you're wrong, i'm sorry. i watched the tower collapse. there were only 2 aircraft.
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with slashcode 2.2, the post numbers are absolute instead of relative to the article. this makes it easier to link to a specific comment, and presumably has some other benefits. who knows?
The French team won the 2000th dish contest, with a beautiful presentation of royal French foods from the Louis Quatorze period. The score actually tied, 77-77, with Kaga breaking the tie. The special ingredients for the contest were bananas, pork, and soft-shell turtle, all Kaga's favorites.
with a language as utterly inexplicable as perl, i wonder how programmers *find* bugs, especially in later releases, where the bugs are that much more obscure.
"Say, Cletus, ah jist noticed that "a\nxb\n" =~/(?!\A)x/m doesn't properly eval-yoo-ate for certain prop'rties of 'nxb'.
then again, i suppose it's about as easy as finding all the little discrepancies between Microsoft's idea of C++ and the ANSI standard -- a famous example is Microsoft's interpretation of the scope of variables declared inside the conditional section of a for loop. with "for(int i..." in standard C++, i's scope is for the duration of the loop. in MSVC, you've just declared a new variable, so putting two for loops in a row with the same variable initialization will cause compiler errors which you *shouldn't be seeing*.
yeah, except that Win2K Professional is the same OS as Win2K Server, but for a few registry settings and a couple of DLL's. It's an artificial distinction made by Microsoft to sell more copies of a more expensive OS. They couldn't make money if they sold a highly-capable server-ready OS at their desktop price, and nobody would buy a general-purpose OS at the prices MS charges for W2K Server.
The truth is, it would have been simple for MS to include a little radio-button control in their control panel to switch between ntkernel's to optimize for the application most suited for it. Reboot, and you've got a more capable OS. But it would never make money. This is understandable, of course -- Microsoft is a corporation like any other, and they're designed to make money. They have their niche, and they fill it - well.
So on the other hand, *BSD -isn't- trying to make money; they just want to be a more general-purpose OS usable for either desktop or server applications, and appending "Server" or "Desktop" to their name would be inaccurate and misleading, much more so than simply doing your homework and learning the capabilities of an OS before you install it.
I've never heard of such DSL speeds here in Boston, certainly, and my best guess is that the telephone architecture (especially the wiring in houses) is on the average so old (fabric-covered wires instead of twisted-pair) that higher speeds are impossible *in some cases*, so they can't very well offer higher speeds if some of their customers can't take advantage of it. Covad is having enough trouble already, and they certainly don't want the extra hassle of higher speeds.
The other thing, and the more major issue, is *price*. 4 Mbps for $40-$100? And that's probably *CANADIAN* dollars, too. Jebus. I feel ripped-off now.
as you think it might have. In order for a gene mutation to be successful, the organism must benefit in either reproductive ability or survival and longevity. Making moths that glow is going to be a field day for birds, and having them produce sterile offspring just means that there will be less glowing moths after a few years. So the effect on the moth population will likely be negligible.
is a method of reliably -reading- these bits. Believe it or not, spin isn't the easiest measurement to make on a tungsten atom inside a silicon-60 cage.
"Besides, you know what this 'cosmic egg' is? An ultimate black hole. Black holes are not known to explode. Instead they collapse in themselves because of own gravitational pull."
the weak forces that cause gravity did not exist at the time of the big bang. they were formed later, when the 'standard' particles formed.
$17.1 billion? Not even close. The true cost of virii is negligible unless one infects a mission-critical server - an employee's time spent reformatting a system is valuable, certainly, but not nearly as valuable as that Win2K Advanced Server suddenly seems when it goes down (or worse, emails your trivially-decrypted NT passwords to some kiddie in Zimbabwe), preventing your customers from buying those highly profitable Thneeds, or whatever it is you sell. After all, -everyone- needs a Thneed.
Back to the point, though, I've never heard of a virus infecting a major server - usually, people aren't reading their mail on servers, and only the most mentally-deficient MIS would be retarded enough to open email attachments or download warez on a mission-critical server. And then, well, he deserves what he gets.
and one asteroid's gravitational field is -really- going to significantly affect the Earth's orbit. try 'one asteroid 3/4 the size of earth'. and then you have to be able to control the asteroid's path precisely to shift the earth properly. and if you can do that, why not just move the bloody Earth?
sorry, won't work. the point of running virtual machines is that they're -not aware of each other-. there is always a mechanism involved to isolate the virtual machines so that a process running on one VM won't trash the entire mainframe should it start to trample memory.
the -real- interesting part of hacking VM's, and the principal point of security, is virtual isolation. now, if someone could crack -that-... then the fun would begin.
There are several good reasons to keep an OS in an 'application' style around:
-Portability: not everyone makes the same hardware, and you want your app to run on as many systems as possible.
-Security: without an OS, there is no security whatsoever, except that built into the application; though, windows is ahead of the curve in this case - it has no security models and very little protection against a runaway app determined to trash the system. Most (all) other operating systems provide protection in the form of permissions against poorly-written or exploitable apps.
-Ease of programming: without an OS to provide an additional abstraction layer, programming must interface directly to the hardware, a nightmare of excess code that should only need to be written once.
Tiny little embedded systems designed to serve only one purpose might be better off without a true OS. A complex piece of hardware will never operate without a full OS. Think of the complexity that goes into the linux kernel, and think about the fact that only one application could run at any given time without the OS to run them in separate virtual machines.
Building an HDTV tuner board is all well and good, but who has the resources to develop a high-quality board of this complexity? And once built, what's to say that this is going to be any cheaper to do than a commercial one, given that parts are an order of magnitude more expensive when purchased in small quantities?
The only real benefit I see to a homebrew, ghetto HDTV tuner is the lack of manufacturer-applied copy-protection systems. And even those can be circumvented.
But as for the Media-BOX in its present incarnation, I say, whoo hoo! What better way to store and watch movies on your set-top? Oh, wait - DVD. Shoot.
and, from the site - "(Sorry, Media-BOX is not a 'ripper')" - looks like they're not about to incorporate a DVD-decoder anytime soon. It's too bad - this player's possibly most important feature could be ripping movies from your PC and storing them on your set-top. For your own personal use only, provided that you own the movie, of course, etc.
Despite that, loading movies from your PC to your TV is still a real plus, allowing you to watch those downloaded pr0n movies on your home-entertainment system. Home entertainment, indeed.
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you're wrong, i'm sorry. i watched the tower collapse. there were only 2 aircraft.
with slashcode 2.2, the post numbers are absolute instead of relative to the article. this makes it easier to link to a specific comment, and presumably has some other benefits. who knows?
Godwin's law has been invoked -- Nazis were mentioned in a discussion thread. This conversation is over. ;)
The French team won the 2000th dish contest, with a beautiful presentation of royal French foods from the Louis Quatorze period. The score actually tied, 77-77, with Kaga breaking the tie. The special ingredients for the contest were bananas, pork, and soft-shell turtle, all Kaga's favorites.
Now, if only I could get on the tasting panel.
--nick
with a language as utterly inexplicable as perl, i wonder how programmers *find* bugs, especially in later releases, where the bugs are that much more obscure.
/(?!\A)x/m doesn't properly eval-yoo-ate for certain prop'rties of 'nxb'.
"Say, Cletus, ah jist noticed that "a\nxb\n" =~
then again, i suppose it's about as easy as finding all the little discrepancies between Microsoft's idea of C++ and the ANSI standard -- a famous example is Microsoft's interpretation of the scope of variables declared inside the conditional section of a for loop. with "for(int i..." in standard C++, i's scope is for the duration of the loop. in MSVC, you've just declared a new variable, so putting two for loops in a row with the same variable initialization will cause compiler errors which you *shouldn't be seeing*.
--nick
yeah, except that Win2K Professional is the same OS as Win2K Server, but for a few registry settings and a couple of DLL's. It's an artificial distinction made by Microsoft to sell more copies of a more expensive OS. They couldn't make money if they sold a highly-capable server-ready OS at their desktop price, and nobody would buy a general-purpose OS at the prices MS charges for W2K Server.
The truth is, it would have been simple for MS to include a little radio-button control in their control panel to switch between ntkernel's to optimize for the application most suited for it. Reboot, and you've got a more capable OS. But it would never make money. This is understandable, of course -- Microsoft is a corporation like any other, and they're designed to make money. They have their niche, and they fill it - well.
So on the other hand, *BSD -isn't- trying to make money; they just want to be a more general-purpose OS usable for either desktop or server applications, and appending "Server" or "Desktop" to their name would be inaccurate and misleading, much more so than simply doing your homework and learning the capabilities of an OS before you install it.
--nick
I've never heard of such DSL speeds here in Boston, certainly, and my best guess is that the telephone architecture (especially the wiring in houses) is on the average so old (fabric-covered wires instead of twisted-pair) that higher speeds are impossible *in some cases*, so they can't very well offer higher speeds if some of their customers can't take advantage of it. Covad is having enough trouble already, and they certainly don't want the extra hassle of higher speeds.
The other thing, and the more major issue, is *price*. 4 Mbps for $40-$100? And that's probably *CANADIAN* dollars, too. Jebus. I feel ripped-off now.
--nick
the call comes in on my cell phone:
"ROGERS! Get the hell off the can! You've been in there for an *hour and a half*!"
--nick
as you think it might have. In order for a gene mutation to be successful, the organism must benefit in either reproductive ability or survival and longevity. Making moths that glow is going to be a field day for birds, and having them produce sterile offspring just means that there will be less glowing moths after a few years. So the effect on the moth population will likely be negligible.
--nick
did anyone else notice the main page?...
right next to the picture of the attractive jailbait, the blinking words...
"Can't Touch This!"
--nick
sorry, Si-12
is a method of reliably -reading- these bits. Believe it or not, spin isn't the easiest measurement to make on a tungsten atom inside a silicon-60 cage.
Nobody else sees the irony here? Giving away $99 to avoid being fleeced?
Man, the people who built this thing must be rolling in the aisles...
you're forgetting something.
"Besides, you know what this 'cosmic egg' is? An ultimate black hole. Black holes are not known to explode. Instead they collapse in themselves because of own gravitational pull."
the weak forces that cause gravity did not exist at the time of the big bang. they were formed later, when the 'standard' particles formed.
$17.1 billion? Not even close. The true cost of virii is negligible unless one infects a mission-critical server - an employee's time spent reformatting a system is valuable, certainly, but not nearly as valuable as that Win2K Advanced Server suddenly seems when it goes down (or worse, emails your trivially-decrypted NT passwords to some kiddie in Zimbabwe), preventing your customers from buying those highly profitable Thneeds, or whatever it is you sell. After all, -everyone- needs a Thneed.
Back to the point, though, I've never heard of a virus infecting a major server - usually, people aren't reading their mail on servers, and only the most mentally-deficient MIS would be retarded enough to open email attachments or download warez on a mission-critical server. And then, well, he deserves what he gets.
--nick
Now when we see "Enlarge Your Penis Now" posts on Usenet we won't be fooled - we all know it's anonymous terrorist communications.
--nick
yeah, until you look at the userid's of the posters and realize they're both -the same person- karmawhoring and trolling at the same time.
rather clever, actually.
--nick
and one asteroid's gravitational field is -really- going to significantly affect the Earth's orbit. try 'one asteroid 3/4 the size of earth'. and then you have to be able to control the asteroid's path precisely to shift the earth properly. and if you can do that, why not just move the bloody Earth?
riiiiiiiight.
--nick
sorry, won't work. the point of running virtual machines is that they're -not aware of each other-. there is always a mechanism involved to isolate the virtual machines so that a process running on one VM won't trash the entire mainframe should it start to trample memory.
the -real- interesting part of hacking VM's, and the principal point of security, is virtual isolation. now, if someone could crack -that-... then the fun would begin.
--nick
lol, five minutes difference... sorry. next time i'll post from my 56k to make it fair. ;)
--nick
werd.
;)
i find it amusing that www.winsucks.com (from your profile link) generates 500: Internal server error when clicked.
"It's UNIX, it's backwards." Does that mean it should be XINU, and we've been wrong all along?
There are several good reasons to keep an OS in an 'application' style around:
-Portability: not everyone makes the same hardware, and you want your app to run on as many systems as possible.
-Security: without an OS, there is no security whatsoever, except that built into the application; though, windows is ahead of the curve in this case - it has no security models and very little protection against a runaway app determined to trash the system. Most (all) other operating systems provide protection in the form of permissions against poorly-written or exploitable apps.
-Ease of programming: without an OS to provide an additional abstraction layer, programming must interface directly to the hardware, a nightmare of excess code that should only need to be written once.
Tiny little embedded systems designed to serve only one purpose might be better off without a true OS. A complex piece of hardware will never operate without a full OS. Think of the complexity that goes into the linux kernel, and think about the fact that only one application could run at any given time without the OS to run them in separate virtual machines.
--nick
Building an HDTV tuner board is all well and good, but who has the resources to develop a high-quality board of this complexity? And once built, what's to say that this is going to be any cheaper to do than a commercial one, given that parts are an order of magnitude more expensive when purchased in small quantities?
The only real benefit I see to a homebrew, ghetto HDTV tuner is the lack of manufacturer-applied copy-protection systems. And even those can be circumvented.
But as for the Media-BOX in its present incarnation, I say, whoo hoo! What better way to store and watch movies on your set-top? Oh, wait - DVD. Shoot.
and, from the site - "(Sorry, Media-BOX is not a 'ripper')" - looks like they're not about to incorporate a DVD-decoder anytime soon. It's too bad - this player's possibly most important feature could be ripping movies from your PC and storing them on your set-top. For your own personal use only, provided that you own the movie, of course, etc.
Despite that, loading movies from your PC to your TV is still a real plus, allowing you to watch those downloaded pr0n movies on your home-entertainment system. Home entertainment, indeed.
fuck man, are you the same kid who i play counterstrike with? --bistromath