1- go to school 2- leave the RFID tag there (or wrap tinfoil in your arm if is subdermal) 3- leave the school 4- comit a crime 5- ??? 6- profit
#5 could prety much be "don't worry with police. they think you were in school".
thei're just giving students an excelent, state sanctioned alibi.
i watched a movie once about a gang that used british prision system as alibi. they all comited light crimes (no more than 6 months jail time), then they broke of the jail, stole a roll of paper from the comapny that prints brit money, printed a batch of bills, hide the money, returned to jail.
when the police found about the stolen paper, they dismissed the gang as suspects because they were all in jail, end were still there.
when you buy a compiler you also buy the rights to distribute the compiler's runtime code. if you buils an app with a warezed version of borland C compiler, every copy of it is a pirate copy of the runtime, doesn't matter wich license you use for the app
problem is: you can't move away from proprietary formats over a weekend. sometimes it requires replacing expensive hardware that's still doing it's job fine.
in the mean time, linux' better support the proprietary crap (or at least a decent ammount of it) or it's chances in the corparate desktop will be smaller, way smaller, than it should.
and on the open vs. closed data types: my impression is that corporations actually _DO_ like closed data types. or at least open data types that alows them to keep the actual data inside secret. most of them base their business models in the assumption that any leaked information may come back to bite their market share.
i believe that's the argument IBM, Unisys and other supliers used during the late 60's, 70's and early 80's. "use our . since we have full controll of it and it's kept under all kinds of secrets, we can ensure your data will be safe from unauthorized eyes, and since we're we're not going away anytime soon, so you'll allways have support for ".
managers are trained to analize options and make the decision that will:
- bring more functionality; - be more secure; - have continued support; - give the greatest return for every $ invested; - be easiest to use; - cost less;
not neccessary in that order. sometimes they make compromises or mistakes in their analisis, but choosing a proprietary data type over an open one is (in their point of view) not neccessarily one.
got it ? it may not be important to you, but some big companies have _decades_ of data stored in their systems, some of this data only accessible through aged proprietary apps written in clipper, cobol, VB 3.0, whatever (some of those only exists in binary form. sources are long gone)... heck, once i went to a stock brokerage office and they had an access 2.0 running under OS/2 (by M$ recomendation) because access 2.0 was the only thing their PBX supported, and they had by force of law to record every phone call, internal or external.
it's easy for me or you to ditch windoze from our home machines because we don't have such worries. most of our valuable data are stored in open formats or easy-to-break proprietary ones and in small volume. now try to imagine GE. GM. Siemens. Toyota. Citibank. US gov.
i'm old enough to remember the reluctance of compnies in migrating from DOS to windows 3.0, or moving away from wordperfect. it only happend when M$ word/excell became stable enough, with reasonably good WP/Lotus 123 converters. that was between 10-12 years ago.
now that linux is starting to mature as a desktop environment, companies can start evaluating it. but since IT people in big enterprises abhors sudden and traumatic changes (it can cost them mora than millions, it can cost billions if something goes terribly wrong), they'll firts demmand a high level of compatibility. then as old applications are phased out, compatibility becomes a seccondary issue.
a friend o'mine recently said me he was stuck with windows in his small company (he's owner and only empoyee) because of some old clipper apps. then i showed him flagship and sugested that he could run the DOS binaries in dosEMU while adapting them to compile under flagship. he did that and is pretty happy. he knew about linux desktop but delayed the move because of 10 yr old clipper apps. and he's only one. now imagine GE's 300.000 employees...
gecko based browsers works for most banks i tried here in brasil, including the biggest ones (banco do brasil, bradesco, itau, unibanco).
my bank (unibanco) shows a warning page advising me to use netscape 6 or IE 6. it probably checks for netscape|explorer instead of gecko|explorer. after i hit continue it works ok, with only a few kirks because of the font size i use (not gecko's fault. i forced it to use bigger fonts)
do this anouncement means the hype of "linux everywhere" is over ?
let's face it, guys. all products/technologies goes though an over-hype period during its life where it's sold as fix-all do-all solution for all mankind's problems. then people realize that it's not quite like that, the product/technology is loathed because it didn't deliver, the it gets to the point we all hope linux gets to: it becomes a mature technology.
maybe it's already mature enough for the server and some embeded appliances, it's maturing quickly in the handhelds and maybe now it's time to tackle the media-center maturing proccess. maybe not from greedy brands like HP, but maybe from some unexpected source. after the media center is taken, maybe the hype of "linux on desktop" will be already fading, which will means the start of the maturing proccess in this field too, but i'm digressing here.
let's give time for linux to mature as a media-player and wait. a breakthrough in this area will certainly come from a really inovative comapny. i'm just certain it wont be HP.
do you know wich version of photoshop/crossover and if it'll work under regular wine ? i wanna know just for the sake of testing case the subject comes up in a discussion. for everything else, Gimp is good enough for me.
i feel your pain. a co-worker used to use joe to edit files in our servers. i got so fed up with all the backup files i tried the same thing (i'm using brasilian kb, i also have to type space after the ~) and removed the whole/etc
after that i went berserk in all servers executing "apt-get --purge remove joe" after reminding him what would happen with him if he ever install joe again
the cube is a primitive 3D geometrical construct. in other other words: it's simple. and for what i know of steve, that's what he wants from his machines: to be as simple as possible for the end user, thus the cube shape.
trust me, keeping a list of MD5 sums of your binaries helps a great deal.
other idea is to use something like FAM (file alteration monitor) to warn everytime a binary is changed. think of it as an "imune system" for your mac.
Apple, can you release something like debsums (a colection of MD5 checksums for most of debian's packages) for your system ?
i started playing with computers in 1985, earning my living from them since '89, and since before that i hear about the dismissal of the programer... and it never happened.
i lost count of how many "friendly" languages were created that would allow a "normal" human being to code, and we still have programers doing the actual work or fixing the snafus of "normal people".
it was already in the shop because of this (is where i saw it. my car was there for a clutch replacement). whenever the engine got to the normal operating temperature it would start revving like crazy. it was, according to the mechanic, the computer setting a too rich air/gas mixture, which would cause the acceleration and overheating enough to make the exaust to glow red.
lucklly for the owner, the truck was manual shift (as almost all the brasilian rangers), so it was possible for him to move it to neutral before braking.
i didn't stay there enough to learn the reason of the problem, but let's speculate: since ford ranger V6 is an old and tested design (so let's suppose it was not software related), it could be:
a stuck cable; a broken sensor; a sensor missreading air intake; a short in some wire; etc.;
the story of this french guy is kinda suspicious, as several posts here point out, but a computerized car going bezerk _IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE_...
my humble sugestion:
an ignition switch like the ones found in motorcicles.
I ride a Honda 125cc on a daily basis, and trust me: the switch is handy to avoid gas driping over the hot exaust in an accident or to stop the chain from slashing a leg. fly-by-wire cars should have one too.
problem here is, IE shoud _NOT_ be considered part of the OS, and as such it should be supported as a standalone product, no matter what microsoft says.
maybe PKD predicted that a runnaway android would have pouches of blood or other fluid to slip in a genetic test, but an emotional response test would be harder to fool for a beeing without empathy.
in the movie deckard had a hard time trying to figure if rachel was indeed an android because of her implanted memories. this memories were the emotional equivalent to gattaca's blood patches in the fingertips.
is not a troll. brasil's second largest ISP (http://www.uol.com.br) implements this and goes beyond...
when a UOL (looks sooooo much lik AOL, isnt ???) luser activates this annoying anti-spam P.O.S, every message sent to the luser by a previously unknown sender, a confirmation message is dispatched asking the sender to access a confirmation page in UOL site where the sender must type the caracters seen in a captcha (those.gifs with distorted letters hotmail shows during registration). after this step the sender is added to a white-list and the recipient receives the message.
oh, and this is sooooooooo anoying, at college we almost beat the sit out of a guy who left this on and subscribed to our mailing list.
BTW. anyone wondering why UOL lost the top position to Terra ??? they have even more annoyances like this in their system. most stupid ISP i've ever seen and/or worked for.
"The highly probable consequence of this scenario is the total failure of the MEB/Support Electronics +5V power converter. Since this component is essential to the operation of all of the 8 mechanisms within the instrument (including shutters), its demise renders those mechanisms inoperable. A re-configuration to the Side 1 electronics (current operations are on Side 2) is not possible. (The Side 1 electronics failed in May 2001.)"
"To say that to say that your company has 'no intention' of exercising it's patents against one organization, is to say that the patents will not be used against any organization; making the patents useless."
says who ??? if i patent a new kind of engine i can license it for free to companies in subdeveloped countries to help boost their industrie and create jobs while putting a hefty price tag for BMW, GM or Honda. there's no law that says patent licensing contracts should be fair or aply the same fees to all licensees. at least not that i know of
i saw once a sony turntable with remote AND tracking control. the arm was mounted around a screw just like the heads of a floppy drive, so you could lift/release and move it to any point of the disk. it didn't have a sensor to identify the tracks, so you still had to do find the track yourself.
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1- go to school
2- leave the RFID tag there (or wrap tinfoil in your arm if is subdermal)
3- leave the school
4- comit a crime
5- ???
6- profit
#5 could prety much be "don't worry with police. they think you were in school".
thei're just giving students an excelent, state sanctioned alibi.
i watched a movie once about a gang that used british prision system as alibi. they all comited light crimes (no more than 6 months jail time), then they broke of the jail, stole a roll of paper from the comapny that prints brit money, printed a batch of bills, hide the money, returned to jail.
when the police found about the stolen paper, they dismissed the gang as suspects because they were all in jail, end were still there.
do i see something like this happening in texas ?
for those too lazy to "bugmenot.com" try mozilla's bugmenot extension: http://extensions.roachfiend.com/index.php#bugmeno t
thy'd be distributing borland's runtime code.
when you buy a compiler you also buy the rights to distribute the compiler's runtime code. if you buils an app with a warezed version of borland C compiler, every copy of it is a pirate copy of the runtime, doesn't matter wich license you use for the app
read my post again. that's the whole of it.
problem is: you can't move away from proprietary formats over a weekend. sometimes it requires replacing expensive hardware that's still doing it's job fine.
in the mean time, linux' better support the proprietary crap (or at least a decent ammount of it) or it's chances in the corparate desktop will be smaller, way smaller, than it should.
and on the open vs. closed data types: my impression is that corporations actually _DO_ like closed data types. or at least open data types that alows them to keep the actual data inside secret. most of them base their business models in the assumption that any leaked information may come back to bite their market share.
i believe that's the argument IBM, Unisys and other supliers used during the late 60's, 70's and early 80's. "use our . since we have full controll of it and it's kept under all kinds of secrets, we can ensure your data will be safe from unauthorized eyes, and since we're we're not going away anytime soon, so you'll allways have support for ".
managers are trained to analize options and make the decision that will:
- bring more functionality;
- be more secure;
- have continued support;
- give the greatest return for every $ invested;
- be easiest to use;
- cost less;
not neccessary in that order. sometimes they make compromises or mistakes in their analisis, but choosing a proprietary data type over an open one is (in their point of view) not neccessarily one.
repeat with me:
backward compatibility.
again:
backward compatibility.
backward compatibility.
backward compatibility.
got it ? it may not be important to you, but some big companies have _decades_ of data stored in their systems, some of this data only accessible through aged proprietary apps written in clipper, cobol, VB 3.0, whatever (some of those only exists in binary form. sources are long gone)... heck, once i went to a stock brokerage office and they had an access 2.0 running under OS/2 (by M$ recomendation) because access 2.0 was the only thing their PBX supported, and they had by force of law to record every phone call, internal or external.
it's easy for me or you to ditch windoze from our home machines because we don't have such worries. most of our valuable data are stored in open formats or easy-to-break proprietary ones and in small volume. now try to imagine GE. GM. Siemens. Toyota. Citibank. US gov.
i'm old enough to remember the reluctance of compnies in migrating from DOS to windows 3.0, or moving away from wordperfect. it only happend when M$ word/excell became stable enough, with reasonably good WP/Lotus 123 converters. that was between 10-12 years ago.
now that linux is starting to mature as a desktop environment, companies can start evaluating it. but since IT people in big enterprises abhors sudden and traumatic changes (it can cost them mora than millions, it can cost billions if something goes terribly wrong), they'll firts demmand a high level of compatibility. then as old applications are phased out, compatibility becomes a seccondary issue.
a friend o'mine recently said me he was stuck with windows in his small company (he's owner and only empoyee) because of some old clipper apps. then i showed him flagship and sugested that he could run the DOS binaries in dosEMU while adapting them to compile under flagship. he did that and is pretty happy. he knew about linux desktop but delayed the move because of 10 yr old clipper apps. and he's only one. now imagine GE's 300.000 employees...
you forgot to tell us in which country you're in.
gecko based browsers works for most banks i tried here in brasil, including the biggest ones (banco do brasil, bradesco, itau, unibanco).
my bank (unibanco) shows a warning page advising me to use netscape 6 or IE 6. it probably checks for netscape|explorer instead of gecko|explorer. after i hit continue it works ok, with only a few kirks because of the font size i use (not gecko's fault. i forced it to use bigger fonts)
do this anouncement means the hype of "linux everywhere" is over ?
let's face it, guys. all products/technologies goes though an over-hype period during its life where it's sold as fix-all do-all solution for all mankind's problems. then people realize that it's not quite like that, the product/technology is loathed because it didn't deliver, the it gets to the point we all hope linux gets to: it becomes a mature technology.
maybe it's already mature enough for the server and some embeded appliances, it's maturing quickly in the handhelds and maybe now it's time to tackle the media-center maturing proccess. maybe not from greedy brands like HP, but maybe from some unexpected source. after the media center is taken, maybe the hype of "linux on desktop" will be already fading, which will means the start of the maturing proccess in this field too, but i'm digressing here.
let's give time for linux to mature as a media-player and wait. a breakthrough in this area will certainly come from a really inovative comapny. i'm just certain it wont be HP.
imagine, blu-ray disck with subliminar messages ?
children of the corn?
i'm over 16, damit... gotta run... C ya...
do you know wich version of photoshop/crossover and if it'll work under regular wine ? i wanna know just for the sake of testing case the subject comes up in a discussion. for everything else, Gimp is good enough for me.
they could spend a little more time developing/testing their wares so they run fine in wine/cedega/crossover just like corel did once.
this would help creating market to an eventual native port.
i feel your pain. a co-worker used to use joe to edit files in our servers. i got so fed up with all the backup files i tried the same thing (i'm using brasilian kb, i also have to type space after the ~) and removed the whole /etc
after that i went berserk in all servers executing "apt-get --purge remove joe" after reminding him what would happen with him if he ever install joe again
the cube is a primitive 3D geometrical construct. in other other words: it's simple. and for what i know of steve, that's what he wants from his machines: to be as simple as possible for the end user, thus the cube shape.
any mac coder aroud to port tripwire to macos X ?
trust me, keeping a list of MD5 sums of your binaries helps a great deal.
other idea is to use something like FAM (file alteration monitor) to warn everytime a binary is changed. think of it as an "imune system" for your mac.
Apple, can you release something like debsums (a colection of MD5 checksums for most of debian's packages) for your system ?
i started playing with computers in 1985, earning my living from them since '89, and since before that i hear about the dismissal of the programer... and it never happened.
i lost count of how many "friendly" languages were created that would allow a "normal" human being to code, and we still have programers doing the actual work or fixing the snafus of "normal people".
it was already in the shop because of this (is where i saw it. my car was there for a clutch replacement). whenever the engine got to the normal operating temperature it would start revving like crazy. it was, according to the mechanic, the computer setting a too rich air/gas mixture, which would cause the acceleration and overheating enough to make the exaust to glow red.
lucklly for the owner, the truck was manual shift (as almost all the brasilian rangers), so it was possible for him to move it to neutral before braking.
i didn't stay there enough to learn the reason of the problem, but let's speculate: since ford ranger V6 is an old and tested design (so let's suppose it was not software related), it could be:
a stuck cable;
a broken sensor;
a sensor missreading air intake;
a short in some wire;
etc.;
the story of this french guy is kinda suspicious, as several posts here point out, but a computerized car going bezerk _IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE_...
my humble sugestion:
an ignition switch like the ones found in motorcicles.
I ride a Honda 125cc on a daily basis, and trust me: the switch is handy to avoid gas driping over the hot exaust in an accident or to stop the chain from slashing a leg. fly-by-wire cars should have one too.
problem here is, IE shoud _NOT_ be considered part of the OS, and as such it should be supported as a standalone product, no matter what microsoft says.
once i bought an used p-133 from a whacko who used to hide his stash inside the computer case, only place his mother would never look.
oddly enough the machine was incredibly unstable, often blue-screening, pci cards didn't get recognized...
i wonder why...
did you see gattaca ???
maybe PKD predicted that a runnaway android would have pouches of blood or other fluid to slip in a genetic test, but an emotional response test would be harder to fool for a beeing without empathy.
in the movie deckard had a hard time trying to figure if rachel was indeed an android because of her implanted memories. this memories were the emotional equivalent to gattaca's blood patches in the fingertips.
did you check the disclaimer ???
"Google is not affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content."
is not a troll. brasil's second largest ISP (http://www.uol.com.br) implements this and goes beyond...
.gifs with distorted letters hotmail shows during registration). after this step the sender is added to a white-list and the recipient receives the message.
when a UOL (looks sooooo much lik AOL, isnt ???) luser activates this annoying anti-spam P.O.S, every message sent to the luser by a previously unknown sender, a confirmation message is dispatched asking the sender to access a confirmation page in UOL site where the sender must type the caracters seen in a captcha (those
oh, and this is sooooooooo anoying, at college we almost beat the sit out of a guy who left this on and subscribed to our mailing list.
BTW. anyone wondering why UOL lost the top position to Terra ??? they have even more annoyances like this in their system. most stupid ISP i've ever seen and/or worked for.
get mozilla/firefox then go to www.mozdev.org. grab flashblocker and adblock.
happy browsing.
RTFA...
"The highly probable consequence of this scenario is the total failure of the MEB/Support Electronics +5V power converter. Since this component is essential to the operation of all of the 8 mechanisms within the instrument (including shutters), its demise renders those mechanisms inoperable. A re-configuration to the Side 1 electronics (current operations are on Side 2) is not possible. (The Side 1 electronics failed in May 2001.)"
my enphasis.
"To say that to say that your company has 'no intention' of exercising it's patents against one organization, is to say that the patents will not be used against any organization; making the patents useless."
says who ??? if i patent a new kind of engine i can license it for free to companies in subdeveloped countries to help boost their industrie and create jobs while putting a hefty price tag for BMW, GM or Honda. there's no law that says patent licensing contracts should be fair or aply the same fees to all licensees. at least not that i know of
what're you smoking ???
can i have some ???
i saw once a sony turntable with remote AND tracking control. the arm was mounted around a screw just like the heads of a floppy drive, so you could lift/release and move it to any point of the disk. it didn't have a sensor to identify the tracks, so you still had to do find the track yourself.