It would have been awesome to just reshoot the orginal Final Fantasy VII, but along with the fact it would be hard cutting the 40 hr long story down to 2 hours, most movie goers wouldn't believe Final Fantasy VII's wild, science fiction plot. Final Fantasy VII would have us believe that:
Someone can become president just because their father is. If someone becomes ruler because of their father, that makes them a king, not a president.
That a government could be nothing more than a front for corrupt energy company executives, and for a clique of people whose fanatical devotion to a "promised land" blinds them to all reason.
That a country with a large space program would suddenly abandon it, simply to produce more and more deadly weapons.
That a government, when confronted with terrorist attacks, would use it as a way to further clamp down on anyone who was trying to challenge their politcal and economic power.
That a nation's economy could be totally wiped out, leaving industrial areas blighted, while close by, people spent all their money playing in high tech floating gambling palaces.
That energy executives, when their productive capacity is destroyed, would merrily celebrate having to raise rates.
These are just some of the points that make the plot of Final Fantasy VII, no matter how intriguing, too unrealistic for people to take seriously.
It's a flagship product. There of course is the idea that if there is a lot of people using IE, there may be more webservers using IIS, which might mean more computers running Windows XP.
But I think the idea might come down to trying to keep a brandname product in public view. And remember that even after there recent returning of cash to investors, M$ still has enough money that they can spend a billion dollars on keeping IE up to date purely for marketting reasons.
For that matter, 10, 100 or 1000 times before lockout still wouldn't be too much.
As far as bruteforce attacks go, an 8 character password with 50 or whatever possible letters still has 50^8 possible combinations. Even if you gave someone 1000 bruteforce attempts at this, it is still a tiny tiny fraction of that number.
The "Killer Application" for the Pentium processor was the internet. Well, the ability to use a graphical browser, and also the ability to use fancy word processing programs.
When I started doing tech support in 1999,the average caller had a low end Pentium, sometimes even a 486, and they were able to use the internet and word process quite well.
So people are basically using ten times the computing power of what they were using five years ago, and mostly to do the exact same things.
I don't see why "Fiction, poems and short stories" are considered to be 'literature'. In Portland, Oregon, there is a three story library. The first floor is fiction. Floors two and three are history, religion, science, sociology, economics, art, music...does reading about science and history not count?
Well, look at that name. K. K means kingdom. That means the rights you have are what some crazy old person decides you should have. It's not hard to figure out...
The article didn't seem to say that Windows was more secure, just "more secure than you think", while OS X is "much worse than you imagine". So, depending on who "you" is, this could indeed be true.
I am sure there are some ways that a virus could hurt the system without admin password. Even with just permission to a home directory, it could write and delete a file over and over again, until the disk caught on fire and your computer exploded and your house crumbled to dust.
I think most people would want at least a Phillips and a Standard. Maybe a torques, too. Some people like magnetized tips. And you will want at least two different sizes.
And to continue your analogy...have a computer with five different browsers is more like having a screwdriver with changable bits, with the bit you are going to use most commonly installed as the default.
They are installed, but they don't really get in user's way. It defaults to one desktop, with one icon for the default browser, and another icon for the default word processor. I actually didn't even know that some of those browsers were installed until I was writing that comment. Apparently, my computer has this browser named "dillo" installed on it.
I am one of the many volunteers at Free Geek, a Portland non-profit that reuses computers by taking older hardware and installing Linux on it, and gives them to volunteers (for the full description of the program, read the web page).
Although Free Geek is currently using Pentium-IIs for our standard computers, but up until this year we were using Pentium 200s with 2 to 3 gig harddrives. And on that hardware, we managed to install
5 different browsers
2 different office suites
4 or 5 window managers
at least 4 text editors
gaim, xmms, gimp, and lots and lots of games
All of this took slightly less than a gig of harddrive space, and all of these computers were going out to people who mostly just needed to use the internet. And the reason we did this is mostly because we could.
Well, my best example of how Windows has less abstraction is when Heroes of Might and Magic II crashes the GUI, I have to hard cut power and turn it back on.
I really haven't used many Windows systems past the years of Windows as a consumer OS. The only Windows system I currently use is a Windows 98 runnign on a P-166 with 32 megs of RAM, which is very sufficient for MOO II, Civ II, and HoMM2.
This article isn't someone writing rah-rah about how great Windows is. (Or, for that matter, about how great Linux is). It also isn't about the appearence and philosophy of Linux vs. Windows. It is about the inner workings of the kernel, which I think is something that many hardcore users can't even claim to know that about.
As for the claim that the main difference is that Linux doesn't deal with windowing (or any graphical interface in the kernel), I think that the Linux kernel is not only indifferent to this, but to many other things. For example, Windows is designed with a certain file system in mind. As far as I recall, although Linux has a standard filesystem, the actual Kernel doesn't care whether a file is stored in a standard Linux file system, or is stored in a Minix, Amgiga or FAT-16 file system. Also, while there may be Windows for other processors, it is overwhelmingly designed for one architecture. Linux is relatively architecture independent.
So I guess I would say that while the man obviously knows what he is talking about, it is still true that Linux has a great deal more abstraction between the kernel, the shell and the applications, and not just in the fact that windowing is not a kernel specific task.
Forgive what might seem like an ignorant question, but is it possible to forge a port number? I don't even understand conceptually what that means, but I do know that just about everything can be done when people are inspired by other greed or boredom.
I was doing all of my online banking using FTP via TCP\IP over pigeons. It worked until one day I wanted to turn in my penny collection, and the poor birds couldn't carry it all.
I know that sounds inflammatory, but it is the truth. As Australians, you are denied your intrinsic rights. You can only use the rights that the Monarchy grants you.
It might seem to be silly for me to connec tthis to a silly comic strip. But the more I read Dilbert, the more I realize how much it is a sign of the corruption of our culture.
The problem with Dilbert is every week, the company does something incredibly stupid or unethical, and the next week thaey are back in the same position.
People in the "newsmedia" seem to think that they are immune from the world, floating in some protected space where they can mock people without retribution. They ask their misleading questions, make loaded statements, and then run away on you.
So what is the answer to this?
It's quite easily. You have to curbstomp these people. A person that won't accept reality by their good graces needs it shoved into their face.
Now, I am a compassionate person, and I don't want to go to jail, so a literal curb stomping would probably be a bad idea. But the idea is these people need a rude reintroduction to the fact they are part of reality.
I think the best thing that will come out of the Iraq war is that a certain group of people will be totally and irreversibly humiliated for their mistakes. So far, it hasn't happpened, but after twenty years of people mocking certain people for the incredibly stupid mistakes, people will start getting the idea that when you fuck up, you pay the price.
The Book of History : describes an era when China, such as it was, was a collection of feudal states that only covered the Yellow River basin.
The Records of the Grand Historian : describe a time when China controlled the Yellow and the Long river basins, with outposts further out but not much else. Also describes the destruction of a tyrannical empire.
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms: China is split into three parts again, all of which together are nowhere as large as China is today.
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It would have been awesome to just reshoot the orginal Final Fantasy VII, but along with the fact it would be hard cutting the 40 hr long story down to 2 hours, most movie goers wouldn't believe Final Fantasy VII's wild, science fiction plot. Final Fantasy VII would have us believe that:
These are just some of the points that make the plot of Final Fantasy VII, no matter how intriguing, too unrealistic for people to take seriously.
"unparalleled, innovative" meaning that they are doing things no one has seen before
while
"trusted" would mean standard services?
What a bunch of rootwads.
The following packages will be installed:
foo, libfoo, xfoo etc
Need to get 107/109 MB Archives. After unpacking, 58.3 MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
So as you can see, that is only double what updating Debian would take.
It's a flagship product. There of course is the idea that if there is a lot of people using IE, there may be more webservers using IIS, which might mean more computers running Windows XP.
But I think the idea might come down to trying to keep a brandname product in public view. And remember that even after there recent returning of cash to investors, M$ still has enough money that they can spend a billion dollars on keeping IE up to date purely for marketting reasons.
For that matter, 10, 100 or 1000 times before lockout still wouldn't be too much.
As far as bruteforce attacks go, an 8 character password with 50 or whatever possible letters still has 50^8 possible combinations. Even if you gave someone 1000 bruteforce attempts at this, it is still a tiny tiny fraction of that number.
The "Killer Application" for the Pentium processor was the internet. Well, the ability to use a graphical browser, and also the ability to use fancy word processing programs.
When I started doing tech support in 1999,the average caller had a low end Pentium, sometimes even a 486, and they were able to use the internet and word process quite well.
So people are basically using ten times the computing power of what they were using five years ago, and mostly to do the exact same things.
So SCO is responsible for the first "imagine a Beowulf cluster..." joke, too.
/. posters?
I wonder if they are going to claim it as their IP, and sue thousands of
And some of the two hours was spent waiting for OpenOffice to open, I suppose?
Is that because of the punctuation?
Is "Hello" okay? As a statement?
What about "Hello, you've reached Freegeek, this is Matthew speaking, how may I help you today?"
I don't see why "Fiction, poems and short stories" are considered to be 'literature'. In Portland, Oregon, there is a three story library. The first floor is fiction. Floors two and three are history, religion, science, sociology, economics, art, music...does reading about science and history not count?
Well, look at that name. K. K means kingdom. That means the rights you have are what some crazy old person decides you should have. It's not hard to figure out...
The article didn't seem to say that Windows was more secure, just "more secure than you think", while OS X is "much worse than you imagine". So, depending on who "you" is, this could indeed be true.
Yeah, it is dumb.
I am sure there are some ways that a virus could hurt the system without admin password. Even with just permission to a home directory, it could write and delete a file over and over again, until the disk caught on fire and your computer exploded and your house crumbled to dust.
I think most people would want at least a Phillips and a Standard. Maybe a torques, too. Some people like magnetized tips. And you will want at least two different sizes.
And to continue your analogy...have a computer with five different browsers is more like having a screwdriver with changable bits, with the bit you are going to use most commonly installed as the default.
They are installed, but they don't really get in user's way. It defaults to one desktop, with one icon for the default browser, and another icon for the default word processor. I actually didn't even know that some of those browsers were installed until I was writing that comment. Apparently, my computer has this browser named "dillo" installed on it.
Although Free Geek is currently using Pentium-IIs for our standard computers, but up until this year we were using Pentium 200s with 2 to 3 gig harddrives. And on that hardware, we managed to install
All of this took slightly less than a gig of harddrive space, and all of these computers were going out to people who mostly just needed to use the internet. And the reason we did this is mostly because we could.
Well, my best example of how Windows has less abstraction is when Heroes of Might and Magic II crashes the GUI, I have to hard cut power and turn it back on.
I really haven't used many Windows systems past the years of Windows as a consumer OS. The only Windows system I currently use is a Windows 98 runnign on a P-166 with 32 megs of RAM, which is very sufficient for MOO II, Civ II, and HoMM2.
This article isn't someone writing rah-rah about how great Windows is. (Or, for that matter, about how great Linux is). It also isn't about the appearence and philosophy of Linux vs. Windows. It is about the inner workings of the kernel, which I think is something that many hardcore users can't even claim to know that about.
As for the claim that the main difference is that Linux doesn't deal with windowing (or any graphical interface in the kernel), I think that the Linux kernel is not only indifferent to this, but to many other things. For example, Windows is designed with a certain file system in mind. As far as I recall, although Linux has a standard filesystem, the actual Kernel doesn't care whether a file is stored in a standard Linux file system, or is stored in a Minix, Amgiga or FAT-16 file system. Also, while there may be Windows for other processors, it is overwhelmingly designed for one architecture. Linux is relatively architecture independent.
So I guess I would say that while the man obviously knows what he is talking about, it is still true that Linux has a great deal more abstraction between the kernel, the shell and the applications, and not just in the fact that windowing is not a kernel specific task.
Forgive what might seem like an ignorant question, but is it possible to forge a port number?
I don't even understand conceptually what that means, but I do know that just about everything can be done when people are inspired by other greed or boredom.
I was doing all of my online banking using FTP via TCP\IP over pigeons. It worked until one day I wanted to turn in my penny collection, and the poor birds couldn't carry it all.
He started it as a joke.
And he didn't mean anything malicious by it.
He isn't anymore guilty than millions of other people who passed it on.
If he didn't do it, someone else would have.
I am not kidding, although I am speaking somewhat metaphorically.
If the Queen doesn't have any power, why do you still keep her around?
Well, Americans are Citizens of our country.
Australians are Chattel to some crazy lady.
I know that sounds inflammatory, but it is the truth. As Australians, you are denied your intrinsic rights. You can only use the rights that the Monarchy grants you.
It might seem to be silly for me to connec tthis to a silly comic strip. But the more I read Dilbert, the more I realize how much it is a sign of the corruption of our culture.
The problem with Dilbert is every week, the company does something incredibly stupid or unethical, and the next week thaey are back in the same position.
People in the "newsmedia" seem to think that they are immune from the world, floating in some protected space where they can mock people without retribution. They ask their misleading questions, make loaded statements, and then run away on you.
So what is the answer to this?
It's quite easily. You have to curbstomp these people. A person that won't accept reality by their good graces needs it shoved into their face.
Now, I am a compassionate person, and I don't want to go to jail, so a literal curb stomping would probably be a bad idea. But the idea is these people need a rude reintroduction to the fact they are part of reality.
I think the best thing that will come out of the Iraq war is that a certain group of people will be totally and irreversibly humiliated for their mistakes. So far, it hasn't happpened, but after twenty years of people mocking certain people for the incredibly stupid mistakes, people will start getting the idea that when you fuck up, you pay the price.
The Book of History : describes an era when China, such as it was, was a collection of feudal states that only covered the Yellow River basin.
The Records of the Grand Historian : describe a time when China controlled the Yellow and the Long river basins, with outposts further out but not much else. Also describes the destruction of a tyrannical empire.
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms: China is split into three parts again, all of which together are nowhere as large as China is today.