(It's a referral code, but I don't get anything from it because my bonus is inversely tied to your discount. You get the max discount this way and I get nothing.)
Well, that might not be exactly true. From the Dreamhost referrals page:
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It is actually a rather brilliant move (not that I endorse it in any way) by Microsoft to leverage their desktop supremacy into the mobile space while seemingly avoiding anti-trust issues. I am sure that some of their competitors may try to call them out on this, but it seems like it would be an upward legal battle.
Antitrust issues? I don't think Microsoft currently need to worry about that right now, neither on the desktop nor on the phone side. We've come a long way since the 90's. Internet Explorer has fierce competition (Chrome, Firefox), so has the desktop (Apple) and we aren't all using Windows Phone mobiles, right?
The irony is that unions that were not controlled by the communist party, were prohibited in the Soviet Union. Solidarity was the first independent trade union in the eastern bloc, and was a contributing factor of the fall of the Berlin wall.
This jailbreak thing is indeed a real live exploit running in the wild, but it's a trojan (kind of) since you are asking it to do one thing (display a PDF) and it does another (jailbreak the phone).
I wouldn't say it's a trojan. A trojan tricks the user into running some code which does something nasty the user doesn't expect. The user expects that his phone will be jailbroken, not that a PDF is displayed. After all, the web page says "this will jailbreak your Iphone". It doesn't matter what kind of exploit is used.
Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.
IMHO, one should use as high level language as possible, but not higher. One should never choose a lower level language than necessary only because it is hard core, the choice has to be based on something more substantial.
I've met several C programmers having the knee-jerk reaction when they hear the word C++ that it's bloated and slow and hard. And tell me what, they haven't read Stroustrup's FAQ lately. C++ can be very lean and mean indeed. As can C# (which I'm mostly using right now).
How about this DRM: 1. Ubisoft creates a reasonably simple (read cheap) traditional DRM; 2. Ubisoft promises to donate five thousand dollars to cancer research for each day the game goes without being cracked, for a year. I think they'd have better chances that way. Don't you?
Not really. First, why not just release the software with no DRM at all and just require that the software never gets shared on the pirate bay in order to donate to this charity? Second, Ubisoft would in some ways takes the cancer research organization as hostage. Basically Ubisoft would say: "you might not like us, but do you really want people to get cancer? Then don't pirate our games." They could actually just donate the money no matter what instead.
I agree. I just don't understand is why Greenpeace opposes nuclear power.
Experience from the Chernobyl disaster seems to tell us that even a worst scenario disaster has little impact on nature. And what's more important, the damage done is fairly local. The alternative to nuclear power for many nations are coal burning power plants, producing CO2 which has a global impact. What's best for the planet? A potential local disaster or a global one?
Lots of people would like run Vista on their existing hardware and can't do that either.
Well, that might be true, but I had no problems running Vista on my pretty old system (Athlon 3000+, 1 GB RAM). But the point is that I insist on that my computer is based an open hardware platform. Apple forbids me to install OSX on my home built computer, which is no surprise since they are a hardware company.
I'm no Mac hater. And I used to be a Linux sysadmin before I started working as a developer. My point is that I think many people think like me. Their Windows system is good enough for them, it supports all the apps they want. And I don't think that any OS can change that, at least not in the short run.
Two major problems with Leopard: - Most apps/games I run aren't ported. - I want to run it on my existing hardware.
I don't really care if Leopard is superior, because I really don't care what operating system my computer runs. Because, yet again, it's all about the apps. Never about the platform.
Whether or not this is a rootkit, the fact that the game won't run unless a user completely disables or uninstalls legitimate utilities such as antivirus programs or process monitors is enough to make a security conscious user worry.
True, I'm surprised no one has really mentioned it here, but my biggest issue is that Bioshock refuses to start if it detects Process Explorer running. And since Process Explorer starts its own device driver (or whatever it is) upon first start which isn't later unloaded, I have to reboot Windows every time I want to play Bioshock.
That is a showstopper right there for me. I'm never buying any game Securom protected game again. This was the first and last time I did that mistake.
The dot com bubble bursted because many companies were simply backed by investment money but failed to generate any significant revenue. As soon as the investors backed out, the companies worth were exposed to be close to zilch.
Since IANAE (economist) I can't really tell how it is this time, but just because a financial sector is growing doesn't mean that it is a bubble. (A bubble implies that the marked is just filled with air instead of real money.)
However, as we've seen through all modern history, stock markets will crash time and time again.
And then the graphics might be pretty, but there is not physics system, or, believe it or not, collision detection. You can actually walk through people, even when you are fighting them.
I agree with most of your objections, but I think character collision detection is usually a bad thing in an MMORPG. WoW doesn't have it either and it makes it far easier to move around, especially in crowded areas. Guild Wars has it sometimes (forgot exactly how) but at these times I just found it annoying. Realism isn't always good.
Yes, version control is more difficult than not using any tool at all, but that goes for most stuff in life. There are certainly areas where usability can be improved.
Fiddling with stuff you are not supposed to fiddle with is generally a no-no when using source control. I found though that I got used to the Subversion way to do things (learned that the hard way). For example Subversion on the client side does not really handle server side rollbacks of the complete repository since the files are cached and hashed locally. One way to make source control more transparent to the user could be to let the filesystem handle it.
People like Stallman, Torvalds, or van Rossum are not the nicest or easiest people to get along with. Nor, for that matter, are commercial software leaders like Jobs or Gates.
Well, how do we know that? Most of us only know whats written about them. Sure, they have strong opinions but that doesn't necessarily make them hard to work with.
In Australia the rabbits are even bigger - I think they call them 'roos'...
This reminds me of what happened in Australia when the brought rabbits there in the first place. Granted, I guess there already are native rabbits in North Korea, but it's a very risky business to bring in foreign species into an ecosystem. The first episode of the documentary Strange Days on Planet Earth illustrates that quite clearly.
One of the main objections of a captcha is that an attacker could steal the image file and simply use it on their site (XXX sites...) to get it "cracked". A HTML generated captcha would prevent that, since there is no image file to copy. However, what prevents the attacker to simply copy the relevant HTML source and put it on his or her site, just like the image? Sure, you can make it quite complicated by adding CSS layers and whatnot, but in the end that would just merely be an extra annoyance.
And stopping the attacker on using OCR on the captcha won't really work either. It's not that hard to render HTML code to an image, which you can feed to the OCR software.
In short, this hack is just another step in the arms race, that just buys us some time.
Like a poster on the earlier story commented, why not simply connect one of those flashy LED thingies to your phone? My mom has them, and every time she's on a call, or even on an incoming SMS, the LEDs go berserk!! They don't even need batteries and power themselves off the cellphone radiation. Pretty foolproof method, IMHO.
I would strongly advice against using them. They take some of the radiation energy to make them light up, which makes the phone think that the coverage is worse than it is which in turn makes the phone crank up its transmitting power. In effect, the phone radiates more than necessary and the battery gets drained faster.
FTA:"Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union are two countries in recent history that didn't allow their citizens to travel abroad without permission. If these regulations go into effect, you can add the United States to this list."
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There's an excellent article about how the signs work in Stockholm with some technical details.
(It's a referral code, but I don't get anything from it because my bonus is inversely tied to your discount. You get the max discount this way and I get nothing.)
Well, that might not be exactly true. From the Dreamhost referrals page:
And how much will you earn? You decide! Either get 10% forever of everything your referrals (plus 5% for people they refer!) spend on hosting with us, or choose to just get a $97.00 one-time payment (plus $5 for sub-referrals!) per referral!
It is actually a rather brilliant move (not that I endorse it in any way) by Microsoft to leverage their desktop supremacy into the mobile space while seemingly avoiding anti-trust issues. I am sure that some of their competitors may try to call them out on this, but it seems like it would be an upward legal battle.
Antitrust issues? I don't think Microsoft currently need to worry about that right now, neither on the desktop nor on the phone side. We've come a long way since the 90's. Internet Explorer has fierce competition (Chrome, Firefox), so has the desktop (Apple) and we aren't all using Windows Phone mobiles, right?
The irony is that unions that were not controlled by the communist party, were prohibited in the Soviet Union. Solidarity was the first independent trade union in the eastern bloc, and was a contributing factor of the fall of the Berlin wall.
This jailbreak thing is indeed a real live exploit running in the wild, but it's a trojan (kind of) since you are asking it to do one thing (display a PDF) and it does another (jailbreak the phone).
I wouldn't say it's a trojan. A trojan tricks the user into running some code which does something nasty the user doesn't expect. The user expects that his phone will be jailbroken, not that a PDF is displayed. After all, the web page says "this will jailbreak your Iphone". It doesn't matter what kind of exploit is used.
To paraphrase Einstein:
Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.
IMHO, one should use as high level language as possible, but not higher. One should never choose a lower level language than necessary only because it is hard core, the choice has to be based on something more substantial.
I've met several C programmers having the knee-jerk reaction when they hear the word C++ that it's bloated and slow and hard. And tell me what, they haven't read Stroustrup's FAQ lately. C++ can be very lean and mean indeed. As can C# (which I'm mostly using right now).
I'm pretty sure all color printers 'hide' something in each print, and I wouldn't be surprised if digital cameras did too.
Yes, they do (well, actually just laser color printers).
How about this DRM:
1. Ubisoft creates a reasonably simple (read cheap) traditional DRM;
2. Ubisoft promises to donate five thousand dollars to cancer research for each day the game goes without being cracked, for a year.
I think they'd have better chances that way. Don't you?
Not really.
First, why not just release the software with no DRM at all and just require that the software never gets shared on the pirate bay in order to donate to this charity?
Second, Ubisoft would in some ways takes the cancer research organization as hostage. Basically Ubisoft would say: "you might not like us, but do you really want people to get cancer? Then don't pirate our games." They could actually just donate the money no matter what instead.
I agree. I just don't understand is why Greenpeace opposes nuclear power.
Experience from the Chernobyl disaster seems to tell us that even a worst scenario disaster has little impact on nature. And what's more important, the damage done is fairly local. The alternative to nuclear power for many nations are coal burning power plants, producing CO2 which has a global impact.
What's best for the planet? A potential local disaster or a global one?
"You have the government you deserve."
Well, that might be true, but I had no problems running Vista on my pretty old system (Athlon 3000+, 1 GB RAM). But the point is that I insist on that my computer is based an open hardware platform. Apple forbids me to install OSX on my home built computer, which is no surprise since they are a hardware company.
I'm no Mac hater. And I used to be a Linux sysadmin before I started working as a developer. My point is that I think many people think like me. Their Windows system is good enough for them, it supports all the apps they want. And I don't think that any OS can change that, at least not in the short run.
Two major problems with Leopard:
- Most apps/games I run aren't ported.
- I want to run it on my existing hardware.
I don't really care if Leopard is superior, because I really don't care what operating system my computer runs. Because, yet again, it's all about the apps. Never about the platform.
In case you haven't seen the BBC docu-drama Space Race, watch it.
Clicky
True, I'm surprised no one has really mentioned it here, but my biggest issue is that Bioshock refuses to start if it detects Process Explorer running. And since Process Explorer starts its own device driver (or whatever it is) upon first start which isn't later unloaded, I have to reboot Windows every time I want to play Bioshock.
That is a showstopper right there for me. I'm never buying any game Securom protected game again. This was the first and last time I did that mistake.
<Nitpick>Well, the entire quote belongs to Linus, so there's no need to change it.</Nitpick>
The dot com bubble bursted because many companies were simply backed by investment money but failed to generate any significant revenue. As soon as the investors backed out, the companies worth were exposed to be close to zilch.
Since IANAE (economist) I can't really tell how it is this time, but just because a financial sector is growing doesn't mean that it is a bubble. (A bubble implies that the marked is just filled with air instead of real money.)
However, as we've seen through all modern history, stock markets will crash time and time again.
I agree with most of your objections, but I think character collision detection is usually a bad thing in an MMORPG. WoW doesn't have it either and it makes it far easier to move around, especially in crowded areas. Guild Wars has it sometimes (forgot exactly how) but at these times I just found it annoying. Realism isn't always good.
Yes, version control is more difficult than not using any tool at all, but that goes for most stuff in life. There are certainly areas where usability can be improved.
Fiddling with stuff you are not supposed to fiddle with is generally a no-no when using source control. I found though that I got used to the Subversion way to do things (learned that the hard way). For example Subversion on the client side does not really handle server side rollbacks of the complete repository since the files are cached and hashed locally. One way to make source control more transparent to the user could be to let the filesystem handle it.
Well, how do we know that? Most of us only know whats written about them. Sure, they have strong opinions but that doesn't necessarily make them hard to work with.
Orb of Internets:
Binds when picked up
Mainhand
-15 Stamina
+7 Intelligence
-12 Strength
-2 Spirit
Equip: Decreases actual work done by up to 20.
In Australia the rabbits are even bigger - I think they call them 'roos'...
This reminds me of what happened in Australia when the brought rabbits there in the first place. Granted, I guess there already are native rabbits in North Korea, but it's a very risky business to bring in foreign species into an ecosystem.
The first episode of the documentary Strange Days on Planet Earth illustrates that quite clearly.
One of the main objections of a captcha is that an attacker could steal the image file and simply use it on their site (XXX sites...) to get it "cracked".
A HTML generated captcha would prevent that, since there is no image file to copy.
However, what prevents the attacker to simply copy the relevant HTML source and put it on his or her site, just like the image? Sure, you can make it quite complicated by adding CSS layers and whatnot, but in the end that would just merely be an extra annoyance.
And stopping the attacker on using OCR on the captcha won't really work either. It's not that hard to render HTML code to an image, which you can feed to the OCR software.
In short, this hack is just another step in the arms race, that just buys us some time.
In effect, the phone radiates more than necessary and the battery gets drained faster.
Don't forget Poland!