this works on Windows, too. Well, not chmod and all that, but I recently jar'd up a small, headless java app that I was able to put on the desktop and double click it to run it.
the entire point of java is to take the platform out of the equation. If somebody develops an app that works on one platform and not on another (not due to e.g. some hardcoded platform-specific filename, etc.), then he has just done Sun a favor by pointing out a bug in Java for one platform or the other. I don't know much about JavaME, but the above holds true for personal computers
package managers are great in most cases, as long as you don't care about configuration. But, for example, try installing Tomcat 6 on Ubuntu with the package manager and see if you can even find the actual location of the config files. By contrast, downloading the.tar.gz and extracting the files yourself is quick, easy, and straightforward
so.... take sourceforge, subtract anything that isn't java-based, add barriers to entry (must pass some arbitrary tests for "safety and content"), add charging to distribute, and what do you get?
I believe GP was using exaggeration to prove a point, since I don't think the current administration (or any administration, ever) has tried to tell people what they could or could not eat. Also, "worried about" is very different than "telling anyone" what they can do. If you look at the attitudes and policies of the previous administration, I think you can see a clear tendency indication that they were very "worried" about who people sleep with. sigh... there goes my karma
He didn't say "how to make your code safe." He said "how to make your code comply with the safety standards." Rarely are the two the same. It's perfectly possible to safely use memcpy(), just like it's perfectly possible to abuse about a billion other system calls.
It never cease to amaze me how hard it is to be an ordinary citizen in the US... in Denmark we don't have the Miranda statue... there is a thing called illegal evidence - but you will still be charged
seems like any place you there are pros and cons, but in the US, those laws are in place to protect the rights of the citizens, even ones who may be breaking the law.
Sure as hell hope I'm never pulled over if I visit the US.
I sure as hell hope I'm never illegally searched in Denmark
The trick is to create a material in which the permittivity and permeability are complementary to the values in a nearby region of space containing the mouse we want to hide. "Complementary" means that the material cancels out the effect that the mouse has on a plane lightwave passing through. So a plane wave would be bent by the mouse but then bent back into a plane as it passes through the complementary material, making the mouse disappear.
The second step is to then distort this plane wave in the way that an elephant would. This means creating transformational material that distorts a plane lightwave in the same way as an elephant. So anybody looking at this mouse would instead see an elephant.
so really, instead of making the mouse look like an elephant, it's making the mouse look like nothing, then the nothing look like a elephant, leading me to think that you would see an elephant regardless of the presence of the mouse. This is a high-tech version of a clear sheet with an elephant drawn on it
Optimist. They want Blu-Ray and all physical media to become obsolete, so they can implement a strong DRM regime where you have to pay for the movie every 10 times you view it, or every 6 months just to keep it around (or both).
Optimist.... where you have to pay for the movie EVERY time you see it. And, as icing, your device tells them who watched it so they can send them marketing to get them to watch more things you have to pay for.
Optimist... they want you to have to pay and get ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in return
the people who do that at my work get handed a cardboard box for their things. It doesn't matter WHO they are or HOW good they are at their job (unfortunately)
DNS is the process by which a computer says to the internet "Hey, I want to go to [insert URL here], where should I look?" ICANN controls the most fundamental list of name-to-IP address mappings. Any DNS server (or any computer, for that matter) is capable of redefining all or part of this list, but most choose to mirror the ICANN data. In the free-for-all scenario, each computer (or network, subnet, etc, depending on the granularity) would define what, for instance, "www.google.com" really is. If you want to have a bit of fun, open up your host file (/etc/hosts/ on Linux/Unix, C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on WinXP (open it with notepad)) and add to the bottom the line
74.125.155.99 www.wall0159.com
then point your browser to www.wall0159.com and see what happens!
I consider myself a hardcore gamer, and I disagree with both of your points.
1) The first thing an avid player will do upon booting up a game is go into the options menu...
I try to keep an open mind when it comes to configurations and setup. Therefore, I'll try a game as-is before tweaking the settings to match my style. This probably comes from playing in the days when many of the settings were not configurable (or very limitedly so), and being forced to accept the "standard" configuration. If I find, after some play, that there's a setting that I can't deal with (non-inverted y-axis, for instance), I'll change it then.
2) The avid player plays on the harder difficulty settings...
This may be true eventually, but I personally don't jump into the hardest setting right off the bat. There are a couple reasons for this: 1. each game (hopefully) requires a unique set of skills to master, so being an expert at Halo 3 won't mean squat for Gears of War (beyond a very basic level). 2. I like to play games as thoroughly as possible, but only if I really enjoy the game, so I tear through the game on one of the 'mid-range' settings to see if the game play and story suit me, then I buckle down and really explore the game on a harder setting.
I guess what my point really boils down to is this: You can't just pick a couple of behaviors and decide that that's what you're going to base your definition of "hardcore gamer" off of
I was dealing with an infected system, so I read as much about conficker as I could. Between the multiple infection vectors and the p2p network it sets up to update itself from the cloud and the ridiculous amount of effort required (in some cases) to remove it and patch the system without reinfection, I couldn't help but think of skynet
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that might be difficult, considering a common rule is that you may not have any metal or hard objects (hard plastic knee braces, etc)
this works on Windows, too. Well, not chmod and all that, but I recently jar'd up a small, headless java app that I was able to put on the desktop and double click it to run it.
the entire point of java is to take the platform out of the equation. If somebody develops an app that works on one platform and not on another (not due to e.g. some hardcoded platform-specific filename, etc.), then he has just done Sun a favor by pointing out a bug in Java for one platform or the other. I don't know much about JavaME, but the above holds true for personal computers
package managers are great in most cases, as long as you don't care about configuration. But, for example, try installing Tomcat 6 on Ubuntu with the package manager and see if you can even find the actual location of the config files. By contrast, downloading the .tar.gz and extracting the files yourself is quick, easy, and straightforward
so.... take sourceforge, subtract anything that isn't java-based, add barriers to entry (must pass some arbitrary tests for "safety and content"), add charging to distribute, and what do you get?
TFA says that it exploits flaws in adobe reader and acrobat, so no
I believe GP was using exaggeration to prove a point, since I don't think the current administration (or any administration, ever) has tried to tell people what they could or could not eat. Also, "worried about" is very different than "telling anyone" what they can do. If you look at the attitudes and policies of the previous administration, I think you can see a clear tendency indication that they were very "worried" about who people sleep with. sigh... there goes my karma
not really. Once the government can reach its greasy, chubby fingers into your personal life, it's a slippery slope to 1984
He didn't say "how to make your code safe." He said "how to make your code comply with the safety standards." Rarely are the two the same. It's perfectly possible to safely use memcpy(), just like it's perfectly possible to abuse about a billion other system calls.
have you ever seen a black hole?
Remember kids if it isn't backed up to a read only copy then it isn't backed up.
there, fixed that for you
any place you look* ... it's early
It never cease to amaze me how hard it is to be an ordinary citizen in the US... in Denmark we don't have the Miranda statue ... there is a thing called illegal evidence - but you will still be charged
seems like any place you there are pros and cons, but in the US, those laws are in place to protect the rights of the citizens, even ones who may be breaking the law.
Sure as hell hope I'm never pulled over if I visit the US.
I sure as hell hope I'm never illegally searched in Denmark
The trick is to create a material in which the permittivity and permeability are complementary to the values in a nearby region of space containing the mouse we want to hide. "Complementary" means that the material cancels out the effect that the mouse has on a plane lightwave passing through. So a plane wave would be bent by the mouse but then bent back into a plane as it passes through the complementary material, making the mouse disappear.
The second step is to then distort this plane wave in the way that an elephant would. This means creating transformational material that distorts a plane lightwave in the same way as an elephant. So anybody looking at this mouse would instead see an elephant.
so really, instead of making the mouse look like an elephant, it's making the mouse look like nothing, then the nothing look like a elephant, leading me to think that you would see an elephant regardless of the presence of the mouse. This is a high-tech version of a clear sheet with an elephant drawn on it
...prior art?
Optimist. ... where you have to pay for the movie EVERY time you see it. And, as icing, your device tells them who watched it so they can send them marketing to get them to watch more things you have to pay for.
Optimist... they want you to have to pay and get ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in return
Cassette tape is so insanely inferior to vinyl that I won't even dignify your comparison by responding.
Oh, well that's good to hear... hey wait a minute!
the people who do that at my work get handed a cardboard box for their things. It doesn't matter WHO they are or HOW good they are at their job (unfortunately)
nope, I'm good
74.125.155.99 www.wall0159.com
then point your browser to www.wall0159.com and see what happens!
it costs them nothing to email your address as-is AND without 'spam' AND in a thousand other variations of the original
1) The first thing an avid player will do upon booting up a game is go into the options menu...
I try to keep an open mind when it comes to configurations and setup. Therefore, I'll try a game as-is before tweaking the settings to match my style. This probably comes from playing in the days when many of the settings were not configurable (or very limitedly so), and being forced to accept the "standard" configuration. If I find, after some play, that there's a setting that I can't deal with (non-inverted y-axis, for instance), I'll change it then.
2) The avid player plays on the harder difficulty settings...
This may be true eventually, but I personally don't jump into the hardest setting right off the bat. There are a couple reasons for this: 1. each game (hopefully) requires a unique set of skills to master, so being an expert at Halo 3 won't mean squat for Gears of War (beyond a very basic level). 2. I like to play games as thoroughly as possible, but only if I really enjoy the game, so I tear through the game on one of the 'mid-range' settings to see if the game play and story suit me, then I buckle down and really explore the game on a harder setting.
I guess what my point really boils down to is this: You can't just pick a couple of behaviors and decide that that's what you're going to base your definition of "hardcore gamer" off of
a 0.5l pint.
which is it?
whoosh
I was dealing with an infected system, so I read as much about conficker as I could. Between the multiple infection vectors and the p2p network it sets up to update itself from the cloud and the ridiculous amount of effort required (in some cases) to remove it and patch the system without reinfection, I couldn't help but think of skynet