Because that is, (to a teenager in the city), an unreal event. That is; the gameplay is obvious fiction and far removed from their normal existance. Whereas GTA is set in their current life, it isn't really far removed from their normal existance and therefore subject to reality confusion.
Well, there are several things wrong with 'this' country. You've already given three problems, (namely parental guidance, being given ideas via CSI et al, and responsibility for your own actions), but there are others:
* The right to carry arms - this is such stupidity because like virus/worm writers, once defeated at one level they take it to the next level. What you'll end up having is rocket launches at the front door ready for those pesky burglars.
* No-one looks after anyone else anymore - it's a capitalist society; which equates to money money money, all mine, bwahahaha. Stuff you lot, it's all mine!
* Violence - it's now a part of society, and is pushed by the media, (read movies, TV, games, etc), as a solution to ones little problems. You can't imagine Bruce Willis just sitting down with the villans quietly resolving their differences can you?
So the net result of all this is that you have a society that have lots of arms, who couldn't care about amyone else and use violence to resolve differnces. That's what's wrong with your country. But then again my country has problems as well.... sigh - can't win em all.
They can't even get their 'msnbot' to behave. I run a tiny website, and the page hits that the MSNbot does is 35% of my traffic. google does only 1.4%. Complete and utter crap. If they are doing that to my tiny website, what are they doing to others? Maybe that's the reason for the slowdown of the internet over the Christmas period?:-)
I used to have a car that didn't need a car key either. You just walked up to it, opened the door, (locks were busted), turned the ignition, (ignition lock was busted), and away you went. Wonderful! It was even pinched one day. The little bugger jimmied open the door, (didn't need to, just open it - duh), and hot-wired it, (didn't need to do that either - duh). Found it a couple of suburbs away and drove it back home.
There are very few of the improvements that come through the wider community. There are more skilled developers writing for the Microsoft platform than for open source.
God I hate it when people say things like this. Where is the proof? Has he conducted a study on the skill level of OSS developers compared to Microsoft employees? What is his determination of a skilled developer anyway? I would say that these days there would be more people writing for OSS than for Microsoft.
But then again I'm just pulling numbers out of the air as well.
I was thinking of doing the same thing. But with two firewalls. One a transparent bridge, the other a normal firewall. If one gets hacked I can see what's happening with the other.
It'll never happen, (yeah I know neither will RAM sizes get beyodn 640k). The QWERTY keyboard is so entrenched that no other alternative keyboard will get rid of it. QWERTY works fine for 99.99% of occasions. Mind you, one keyboard I wouldn't mind having is a GKOS keyboard. Nice simple chordic design.
RAID 0,1,5 on disk: why not start to provide RAID between the platters? And have multiple controller cards to reduce single points of failure.
Military hardening: Being able to drop you HD while it's running and have it still function would be good.
Connections: Why not provide WiFi, USB, Firewire, ethernet, SCSI, ATA, SATA, etc instead of just one connection?
File serving: Bring the function of file serving onto the disk itself!
Backups: Get the HD to backup to tape itself. Or provide snapshot backups so backing up takes just seconds.
Dynamic addition of HD storage: Need more storage? Don't want to shutdown your PC? Just go off buy another HD, come home plug it in, presto! Another 500G!
That's just for kickoffs. Give me half an hour and I'd come with a whole bunch more. But basically it's all about bringing solutions that have been in the enterprise for a long time into the home user market.
I also have a similar dream of a go-anywhere box that can connect to consoles and KVM and anything else. My dream is this though:
I have a small palmtop like an iPAQ running Linux. It has a VGA out connector going to an HUD on my glasses. I have a GKOS keyboard in each hand connected to the iPAQ via bluetooth. I have a bunch of serial/USB to bluetooth dongles that can emulate a keyboard and mouse, and/or talk to serial consoles.
Then I just walk up to a machine, if it doesn't already have a network connection for the console, then I plug in my USB/serial dongle and away I go. It's the same keyboard/mouse that I use for my PC at my desk.
The only problem I have with this is that I still have to connect up a monitor to any machines that don't have serial consoles.
Another really good thing with Linux is that it makes recovery of anything, (even Windows), so much easier. It's good to see articles like this just to show how very easy it is.
I had the same concerns with my PC setup,except without the dust problem, but I also had an ant problem. My PC was bolted to the side of a tree 15 feet up, so I had lots of creepy-crawleys everywhere. My solution was to:
Wrap the PC up in a cliplock plastic bag.
Silicon up everything.
Place the whole thing in a box, (which is also siliconed).
You can see the end result here. Then scroll down to where you see the links to 'camera box construction'. This worked for me because I was running an 800MHz Pentium. It never got really hot, just warm. So there was no problem hermetically sealing it all.
My dad went off and bought a TRS80 Model I one day to use it for 'work'. He never did, but from that day on I would be up in the study until all hours of the morning. I wrote a filesystem for the audio cassette, a couple of games, and numerous other software hacks.
I also used to have capsela, (?sp), which comprised of these plastic building blocks that could be joined together. They had gears, motors, and switches. I connected the switches up to the parellel port of the Trash 80, (Back EMF? What's that?:-) ), and got it moving via software. It was cool. I only had forward/reverse, and a couple of microswitches to detect objects. So I could only do basic stuff, but it was still cool.
Those many hours on a Trash 80 were cool. That was when hacking was real hacking, and none of this GUI stuff.
This is what I found out when I setup a panorama webcam and motion sensing webcam for my building site, (treecam). I had it setup to SMS me everytime motion was detected, but had to turn it off after a couple of hours. I would mostly get some nice pictures of nothing but shadows moving across the ground. The only time that I did video something significant was when someone pinched some stuff, but it was all retrospective as we only looked at the video once we discovered things were missing.
With the amount of Y2K 'fixes' I have seen around, (and some of them very dubious), I wouldn't be at all suprised if it was a Y2K problem. Looks like someone didn't have all their test cases written down properly and/or didn't test properly and/or tried to 'fix' the problem.
The big things like the major wars (why and what for) and polical ideals and so on we should learn.
Well, remember that history is written by the victors. So we should also learn about the small wars as well, and from the opposite side. Then we can get a much better perspective of what really happened instead of propaganda.
They will do there work to avoid being yelled at by there parents/teachers but not for the point of learning the information Their work is their own and not over there.
Yep. I agree. Sun won't kill Linux because it supports more hardware than Sun ever will. Linux is up and running on my iPAQ, PC, Sun and HPPA box here. The same Debian distribution - same versions of everything on all hardware. No other O/S has done that before, and is doing it now.
It's all a matter of personal taste, and what you do for a living. I'm a SysAdmin who looks after 100 odd servers. I just couldn't get by without my three monitors. I have my 'comms' monitor, (mail, web, etc), then I have the other two monitors for connections to various groups of servers. I then have 6 virtual desktops, with 9 shells with a connection to each server on those two monitors. It's weird, but it works for me.
But then, at home I have two monitors. The second one has been turned off for 9 months. It just all depends on what you do.
Hate to say this, but it happens all the time. I was duped, (along with 80-100 other people), out of a total of around $90,000. Being so frustrated with eBay's attitude, I started up a maillist to unite everyone to catch the guy. We even hired a PI to check things out.
In the end we did catch him... and the results speak for themselves.
Apparently he's part of a gang of 5 guys who are involved in all sorts of crime. Needless to say he's where he belongs for some time to come.
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Amazing a simple calandering application can stop your car from crashing.
Today's TODO list:
1. Pick up shopping.
2. Don't crash car.
I have absolutely no idea what you just said.
Because that is, (to a teenager in the city), an unreal event. That is; the gameplay is obvious fiction and far removed from their normal existance. Whereas GTA is set in their current life, it isn't really far removed from their normal existance and therefore subject to reality confusion.
Well, there are several things wrong with 'this' country. You've already given three problems, (namely parental guidance, being given ideas via CSI et al, and responsibility for your own actions), but there are others:
* The right to carry arms - this is such stupidity because like virus/worm writers, once defeated at one level they take it to the next level. What you'll end up having is rocket launches at the front door ready for those pesky burglars.
* No-one looks after anyone else anymore - it's a capitalist society; which equates to money money money, all mine, bwahahaha. Stuff you lot, it's all mine!
* Violence - it's now a part of society, and is pushed by the media, (read movies, TV, games, etc), as a solution to ones little problems. You can't imagine Bruce Willis just sitting down with the villans quietly resolving their differences can you?
So the net result of all this is that you have a society that have lots of arms, who couldn't care about amyone else and use violence to resolve differnces. That's what's wrong with your country.
But then again my country has problems as well....
sigh - can't win em all.
They can't even get their 'msnbot' to behave. I run a tiny website, and the page hits that the MSNbot does is 35% of my traffic. google does only 1.4%. Complete and utter crap. If they are doing that to my tiny website, what are they doing to others? Maybe that's the reason for the slowdown of the internet over the Christmas period? :-)
I used to have a car that didn't need a car key either. You just walked up to it, opened the door, (locks were busted), turned the ignition, (ignition lock was busted), and away you went. Wonderful!
It was even pinched one day. The little bugger jimmied open the door, (didn't need to, just open it - duh), and hot-wired it, (didn't need to do that either - duh).
Found it a couple of suburbs away and drove it back home.
There are very few of the improvements that come through the wider community. There are more skilled developers writing for the Microsoft platform than for open source.
God I hate it when people say things like this. Where is the proof? Has he conducted a study on the skill level of OSS developers compared to Microsoft employees? What is his determination of a skilled developer anyway? I would say that these days there would be more people writing for OSS than for Microsoft.
But then again I'm just pulling numbers out of the air as well.
I was thinking of doing the same thing. But with two firewalls. One a transparent bridge, the other a normal firewall. If one gets hacked I can see what's happening with the other.
It'll never happen, (yeah I know neither will RAM sizes get beyodn 640k). The QWERTY keyboard is so entrenched that no other alternative keyboard will get rid of it. QWERTY works fine for 99.99% of occasions.
Mind you, one keyboard I wouldn't mind having is a GKOS keyboard. Nice simple chordic design.
Yeah but http://slashdot.org/nugn.com/vb does. There's just not much to the page that comes up. Who is this '404 File' guy anyway? I see him a lot.
That's just for kickoffs. Give me half an hour and I'd come with a whole bunch more. But basically it's all about bringing solutions that have been in the enterprise for a long time into the home user market.
I also have a similar dream of a go-anywhere box that can connect to consoles and KVM and anything else. My dream is this though:
I have a small palmtop like an iPAQ running Linux.
It has a VGA out connector going to an HUD on my glasses.
I have a GKOS keyboard in each hand connected to the iPAQ via bluetooth.
I have a bunch of serial/USB to bluetooth dongles that can emulate a keyboard and mouse, and/or talk to serial consoles.
Then I just walk up to a machine, if it doesn't already have a network connection for the console, then I plug in my USB/serial dongle and away I go. It's the same keyboard/mouse that I use for my PC at my desk.
The only problem I have with this is that I still have to connect up a monitor to any machines that don't have serial consoles.
Another really good thing with Linux is that it makes recovery of anything, (even Windows), so much easier. It's good to see articles like this just to show how very easy it is.
You can see the end result here. Then scroll down to where you see the links to 'camera box construction'. This worked for me because I was running an 800MHz Pentium. It never got really hot, just warm. So there was no problem hermetically sealing it all.
My dad went off and bought a TRS80 Model I one day to use it for 'work'. He never did, but from that day on I would be up in the study until all hours of the morning. I wrote a filesystem for the audio cassette, a couple of games, and numerous other software hacks.
:-) ), and got it moving via software. It was cool. I only had forward/reverse, and a couple of microswitches to detect objects. So I could only do basic stuff, but it was still cool.
I also used to have capsela, (?sp), which comprised of these plastic building blocks that could be joined together. They had gears, motors, and switches. I connected the switches up to the parellel port of the Trash 80, (Back EMF? What's that?
Those many hours on a Trash 80 were cool. That was when hacking was real hacking, and none of this GUI stuff.
This is what I found out when I setup a panorama webcam and motion sensing webcam for my building site, (treecam). I had it setup to SMS me everytime motion was detected, but had to turn it off after a couple of hours. I would mostly get some nice pictures of nothing but shadows moving across the ground.
The only time that I did video something significant was when someone pinched some stuff, but it was all retrospective as we only looked at the video once we discovered things were missing.
With the amount of Y2K 'fixes' I have seen around, (and some of them very dubious), I wouldn't be at all suprised if it was a Y2K problem. Looks like someone didn't have all their test cases written down properly and/or didn't test properly and/or tried to 'fix' the problem.
Er, yes it still is. The Chinese believe 4 is unlucky. Even to the extent that they don't have level 4s in buildings.
So there!
The big things like the major wars (why and what for) and polical ideals and so on we should learn.
Well, remember that history is written by the victors. So we should also learn about the small wars as well, and from the opposite side. Then we can get a much better perspective of what really happened instead of propaganda.
They will do there work to avoid being yelled at by there parents/teachers but not for the point of learning the information
Their work is their own and not over there.
The answer is clear, don't use Windows to surf the web. If you have to then use mozilla/firefox/netscape.
Yep. I agree. Sun won't kill Linux because it supports more hardware than Sun ever will. Linux is up and running on my iPAQ, PC, Sun and HPPA box here. The same Debian distribution - same versions of everything on all hardware. No other O/S has done that before, and is doing it now.
I wonder if this guy is related to Sal Wise. Are all Sals this way?
It's all a matter of personal taste, and what you do for a living. I'm a SysAdmin who looks after 100 odd servers. I just couldn't get by without my three monitors. I have my 'comms' monitor, (mail, web, etc), then I have the other two monitors for connections to various groups of servers. I then have 6 virtual desktops, with 9 shells with a connection to each server on those two monitors. It's weird, but it works for me.
But then, at home I have two monitors. The second one has been turned off for 9 months.
It just all depends on what you do.
Hate to say this, but it happens all the time. I was duped, (along with 80-100 other people), out of a total of around $90,000. Being so frustrated with eBay's attitude, I started up a maillist to unite everyone to catch the guy. We even hired a PI to check things out.
In the end we did catch him... and the results speak for themselves.
Apparently he's part of a gang of 5 guys who are involved in all sorts of crime. Needless to say he's where he belongs for some time to come.