give NASA more money I say
A bit off-topic here...
Skylab came down not too far from where I live and my dad has a piece of oxygen tank encased in perspex as a paperweight. Pretty cool souveneir I think. I was too young at the time to remember it.
If Skylab had of stayed up as long as Mir has, I wonder how much further ahead the space program would be...
They get ahead by lying to those people, cheating those people, stealing from those people.
Isn't this how politics and the corporate world works?
What is the point of finding a Optimal Golomb Ruler?
To me, a ruler with no evenly spaced marks would be a pain in the arse to use...
I cant believe this guy hasn't been modded as a troll...
Most people have slow computers
Aren't generalisations wonderful?
I have a Celeron 500 with a TNT2 and can get 80+ fps @ 640x480. What resolution are you running at? It must be something large for that amount of framerate difference. People ask me why dont I run 1024x768, I would rather have framerate over resolution.
BTW I aint rich either...
I disagree...
For one, isn't most white-collar crime against a company or business. How does that affect individual people?
Over the past few years I have noticed that people who steal money from a company seem to get harsher gaol terms than a lowlife who has raped a few women. Is that fair? I don't think so.
If I stole $500,000 from a bank without the use of weapons (introduces other factors, ie. intention to harm), do I deserve to get a longer gaol term than if I murdered someone?
A crime against society is a crime against the people, white-collar crime does not seem to fit.
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litres of Jolt is very easily consumed with 1 bottle of bourbon. You get super drunk and can stay awake forever.
I dont believe this is false advertising as the product may function under a certain distribution of Linux. They would get off on a technicality.
Redhat / Slackware / etc are all Linux, but I bet it would be hard to find a network card that works under all these distros without tweaking.
This is the problem of being a open source OS being developed by many people. The Certified for Windows system works because there is very few versions of Windows that it has to work on, and therefore is easy to test.
With linux every machine can and probably is different, with such variety it makes it hard to test for.
Only if linux was to go into closed source and being developed by one group would certification become much easier.
Also, dont the hardware/software manufacturers have to pay a fee to get MS and Novell certification?
Jon,
I was the 'flappant' one who posted this story in the first place, so direct some of your weak flame over here.
How can you say that genetic engineering has no good reason? If this research allows people with growth disorders to be 'normal' then I am all for it. Also, if genetically modified plants can help stop hunger in the world, I am all for it.
How can you sit there proclaiming christian decency, when the focus of your religion, God (if he/she/it exists, which I dont believe for a second), does nothing to help millions of starving people around the world when they have done nothing wrong.
About your ethics comittee you want set up, what happens if a scientist performs something that the ethics comittee does not allow and a cure for Parkinson's disease was found (first disease that came to mind). If the cure is available but the ethics comittee said it shouldnt be done, what do you do? I know I'd take the cure over a bunch of people talking lots of hot air.
But look at all of the spinoffs that came from NASA's efforts, like teflon and stronger ceramics and plastics, etc...
I thought teflon was developed by nuclear chemistry guys. It was used to coat the inside of containers housing uranium gas I believe, which is very corrosive.
...for Pakistan to announce a moon program of their own...
:)
Then they will fight over the rights to the moon, then the US will nuke em (cos the US got their first), thus reducing the Earth's population by a sixth.
Hey, you've got my Mojo/Force...
When I hear "Pentium" I don't associate it with anything; it could be a very obsolete p1 166 or a plenty fast P3-800. On the other hand, when I hear 'Athlon', I do associate that with at least a fairly fast computer.
A couple of years down the track and you will be the same way about the Athlon as you are with the Pentium.
All product names get old and stale... Just look at Cadillac, if you say you bought a Cadillac I would think you bought a car that handles and looks like shit from years ago... then again it could be the new ones too...
Both of my machines are Win98SE, I can't run Linux as I am a VB developer...
The Celery 500 is my main machine, the P133 is used for testing. I am considering fiddling with the clock on the Celery but dunno if it is worth it, not for VB but for games...
What used to take 66+ hours on the K6-2 350 is now taking only 18 or so hours.. Pretty good huh ?
Fast? hehe, thats funny... Which machine takes 18 hours to do a Seti unit? I hope it aint the 700 or 900, cos my Celery 500 does a seti unit in just over 11 hours...
Sorry to crash your little world...
Even my P133 with 48 meg o RAM can do a work unit in 38 hours...
Offtopic : Shouldnt that be a new Slashdot poll? How quick can your machine do a Seti unit?