I know I will sound like a madman but I think OSX or a *nix with a good, consistent GUI could easily replace Windows. It has in my house, and we appear to be discussing home computers.
This is the same disease the Amiga, Mac and OS/2 users had 10-20 years ago. Coulda, woulda, shoulda, WON'T.
There is a contract with Optus@Home, it's all just a load of legal crap. It makes reference to the AUP, saying if you violate it, they can terminate your service (and still charge your credit card for it every month!). It appears that way the AUP can be updated anytime they feel like it without actually changing the contract.
Personally, I think it's bullshit. Any document #included in a legal contract should be considered part of said contract, and therefore cannot be changed.
It is sad to see how many people even in the Open Software camp seem to be infected by the Microsoft idea of never ending "upgrade" cycles
New toys = fun. The difference is, a) we have a choice, and b) these upgrades exist primarily for the new toys, not primarily to milk more money out of us.
In the Grande Scheme of Things (ie. the universe) what the hell does it matter what happens to our little rock?
This planet will eventually be roasted, and there'll be nothing left at all. So we have two options: die (in which case, we're just speeding the inevitable, so who cares), or spread to another solar system (again, doing the same shit we're already doing).
Someone's going to get fucked over either way. Deal.
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EMM386.EXE is surely part of DOS, right?:-)
Absolutely not! It's a clear case of monopolistic tendencies, and the DOJ should have given MS a reaming on behalf of QEMM a long time ago over such blatant bundling practises.
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os/2 wanted way too much RAM. A couple of meg set you back hundreds of $ back then. These days hundreds of megs sets you back a couple of bucks..
Guarding the supply line is, even if a human is actually capable of the task, boring. The focus must be between opposing war-units, not the war units and the gravy train.
StarCraft was a vast improvement over C&C, IMO. Resource gatherers are cheap, and more resources can be had by capturing more land (not vast expanses of poisonous land either). But it's still limited. Whoever gets all the resources first wins, because the other guy will run out of money.
Total Annihilaion is even better. In the early stages the little units fight over resource patches, but once any team is capable of producing The Big Gunz type units, all teams have long had the ability to produce resources within the relative safety of home base.
The best game of any strategy game I ever played was a metal TA map (but I don't have it anymore.. DOH!)..
Even with unlimited resources (Fusion Reactors and Metalmakers) the combination of the terrain and diversity of enemy units made it extremely difficult to win, and in the end I had to devise a real strategy to win, because throwing infinite numbers of any old unit at him wouldn't work.
Dude, it's BORLAND! Delphi is a very mature product, if Kylix (the Linux port) is anything like Delphi (Windows version) then all these amateur languages are toys in comparison.
It's not a scripting language either.. dunno where you got that from.
The problem is not so much that it is done at all, but what happens to the tapes afterwards.
If they want to record my public comings and goings, then I expect that recording to never see the light of day unless required for criminal investigation.
Being in public doesn't mean you have no privacy, you just hide in plain sight; you're just another face nobody gives a shit about. Technology allows your whereabouts to be logged, tracked and archived for all eternity - this was completely unthought of when most privacy laws were drafted - and quite unacceptable.
I got 45,000 requests on the 2nd day (first full day). I think each attack has something like 7 requests in it, checking for various ways in, not just one.
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Yes, it's good tech. No, it don't mean shit.
There is a contract with Optus@Home, it's all just a load of legal crap. It makes reference to the AUP, saying if you violate it, they can terminate your service (and still charge your credit card for it every month!). It appears that way the AUP can be updated anytime they feel like it without actually changing the contract.
Personally, I think it's bullshit. Any document #included in a legal contract should be considered part of said contract, and therefore cannot be changed.
Why is this an issue? Everyone already knows kilo = 1000, so kilobyte = 1000 bytes. Only geeks work in base 2, so only geeks need to know kibi = 1024.
BTW, if you can't remember what the prefix is, remember: first two letters of the SI unit, then 'bi' for binary. A kilo-binary-byte = Kibibyte.
Only if you don't open it and let it out. Or beat the crap out of it with the builtin hammer.
I think this is all an elaborate plan for the World's Biggest BBQ.
Rich men get to hunt em, then fry em. Good stuff.
In the Grande Scheme of Things (ie. the universe) what the hell does it matter what happens to our little rock?
This planet will eventually be roasted, and there'll be nothing left at all. So we have two options: die (in which case, we're just speeding the inevitable, so who cares), or spread to another solar system (again, doing the same shit we're already doing).
Someone's going to get fucked over either way. Deal.
why is it not secure for Windows but just fine for apt-get?
Except Datacenter is not Workstation or Server, which run on more-or-less ordinary PC style hardware.
Datacenter is for Teh Uber Boxen.
But who knows, it's MS after all.
Absolutely not! It's a clear case of monopolistic tendencies, and the DOJ should have given MS a reaming on behalf of QEMM a long time ago over such blatant bundling practises.
:)
os/2 wanted way too much RAM. A couple of meg set you back hundreds of $ back then. These days hundreds of megs sets you back a couple of bucks..
I think they're taking this a tad too seriously...
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Guarding the supply line is, even if a human is actually capable of the task, boring. The focus must be between opposing war-units, not the war units and the gravy train.
StarCraft was a vast improvement over C&C, IMO. Resource gatherers are cheap, and more resources can be had by capturing more land (not vast expanses of poisonous land either). But it's still limited. Whoever gets all the resources first wins, because the other guy will run out of money.
Total Annihilaion is even better. In the early stages the little units fight over resource patches, but once any team is capable of producing The Big Gunz type units, all teams have long had the ability to produce resources within the relative safety of home base.
The best game of any strategy game I ever played was a metal TA map (but I don't have it anymore.. DOH!)..
Even with unlimited resources (Fusion Reactors and Metalmakers) the combination of the terrain and diversity of enemy units made it extremely difficult to win, and in the end I had to devise a real strategy to win, because throwing infinite numbers of any old unit at him wouldn't work.
does the right of fair use imply the right to violate the DMCA?
Dude, it's BORLAND! Delphi is a very mature product, if Kylix (the Linux port) is anything like Delphi (Windows version) then all these amateur languages are toys in comparison.
It's not a scripting language either.. dunno where you got that from.
Doing about 3000rpm, I would think.
If it's a news site, why can't they survive on daily email news instead of a fancy web site? All News, No Filler.
Spammers seem to be able to send millions of emails a day for nothing, I think a resourceful geek can figure something out..
The problem is not so much that it is done at all, but what happens to the tapes afterwards.
If they want to record my public comings and goings, then I expect that recording to never see the light of day unless required for criminal investigation.
Being in public doesn't mean you have no privacy, you just hide in plain sight; you're just another face nobody gives a shit about. Technology allows your whereabouts to be logged, tracked and archived for all eternity - this was completely unthought of when most privacy laws were drafted - and quite unacceptable.
easy way around that - have a popup ask if you agree to a license before it shows you the real page.
i think it's a message from a happy widower.
I got 45,000 requests on the 2nd day (first full day). I think each attack has something like 7 requests in it, checking for various ways in, not just one.
it's because someone with actual skill found and implemented exploits for old (and often fixed) security problems.
Now, any idiot with half a brain cell can (and does) modify this code to do whatever he wants.