I've had my fill of lusers, certainly.
But Cleatus and Grandma won't have the mental capacity to appreciate network security or even take basic precautions. (As evidenced by the number of emails I get from my own grandma that read "This is a really clever animation; it's not a virus, I ran it and my computer's still fine.)
More likely Internet Service Providers will strongly restrict all IP traffic and make just about the only destination port you can reach be 80, and forget any incoming traffic. Those of us who actually know what we're doing and who actually could use some incoming connections will have to upgrade to a super-premium account (costing $$$) or buy our own Internet access connections (costing $$$).
I set up my own very first rack (21U of space) in the equipment closet in my house (custom built so it'd have an equipment closet). The rack houses an Ethernet switch, patch panel, UPS, two 1U servers, and a 2U RAID server. (Yes, I need this much equipment.)
I originally placed all the equipment right on top of each other, leaving 12U open. What a mistake! It was up about 30 minutes before the RAID array complained of multiple drive failures and one of the other servers was hung hard. The entire rack itself was painfully hot to the touch.
Leaving 1U of space between the equipment was all it took to solve the problem. Convection---you gotta love it.
Whenever I've given into hype, my wallet's regretted it. But buying the current way-cool game a year-and-a-half or more later almost always guarantees it'll run just fine on my current hardware.
There's all the free walkthroughs, hints, and cheat codes on the web by then, too.
There are so many hidden costs that the mind boggles at the prospect. An edict like "Use Laptops" handed down from on high is highly suspect.
Consider: laptops have batteries, batteries require charging, charging comes from wall outlets, wall outlets require power generation, most power generation is from coal. (I use a similar argument in my choice to use disposable diapers with my child: cloth diapers require water, solvents, and sewers.)
When I was an undergraduate, we were forbidden from having microwave ovens in our dorm rooms. (I realize I'm showing my age here.) The reason? They used too much electricity. The university would have to raise dorm room prices across the board to accomodate those few people who used microwave ovens.
My coworkers say I'm an amazingly fast typist, but a lot of people can get by with a few scribbles even quicker than I can and still make sense of it. Such a regimentalizing of laptops could well affect students' capability for learning. It's one thing to recommend them, another thing to mandate them.
If I had moderator points, I'd give that a +1, Sales-Inspiring.
Seriously, I've played with my wife's Mac G4 laptop running OS X off and on, and I have to admit, it's really pretty GUI on top of a remarkable OS. (I'm a Unix bigot, though, so take that with a grain of salt.)
But I've held off plopping down money of my own for one. Gaming? I still need a Windows machine for that. Development? I still need a Unix machine for that. DVD Video? I'd like to be able to do that on the plane.
Not only has Apple been selling cinema-style flat panel displays for several years, but last year it filed patent application 20030002246, titled "active enclosure for computing device,"...
The orignal Diablo perfected the combat portion of computer role-playing games, elevating it to a near art form. Combined with stunning graphics (at the time), it was an outstanding game.
Diablo 2, released years later, was nothing more than more of the same. What a disappointment! It was repetitive and tedious: click-die, click-die, click-die. With better 3D graphics hardware and better processing power, they might've added some actual role-playing to the combat. But no, it's all just click the monster and watch it die.
What made it worse is that saving the game doesn't work. You can save anywhere, but you start back in "town," and all the baddies that you've tediously killed are back alive again. For that "feature" alone, I gave up playing after only a week.
And now the patch is out more than a year later, and the list of items addressed doesn't include the awful way it saves games. No thanks, Blizzard. You've wasted enough of my money.
From the article: "... you'll have to get used to providing additional information in declarations. Instead of merely saying:
List words = new ArrayList();
You'll have to say:
List<String> words = new ArrayList<String>();"
The way he says "you'll have to" suggests that old collection class construction might break. Let's hope that something like new ArrayList<Object> becomes the implicit default if you don't otherwise specify a type.
That's already happening, in fact! HD-Net shows some classic television series and movies tele-cine'd from their film formats and into 1080i high definition TV.
Then again, I'm not sure how useful it is to see classic Speed Racer and Hogan's Heroes this way, but it is available.
* Alias (widescreen high def)
* Smart Travels (widescreen high def)
* My Wife and Kids (widescreen high def)
* George Lopez (widescreen high def)
* Star Trek Enterprise (letterboxed standard def)
* Law and Order (widescreen high def)
* Jay Leno (widescreen high def)
* Crime Scene Investigation (widescreen high def)
* Manor House (widescreen standard def)
* Animals Behaving Badly (widescreen standard def)
* E.T. (ABC commercial presentation, widescreen high def)
* Dragnet (widescreen high def)
After light reflected from a scene hits the cones (color receptors) in the eye, neural signals from the retina travel to area 17, in the occipital lobe at the back of the brain.
And let me guess, conspiracy theorists and UFO-ophiles have a highly developed Area 51, right?
With aging fleets and decrepit old planes flying around, I'd imagine airlines would first provide 10-base-2 connections before they'd do anything as sophsiticated WiFi.
"For a nominal charge, you may rent an Ethernet Transceiver from the flight attendants..."
Fire up Bochs on your new Debian kernel on your NetBSD OS on your SPARC system and run an i386 system on which you may choose to run... oh, I don't know, maybe a copy of FreeBSD? Which itself could run Bochs---but in Linux emulation mode? And that could run MS-DOS?
Whatever you do, don't start a Java app at this point!
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Hah! Wonderful.
All that IP-level hacking I learned in college turns out to be pretty handy after all...
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... or could it?
Simple lap belt replaced with 7-point harness.
In-flight movie would just have to be Apollo 13.
In-flight beverage would be Tang.
Mandatory cavity search at security gate.
No sharp or blunt objects allowed on board.
That includes shoes.
In case of decompression, a preferred religious object will drop from ceiling.
True. I recall an old neighbor saying, after he installed Linux, "I just use root, so I never need to enter a password again."
Sigh.
I've had my fill of lusers, certainly. But Cleatus and Grandma won't have the mental capacity to appreciate network security or even take basic precautions. (As evidenced by the number of emails I get from my own grandma that read "This is a really clever animation; it's not a virus, I ran it and my computer's still fine.) More likely Internet Service Providers will strongly restrict all IP traffic and make just about the only destination port you can reach be 80, and forget any incoming traffic. Those of us who actually know what we're doing and who actually could use some incoming connections will have to upgrade to a super-premium account (costing $$$) or buy our own Internet access connections (costing $$$).
I set up my own very first rack (21U of space) in the equipment closet in my house (custom built so it'd have an equipment closet). The rack houses an Ethernet switch, patch panel, UPS, two 1U servers, and a 2U RAID server. (Yes, I need this much equipment.)
I originally placed all the equipment right on top of each other, leaving 12U open. What a mistake! It was up about 30 minutes before the RAID array complained of multiple drive failures and one of the other servers was hung hard. The entire rack itself was painfully hot to the touch.
Leaving 1U of space between the equipment was all it took to solve the problem. Convection---you gotta love it.
I think I'll just run a few dozen copies of these better pics off on the old color inkjet printer and ... hey, what's this "SPECIMEN" in red ink?
Must be part of the new security features!
... does Unix run Linux?
(I know, I know, too easy. Mod me down.)
Whenever I've given into hype, my wallet's regretted it. But buying the current way-cool game a year-and-a-half or more later almost always guarantees it'll run just fine on my current hardware.
There's all the free walkthroughs, hints, and cheat codes on the web by then, too.
There are so many hidden costs that the mind boggles at the prospect. An edict like "Use Laptops" handed down from on high is highly suspect.
Consider: laptops have batteries, batteries require charging, charging comes from wall outlets, wall outlets require power generation, most power generation is from coal. (I use a similar argument in my choice to use disposable diapers with my child: cloth diapers require water, solvents, and sewers.)
When I was an undergraduate, we were forbidden from having microwave ovens in our dorm rooms. (I realize I'm showing my age here.) The reason? They used too much electricity. The university would have to raise dorm room prices across the board to accomodate those few people who used microwave ovens.
My coworkers say I'm an amazingly fast typist, but a lot of people can get by with a few scribbles even quicker than I can and still make sense of it. Such a regimentalizing of laptops could well affect students' capability for learning. It's one thing to recommend them, another thing to mandate them.
If I had moderator points, I'd give that a +1, Sales-Inspiring.
Seriously, I've played with my wife's Mac G4 laptop running OS X off and on, and I have to admit, it's really pretty GUI on top of a remarkable OS. (I'm a Unix bigot, though, so take that with a grain of salt.)
But I've held off plopping down money of my own for one. Gaming? I still need a Windows machine for that. Development? I still need a Unix machine for that. DVD Video? I'd like to be able to do that on the plane.
I wonder how much is in my checking account...
Not only has Apple been selling cinema-style flat panel displays for several years, but last year it filed patent application 20030002246, titled "active enclosure for computing device," ...
Help, I'm conflicted.
The orignal Diablo perfected the combat portion of computer role-playing games, elevating it to a near art form. Combined with stunning graphics (at the time), it was an outstanding game.
Diablo 2, released years later, was nothing more than more of the same. What a disappointment! It was repetitive and tedious: click-die, click-die, click-die. With better 3D graphics hardware and better processing power, they might've added some actual role-playing to the combat. But no, it's all just click the monster and watch it die.
What made it worse is that saving the game doesn't work. You can save anywhere, but you start back in "town," and all the baddies that you've tediously killed are back alive again. For that "feature" alone, I gave up playing after only a week.
And now the patch is out more than a year later, and the list of items addressed doesn't include the awful way it saves games. No thanks, Blizzard. You've wasted enough of my money.
Charlie: Bloody typical, they've gone back to metric without telling us.
-- Brazil 1995, Terry Gilliam
From the article: "... you'll have to get used to providing additional information in declarations. Instead of merely saying:
List words = new ArrayList();
You'll have to say:
List<String> words = new ArrayList<String>();"
The way he says "you'll have to" suggests that old collection class construction might break. Let's hope that something like new ArrayList<Object> becomes the implicit default if you don't otherwise specify a type.
That's already happening, in fact! HD-Net shows some classic television series and movies tele-cine'd from their film formats and into 1080i high definition TV.
Then again, I'm not sure how useful it is to see classic Speed Racer and Hogan's Heroes this way, but it is available.
US TV is broadcasted in widescreen:
* Alias (widescreen high def)
* Smart Travels (widescreen high def)
* My Wife and Kids (widescreen high def)
* George Lopez (widescreen high def)
* Star Trek Enterprise (letterboxed standard def)
* Law and Order (widescreen high def)
* Jay Leno (widescreen high def)
* Crime Scene Investigation (widescreen high def)
* Manor House (widescreen standard def)
* Animals Behaving Badly (widescreen standard def)
* E.T. (ABC commercial presentation, widescreen high def)
* Dragnet (widescreen high def)
You want more examples? There's a lot more!
...but any pearls in the tea?
Could synesthesiacs be given preferential job offers as novelists and playwrights?
After light reflected from a scene hits the cones (color receptors) in the eye, neural signals from the retina travel to area 17, in the occipital lobe at the back of the brain.
And let me guess, conspiracy theorists and UFO-ophiles have a highly developed Area 51, right?
"I can see the music!" --Lisa Simpson, Selma's Choice.
Had no hard disk. No cooling fan.
I remember when a high school buddy said he got a new IBM to replace his old Amiga. He turned it on for me and said, "Hear that? That's power."
And I always thought the VPR in "VPR Matrix" meant "vapor".
... for example, many people find it reading and posting to /..
/.'s for Usenet might just make it tolerable again. (Usenet, that is.)
Come to think of it, a moderation system like
With aging fleets and decrepit old planes flying around, I'd imagine airlines would first provide 10-base-2 connections before they'd do anything as sophsiticated WiFi.
"For a nominal charge, you may rent an Ethernet Transceiver from the flight attendants..."
Fire up Bochs on your new Debian kernel on your NetBSD OS on your SPARC system and run an i386 system on which you may choose to run ... oh, I don't know, maybe a copy of FreeBSD? Which itself could run Bochs---but in Linux emulation mode? And that could run MS-DOS?
Whatever you do, don't start a Java app at this point!
Hah! Wonderful.
All that IP-level hacking I learned in college turns out to be pretty handy after all...