Well... Bin Laden DID use encryption to conceal his plans from the CIA... We should probably outlaw any form of encryption, and backdoor the existing variety...
what's to stop the underdog from returning with a hamstring countersuit for anti-competitive practices?
Litigation isn't cheap. Losing is even more expensive. It's financially (notice, I said financially, not morally or ethically) better to let the big boys step on your rights and eke out a living, than fighting, losing and going belly up.
Regarding the rumor that Bobby is playing chess online, I've heard it before and I think it has been going around for a while. Could be true, but really total speculation.
I think it's a rumor that pops up every time a grandmaster gets spanked by an anonymous player.
"I just got my ass handed to me by someone named "bob13" it must've been Bobby Fischer..." It's probably just some kid running a copy of chessmaster 3000...;)
Well seeing as how MHZ are a misleading benchmark I don't see AMD's marketing to be any more misleading than Intel's. Intel uses a bogomips benchmark to sell an inferior product at a higher price. Wait... Maybe that's GOOD marketing...;)
Re:Does having an out of body experience count?
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To the moderator who modded this post down... Quit wasting your mod points by being an ass... His post was at 1:50, the post that you believed he copied was at 1:49... Giving you the benefit of the doubt that his post was submitted at 1:50:59 and the orignal post was at 1:49:00, it's still less than TWO FREAKING MINUTES!!!
I can see how this would be useful... When the next generation palm/visors come out you'll be able to get a wireless card, dynamic ip addy and a web cam and throw the whole getup into the women's locker room...
Could someone enlighten me as to the usefulness of stored procedures? Are they significantly faster? Are they easier to use than the straight jdbc/dbi api?
Just out of curiosity. How hard is it (and what kind of monetary/time expenditure is necessary) to start a broadband isp. I know with dialup the startup costs in terms of time and money were not so high that they put it out of reach of the average geek.
WTF? The REASON Brasil had to produce their own drugs was because of the PRICE GOUGING these poor, nearly going out of business because of the big bad Brazillian thiefs, drug companies. They couldn't get a 40 margin out of Brazil, so they decided to let them rot and die. I'll never feel sorry for these heartless bastards.
I remember when Linux was about choice, not about RedHat telling me that I shouldn't use a certain filesystem on my machine and not giving me the CHOICE of doing so.
And how are they taking away your ability to choose which filesystem to use? Did RedHat drop support for Reiser from the kernel they distribute?
As for why they chose to use ext3, I believe they were leary about relying on a single persons knowledge of the filesystem code. Also reiser and nfs weren't playing nice the last time I looked (granted, this was a while ago).
For $399.99, they can take all the time they want. Especially since they don't significantly outperform the geforce3 which is available for about a hundred bucks less.
The reality isn't so much that kids are taking over the world, but that the world has sometimes made them technological orphans, abandoned them to sophisticated machinery that few adults bother to comprehend.
The same can be said for any interest a teen has, and the peer group that surrounds that interest. This is part of being a teenager. They haven't been orphaned to technology (or sophisticated machinery), so much as orphaned (or abandoned as you say) to puberty. Teens are angry because they're awkward, misunderstood, touchy, and frustrated by their lack of control or freedom. Music can be just as much of an escape as technology, and fewer adults attempt to comprehend The Sonic Death Monkeys, than try to understand computers.
Andrew
Re:What does this mean for non-Microsoft users?
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The patent covers only the encryption procedures for how a user password is changed, but as part of the transfer protocol, it is a potential dependency for all developers who have to mimic the Windows file system and seek to interoperate with it. For example, successful interoperation with Samba might make the Samba project subject to Microsoft demands for patent licenses and royalties.
Which means MOSX 10.1 will not be able to use the password encryption procedures without MS permission. This could be DCMA test if the SAMBA team decides to go ahead with the implementation of the password encryption. Of course, a black box shouldn't be patentable... I mean, if the code produces the right output with a different algorithm, then it should be kosher, (or parve, I'm bad with analogies).
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It is now just a "plain white t-shirt" for $15.00... I think it worked... :)
Andrew
Well... Bin Laden DID use encryption to conceal his plans from the CIA... We should probably outlaw any form of encryption, and backdoor the existing variety...
[sarcasm] I'm sorry, but your voice of reason has no place here... [/sarcasm]
Uhmm... No... Over 90K died in the inital blast at Hiroshima... Only 20k people in the WTC...
what's to stop the underdog from returning with a hamstring countersuit for anti-competitive practices?
Litigation isn't cheap. Losing is even more expensive. It's financially (notice, I said financially, not morally or ethically) better to let the big boys step on your rights and eke out a living, than fighting, losing and going belly up.
Uhmmm.... Because Microsoft can afford to buy Congress....
Or else I can just continue binding ridiculous things like Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Meta-F8 to every little action.
Yikes, a quintiple-bucky...
And the Lemmings had SUICIDAL RODENTS THAT EXPLODED ON IMPACT WITH THE GROUND! Apparently tehre is SOME leeway...
Regarding the rumor that Bobby is playing chess online, I've heard it before and I think it has been going around for a while. Could be true, but really total speculation.
;)
I think it's a rumor that pops up every time a grandmaster gets spanked by an anonymous player.
"I just got my ass handed to me by someone named "bob13" it must've been Bobby Fischer..." It's probably just some kid running a copy of chessmaster 3000...
Andrew
I just tell them that I'm homeless...
Chances are in most survey questionaires not too many people checked the box next to "College Coed Horse Porn."
Well seeing as how MHZ are a misleading benchmark I don't see AMD's marketing to be any more misleading than Intel's. Intel uses a bogomips benchmark to sell an inferior product at a higher price. Wait... Maybe that's GOOD marketing... ;)
To the moderator who modded this post down... Quit wasting your mod points by being an ass... His post was at 1:50, the post that you believed he copied was at 1:49... Giving you the benefit of the doubt that his post was submitted at 1:50:59 and the orignal post was at 1:49:00, it's still less than TWO FREAKING MINUTES!!!
So will this work for me? Could I make a vibrating platform and become more caveman like?
... well ... kind of dumb ... but I still want to try it!
The possibilities are
I can see how this would be useful... When the next generation palm/visors come out you'll be able to get a wireless card, dynamic ip addy and a web cam and throw the whole getup into the women's locker room...
I mean... No, no, that's exactly what I mean...
Could someone enlighten me as to the usefulness of stored procedures? Are they significantly faster? Are they easier to use than the straight jdbc/dbi api?
Unenlightened
Just out of curiosity. How hard is it (and what kind of monetary/time expenditure is necessary) to start a broadband isp. I know with dialup the startup costs in terms of time and money were not so high that they put it out of reach of the average geek.
Andrew
mod parent up please
WTF? The REASON Brasil had to produce their own drugs was because of the PRICE GOUGING these poor, nearly going out of business because of the big bad Brazillian thiefs, drug companies. They couldn't get a 40 margin out of Brazil, so they decided to let them rot and die. I'll never feel sorry for these heartless bastards.
I remember when Linux was about choice, not about RedHat telling me that I shouldn't use a certain filesystem on my machine and not giving me the CHOICE of doing so.
And how are they taking away your ability to choose which filesystem to use? Did RedHat drop support for Reiser from the kernel they distribute?
As for why they chose to use ext3, I believe they were leary about relying on a single persons knowledge of the filesystem code. Also reiser and nfs weren't playing nice the last time I looked (granted, this was a while ago).
Immortality? Name your first born "Cygwin."
Andrew
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:2BFD0zxjzPw:w ww.seanbaby.com/+&hl=en
for the link weary.
For $399.99, they can take all the time they want. Especially since they don't significantly outperform the geforce3 which is available for about a hundred bucks less.
Yes, I'm bitter.
The reality isn't so much that kids are taking over the world, but that the world has sometimes made them technological orphans, abandoned them to sophisticated machinery that few adults bother to comprehend.
The same can be said for any interest a teen has, and the peer group that surrounds that interest. This is part of being a teenager. They haven't been orphaned to technology (or sophisticated machinery), so much as orphaned (or abandoned as you say) to puberty. Teens are angry because they're awkward, misunderstood, touchy, and frustrated by their lack of control or freedom. Music can be just as much of an escape as technology, and fewer adults attempt to comprehend The Sonic Death Monkeys, than try to understand computers.
Andrew
The patent covers only the encryption procedures for how a user password is changed, but as part of the transfer protocol, it is a potential dependency for all developers who have to mimic the Windows file system and seek to interoperate with it. For example, successful interoperation with Samba might make the Samba project subject to Microsoft demands for patent licenses and royalties.
Which means MOSX 10.1 will not be able to use the password encryption procedures without MS permission. This could be DCMA test if the SAMBA team decides to go ahead with the implementation of the password encryption. Of course, a black box shouldn't be patentable... I mean, if the code produces the right output with a different algorithm, then it should be kosher, (or parve, I'm bad with analogies).
Andrew