How can you lift a 1000 Km cable into space, then control where one end of it lands? And how do you get a dead mass back up the other end once your shuttle has gone off and isn't available to counter-weight the dead mass that came back down when it was launched?
I'm with you. With Compiz as your window manager, and an ordinary VT100 terminal emulator, or perhaps Emacs-GTK with a black background, you can make your computer look like a Hollywood movie hacker's computer, with it actually BEING a hacker's computer that can actually hack things. It's not the 3D that matters, it is how quick and efficient you are at searching through lots of code and modifying it. If the 3D isn't helping you be more efficient at that, get rid of it.
I hate Hollywood style hacking with all that fancy 3D graphics that flash around on the computer screen while the "programmer" sits in front of it typing randomly on the keyboard saying, things like "512 bit encryption", "almost, almost", "come on!", "don't do this to me", "got it!".
So now we have an actual hacking application with actual 3D graphics that actually mean something. Too bad it doesn't look as cool as in the movies.
They also describe how a texting toy targeted at teenage girls can be modified to jam transmissions from the affected radios, either encrypted or not."
A texting toy targeted at teenage twats 'twas transformed to twist transmissions 'tween totalitarian terrorist-tackling tards.
At least the HotSpot JVM is GPL'd, that alone makes it better than.NET. LLVM is open source (though not GPL), so it may make a viable alternative to Java some day.
Other lightweight open source alternatives are Mozilla SpiderMonkey, GHCI (interactive Haskell interpreter), the Python VM, and the Perl VM, the Ruby VM, Parrot (does Perl, Python, and Ruby bytecode) and Emacs. Unfortunately, I don't see people writing web applications using Python or Perl (except for the back-end maybe). Emacs was once great, but lack of proper graphical interface programming means it is forever stuck in its niche as a text editor. Everything is changing over to JavaScript, so that leaves us with SpiderMonkey as the only hope for an open source VM (Google's V8 is not open source) that is both widely used and specially tuned for executing a popular programming language. But you can't really call JavaScript an alternative to Java, because the two technologies are so different.
The advantage of a virtual machine is that it isolates execution into a safe environment, but this advantage is superficial: since the VM increase the complexity of the application, it actually makes the attack surface larger and less secure. The only real advantage of using a VM is that it allows you to essentially outsource the job of porting the platform-specific implementation details of your software to the company that provides your virtual machine. And since Java is provided by Oracle, IBM, and Google (through Android), there is enough competition to keep Java technology fresh and modern (unless the patent wars wreck everything). And that is the best thing about Java: its popular, mature, and implemented by several huge and competing corporations. It's a shame that Java never integrated with browsers too well, and that's why Java lost out to JavaScript in the cloud computing world. Java is still an essential part of the enterprise though.
Hey, there's nothing wrong with Beelzebub! I am personally offended you would blaspheme Beelzebub. Plus, I think Java 7 is truly a game-changer in the software world, and it will forever change the way people use computers from now on! (And trust me, I am not just saying that because I am paid to).
I use Google reader to read RSS feeds. I just keep a tab open all day, new items show up almost as soon as they are published. Then, I use Google reader to subscribe to RSS feeds from ArsTechnica.com, TheScientists.com, NewScientist.com, Gizmag.com, and other sites like these. Then, you can just browse through your subscribed RSS feeds for articles. Every RSS item has an article summary and links to the source article, and I read through the ones that catch my eye.
Sometimes it is hard to keep up, but I feel like I am keeping on top of things this way.
You only use Terminal.app for nethack?
Jeez, I use a VT100 terminal emulator running bash every single day of my life to do real work. Emacs or Vim: those do 50% of everything you need your computer to do, and run in the terminal. The other 50% is done by Chrome or Firefox.
It doesn't take much to get a nostalgia-fix if using 30-year-old software is all it takes. Bourne shell and the C programming language are as old as UNIX, about 38 years old. The amazing thing is, all of this software is still incredibly usefull.
This is USELESS!!!
They don't explain how to make positive/negative doped PlayDough. How the hell do they expect us to create PN-junctions? No amplifiers, no digital logic, this is totally, totally useless.
Those morons,
If they wanted to get off for free, they should have gone to the United States. In the USA, "freedom" means being a slave to one or more sociopaths (we call them "wallstreet bankers") who have the the right to steal everything you own and screw your wife and daughters right in front of your eyes. "Justice" in the USA means you can go to jail or loose everything you own for inventing something cool, or independently publishing music or videos.
I really don't know why ANYONE bothers committing crimes anywhere else in the world, the US government lets sociopaths get away with anything.
Every time I read an article from IT-World that has been posted to Slashdot, I am overwhelmed by the sheer stupidity of the articles. Anyone who works at IT-World talks about using their computer as if it were some kind of advanced typewriter. Have these people ever used a real computer in their life?
The worst article I have ever seen there was some guy who went on and on about how he hates Microsoft Word's new features and wished he had a nicer editor... Yeah.. sure... and I guess there are only two operating systems in the whole world, Windows and Mac, and there are only four editors in the whole world: Word, Notepad, and WordPad, and Mac OS TextEdit.
Now this moron who wrote the TFA claims to route six or seven e-mail addresses all to G-Mali, and relies entirely on search to retrieve information from it? Now he thinks it might be some kind of fun or interesting challenge to actually read everything for once? He doesn't use a non-web based e-mail client with better indexing features? He doesn't use filtering? He doesn't create separate folders for mailing lists and social-networking notifications? What the FUCK is wrong with this guy?
They're miracles, that's how they work. Just pray real hard and your data will be computerd. Take an logic-invert circuit (NOT-gate) for example: zero goes in, one comes out, never a miscommunication -- you can't explain that.
$4.99 is great for a professional IDE. Yes, it used to be even better when it was free. But $4.99 is nothing for what you get. You should find gcc 4.2.1 in/Developer/usr/bin.
Yet Emacs is free and is the best IDE there is. Fortunately, Mac OS X also comes with Emacs pre-installed (last I checked), even before you install XCode. OS X also has Python and Perl pre-installed, so with those and Emacs you have all the software development technology you need (unless you want to do low-level stuff with C/C++), and it is available without installing XCode, all in the "Home Basic" version of OS X.
Of course, this is all true of Linux as well, and nearly every Linux distro out there also includes GCC in their installation media, so you can install it without a separate download. So the real issue is, will you use an open source OS or not?
Of course the growing use of cell phone video to watch the watchers may be changing that equation... it is one thing to be disrespected. It is entirely another thing to be held up to ridicule on youtube.
@Cytotoxic, you may have missed this slashdot story. You may be right for now, but its only a matter of time before even our camera's fail to protect us from the perfect and absolute facism that will inevitably take hold of our people.
Personally, I absolutely love what Steve Ballmer is doing for Microsoft. The more they fail (the smaller their monopoly), the more innovation we will see in computer/software technology. I am glad Google and Apple have come in and shaken things up.
Suppose Microsoft had continued the way they were going in the mid-90's. If that were the case, I believe that rather than using app-stores on our Android or iPhone devices, we would probably all still be carrying single-function cell phones, sitting in front of our desktops PC's or 7-pound laptops, installing $60 software that performs the same functionality as Picasa or Google Maps from CD's that we bought packaged in cardboard boxes from Best Buy or Wal-Mart.
I'm a Lib, but I can't agree to this move by California.
First of all, don't tax online services, because it hurts consumers. Secondly, why are they charging tax on items purchased? Why raise taxes on things ordinary people want to buy? They should be doing a progressive tax take a larger percent from top earners in the state, there are plenty of wealthy people in California. But in todays political climate, that would be impossible, and cries of socialism from right-wing retards would drown out any reasonable debate. California needs money, politicians don't want to tax their corporate campaign contributors, the economy is going down the drain, and what happens? The Democrats pass a law to make the middle class pays for the problems of the uber-wealthy yet again.
Democrats are accused of being socialists, but really they are just making the rich richer and the poor poorer, just like the Republicans. I would prefer free enterprise over socialism, but if I had to choose between socialism and whatever-the-fuck economic system we have now, I would choose socialism to this any day.
Not if I complete my First-In-Never-Out data structure first! I'm thinking of calling it a 'pile'.
Sorry, Linux has had that for years. Its called "/dev/null".
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@GCsoftware: I could be wrong, but believe Runaway1956 is talking about JavaScript. Since scripts must be transmitted to and stored on every client it runs on, 3 MB can make a big difference, even if caching is helping you along. Not only is optimizing for memory and CPU usage important, but filtering the comments and white-spaces, and renaming symbols to the minimum length allowable by the syntax can help squeeze out every last bit of performance. Google does this to the code in several of their apps.
But I may be misunderstanding him. @Runaway1956, why are you talking about memory leaks if indeed you are talking about removing comments from JavaScript?
PS: uptime on my Linux desktop is 91 days, because my kernel lets me apply patches/updates on the fly.
when you bought the game. The contract says, "In purchasing this game, I will be on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, ready to bend over and spread my ass cheeks and take the full length and girth of whatever appendage they insert at a moments notice and at the whim of the corporate owners of this game."
People never learn: corporations want your money, they don't care whether or not you have fun, or whether or not you are entertained. They don't give a crap about quality, no matter how much lip service they pay it. They only care about the stock price going up at the end of the financial quarter, and the patent laws and DRM and copyrights and EULA contracts are a means to this end, and you were stupid enough to agree.
If you are so concerned about being treated fairly, then you should spend more money supporting open source software and hardware. "Oh, but open source games suck." That's you're own damn fault -- that's what you get for helping to make the gaming industry the multi-billion-dollar buttfucking machine that it is.
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How can you lift a 1000 Km cable into space, then control where one end of it lands? And how do you get a dead mass back up the other end once your shuttle has gone off and isn't available to counter-weight the dead mass that came back down when it was launched?
Actually, now that I think about it, it looks more like Johny Quest.
I'm with you.
With Compiz as your window manager, and an ordinary VT100 terminal emulator, or perhaps Emacs-GTK with a black background, you can make your computer look like a Hollywood movie hacker's computer, with it actually BEING a hacker's computer that can actually hack things. It's not the 3D that matters, it is how quick and efficient you are at searching through lots of code and modifying it. If the 3D isn't helping you be more efficient at that, get rid of it.
I hate Hollywood style hacking with all that fancy 3D graphics that flash around on the computer screen while the "programmer" sits in front of it typing randomly on the keyboard saying, things like "512 bit encryption", "almost, almost", "come on!", "don't do this to me", "got it!".
So now we have an actual hacking application with actual 3D graphics that actually mean something. Too bad it doesn't look as cool as in the movies.
They also describe how a texting toy targeted at teenage girls can be modified to jam transmissions from the affected radios, either encrypted or not."
A texting toy targeted at teenage twats 'twas transformed to twist transmissions 'tween totalitarian terrorist-tackling tards.
The article says it is only good for a single viewer.
I think it is better to simply increase the number of points where the 3D illusion is visible.
At least the HotSpot JVM is GPL'd, that alone makes it better than .NET. LLVM is open source (though not GPL), so it may make a viable alternative to Java some day.
Other lightweight open source alternatives are Mozilla SpiderMonkey, GHCI (interactive Haskell interpreter), the Python VM, and the Perl VM, the Ruby VM, Parrot (does Perl, Python, and Ruby bytecode) and Emacs. Unfortunately, I don't see people writing web applications using Python or Perl (except for the back-end maybe). Emacs was once great, but lack of proper graphical interface programming means it is forever stuck in its niche as a text editor. Everything is changing over to JavaScript, so that leaves us with SpiderMonkey as the only hope for an open source VM (Google's V8 is not open source) that is both widely used and specially tuned for executing a popular programming language. But you can't really call JavaScript an alternative to Java, because the two technologies are so different.
The advantage of a virtual machine is that it isolates execution into a safe environment, but this advantage is superficial: since the VM increase the complexity of the application, it actually makes the attack surface larger and less secure. The only real advantage of using a VM is that it allows you to essentially outsource the job of porting the platform-specific implementation details of your software to the company that provides your virtual machine. And since Java is provided by Oracle, IBM, and Google (through Android), there is enough competition to keep Java technology fresh and modern (unless the patent wars wreck everything). And that is the best thing about Java: its popular, mature, and implemented by several huge and competing corporations. It's a shame that Java never integrated with browsers too well, and that's why Java lost out to JavaScript in the cloud computing world. Java is still an essential part of the enterprise though.
Hey, there's nothing wrong with Beelzebub! I am personally offended you would blaspheme Beelzebub.
Plus, I think Java 7 is truly a game-changer in the software world, and it will forever change the way people use computers from now on!
(And trust me, I am not just saying that because I am paid to).
I use Google reader to read RSS feeds. I just keep a tab open all day, new items show up almost as soon as they are published. Then, I use Google reader to subscribe to RSS feeds from ArsTechnica.com, TheScientists.com, NewScientist.com, Gizmag.com, and other sites like these. Then, you can just browse through your subscribed RSS feeds for articles. Every RSS item has an article summary and links to the source article, and I read through the ones that catch my eye.
Sometimes it is hard to keep up, but I feel like I am keeping on top of things this way.
You only use Terminal.app for nethack?
Jeez, I use a VT100 terminal emulator running bash every single day of my life to do real work. Emacs or Vim: those do 50% of everything you need your computer to do, and run in the terminal. The other 50% is done by Chrome or Firefox.
It doesn't take much to get a nostalgia-fix if using 30-year-old software is all it takes. Bourne shell and the C programming language are as old as UNIX, about 38 years old. The amazing thing is, all of this software is still incredibly usefull.
This is USELESS!!!
They don't explain how to make positive/negative doped PlayDough. How the hell do they expect us to create PN-junctions? No amplifiers, no digital logic, this is totally, totally useless.
Those morons,
If they wanted to get off for free, they should have gone to the United States. In the USA, "freedom" means being a slave to one or more sociopaths (we call them "wallstreet bankers") who have the the right to steal everything you own and screw your wife and daughters right in front of your eyes. "Justice" in the USA means you can go to jail or loose everything you own for inventing something cool, or independently publishing music or videos.
I really don't know why ANYONE bothers committing crimes anywhere else in the world, the US government lets sociopaths get away with anything.
Every time I read an article from IT-World that has been posted to Slashdot, I am overwhelmed by the sheer stupidity of the articles. Anyone who works at IT-World talks about using their computer as if it were some kind of advanced typewriter. Have these people ever used a real computer in their life?
The worst article I have ever seen there was some guy who went on and on about how he hates Microsoft Word's new features and wished he had a nicer editor... Yeah.. sure... and I guess there are only two operating systems in the whole world, Windows and Mac, and there are only four editors in the whole world: Word, Notepad, and WordPad, and Mac OS TextEdit.
Now this moron who wrote the TFA claims to route six or seven e-mail addresses all to G-Mali, and relies entirely on search to retrieve information from it? Now he thinks it might be some kind of fun or interesting challenge to actually read everything for once? He doesn't use a non-web based e-mail client with better indexing features? He doesn't use filtering? He doesn't create separate folders for mailing lists and social-networking notifications? What the FUCK is wrong with this guy?
They're miracles, that's how they work. Just pray real hard and your data will be computerd.
Take an logic-invert circuit (NOT-gate) for example: zero goes in, one comes out, never a miscommunication -- you can't explain that.
I'll be your friend if you invite me to Google+.
Actually, I'm serious, I've been longing to try it out.
Or is it Intel, MIPS, AMD, or what? I would hope its an ARM arm.
$4.99 is great for a professional IDE. Yes, it used to be even better when it was free. But $4.99 is nothing for what you get. /Developer/usr/bin.
You should find gcc 4.2.1 in
Yet Emacs is free and is the best IDE there is. Fortunately, Mac OS X also comes with Emacs pre-installed (last I checked), even before you install XCode. OS X also has Python and Perl pre-installed, so with those and Emacs you have all the software development technology you need (unless you want to do low-level stuff with C/C++), and it is available without installing XCode, all in the "Home Basic" version of OS X.
Of course, this is all true of Linux as well, and nearly every Linux distro out there also includes GCC in their installation media, so you can install it without a separate download. So the real issue is, will you use an open source OS or not?
Of course the growing use of cell phone video to watch the watchers may be changing that equation... it is one thing to be disrespected. It is entirely another thing to be held up to ridicule on youtube.
@Cytotoxic, you may have missed this slashdot story. You may be right for now, but its only a matter of time before even our camera's fail to protect us from the perfect and absolute facism that will inevitably take hold of our people.
Personally, I absolutely love what Steve Ballmer is doing for Microsoft. The more they fail (the smaller their monopoly), the more innovation we will see in computer/software technology. I am glad Google and Apple have come in and shaken things up.
Suppose Microsoft had continued the way they were going in the mid-90's. If that were the case, I believe that rather than using app-stores on our Android or iPhone devices, we would probably all still be carrying single-function cell phones, sitting in front of our desktops PC's or 7-pound laptops, installing $60 software that performs the same functionality as Picasa or Google Maps from CD's that we bought packaged in cardboard boxes from Best Buy or Wal-Mart.
I'm a Lib, but I can't agree to this move by California.
First of all, don't tax online services, because it hurts consumers. Secondly, why are they charging tax on items purchased? Why raise taxes on things ordinary people want to buy? They should be doing a progressive tax take a larger percent from top earners in the state, there are plenty of wealthy people in California. But in todays political climate, that would be impossible, and cries of socialism from right-wing retards would drown out any reasonable debate. California needs money, politicians don't want to tax their corporate campaign contributors, the economy is going down the drain, and what happens? The Democrats pass a law to make the middle class pays for the problems of the uber-wealthy yet again.
Democrats are accused of being socialists, but really they are just making the rich richer and the poor poorer, just like the Republicans. I would prefer free enterprise over socialism, but if I had to choose between socialism and whatever-the-fuck economic system we have now, I would choose socialism to this any day.
Not if I complete my First-In-Never-Out data structure first! I'm thinking of calling it a 'pile'.
Sorry, Linux has had that for years. Its called "/dev/null".
@GCsoftware: I could be wrong, but believe Runaway1956 is talking about JavaScript. Since scripts must be transmitted to and stored on every client it runs on, 3 MB can make a big difference, even if caching is helping you along. Not only is optimizing for memory and CPU usage important, but filtering the comments and white-spaces, and renaming symbols to the minimum length allowable by the syntax can help squeeze out every last bit of performance. Google does this to the code in several of their apps.
But I may be misunderstanding him.
@Runaway1956, why are you talking about memory leaks if indeed you are talking about removing comments from JavaScript?
PS: uptime on my Linux desktop is 91 days, because my kernel lets me apply patches/updates on the fly.
when you bought the game. The contract says, "In purchasing this game, I will be on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, ready to bend over and spread my ass cheeks and take the full length and girth of whatever appendage they insert at a moments notice and at the whim of the corporate owners of this game."
People never learn: corporations want your money, they don't care whether or not you have fun, or whether or not you are entertained. They don't give a crap about quality, no matter how much lip service they pay it. They only care about the stock price going up at the end of the financial quarter, and the patent laws and DRM and copyrights and EULA contracts are a means to this end, and you were stupid enough to agree.
If you are so concerned about being treated fairly, then you should spend more money supporting open source software and hardware. "Oh, but open source games suck." That's you're own damn fault -- that's what you get for helping to make the gaming industry the multi-billion-dollar buttfucking machine that it is.
Good call. I hope, if this talking point is catches on, it helps to expose the right for what they really are -- fascists.
This is the best post. Agree 100%.