I don't suppose you've ever heard of BASIC before, have you? You know, the language that was on the computer in your own fucking username? The most popular implementation of it even today remains Microsoft Basic, which was initally developed by...wait for it...Paul Allen and _Bill Gates_./p>
Even better, he developed the C64 basic since Commodore licensed it from MS.
Nice piece, but he probably got the idea from James Kwak via Gruber.
"Technology firms also face a similar problem. In technology, as in most businesses, the way to make it to the top is through sales, so you end up with a situation where the CEO is a sales guy who has no understanding of technology and, for example, thinks that you can cut the development time of a project in half by adding twice as many people. I have seen this have catastrophic results. Even when you don’t have the generational issue that Trillin talks about, the problem is that the sociology of corporations leads to a certain kind of CEO, and as corporations become increasingly dependent on complex technology or complex business processes (for example, the kind of data-driven marketing that consumer packaged companies do), you end up with CEOs who don’t understand the key aspects of the companies they are managing."
Aw, everyone knows Slashdot is full of experts. Even if we don't know what we're talking about, we'll still pretend to be experts. Well, until a real expert speaks up and makes us look stupid.:)
Pshuh, I don't need an expert to make ME look stupid !
But a large amount of discussion lately is "oh noes teh PB".
Well they have become icons because of their brazen attitude towards legal threats in the past and their unapologetic openness about what they do. We do needed that I think. Filesharing shouldn't become a shady and/or elitist thing again.
And we don't even have an alternate tracker that tracks every TPB torrent! If only someone had made OpenBitTorrent.com in time!
That's not the point of enforcing the law. You don't leave thieves, embezzlers or whatever alone because there's a lot more of them out there. You catch the ones you can. (No I don't really think the piratebay should be shut down but it IS a stupid argument.)
The reason is mostly because the law says they can't.
That's not true. MS is agressive about moving into fields when it threatens their business, when it is a significant part of a users' workflow and would threaten their Windows as top dog if it were multiplatform. So far this has been :
* office productivity software : dominated * browsers : dominated * media delivery: FAIL, lost to Apple * internet mutimedia: FAIL, lost to Adobe * internet advertising : FAIL, lost to Google * mobile OS : FAIL(ing), lost to RIM, Apple
But as you see they've actually been on quite the losing streak. Regarding those adobe products they could probably care less about PDF's, but losing out to Flash was a big failure for company with a strong pedigree in development tools. All those failures were despite them challenging anti trust regulations all over the world, they are just plain behind the curve.
Its also plausible that they left 2.2 seconds apart, and arrived 0.9 seconds apart in the opposite order. How do we tell though?
There would be interference if that had happened. Also you would expect there to be a model for this sort of event that would tell you when the high energy bursts and when the low energy bursts would take place.
The paper itself unsurprisingly seems more nuanced than the summary: "The spread in travel time of 0.9 second between the highest- and lowest-energy gamma rays, if attributed to quantum effects rather than the dynamics of the explosion itself, suggested that any quantum effects in which the slowing of light is proportional to its energy do not show up until you get down to sizes about eight-tenths of the Planck length, according to the Nature paper." In other words : macro scale Einstein is still valid and micro scale effects if they exist are vanishingly small and put new limits on theoretical speculation.
It has to include humans, llama's aren't as kinky as we are. Here's a guy humping a dead whale , maybe you could could contact him and see if he's interested in wearing a llama suit for you ?
Oh, yes -- most chanraids are exactly that, because there's no real impetus to organize on a large scale. But Chanology showed that if you give a bunch of randomly disorganized people sufficient motivation they will efficiently organize just the way you say, without a centralized organizing force.
Just because there's no command authority pointing everyone in the same direction doesn't mean that there's no organization. There was in fact an elaborate system of forums and subforums and IRC channels and wiki pages keeping things organized during the whole thing.
Anarchy in action. Organization without hierarchy, just informal committees created to perform a specific task and disbanded afterwards.
Yes they can. My point was that PC manufacturers do not use EFI or write custom firmware of the sort Apple uses. By which I was trying to illustrate Apple does take a special interest in adapting the hardware to fit their vision rather than throwing components into a pretty box.
The conspiracy theory is that Psystar is funded by "other companies." Even Apple has claimed this in their complaint against them in court:
"18. On information and belief, persons other than Psystar are involved in Psystar’s unlawful and improper activities described in this Amended Complaint. The true names or capacities, whether individual, corporate, or otherwise, of these persons are unknown to Apple. Consequently they are referred to herein as John Does 1 through 10 (collectively the “John Doe Defendants”). On information and belief, the John Doe Defendants are various individuals and/or corporations who have infringed Apple’s intellectual property rights, breached or induced the breach of Apple’s license agreements and violated state and common law unfair competition laws."
I don't think I have to spell out who the usual suspects are.
The special sauce is in the firmware. Apple are using a custom EFI firmware (which even supports wireless and bluetooth right in the boot menu) in their machines while I've never even seen a PC which uses EFI instead of BIOS, let alone one that boots from custom built firmware. Windows and Linux boot through EFI's BIOS emulation IIRC. Also the motherboards ARE custom made versions using established intel chipsets, they need to be custom made to fit the shape of the iMacs and Mini's.
The same, but FOSS. Some even suggest the same codebase, but I of course would never be cynical enough to suggest that or that running strings on both if someone had a spare moment might be interesting.
It actually sounds more like a rebadged Boot132 to me. Possibly with Chameleon for a bootloader.
I'm running Leopard (and Solaris) on an Acer Aspire One and it's amazing how well it runs on what's really the lowest of the low end especially when there's no chance of squeezing decent performance out of MS' latest offerings on the same hardware. Apple's definitely doing something right with their OS.
It works intermittently for me. But there's no cache, it's not even in the Internet Archive (except the front page.) And tomorrow it'll be gone, the only reason I found it in the first place is because it was linked in the Wikipedia article for R. Daneel Olivaw.
They are "deceiving" each other, not the researchers : " By the 50th generation, some bots eventually learned not to flash their blue light as frequently when they were near the food so they wouldn’t draw the attention of other robots." I don't know if deception is really accurate in this case since to me it suggests intent while that's not the case here. Maybe natural "camouflage" like you see in animals is a better analogy.
It had some really interesting sites for its day. Like this one I found just the other day with a chronology of Asimov's Foundation universe and a list of characters not updated in over 10 years. Soon to be lost in the ether or stuck in some archive somewhere I guess.
At least they archived all the "under construction" gifs (WARNING: clicking on that link may be dangerous to your mental health.) If anyone's interested this metafilter thread has the story of the guy who created the first of these gifs about halfway in.
SSL has certification authorities. Needless to say, initiating an encrypted connection via tor with a site that is not certified is at least as careless as not using SSL at all.
Now I know you (and the guy who modded me "overrated") probably take all possible precautions but they only need to catch you or some less careful type off guard once. I don't know why anyone would route a secure connection through an untrusted node on purpose. Sounds like asking for trouble to me.
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I don't suppose you've ever heard of BASIC before, have you? You know, the language that was on the computer in your own fucking username? The most popular implementation of it even today remains Microsoft Basic, which was initally developed by...wait for it...Paul Allen and _Bill Gates_./p>
Even better, he developed the C64 basic since Commodore licensed it from MS.
Nice piece, but he probably got the idea from James Kwak via Gruber.
"Technology firms also face a similar problem. In technology, as in most businesses, the way to make it to the top is through sales, so you end up with a situation where the CEO is a sales guy who has no understanding of technology and, for example, thinks that you can cut the development time of a project in half by adding twice as many people. I have seen this have catastrophic results. Even when you don’t have the generational issue that Trillin talks about, the problem is that the sociology of corporations leads to a certain kind of CEO, and as corporations become increasingly dependent on complex technology or complex business processes (for example, the kind of data-driven marketing that consumer packaged companies do), you end up with CEOs who don’t understand the key aspects of the companies they are managing."
Aw, everyone knows Slashdot is full of experts. Even if we don't know what we're talking about, we'll still pretend to be experts. Well, until a real expert speaks up and makes us look stupid. :)
Pshuh, I don't need an expert to make ME look stupid !
But a large amount of discussion lately is "oh noes teh PB".
Well they have become icons because of their brazen attitude towards legal threats in the past and their unapologetic openness about what they do. We do needed that I think. Filesharing shouldn't become a shady and/or elitist thing again.
What will we do without THE ONLY TORRENT TRACKER?
And we don't even have an alternate tracker that tracks every TPB torrent! If only someone had made OpenBitTorrent.com in time!
That's not the point of enforcing the law. You don't leave thieves, embezzlers or whatever alone because there's a lot more of them out there. You catch the ones you can. (No I don't really think the piratebay should be shut down but it IS a stupid argument.)
The reason is mostly because the law says they can't.
That's not true. MS is agressive about moving into fields when it threatens their business, when it is a significant part of a users' workflow and would threaten their Windows as top dog if it were multiplatform. So far this has been :
* office productivity software : dominated
* browsers : dominated
* media delivery: FAIL, lost to Apple
* internet mutimedia: FAIL, lost to Adobe
* internet advertising : FAIL, lost to Google
* mobile OS : FAIL(ing), lost to RIM, Apple
But as you see they've actually been on quite the losing streak. Regarding those adobe products they could probably care less about PDF's, but losing out to Flash was a big failure for company with a strong pedigree in development tools. All those failures were despite them challenging anti trust regulations all over the world, they are just plain behind the curve.
Its also plausible that they left 2.2 seconds apart, and arrived 0.9 seconds apart in the opposite order. How do we tell though?
There would be interference if that had happened. Also you would expect there to be a model for this sort of event that would tell you when the high energy bursts and when the low energy bursts would take place.
The paper itself unsurprisingly seems more nuanced than the summary: "The spread in travel time of 0.9 second between the highest- and lowest-energy gamma rays, if attributed to quantum effects rather than the dynamics of the explosion itself, suggested that any quantum effects in which the slowing of light is proportional to its energy do not show up until you get down to sizes about eight-tenths of the Planck length, according to the Nature paper." In other words : macro scale Einstein is still valid and micro scale effects if they exist are vanishingly small and put new limits on theoretical speculation.
My nipples explode with delight !
Yup, the experiment didn't work with a single photon when they wanted to verify the results. The Copenhagen interpretation still remains intact.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of cats cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
There is no "Neil" in Bohr. He's Danish: His Name is Niels Bohr, Niels Henrik David Bohr. Seriously, people...
According to quantum mechanics there's a vanishingly small possibility that the 's' simply disappeared.
It's all your fault. The "s" both existed and didn't exist there in superposition until you decided to read the post and collapse the wave.
That's easy, just commission studies from the university of Bejing. It's bound to agree.
The neanderthals were close enough to modern humans that in my own opinion, it is possible that humans intermingled socially with them
Didn't have to be socially, humans have a long tradition of raping females during wartime.
i've yet to find any llama/blue whale porn.
It has to include humans, llama's aren't as kinky as we are. Here's a guy humping a dead whale , maybe you could could contact him and see if he's interested in wearing a llama suit for you ?
Oh, yes -- most chanraids are exactly that, because there's no real impetus to organize on a large scale. But Chanology showed that if you give a bunch of randomly disorganized people sufficient motivation they will efficiently organize just the way you say, without a centralized organizing force.
Just because there's no command authority pointing everyone in the same direction doesn't mean that there's no organization. There was in fact an elaborate system of forums and subforums and IRC channels and wiki pages keeping things organized during the whole thing.
Anarchy in action. Organization without hierarchy, just informal committees created to perform a specific task and disbanded afterwards.
Yes they can. My point was that PC manufacturers do not use EFI or write custom firmware of the sort Apple uses. By which I was trying to illustrate Apple does take a special interest in adapting the hardware to fit their vision rather than throwing components into a pretty box.
The conspiracy theory is that Psystar is funded by "other companies." Even Apple has claimed this in their complaint against them in court :
"18. On information and belief, persons other than Psystar are involved in Psystar’s unlawful and improper activities described in this Amended Complaint. The true names or capacities, whether individual, corporate, or otherwise, of these persons are unknown to Apple. Consequently they are referred to herein as John Does 1 through 10 (collectively the “John Doe Defendants”). On information and belief, the John Doe Defendants are various individuals and/or corporations who have infringed Apple’s intellectual property rights, breached or induced the breach of Apple’s license agreements and violated state and common law unfair competition laws."
I don't think I have to spell out who the usual suspects are.
The special sauce is in the firmware. Apple are using a custom EFI firmware (which even supports wireless and bluetooth right in the boot menu) in their machines while I've never even seen a PC which uses EFI instead of BIOS, let alone one that boots from custom built firmware. Windows and Linux boot through EFI's BIOS emulation IIRC. Also the motherboards ARE custom made versions using established intel chipsets, they need to be custom made to fit the shape of the iMacs and Mini's.
http://chameleon.osx86.hu/
The same, but FOSS. Some even suggest the same codebase, but I of course would never be cynical enough to suggest that or that running strings on both if someone had a spare moment might be interesting.
It actually sounds more like a rebadged Boot132 to me. Possibly with Chameleon for a bootloader.
I'm running Leopard (and Solaris) on an Acer Aspire One and it's amazing how well it runs on what's really the lowest of the low end especially when there's no chance of squeezing decent performance out of MS' latest offerings on the same hardware. Apple's definitely doing something right with their OS.
textfiles.com does have a collection of ASCII porn, that may explain it.
It works intermittently for me. But there's no cache, it's not even in the Internet Archive (except the front page.) And tomorrow it'll be gone, the only reason I found it in the first place is because it was linked in the Wikipedia article for R. Daneel Olivaw.
That's funny, but also a very interesting point.
They are "deceiving" each other, not the researchers : " By the 50th generation, some bots eventually learned not to flash their blue light as frequently when they were near the food so they wouldn’t draw the attention of other robots." I don't know if deception is really accurate in this case since to me it suggests intent while that's not the case here. Maybe natural "camouflage" like you see in animals is a better analogy.
It had some really interesting sites for its day. Like this one I found just the other day with a chronology of Asimov's Foundation universe and a list of characters not updated in over 10 years. Soon to be lost in the ether or stuck in some archive somewhere I guess.
At least they archived all the "under construction" gifs (WARNING: clicking on that link may be dangerous to your mental health.) If anyone's interested this metafilter thread has the story of the guy who created the first of these gifs about halfway in.
SSL has certification authorities. Needless to say, initiating an encrypted connection via tor with a site that is not certified is at least as careless as not using SSL at all.
Because CA signing has never been compromised ?
IE, Chrome, Safari duped by bogus PayPal SSL cert
MD5 Weakness Allows Fake SSL Certificates To Be Created
Or because no one ever gets suckered by a proxy just stripping out the SSL altogether ?
Man-in-the-middle attack sidesteps SSL
And no one has ever been tricked into clicking "OK" when a MITM attack passes on its own cert ?
TOR exit-node doing MITM attacks
Now I know you (and the guy who modded me "overrated") probably take all possible precautions but they only need to catch you or some less careful type off guard once. I don't know why anyone would route a secure connection through an untrusted node on purpose. Sounds like asking for trouble to me.