makes sense because the native registry/file virtualization is provided by MICROSOFT, and this being slashdot, the mantra is "anything windows does, a third party app does better, because M$ SUCKS!!!", unless it's "shitty iTunes bloatware for windows".
you don't consider EDS, 3COM and palm a spending spree ???
holly jeebus in a pogo stick, man! the guy spent nearly 20 giga dolars on those. i bet carly is proud of him (except for the harrasment thingy, of course)
they're electricaly simpler, but their fuel injection is enormously more complicated than a carburator. a diesel requires one really strong fuel pump to bring the pressure to above 10 atm, then it takes one individual small pump per cylinder, synced to respective engine piston, to inject the fuel at pressures higher than the air pressure inside the combustion chamber. that's one of the reasons diesels were always a hulluva more expensive than gasoline engines.
electronic fuel injection on both gasoline and diesel levels the playing field somewhat, but diesels are still more expensive to build because of the higher compression. this requires much stronger blocks, heads, seams, moving parts, fuel pump and really strong pipes between the pump and the injectors.
Most of the defenses involve adding a kind of "policing" function to the chip's architecture. For example, one could design a block that would monitor the behavior of other blocks and make sure they fit certain patterns. If another block misbehaves, it would be "quarantined" and the monitoring hardware would take over the now-missing functions.
it's about time this kind of thing makes it to peecees. mainframes have this buit-in for eons now. of course, they use this for realiability, but having mainframe class reliability on desktop machines would't be bad, for a few extra bucks
it's a simple "for" loop iterating on a range of IP addresses testing their known default passwords and loggind the successful attempts, then another script to retrieve the serial number of the device and changing the password.
verizon doesn't need a backdoor to do that if what they're trying to do is getting rid of default passwords, they already know the password.
are you sure this wasn't the EDS deal to resell solaris ?
when i was working for EDS, we and Sun were prety much in bed. after the acquisition by HP things began to sour a little betwen HP and sun.
now that sun is oracle, well... a completely diferent ball game. it's one thing to turn away from a nearly broken company 20 times smaller than you, but oracle is as big (at least in terms of market cap.) as HP, and they have a direct competitor to IBMs DB/2, something that HP lacks.
one: official here don't usually leave office, with rare exceptions (like former president FHC). they just run to another office. it's not considered shamefull here to run again even after leaving presidency. of all the still living ex-presidents, only FHC didn't run for some other thing. sarney and collor are senators, itamar franco was governor of minas gerais untill 2003, and is running this year for senate. so offers of jobs have little value here.
two: we have a multi-party polical system, not a bi-partisan system. so, there's lots of interest from smaller and opposition parties to simply block proposals of rulling parties, specially in controversial stuff.
three: different than US, that only have right wing and FAR right wing parties (yes, the american democtratic partic _IS_ right wing), we actually have leftist parties. this includes real socialist, workers and communist parties. and DMCA style laws are anathema to their party lines.
four: populism and anti-americanism. both traits are very strong in basilian politics, which combined with 2 and 3 makes it very hard for foreign companies to simply bribe the government. unless you're a car manufacturer, like GM or volkswagen. but even in this case they have to _beg_ the government to get what they want. only civil construction contractors, banks, farmers and alcohol (AKA ethanol) producers have free pass to bribe the government here, but those are all local folks.
and if someone else in the household wants to whatch american idol at the same time you grind on final fantasy XIII, you have to buy another TV set, which costs more and takes a whole lot more space than a budget notebook.
so... a point, please ?
my point is, whatever you choice for gaming, there's points in favor and points against. decide based on your taste. it's the kind of thing, like religion or favorite sports team, that shouldn't be debatable.
seriously, we're going all the way downhill back to the dark age.
it's censorship in australia, holding prisoners without charges in US and england, now with software patents, we'll see the resurgence of guilds.
it'll be such a fucked up environment, that only those who are members of a certain guild will be able to make any products in certain field, and if a new entrepeneur tries to enter the market, the established guild will throw all the wheight of the legal system on the new guy.
soon, access to information will be so restricted, that unless you're born in a certain class, you won't have any change of progress or innovating or "changing the world".
when is the first ship to mars leaving ? i'm starting to think that a cold, desert planet with no breathable atmosphere is not such a bad idea after all.
a month is 720 hours. assuming they're keeping everything since 1970, and it's stored on compressed format at 2 GB per hour of standard def. video, this is:
problem is, TV stations don't keep on archive only what's broadcasted to the public. i never worked on a TV station, so i don't know the ratio of unaired footage / aired footage, but i wouldn't doubt if someone gave me a number like 10:1 or even 20:1. which would take multiple exabytes of storage to acomodate. and i'm using MPEG compressed video to make the calculation.
anarchy only means "absence of government". which pretty much defines open source. you're not bound to obey a centralized organization with power to punish you if you do not follow the rules such body creates. in an an anarchy, you follow written or unwritten rules on your own free will. if you disobey those rules, the whole of the society will find a way to punish you, not a small group of "government" thugs.
in this sense, open source IS anarchic, while apple is a centralized, unelected (meaning, a tyranny) government. see how APPL punishes developers who "disobey". they get swiftly banished from their app store, something that can very harmfull for small developers.
and about the sex stuff, in a free software world, no one other than yourself controls what goes in your computer, so as long the content is legal by the rules of the world in general, you can store and watch whatever you want. in apple's tyranny, you can't do that, unless his holyness steve allows.
now, what the GP probably meant by "stallman sex free utopia" is that stallman is _such_ a nerd, that he doesn't care for sex at all, so when he imagines his utopia, he thinks only about the code, not the content.
"whose meaning is defined via the Wikipedia page for that word"
it's not. it's defined by xkcd _pretending_ that it's defined by wikipedia.
now, wikipedians, chill out. IIRC, there's an entry on the wikipedia's rules saying that you can throw away all the rules if appropriate. this is one instance where this could be use, so stop being so anal about it, include the fucking word and move on.
munroe is trying to throw a classic mind fuck on you guys. the more you bitch and moan, the more childish you look, which will have the effect of every cartoonist out there trying to do the same. every kid in the world knows that it's a lot funnier to poke the bitchy guy, and everyone knows the best thing to counter is to just ignore.
if the A4 CPU used on the iPad and iPhone G4 is of the shelf, then i challenge you to buy one and put a home made system togheter with it.
do it and i'll eat my words.
the cost to build is not as much "calculated" as is "estimated". they probably rely on insider information to estimate the cost of custom components, pretty much like reportes rely on these kind of sources to do their job.
- An inside job, or some otherwise corporate espionage thing. I don't see what they would gain here other than seeing what Apple's internals look like a few weeks early, which wouldn't help them rush a product to market ahead of Apple.
if it was corporate espionage, it'd be locked in a lab somewhere, being dissected by an electron microscope, not on a vietnamese blog.
ok, but how dos it render the URL for a russian, using the browser in russia to read russian sites using URLs in cyrillic ?
if my native language had a diferent alphabet, i'd feel personally offended if my browser displayed the URL as a bunch of incomprehensible codes instead of properly rendered...
in short, my idea would be to actually display properly rendered , PLUS a flashing sign besides the address bar saying "this is not but "
some letters in russian cyrillic look like latin characters but have different uses. example, the cyrillic character that looks like a "C", is actually aquivalent to "S", their "H" is actually our "N". so a TLD ".som" in cyrillic would be seen on the screen (and understood by westerners) as ".com".
so here's my suggestion to firefox developers: put some easy to see visual clue on the address bar to tell exactly in which language or character set the URL is written in.
sorry for palm loyalists, but you know a company have no future if it changed hands several times already.
palm started as independent, was sold to US Robotics, then became part of 3COM when they acquired USR, then spun off, splited in software and hardware, merged software and hardware again, now they're HP... uffff !!! got tired just of typing that. thing is, no one at palm knows how to sell their stuff right or survice in a cut-throat environment. when they were pretty much alone in the PDA market, they were doing fine. now against heavy competition in the smartphone busines ? not so much. if the didn't get bought, they'd have ended just like comodore, bankrupt despite the excelent amiga computer.
now the disturbing stuff:
despite the benefit that now i'll be able to buy a palm pre with employee discount, i think palm will end up as apolo and compaq. compaq is now just a brand for a line of el cheapo PCs, appolo was used some time ago in a line of cheap printers. in this newest acquisition, all the brain capital from palm will be diluted inside the body of this behemoth, the products that directly compete with other HP offerings will be axed, and the brand re-used for some other HP products.
yes, i know. sad but true.
[disclaimer] i know this by experience. i used to work for EDS, now "HP enterprise services".[/disclaimer]
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makes sense because the native registry/file virtualization is provided by MICROSOFT, and this being slashdot, the mantra is "anything windows does, a third party app does better, because M$ SUCKS!!!", unless it's "shitty iTunes bloatware for windows".
you don't consider EDS, 3COM and palm a spending spree ???
holly jeebus in a pogo stick, man! the guy spent nearly 20 giga dolars on those. i bet carly is proud of him (except for the harrasment thingy, of course)
they're electricaly simpler, but their fuel injection is enormously more complicated than a carburator. a diesel requires one really strong fuel pump to bring the pressure to above 10 atm, then it takes one individual small pump per cylinder, synced to respective engine piston, to inject the fuel at pressures higher than the air pressure inside the combustion chamber. that's one of the reasons diesels were always a hulluva more expensive than gasoline engines.
electronic fuel injection on both gasoline and diesel levels the playing field somewhat, but diesels are still more expensive to build because of the higher compression. this requires much stronger blocks, heads, seams, moving parts, fuel pump and really strong pipes between the pump and the injectors.
Most of the defenses involve adding a kind of "policing" function to the chip's architecture. For example, one could design a block that would monitor the behavior of other blocks and make sure they fit certain patterns. If another block misbehaves, it would be "quarantined" and the monitoring hardware would take over the now-missing functions.
it's about time this kind of thing makes it to peecees. mainframes have this buit-in for eons now. of course, they use this for realiability, but having mainframe class reliability on desktop machines would't be bad, for a few extra bucks
i don't think it's so much the engineers as the beancounters doing "engineering" with an excel spreadsheet.
and since those beancounters are usually higher on the company hierarchy, the engineers either obey or get shafted.
to use a car analogy (sorry!), engineering by marketing resulted in the the ford edsel, engineering by beancounting resulted in ford pinto.
it's not breaking in if:
1) verizon knows the password
2) the contract the user have with the provider allows them to take proactive security measures in the users behalf.
if i had a term in my contract allowing the ISP to do that, i'd be glad to know that they're being diligent in securing the network.
but that's just me. YMMV.
you don't know it.
it's a simple "for" loop iterating on a range of IP addresses testing their known default passwords and loggind the successful attempts, then another script to retrieve the serial number of the device and changing the password.
verizon doesn't need a backdoor to do that if what they're trying to do is getting rid of default passwords, they already know the password.
if you had changed the password yourself, this wouldn't have happened.
are you sure this wasn't the EDS deal to resell solaris ?
when i was working for EDS, we and Sun were prety much in bed. after the acquisition by HP things began to sour a little betwen HP and sun.
now that sun is oracle, well... a completely diferent ball game. it's one thing to turn away from a nearly broken company 20 times smaller than you, but oracle is as big (at least in terms of market cap.) as HP, and they have a direct competitor to IBMs DB/2, something that HP lacks.
one: official here don't usually leave office, with rare exceptions (like former president FHC). they just run to another office. it's not considered shamefull here to run again even after leaving presidency. of all the still living ex-presidents, only FHC didn't run for some other thing. sarney and collor are senators, itamar franco was governor of minas gerais untill 2003, and is running this year for senate. so offers of jobs have little value here.
two: we have a multi-party polical system, not a bi-partisan system. so, there's lots of interest from smaller and opposition parties to simply block proposals of rulling parties, specially in controversial stuff.
three: different than US, that only have right wing and FAR right wing parties (yes, the american democtratic partic _IS_ right wing), we actually have leftist parties. this includes real socialist, workers and communist parties. and DMCA style laws are anathema to their party lines.
four: populism and anti-americanism. both traits are very strong in basilian politics, which combined with 2 and 3 makes it very hard for foreign companies to simply bribe the government. unless you're a car manufacturer, like GM or volkswagen. but even in this case they have to _beg_ the government to get what they want. only civil construction contractors, banks, farmers and alcohol (AKA ethanol) producers have free pass to bribe the government here, but those are all local folks.
and if someone else in the household wants to whatch american idol at the same time you grind on final fantasy XIII, you have to buy another TV set, which costs more and takes a whole lot more space than a budget notebook.
so... a point, please ?
my point is, whatever you choice for gaming, there's points in favor and points against. decide based on your taste. it's the kind of thing, like religion or favorite sports team, that shouldn't be debatable.
i just want to see how long, or _if_, it's gonna take for the authorities to stick a huge, multi-billion dolar fine on BP.
but it's not going to happen, right ?
the way these corporations learned to manipulate the legal system, the way they're in bed with politicians, is just sickening.
seriously, we're going all the way downhill back to the dark age.
it's censorship in australia, holding prisoners without charges in US and england, now with software patents, we'll see the resurgence of guilds.
it'll be such a fucked up environment, that only those who are members of a certain guild will be able to make any products in certain field, and if a new entrepeneur tries to enter the market, the established guild will throw all the wheight of the legal system on the new guy.
soon, access to information will be so restricted, that unless you're born in a certain class, you won't have any change of progress or innovating or "changing the world".
when is the first ship to mars leaving ? i'm starting to think that a cold, desert planet with no breathable atmosphere is not such a bad idea after all.
you, sir, owe me a new keyboard, plus a case of hard liquor to remove the mental image of someone licking RMS's armpit from my brain
a month is 720 hours. assuming they're keeping everything since 1970, and it's stored on compressed format at 2 GB per hour of standard def. video, this is:
720 hours * 12 months * 40 years * 2 gigabytes = 691200 GB
or 675 terabytes.
problem is, TV stations don't keep on archive only what's broadcasted to the public. i never worked on a TV station, so i don't know the ratio of unaired footage / aired footage, but i wouldn't doubt if someone gave me a number like 10:1 or even 20:1. which would take multiple exabytes of storage to acomodate. and i'm using MPEG compressed video to make the calculation.
you get it wrong.
anarchy only means "absence of government". which pretty much defines open source. you're not bound to obey a centralized organization with power to punish you if you do not follow the rules such body creates. in an an anarchy, you follow written or unwritten rules on your own free will. if you disobey those rules, the whole of the society will find a way to punish you, not a small group of "government" thugs.
in this sense, open source IS anarchic, while apple is a centralized, unelected (meaning, a tyranny) government. see how APPL punishes developers who "disobey". they get swiftly banished from their app store, something that can very harmfull for small developers.
and about the sex stuff, in a free software world, no one other than yourself controls what goes in your computer, so as long the content is legal by the rules of the world in general, you can store and watch whatever you want. in apple's tyranny, you can't do that, unless his holyness steve allows.
now, what the GP probably meant by "stallman sex free utopia" is that stallman is _such_ a nerd, that he doesn't care for sex at all, so when he imagines his utopia, he thinks only about the code, not the content.
"whose meaning is defined via the Wikipedia page for that word"
it's not. it's defined by xkcd _pretending_ that it's defined by wikipedia.
now, wikipedians, chill out. IIRC, there's an entry on the wikipedia's rules saying that you can throw away all the rules if appropriate. this is one instance where this could be use, so stop being so anal about it, include the fucking word and move on.
munroe is trying to throw a classic mind fuck on you guys. the more you bitch and moan, the more childish you look, which will have the effect of every cartoonist out there trying to do the same. every kid in the world knows that it's a lot funnier to poke the bitchy guy, and everyone knows the best thing to counter is to just ignore.
ok, other already pointed that the shuttle and military interceptors can't reach geosychronous orbit, but about satelites that are already there ?
isn't there any old, almost decomissioned satelite near that orbit that is:
a) still under control from ground station
b) with fuel enough to manouver to galaxy 15's orbit ?
it doesn, t need to be a big impact, just a slow relative speed collision to nudge G15 to either deorbit it or send it to a lagrange point.
if the A4 CPU used on the iPad and iPhone G4 is of the shelf, then i challenge you to buy one and put a home made system togheter with it.
do it and i'll eat my words.
the cost to build is not as much "calculated" as is "estimated". they probably rely on insider information to estimate the cost of custom components, pretty much like reportes rely on these kind of sources to do their job.
- An inside job, or some otherwise corporate espionage thing. I don't see what they would gain here other than seeing what Apple's internals look like a few weeks early, which wouldn't help them rush a product to market ahead of Apple.
if it was corporate espionage, it'd be locked in a lab somewhere, being dissected by an electron microscope, not on a vietnamese blog.
strange. you say they want magic but are buying google's piece of shit instead.
yeah, yeah. i know. troll, don't feed... whatever.
John Mays lives !!!
ok, but how dos it render the URL for a russian, using the browser in russia to read russian sites using URLs in cyrillic ?
if my native language had a diferent alphabet, i'd feel personally offended if my browser displayed the URL as a bunch of incomprehensible codes instead of properly rendered ...
in short, my idea would be to actually display properly rendered , PLUS a flashing sign besides the address bar saying "this is not but "
this a boon for russian scamers.
some letters in russian cyrillic look like latin characters but have different uses. example, the cyrillic character that looks like a "C", is actually aquivalent to "S", their "H" is actually our "N". so a TLD ".som" in cyrillic would be seen on the screen (and understood by westerners) as ".com".
so here's my suggestion to firefox developers: put some easy to see visual clue on the address bar to tell exactly in which language or character set the URL is written in.
sorry for palm loyalists, but you know a company have no future if it changed hands several times already.
palm started as independent, was sold to US Robotics, then became part of 3COM when they acquired USR, then spun off, splited in software and hardware, merged software and hardware again, now they're HP... uffff !!! got tired just of typing that. thing is, no one at palm knows how to sell their stuff right or survice in a cut-throat environment. when they were pretty much alone in the PDA market, they were doing fine. now against heavy competition in the smartphone busines ? not so much. if the didn't get bought, they'd have ended just like comodore, bankrupt despite the excelent amiga computer.
now the disturbing stuff:
despite the benefit that now i'll be able to buy a palm pre with employee discount, i think palm will end up as apolo and compaq. compaq is now just a brand for a line of el cheapo PCs, appolo was used some time ago in a line of cheap printers. in this newest acquisition, all the brain capital from palm will be diluted inside the body of this behemoth, the products that directly compete with other HP offerings will be axed, and the brand re-used for some other HP products.
yes, i know. sad but true.
[disclaimer] i know this by experience. i used to work for EDS, now "HP enterprise services".[/disclaimer]