WOW! If the trailer isn't just the best scenes of the movie spliced together, that movie is going to rawk! That's the best comic-book-like presentation I think I've ever seen in a movie. Each scene looked like a frame from a comic book.
And the special effects are incredible -- did you notice Bruce Willis had *HAIR*?
Da-yum. Your dad deserves a frikkin' statue, sainthood, or both. If the city was pumping sewage into my house, I'd probably show up with an Uzi.
Actually, I'd have sued all the way up the chain. Someone, somewhere, would have been on my side and told the city that it can't injure its citizens. IANAL, but surely imminent domain doesn't cover this, and Illinois doesn't actually allow cities to allow sewage into people's homes? That's just crazy!
Sure it can but when there are 2^96 times more addresses then currently exist today its going to take 2^96 times more time to find an address. If you could check 1 address every milisecond and there were 2^32 addresses (the entire IPv4 space) then you would expect it to take about 2.5*10^19 years to find a valid address. For reference thats about 1,800,000,000 times the age of the universe.
Sorry, no. Statistically, that assumes that no search algorithm is used, and that all addresses are randomly scattered rather than assigned in blocks. I'd bet that, on a really bad day, I could whip up something in about 10 minutes that would cut that search down to seconds.
You do have a point that it may take a bit longer to start from zero and locate the first valid address, but the worm could be written to target certain known blocks of addresses, in which case the enormity of the overall addressing capacity becomes moot.
After 300 hours of work and an A average on the exams, I expect to fail the course.
If you *really* wanted to do something spectacular, get on an open source site, introduce code that can be exploited, then use the exploit to take over a machine running your version of code.
C-.
Get your 'sploit picked up in the GA version of that software.
B+.
Report to the professor that a site that carries his favorite flavor of pr0n has installed that software.
A-.
While perusing that site's drives, discover in the billing records that George Bush likes squirrel bondage too.
I think the reason this is news is because the Bush administration is still trying to pretend that this is not proven science... that it's just a theory that can be ignored. They want to ignore it because it's inconvenient for their business cronies, and those business cronies fund party activities and candidates' re-elections.
You are absolutely correct.
I don't think there will be any changes on this front until this administration is out of office, no matter how much evidence is presented.
But that won't happen if the Democrats can't change their platform enough to represent the majority of people in this country. Until then, Americans will continue to be misled by cool sound bites, empty slogans, and outright lies. It's not that average Americans are stupid, it's that they are easily divided, typically uninformed, and politically unsophisticated. How else do you explain rehiring a man that:
Lied to Congress
Took us into a war based on highly questionable information against the advice of every expert on terrorist organizations and Middle East relations
Allows those who would attack U.S. citizens in their own country to simply slip away while attacking a country that never had a chance of attacking us
Attacks the Constitution and your personal freedoms
Outright ignores international law on the handling of POWs
Destroys the fiscal viability of the government
Invalidates the authority of the United Nations
Uses fear and ignorance to divide the populace against itself
Aw hell... I could go on all day. The point is, President Bush should be sitting in impeachment hearings explaining himself rather than enjoying a four year blank check to wreck the system in whatever manner he can to benefit himself and his big oil cronies. But then, I'm probably preaching to the choir on that one....
...would be to just firewall every Windows machine behind a Linux box or BSD box and use port forwarding
And then when some schmoe gets a worm from a hijack site or opens the trojan email attachment, everyone behind the firewall is fuxored.
Best case? Firewalls on individual machines, a good router with a built in firewall between the LAN and the 'net, and McAfee for losers that can't understand why warez are double-plus ungood.
If I actually need a job by the time I'm in my 50s, I'll have screwed up royally somewhere. Compound interest and dollar cost averaging are your friends. You really can take responsibility for your own life.
Well that was niave as hell. A LOT of people found their retirement investments dried up with the tech bubble burst, and as a result a LOT of senior citizens reentered the workforce just to get by. It sucks, but it happens. No one relies on compound interest where you get taxed on interest earned; they put their money into 401ks that rely, usually, on growth funds. And dollar cost averaging? Puh-leez.
As for the IT field, the answer is simple and its expression has become the theme of this thread: grow or die. It's easy to remain in this field, but you have to learn skills that are either cutting edge and in demand or that require a body onsite.
Back when I worked for DHL using BP7, I got a hold of the beta version of Delphi 1.0. It was code named "Wasabi", the EXE was, IIRC, AppBuilder, and it came on six diskettes. It had a tiny subset of the VCL palette, and no real way to talk to a database.
And I was in love.
I contracted with a company to move their DOS apps to Delphi after it came out officially. We started out using Delphi 1, but quickly moved to 2 when it was released. Skipped version 3, went to 4, then 5. Awesome stuff.
I agree completely with your statement about the "Commodore School of Marketing." Mirco$oft did hire some of their architects away, but that's not what killed Borland. It was the marketing.
That and the completely stupid attempt to tie their development products to their database products. The BDE would have been fine if they'd supported a decent way to talk to ODBC. I was among many who tried desperately to get Delphi to talk to something other than Paradox. Interbase may have been cool, but none of my clients wanted it.
Then Peter Blair came up with Titan, and it was a new day. I could at least get Delphi to talk to Btrieve. It was fast as hell, and the guys I did the port for used Btrieve exclusively. Pretty soon I had tools written that generated DDLs on the fly so we could alter the schema without recompiling the EXE. Suh-weet.
Later, when we needed to talk to SQL Server and Oracle, we used ODBCExpress. Once again, fast as hell, and we didn't have to worry about the BDE. It was the best of both worlds. ADO components were an add-on in version 5 and standard in version 6. Bigger and better.
The components available for every concievable purpose have swelled into the millions, the compiler is devastatingly fast -- I'm currently using version 7 -- and it now supports.NET. Delphi 2005 has new extensions to the IDE, component libraries, and the language itself that will be as revolutionary as the original Delphi.
And yet, I'll bet they continue to struggle. Why? Easy. How did you first hear of Delphi 2005? I found out because I went on their site looking for a utility to autogen documentation. Otherwise, I wouldn't have known. When I was looking for a job a few months ago, I would mention Delphi to a recruiter and they would actually laugh out loud. "Come on!" they'd say, "Delphi is dead. Do you have Visual Basic and.NET?" What does that say about Borland? Have they learned from their mistakes? It's time to start publicly throwing down the gauntlet. Either you believe in your product or you don't.
Borland, grow a spine and advertise like you mean it.
Back in the day, DEC engineers put a "gotcha" on their chip masks after seeing their designs pop up in Russian made fabs. Magnified sufficiently, you could actually read the words, "VAX: when you care enough to steal the very best."
Sounds like AMD has earned the right to use that line...
More recently, the Ford Focus. Anyone see the reports about their brakes? The class action suits are working their way through the court system even as I type this.
Look, if you make a product with the capability of self-destructing, you are responsible for taking every precaution necessary to either eliminate the risk or reduce the risk and advise the consumer of the risk. I haven't seen any verbage on my cell phone packaging that says, "Warning: There is a 1 in 2 million chance that the battery could be defective and burn your ear off in a cataclysmic failure." And if the problem is really in 3rd party battery and recharging systems, include a warning to that effect.
In short, pgsql does require somewhat more effort to initially configure and maintain.
That extra effort to configure and maintain is why we went with MySQL. It's hella fast (and yes, that *is* a technical term), isn't plagued by the insecurities of MS SQL Server, and it's a breeze to install and configure -- don't even get me started on PostgreSQL's requirement that it be run from a non-Administrator account under Windows when EVERYONE with a default installation of Windows from NT 4.0 through XP is running as an Administrator.
At the end of the day, the time and aggravation saved makes MySQL the hands-down winner over PostgreSQL, it's price/performance make it the smack-down winner over Oracle, and the security, stability, and speed make it the no-lie DB God over MS SQL Server.
Now if it just had Booleans as a native datatype...
"Would you like us to remember your credit card number for future transactions?
a. Why yes, please. b. Remember all but the last 5 digits. c. I'm not sure. d. No thank you. e. What do I look like, some kind of MORON?! f. ^&%$* YOU! g. No, and please list all the credit card numbers you already have, thereby saving me the trouble of hacking your system."
My company, TGE Software, has just released its flagship product, also called "Behind The Desk", but you don't see me trying to advertise it on Slashdot...
2) Michael grossly mischaracterizes the Bush, Cheney, Rice and Rumsfeld position at the time as saying the "tubes were slam-dunk evidence".
That was *not* the way the White House or the administration presented the case at the time. The tone of 95% of their statements was basically... well, we're not sure but it doesn't look good. There is evidence that Saddam is reconstituting his nuclear program, etc. What are we going to do about it?
Bush, Powell, Cheney, and everyone else in that administration said they not only knew that Saddam had WMDs, they showed pictures of sites where the WMDs were being produced and stored. These images were shown to Congress, to the U.N., and were seen on TV on various news affiliates.
You are quite obviously, by the tone of your message, one of those sad, sad people that believes whatever they Prez and VP tell you, and the party line at this juncture is, "Well, we didn't actually say we *knew* where they were, just that we were pretty sure that all indications pointed to the possibility that Saddam might have a plan to attempt to build some kind of weapons program..."
You are equivocating when you say that "Bush misled the American people" but you don't agree with "The White House Lied." And if you need to a reason to vote Bush out of the White House, settle on the fact that the lies he told had nothing to do with infidelity, a la Clinton, but instead were intended to gain authorization to put our soldiers in harms way, with the result being the deaths of, thus far, over a thousand U.S. soldiers, the mutilation of tens of thousands more, and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, with added result of Iraq being opened up as a nest for terrorist organizations that were unable to operate there before.
) broadband is nice, but it's certainly ) not the most important thing you can have ) in the world.
Bite your tounge young man...
Obviously someone who's never had to use a 1200 baud modem to transfer a one meg file. Ah, the days... I can remember when 300 baud was revolutionary. Of course, before that we had to carry a box of punch cards from one place to another. And lest you think that was bad, before that we carried the bits in our hands.
There have been a number of similar problems with Fords over the years. People shift into drive and the car takes off, or they get up to a given speed and the car continues to accelerate, etc. The problem is not with the operation of the vehicle, but in the car itself.
One quote from that article that can't get enough play, was a proposed reason for the DHS making that kind of move:
"Allowing the government to take down cell service around any incident that the government would rather not news spread quickly about. By ensuring that the people within the secured zone can't call or send pictures out, and reporters can't get in, they can assure a delay in the release of any account of what's going on in that zone... such jamming would be glaringly clear if all of the cell companies filed reports about the simultainous downtime without any equipment failures."
-- LostCluster
Out of the entire list of responses, this seemed the most likely to me. In fact, the DHS seems to serve very little purpose besides giving the government more control over our basic rights than has ever been exercised or even needed.
And besides, IE is not even an option for anyone serious about, well, serious about anything.
Yes and no.
I personally use Netscape on my home machine, Firefox on my laptop, and I was using Mozilla prior to Firefox. Every time I go into IE for any reason, I feel like I've taken a step back 5 years just from the lack of tabbed browsing.
On the other hand, if I'm writing an application that has to pop up a browser window to, say, take a user to a support web site, I'm going to pop up IE. I know it's there, I know it will work, and I know how to talk to it.
Aside:
Bush/Cheney 04-- Because you don't change horsemen mid-apocalypse!
Geez, I hope that's just sarcasm, as in, "Bush/Cheney -- Saving on military expenditures by killing off soldiers!"
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WOW! If the trailer isn't just the best scenes of the movie spliced together, that movie is going to rawk! That's the best comic-book-like presentation I think I've ever seen in a movie. Each scene looked like a frame from a comic book.
And the special effects are incredible -- did you notice Bruce Willis had *HAIR*?
What will CGI be able to do next?
Da-yum. Your dad deserves a frikkin' statue, sainthood, or both. If the city was pumping sewage into my house, I'd probably show up with an Uzi.
Actually, I'd have sued all the way up the chain. Someone, somewhere, would have been on my side and told the city that it can't injure its citizens. IANAL, but surely imminent domain doesn't cover this, and Illinois doesn't actually allow cities to allow sewage into people's homes? That's just crazy!
Sure it can but when there are 2^96 times more addresses then currently exist today its going to take 2^96 times more time to find an address. If you could check 1 address every milisecond and there were 2^32 addresses (the entire IPv4 space) then you would expect it to take about 2.5*10^19 years to find a valid address. For reference thats about 1,800,000,000 times the age of the universe.
Sorry, no. Statistically, that assumes that no search algorithm is used, and that all addresses are randomly scattered rather than assigned in blocks. I'd bet that, on a really bad day, I could whip up something in about 10 minutes that would cut that search down to seconds.
You do have a point that it may take a bit longer to start from zero and locate the first valid address, but the worm could be written to target certain known blocks of addresses, in which case the enormity of the overall addressing capacity becomes moot.
slap!
Shutup, Beavis!
After 300 hours of work and an A average on the exams, I expect to fail the course.
If you *really* wanted to do something spectacular, get on an open source site, introduce code that can be exploited, then use the exploit to take over a machine running your version of code.
C-.
Get your 'sploit picked up in the GA version of that software.
B+.
Report to the professor that a site that carries his favorite flavor of pr0n has installed that software.
A-.
While perusing that site's drives, discover in the billing records that George Bush likes squirrel bondage too.
A+.
Or a truly active windshield display in the car.
Two more words: truck, rock.
You are absolutely correct.
I don't think there will be any changes on this front until this administration is out of office, no matter how much evidence is presented.
But that won't happen if the Democrats can't change their platform enough to represent the majority of people in this country. Until then, Americans will continue to be misled by cool sound bites, empty slogans, and outright lies. It's not that average Americans are stupid, it's that they are easily divided, typically uninformed, and politically unsophisticated. How else do you explain rehiring a man that:
Aw hell... I could go on all day. The point is, President Bush should be sitting in impeachment hearings explaining himself rather than enjoying a four year blank check to wreck the system in whatever manner he can to benefit himself and his big oil cronies. But then, I'm probably preaching to the choir on that one....
It's quite unfortunate.
Right again.
And then when some schmoe gets a worm from a hijack site or opens the trojan email attachment, everyone behind the firewall is fuxored.
Best case? Firewalls on individual machines, a good router with a built in firewall between the LAN and the 'net, and McAfee for losers that can't understand why warez are double-plus ungood.
If I actually need a job by the time I'm in my 50s, I'll have screwed up royally somewhere. Compound interest and dollar cost averaging are your friends. You really can take responsibility for your own life.
Well that was niave as hell. A LOT of people found their retirement investments dried up with the tech bubble burst, and as a result a LOT of senior citizens reentered the workforce just to get by. It sucks, but it happens. No one relies on compound interest where you get taxed on interest earned; they put their money into 401ks that rely, usually, on growth funds. And dollar cost averaging? Puh-leez.
As for the IT field, the answer is simple and its expression has become the theme of this thread: grow or die. It's easy to remain in this field, but you have to learn skills that are either cutting edge and in demand or that require a body onsite.
'Nuff said.
Back when I worked for DHL using BP7, I got a hold of the beta version of Delphi 1.0. It was code named "Wasabi", the EXE was, IIRC, AppBuilder, and it came on six diskettes. It had a tiny subset of the VCL palette, and no real way to talk to a database.
.NET. Delphi 2005 has new extensions to the IDE, component libraries, and the language itself that will be as revolutionary as the original Delphi.
.NET?" What does that say about Borland? Have they learned from their mistakes? It's time to start publicly throwing down the gauntlet. Either you believe in your product or you don't.
And I was in love.
I contracted with a company to move their DOS apps to Delphi after it came out officially. We started out using Delphi 1, but quickly moved to 2 when it was released. Skipped version 3, went to 4, then 5. Awesome stuff.
I agree completely with your statement about the "Commodore School of Marketing." Mirco$oft did hire some of their architects away, but that's not what killed Borland. It was the marketing.
That and the completely stupid attempt to tie their development products to their database products. The BDE would have been fine if they'd supported a decent way to talk to ODBC. I was among many who tried desperately to get Delphi to talk to something other than Paradox. Interbase may have been cool, but none of my clients wanted it.
Then Peter Blair came up with Titan, and it was a new day. I could at least get Delphi to talk to Btrieve. It was fast as hell, and the guys I did the port for used Btrieve exclusively. Pretty soon I had tools written that generated DDLs on the fly so we could alter the schema without recompiling the EXE. Suh-weet.
Later, when we needed to talk to SQL Server and Oracle, we used ODBCExpress. Once again, fast as hell, and we didn't have to worry about the BDE. It was the best of both worlds. ADO components were an add-on in version 5 and standard in version 6. Bigger and better.
The components available for every concievable purpose have swelled into the millions, the compiler is devastatingly fast -- I'm currently using version 7 -- and it now supports
And yet, I'll bet they continue to struggle. Why? Easy. How did you first hear of Delphi 2005? I found out because I went on their site looking for a utility to autogen documentation. Otherwise, I wouldn't have known. When I was looking for a job a few months ago, I would mention Delphi to a recruiter and they would actually laugh out loud. "Come on!" they'd say, "Delphi is dead. Do you have Visual Basic and
Borland, grow a spine and advertise like you mean it.
Back in the day, DEC engineers put a "gotcha" on their chip masks after seeing their designs pop up in Russian made fabs. Magnified sufficiently, you could actually read the words, "VAX: when you care enough to steal the very best."
Sounds like AMD has earned the right to use that line...
Ah, so that's why Picasso put both eyes and both ears on one side of people's heads. Yes, I see the "place" they have.
Son, unless it's coffee, you shouldn't be altering your body's basic functions at work. Hacking your metabolism: Double Plus Ungood.
More recently, the Ford Focus. Anyone see the reports about their brakes? The class action suits are working their way through the court system even as I type this.
Look, if you make a product with the capability of self-destructing, you are responsible for taking every precaution necessary to either eliminate the risk or reduce the risk and advise the consumer of the risk. I haven't seen any verbage on my cell phone packaging that says, "Warning: There is a 1 in 2 million chance that the battery could be defective and burn your ear off in a cataclysmic failure." And if the problem is really in 3rd party battery and recharging systems, include a warning to that effect.
In short, pgsql does require somewhat more effort to initially configure and maintain.
That extra effort to configure and maintain is why we went with MySQL. It's hella fast (and yes, that *is* a technical term), isn't plagued by the insecurities of MS SQL Server, and it's a breeze to install and configure -- don't even get me started on PostgreSQL's requirement that it be run from a non-Administrator account under Windows when EVERYONE with a default installation of Windows from NT 4.0 through XP is running as an Administrator.
At the end of the day, the time and aggravation saved makes MySQL the hands-down winner over PostgreSQL, it's price/performance make it the smack-down winner over Oracle, and the security, stability, and speed make it the no-lie DB God over MS SQL Server.
Now if it just had Booleans as a native datatype...
Online bill pay service options:
"Would you like us to remember your credit card number for future transactions?
a. Why yes, please.
b. Remember all but the last 5 digits.
c. I'm not sure.
d. No thank you.
e. What do I look like, some kind of MORON?!
f. ^&%$* YOU!
g. No, and please list all the credit card numbers you already have, thereby saving me the trouble of hacking your system."
Cracker: g
...and in the current time when we have idiot Republicans like Arnold (I can't spell his last name) who thinks...
Wait, say that again?
I'm not a Republican, but you've got to do better than that...
How lame.
My company, TGE Software, has just released its flagship product, also called "Behind The Desk", but you don't see me trying to advertise it on Slashdot...
Oh, wait....
"Killing for peace is like fucking for chastity"
Amen.
Are you kidding? She would agree!
You, sir, have a selective memory.
2) Michael grossly mischaracterizes the Bush, Cheney, Rice and Rumsfeld position at the time as saying the "tubes were slam-dunk evidence".
That was *not* the way the White House or the administration presented the case at the time. The tone of 95% of their statements was basically... well, we're not sure but it doesn't look good. There is evidence that Saddam is reconstituting his nuclear program, etc. What are we going to do about it?
Bush, Powell, Cheney, and everyone else in that administration said they not only knew that Saddam had WMDs, they showed pictures of sites where the WMDs were being produced and stored. These images were shown to Congress, to the U.N., and were seen on TV on various news affiliates.
You are quite obviously, by the tone of your message, one of those sad, sad people that believes whatever they Prez and VP tell you, and the party line at this juncture is, "Well, we didn't actually say we *knew* where they were, just that we were pretty sure that all indications pointed to the possibility that Saddam might have a plan to attempt to build some kind of weapons program..."
You are equivocating when you say that "Bush misled the American people" but you don't agree with "The White House Lied." And if you need to a reason to vote Bush out of the White House, settle on the fact that the lies he told had nothing to do with infidelity, a la Clinton, but instead were intended to gain authorization to put our soldiers in harms way, with the result being the deaths of, thus far, over a thousand U.S. soldiers, the mutilation of tens of thousands more, and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, with added result of Iraq being opened up as a nest for terrorist organizations that were unable to operate there before.
That's a good reason to vote Bush out of office.
) broadband is nice, but it's certainly
) not the most important thing you can have
) in the world.
Bite your tounge young man...
Obviously someone who's never had to use a 1200 baud modem to transfer a one meg file. Ah, the days... I can remember when 300 baud was revolutionary. Of course, before that we had to carry a box of punch cards from one place to another. And lest you think that was bad, before that we carried the bits in our hands.
I still bear the scars...
There have been a number of similar problems with Fords over the years. People shift into drive and the car takes off, or they get up to a given speed and the car continues to accelerate, etc. The problem is not with the operation of the vehicle, but in the car itself.
Check the Anti-Ford Page site for more info:
http://www.tgrigsby.com/views/ford.htm
One quote from that article that can't get enough play, was a proposed reason for the DHS making that kind of move:
"Allowing the government to take down cell service around any incident that the government would rather not news spread quickly about. By ensuring that the people within the secured zone can't call or send pictures out, and reporters can't get in, they can assure a delay in the release of any account of what's going on in that zone... such jamming would be glaringly clear if all of the cell companies filed reports about the simultainous downtime without any equipment failures."
-- LostCluster
Out of the entire list of responses, this seemed the most likely to me. In fact, the DHS seems to serve very little purpose besides giving the government more control over our basic rights than has ever been exercised or even needed.
And besides, IE is not even an option for anyone serious about, well, serious about anything.
Yes and no.
I personally use Netscape on my home machine, Firefox on my laptop, and I was using Mozilla prior to Firefox. Every time I go into IE for any reason, I feel like I've taken a step back 5 years just from the lack of tabbed browsing.
On the other hand, if I'm writing an application that has to pop up a browser window to, say, take a user to a support web site, I'm going to pop up IE. I know it's there, I know it will work, and I know how to talk to it.
Aside:
Bush/Cheney 04-- Because you don't change horsemen mid-apocalypse!
Geez, I hope that's just sarcasm, as in, "Bush/Cheney -- Saving on military expenditures by killing off soldiers!"