Well, *yeah* there's *him*, but he's a brown-skinned muslim terrorist! He certainly doesn't qualify as a citizen, and barely as a human. No we really meant a *real* American citizen... you know, an All-American boy with a good background. I mean, *jeez*... that one used to be a gang member. Those people kill each other in the streets like filthy animals, you know!
No, we really only need people here who Think Like We Do, embody Family Values and Defend Our American Way of Life. All the rest aren't Patriots, they Hate America and should go back to wherever they came from. Michael Savage had the right of it... wouldn't you rather sacrifice (murder) 100 million foreign muslims than THOUSANDS of innocent Americans!!
And besides, that's the BBC, and they're European anyway... how about something Fair and Balanced?
Cool! Let's have an illegal linux port! If the linux gamer market is so small that it isn't worth developing for, then it sure as hell isn't worth worrying about...
True. ComCast in Utah has some of the worst, most atrocious DNS servers I've ever seen (including incumbent local exchange companies in even more remote states, and other monopoly cable providers in more backward places). During the time while my room-mates and I were customers (not any more! yay!) I routinely used DNS addresses from a hosting company I built/ran servers for, located ~3000+ miles away, and enjoyed faster and more robust performance.
At least OpenDNS *claims* not to spy on you. Try to find a national cable ISP that even *claims* to give a shit about your privacy (or even mention that DNS usage logs could even be correlated with customer usage). Or, more specifically, try to find one that prominantly claims (anywhere on their corporate customer support site) to bind themselves against unnecessary customer information release.
Well, unless you use a PDA with a keyboard (like a discontinued Zaurus w/IR keyboard), your "beastie" is going to require peripherals... monitor, power supply, keyboard, mouse (if you *really* need one). Hence, a laptop, hence an external computer. I guess you can run linux on an iPaq, but my guess is that it is underpowered compared to the BlackDog's (I believe, dual-core) 400mHz PowerPC (the best iPaq has a ~650mHz intel chip).
My guess is that you'll probably want a laptop or PDA. Otherwise, if you already have a laptop, the BlackDog is really really nice for having your server not be on your laptop while you are doing development. Then, once you have a prototype version of your code ready, the BlackDog is all you have to take with you on the road to demo it.
Yeah, in a post below this one, I mentioned Realm System's USB personal servers, which offer two-factor authentication (or three if you want to add a password, which you apparently can, but that's probably not too necessary).
The guys at Realm Systems have a line of small usb servers (a bit wider than an ipod nano) that have a gig or so of flash memory, a PowerPC processor, and fire up a desktop on your machine when you plug them into a USB port. They are running an embedded Linux distribution and use a biometric thumbprint scanner to authenticate their users. Each device can be administered by a management router box in your bank's network.
Check them out! Their web site is www.realmsys.com
Note, you do need internet world wide web browsing software to access these addresses (I suggest firefox). Google for 'download firefox' to get a copy!
Document revisioning and change tracking was a feature of OpenOffice.org since (at least) version 1.x, and it (at least) works well enough for collaborative editing of graduate theses. I don't know how far that extends to document editing in industry, but my experience with it has shown the feature to be reasonably robust.
At any rate, this feature is a non-issue in determining what "required" functionality MS Office offers. I think that we are going about this discovery the wrong way. MS's approach is usually one of implicit integration, so I would suggest searching for features that a document format could support that involve multiple other MS products.
Maybe it's their "Office Live" crap, or some DRM mechanism, or some Outlook/Exchange integration involving the.DOC metadata.
But really, who knows? I'm thinking that Jason Matusow's comment sounds like vague, thinly-veiled FUD in the absence of anything like evidence. I am, however, open minded and I welcome a more thorough (unbiased! I hope) feature analysis from someone familiar with both.
Any insiders feel like anonymously leaking the particular mechanism? The real story here, I think, is what sort of DRM mechanism they'll use to control playback, and consequently, ex post facto removal of commercials.
I'm assuming there will have to be some cryptographic mechanism that junks the bitstream after the place the edit takes place.
Yeah, like doppler radar, for example. A product like Eaton's VORAD is only accurate past ~25 feet, and depends on an object moving within it's range (narrow angle, ten degrees or so). It can look out rather far, but if nothing is moving, it won't pick anything up (like the Tyrannosaurs in Jurassic Park (= ).
I think most police radar guns use a doppler shift technique, so they would need to be pointed at a moving object. However, a quick look at the websites of commercial radar gun companies shows that several are offering "stationary" models. I'm not sure if that means the gun is stationary, or that it rates stationary objects as not moving or, more likely, that the "motion" model/mode claims to clock a vehicle maybe while the detector itself is moving. Who knows?
At any rate, if I was clocked speeding with some newfangled moving radar gun on a busy road from an officer in a patrol car somewhere, I'd be mighty interested in exactly how it purports to pick out my vehicle amongst others, and what guarantee there is that its accuracy matches the manufacturers claims.
Yeah, and god forbid you drop them in a snowbank... first of all, gloves do NOTHING at 55 below with wind, and second, nothing makes them worse than nothing like snow caked on while you dig through the snowbank, give up, and pull your spare key out of your wallet.
Then again, people who've never lived with cold winters never seem to understand how one locks themselves out of a running car...
At least with keys, you can come back later and dig it up with some shovels, a couple of buddies, and a thermos of coffee.
I can't even imagine how pissed off I'd be if losing a stupid little usb flash stick in a freakin' snowbank somehow got between me and the heated seats in my Subie!
Yes, if you combined the interfaces of Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand, Fireworks and Painter, the Gimp's interface would be superior. The sheer number of windows, palettes, toolboxes, sliders and strange controls would be overwhelming.
I disagree. A document generated in OOo 2.0 beta looks fine in OOo 1.0.0, but an MS Office 2002 document may not in MS Office 7, 95, 98, or any of those on Macs or vice versa. I've seen more than one occasion where even current Office X documents look great on Win32 Office 2002 but not the other way around. It's frustrating and annoying, and is not a bad point for OOo. Too bad MS Office doesn't have a pluggable mechanism for input filters like OOo does, or everyone could standardize on OASIS documents regardless of which of the two they chose.
Yeah, nethack is awesome, but it only needs EVERY key on the keyboard (maybe you could get the amulet faster with *two* keyboards... I've never tried that).
I guess the poster could use a 'pickboard' style of keyboard-key choosing (probably the same as he/she is already using to type). Since the only input to nethack is single keyboard keys, I would suggest voice-recognition rather than relying on the headmouse. That would probably improve enjoyment and playability immeasurably.
I think Frozen Bubble could be modified to be playable with left-right panning and a click type movement. It may already be possible. My wife *loves* that game; it has tetris-like addictivity. The developer is a nice guy too...
If you are still calling it FireBird, than perhaps it is already "as kick ass as Opera", since it has been called FireFox for almost a year now, and has reached version 1.0... it has more user-installable community-created extensions than Opera (and some of them are useful too! Like adblock, bugmenot, the gooogle toolbar, and the web development toolbar...).
The project has garnered a lot of attention, reached a major-version-numbered release, and has certainly risen from the ashes, as it's original Pheonix name would have suggested... perhaps its worth another look.
I mean, hell... it fucking free, after all!! Both the RMS way, and the ESR kind of way...
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Well, *yeah* there's *him*, but he's a brown-skinned muslim terrorist! He certainly doesn't qualify as a citizen, and barely as a human. No we really meant a *real* American citizen... you know, an All-American boy with a good background. I mean, *jeez*... that one used to be a gang member. Those people kill each other in the streets like filthy animals, you know!
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No, we really only need people here who Think Like We Do, embody Family Values and Defend Our American Way of Life. All the rest aren't Patriots, they Hate America and should go back to wherever they came from. Michael Savage had the right of it... wouldn't you rather sacrifice (murder) 100 million foreign muslims than THOUSANDS of innocent Americans!!
And besides, that's the BBC, and they're European anyway... how about something Fair and Balanced?
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Eh? Metroid? I think not... there's a console selling franchise if I ever saw one...
Cool! Let's have an illegal linux port! If the linux gamer market is so small that it isn't worth developing for, then it sure as hell isn't worth worrying about...
True. ComCast in Utah has some of the worst, most atrocious DNS servers I've ever seen (including incumbent local exchange companies in even more remote states, and other monopoly cable providers in more backward places). During the time while my room-mates and I were customers (not any more! yay!) I routinely used DNS addresses from a hosting company I built/ran servers for, located ~3000+ miles away, and enjoyed faster and more robust performance.
At least OpenDNS *claims* not to spy on you. Try to find a national cable ISP that even *claims* to give a shit about your privacy (or even mention that DNS usage logs could even be correlated with customer usage). Or, more specifically, try to find one that prominantly claims (anywhere on their corporate customer support site) to bind themselves against unnecessary customer information release.
Yeah, especially because sybian.org has text in it like "rapture" and the "coming climax"... search engine confusion?
Well, unless you use a PDA with a keyboard (like a discontinued Zaurus w/IR keyboard), your "beastie" is going to require peripherals... monitor, power supply, keyboard, mouse (if you *really* need one). Hence, a laptop, hence an external computer. I guess you can run linux on an iPaq, but my guess is that it is underpowered compared to the BlackDog's (I believe, dual-core) 400mHz PowerPC (the best iPaq has a ~650mHz intel chip).
My guess is that you'll probably want a laptop or PDA. Otherwise, if you already have a laptop, the BlackDog is really really nice for having your server not be on your laptop while you are doing development. Then, once you have a prototype version of your code ready, the BlackDog is all you have to take with you on the road to demo it.
Yeah, in a post below this one, I mentioned Realm System's USB personal servers, which offer two-factor authentication (or three if you want to add a password, which you apparently can, but that's probably not too necessary).
Eh? I don't have a $10B bank.
Very confused by your post...
*sigh*
I'm glad the mods actually checked the links before trolling me down... those links were clean!!
The guys at Realm Systems have a line of small usb servers (a bit wider than an ipod nano) that have a gig or so of flash memory, a PowerPC processor, and fire up a desktop on your machine when you plug them into a USB port. They are running an embedded Linux distribution and use a biometric thumbprint scanner to authenticate their users. Each device can be administered by a management router box in your bank's network.
Check them out! Their web site is www.realmsys.com
Sure thing! Wikipedia knows all about Google! Try:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google
You can also learn about Vim!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor)
You can also learn about Wikipedia!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
Note, you do need internet world wide web browsing software to access these addresses (I suggest firefox). Google for 'download firefox' to get a copy!
Document revisioning and change tracking was a feature of OpenOffice.org since (at least) version 1.x, and it (at least) works well enough for collaborative editing of graduate theses. I don't know how far that extends to document editing in industry, but my experience with it has shown the feature to be reasonably robust.
.DOC metadata.
At any rate, this feature is a non-issue in determining what "required" functionality MS Office offers. I think that we are going about this discovery the wrong way. MS's approach is usually one of implicit integration, so I would suggest searching for features that a document format could support that involve multiple other MS products.
Maybe it's their "Office Live" crap, or some DRM mechanism, or some Outlook/Exchange integration involving the
But really, who knows? I'm thinking that Jason Matusow's comment sounds like vague, thinly-veiled FUD in the absence of anything like evidence. I am, however, open minded and I welcome a more thorough (unbiased! I hope) feature analysis from someone familiar with both.
Any insiders feel like anonymously leaking the particular mechanism? The real story here, I think, is what sort of DRM mechanism they'll use to control playback, and consequently, ex post facto removal of commercials.
I'm assuming there will have to be some cryptographic mechanism that junks the bitstream after the place the edit takes place.
Yeah, like doppler radar, for example. A product like Eaton's VORAD is only accurate past ~25 feet, and depends on an object moving within it's range (narrow angle, ten degrees or so). It can look out rather far, but if nothing is moving, it won't pick anything up (like the Tyrannosaurs in Jurassic Park (= ).
I think most police radar guns use a doppler shift technique, so they would need to be pointed at a moving object. However, a quick look at the websites of commercial radar gun companies shows that several are offering "stationary" models. I'm not sure if that means the gun is stationary, or that it rates stationary objects as not moving or, more likely, that the "motion" model/mode claims to clock a vehicle maybe while the detector itself is moving. Who knows?
At any rate, if I was clocked speeding with some newfangled moving radar gun on a busy road from an officer in a patrol car somewhere, I'd be mighty interested in exactly how it purports to pick out my vehicle amongst others, and what guarantee there is that its accuracy matches the manufacturers claims.
Personally, I never look at the pictures. I only read the articles.
Yeah, and god forbid you drop them in a snowbank... first of all, gloves do NOTHING at 55 below with wind, and second, nothing makes them worse than nothing like snow caked on while you dig through the snowbank, give up, and pull your spare key out of your wallet.
Then again, people who've never lived with cold winters never seem to understand how one locks themselves out of a running car...
At least with keys, you can come back later and dig it up with some shovels, a couple of buddies, and a thermos of coffee.
I can't even imagine how pissed off I'd be if losing a stupid little usb flash stick in a freakin' snowbank somehow got between me and the heated seats in my Subie!
Befunge, anyone? I hear it's pretty cross platform... maybe Intel will make an optimized Befunge compiler, and a new day will dawn...
Yes, if you combined the interfaces of Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand, Fireworks and Painter, the Gimp's interface would be superior. The sheer number of windows, palettes, toolboxes, sliders and strange controls would be overwhelming.
Yeah, that would be Blender...
I disagree. A document generated in OOo 2.0 beta looks fine in OOo 1.0.0, but an MS Office 2002 document may not in MS Office 7, 95, 98, or any of those on Macs or vice versa. I've seen more than one occasion where even current Office X documents look great on Win32 Office 2002 but not the other way around. It's frustrating and annoying, and is not a bad point for OOo. Too bad MS Office doesn't have a pluggable mechanism for input filters like OOo does, or everyone could standardize on OASIS documents regardless of which of the two they chose.
Jon Katz, you sneaky bastard! Didn't you post something like this last year? Well, you're busted now, we know who you are ;)
Yeah, nethack is awesome, but it only needs EVERY key on the keyboard (maybe you could get the amulet faster with *two* keyboards... I've never tried that).
I guess the poster could use a 'pickboard' style of keyboard-key choosing (probably the same as he/she is already using to type). Since the only input to nethack is single keyboard keys, I would suggest voice-recognition rather than relying on the headmouse. That would probably improve enjoyment and playability immeasurably.
I think Frozen Bubble could be modified to be playable with left-right panning and a click type movement. It may already be possible. My wife *loves* that game; it has tetris-like addictivity. The developer is a nice guy too...
If you are still calling it FireBird, than perhaps it is already "as kick ass as Opera", since it has been called FireFox for almost a year now, and has reached version 1.0... it has more user-installable community-created extensions than Opera (and some of them are useful too! Like adblock, bugmenot, the gooogle toolbar, and the web development toolbar...).
The project has garnered a lot of attention, reached a major-version-numbered release, and has certainly risen from the ashes, as it's original Pheonix name would have suggested... perhaps its worth another look.
I mean, hell... it fucking free, after all!! Both the RMS way, and the ESR kind of way...
Give me a Modular Access Router manual any day!
"... and Mama Bear routes the frame to the switch port!"
Nope, not osmosis. That's just for water. She'll pick it up by diffusion.
However, a cleverly written folk tale about a wise and wandering IT consultant might help decrease her chances of geek-toxicity...
Can't lay it on too thick. There has to be an actual moral; it's just the interlocutors that should embody non-blue-collar traditional roles.