The question is -- are there copy protection measures here?
Yeah, there sure are! The "copy protection measures" are that you are prevented from getting at the ROMS by a non-standard interface, which that pesky Flash-thingie circumvents!
Now all the secret codes will leak out into your parallel port!!
~default Windows installation, but users don't see file extensions.
I'd like to think that if MS would default this "feature" to show all hidden files and extensions, then many of the common, stupid viruses out there would mostly go away...
The Model 3 didn't come in a laptop. It was a battleship-grey "desktop." The Model 4 they had a luggable version (the 4p: p=it will rip your arm right off!).
The TRS-80 laptop line started with the Model 100.
So, define evolution as you think it is still taking place
Sorry, but you can't see evolution, just its consequences. The process works far too slowly for us to see changes.
Evolution occurs because of DNA mutation--which happens all the time--but that mutation must be viable and offer some benefit for the recipient.
For example, humanoid bipeds that were born with less hair didn't get as hot on the savannah, and were (presumably) able to run further and longer. This would indirectly mean that those beasts could get more food and survive easier. More food = more babies and the trait is passed to future generations.
Another example of something that we are losing is the appendix (burst appendix = death; no appendix = no burst appendix = no death from that cause). The process happens so slowly because those with the evolutionary trait (in this case an absent appendix) must outbreed those who don't have the trait.
In the case of the appendix, modern science is messing with the evolutionary machine, but there are some things that will continue to evolve:
Cancer resistance
Virus (AIDS) resistance
Ability to function in more stressful environment
SIDS resistance
Pollution resistance
So the bottom line is that any crackpot can say evolution is dead, but without understanding the thousands and possibly millions of years required for evolution to do its work, we can pretend the crackpots of the world, who rage against the windmills, are correct. It doesn't matter; we'll be long since turned to dust by the time we humans evolve again. And we will.
The freakiest thing I ever saw (well, one of...) was when I was testing S3 video cards with Stealth and it was crapping out every time (I think we had to x=a000-cfff, or something to fix).
DanSpear came over, fired up simdeb, paged through a bunch of hex, CHANGED ONE VALUE and then the damn thing worked.
WTF?! At that point, I knew I'd never amount to anything.
You are right about the SGI box - too many brain cells dead since then. Every time I make it back to LA, I somehow always end up driving by 150 pico. It hasn't changed all that much.:)
one of the most usefull features of DesqView/X was the ability to remotely access serial ports on another machine.
Yeah, that remote access concept was fun. There was a machine across the street in the developers' area that was running DVX. For some reason it had a microphone on it (this is back in the early 90's when such things were really cool), so we would rexec the sound recorder on that box and then pick up the files. As I recall, the sound files from that box were too poor to really hear anything, bit it was fun watching the sound meter go whenever someone had a conversation in the vicinity.
QMM was needed with DesqView because it required a lot of resources
Actually, it's QEMM (E=expanded), and it was required because the way the system was paged out in protected mode. QRAM was the "memory manager" for 286s, which unfortunately only had one virtual machine.
Man, I thought that part of my life was dead -- I used to work at Quarterdeck (it was my first "real" job) on their help desk - I was employee #23 in that department.
Sigh. Those were the good old days: writing white papers, messing with the Desqview API, staying up till all hours doing QC for the new releases, watching the programmers write and tweak their code using debug...
How can a country control something outside of their borders? Isn't this the reverse of "if it's on the net, it's in my country and subject to my laws?"
If I display your flag upside-down, backwards, inverted with hot green and fuscia colors, what does it matter if it is outside of your country?
The same thing that was there all along. Ever since 9/11, the government has erected a security façade. Look behind it and you see cardboard and security through obscurity.
Check this out: you can't even think of bringing a pair of nail-clippers on an airplane, but that little guy who vacuums the plane between flights isn't even checked for knives, guns, explosive shoes...
they'll only go and "extend" it with MS proprietary bits
That is the point of XML, and it won't be bad like you think. The power of eXtensible Markup Language is that it is both backwards- and forwards-compatible.
So, if MS makes DocXML, and releases it v. 1.0, then extends it with MS proprietary bits for v. 2.0, all the 1.0 readers can read v. 2.0 documents just fine. They'll drop the 2.0-specific junk, but woo cares? All of the 1.0-specific stuff will still be readable.
I agree... but for reasons that seem to be antithetical to the general consensus here.
Having run through the university mill for several years (and survived), and being on the hiring end of the fence, I can say that a Bachelors in anything is pretty much useless in terms of proving ability to do anything useful. Compared to graduate school, undergrad is really a joke. Sitting in a lecture hall "absorbing" information is not the best way to learn. My advisor told me that in grad school you have to teach yourself. This unfortunately was true more often than not. What they don't tell you, though, is that the undergraduate funds pay for the graduate programs, which the professors use as slave (unpaid) labor by which they work their grants. Make no mistake: College is a business.
...but I digress...
When I sift through resumes, I don't even look at the person's education or even certifications. The only thing that I care about is whether the person can do the job to the quality level I want. This is proved in the interview. Experience level -- what gets me to look at you at all -- is determined by previous jobs, but I don't give a lot of weight, because most people inflate anyway.
In my interviews, people are expected to be articulate, solve real problems and demonstrate their coding ability. If they can't do that, then I could care less where they went to school. One last tidbit: the company I currently work for cares a great deal about degrees. It is a very old company, so they don't understand computers but they know they need them; their attitude is that they won't hire someone who doesn't have a degree, even though they're perfectly happy having degree-less contractors do all the work. Go figure.
...is that someone can patent the process by which email can be generated which directs the recipient to click some link, which delivers a message on some dad-burn web page?
Yup, the whole world has gone insane. I'm going to go cry now.
They'll stop accepting returns on all copy-protected CDs. If you don't like it, go pound sand. Sony stopped accepting returns on opened CDs ~.
You didn't make the distinction, so I'll assume that you assume they won't accept returns on opened CDs. I don't think Worst Buy or shortCircuit City do that now. It is like software: no returns if opened (you have to put up a major fuss and go through several laywers of management to get it returned otherwise).
If they try that, then it will be back to the ways 37ee7 hax0r k!dd!e5 do it:
What's sad is that she's one of the pioneers who was underappreciated ("semi-professional"... WTF is that?) in her time, and virtually unknown today -- yet she's directly/indirectly responsible for many of the things we take for granted.
The average John Q. Public neither knows nor cares about people like that, but doesn't think twice when he sorts a column on his spreadsheet. Perhaps he should.
Isn't the eventual goal to have "average Joes" go to space? Yes, I'm envious, but until the cost comes down to maybe the price of a luxury cruise, then I could care less.
The bureau has been largely frustrated in efforts to break open such messages by trying different unlocking combinations randomly, and officials are increasingly concerned about their ability to read encrypted messages in criminal or terrorist investigations.
Want to encrypt your messages w/o FBI getting your passwords?
Create message on machine isolated from any network.
Encrypt message, then copy to floppy
Load floppy on networked PC
Send to all your buddies!
Don't forget to take isolated machine with you when you leave your hideout...
Your view is the traditional "security through obscurity". It doesn't work...
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It is time for our government to introduce the same amount of security that we've been deploying on company webservers and mail systems for years.
Of course this guy wants security through obscurity -- look at how well it worked with "I love you," "Red Alert," "sadmind," et cetera!! Since companies do so well with their "security," why shouldn't the government emulate that?
What'samaddayou, you some kinda think-nik? Don't worry, the "Peace Police" will be 'round shortly to round you up.
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Now all the secret codes will leak out into your parallel port!!
And there's no way to stop it!!!
Think about the children!!!!
Kind of like how all those AOL DVDs are a net benefit to the environment, huh?
It'll be a net benefit, alright, when no one buys it!
I'd like to think that if MS would default this "feature" to show all hidden files and extensions, then many of the common, stupid viruses out there would mostly go away...
Nah...
The Model 3 didn't come in a laptop. It was a battleship-grey "desktop." The Model 4 they had a luggable version (the 4p: p=it will rip your arm right off!).
The TRS-80 laptop line started with the Model 100.
Evolution occurs because of DNA mutation--which happens all the time--but that mutation must be viable and offer some benefit for the recipient.
For example, humanoid bipeds that were born with less hair didn't get as hot on the savannah, and were (presumably) able to run further and longer. This would indirectly mean that those beasts could get more food and survive easier. More food = more babies and the trait is passed to future generations.
Another example of something that we are losing is the appendix (burst appendix = death; no appendix = no burst appendix = no death from that cause). The process happens so slowly because those with the evolutionary trait (in this case an absent appendix) must outbreed those who don't have the trait.
In the case of the appendix, modern science is messing with the evolutionary machine, but there are some things that will continue to evolve:
- Cancer resistance
- Virus (AIDS) resistance
- Ability to function in more stressful environment
- SIDS resistance
- Pollution resistance
So the bottom line is that any crackpot can say evolution is dead, but without understanding the thousands and possibly millions of years required for evolution to do its work, we can pretend the crackpots of the world, who rage against the windmills, are correct. It doesn't matter; we'll be long since turned to dust by the time we humans evolve again. And we will.DanSpear came over, fired up simdeb, paged through a bunch of hex, CHANGED ONE VALUE and then the damn thing worked.
WTF?! At that point, I knew I'd never amount to anything.
You are right about the SGI box - too many brain cells dead since then. Every time I make it back to LA, I somehow always end up driving by 150 pico. It hasn't changed all that much. :)
Nowadays, we'd probably be caught and tried as terrorists under the Patriot© act, but in those days most folks were trusting...
Man, I thought that part of my life was dead -- I used to work at Quarterdeck (it was my first "real" job) on their help desk - I was employee #23 in that department.
Sigh. Those were the good old days: writing white papers, messing with the Desqview API, staying up till all hours doing QC for the new releases, watching the programmers write and tweak their code using debug ...
Do you want benchmarks of different products on the same platform, or the same product on different platforms?
...all I see are two guys arguing...
If I display your flag upside-down, backwards, inverted with hot green and fuscia colors, what does it matter if it is outside of your country?
What about if I say it is "art"?
Check this out: you can't even think of bringing a pair of nail-clippers on an airplane, but that little guy who vacuums the plane between flights isn't even checked for knives, guns, explosive shoes...
So, if MS makes DocXML, and releases it v. 1.0, then extends it with MS proprietary bits for v. 2.0, all the 1.0 readers can read v. 2.0 documents just fine. They'll drop the 2.0-specific junk, but woo cares? All of the 1.0-specific stuff will still be readable.
Having run through the university mill for several years (and survived), and being on the hiring end of the fence, I can say that a Bachelors in anything is pretty much useless in terms of proving ability to do anything useful. Compared to graduate school, undergrad is really a joke. Sitting in a lecture hall "absorbing" information is not the best way to learn. My advisor told me that in grad school you have to teach yourself. This unfortunately was true more often than not. What they don't tell you, though, is that the undergraduate funds pay for the graduate programs, which the professors use as slave (unpaid) labor by which they work their grants. Make no mistake: College is a business.
...but I digress...
When I sift through resumes, I don't even look at the person's education or even certifications. The only thing that I care about is whether the person can do the job to the quality level I want. This is proved in the interview. Experience level -- what gets me to look at you at all -- is determined by previous jobs, but I don't give a lot of weight, because most people inflate anyway.
In my interviews, people are expected to be articulate, solve real problems and demonstrate their coding ability. If they can't do that, then I could care less where they went to school. One last tidbit: the company I currently work for cares a great deal about degrees. It is a very old company, so they don't understand computers but they know they need them; their attitude is that they won't hire someone who doesn't have a degree, even though they're perfectly happy having degree-less contractors do all the work. Go figure.
Yup, the whole world has gone insane. I'm going to go cry now.
If they try that, then it will be back to the ways 37ee7 hax0r k!dd!e5 do it:
The average John Q. Public neither knows nor cares about people like that, but doesn't think twice when he sorts a column on his spreadsheet. Perhaps he should.
Isn't the eventual goal to have "average Joes" go to space?
Yes, I'm envious, but until the cost comes down to maybe the price of a luxury cruise, then I could care less.
You'd probably know that if you weren't an ignorant stlut, right?
- Create message on machine isolated from any network.
- Encrypt message, then copy to floppy
- Load floppy on networked PC
- Send to all your buddies!
- Don't forget to take isolated machine with you when you leave your hideout...
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Of course this guy wants security through obscurity -- look at how well it worked with "I love you," "Red Alert," "sadmind," et cetera!! Since companies do so well with their "security," why shouldn't the government emulate that?
What'samaddayou, you some kinda think-nik? Don't worry, the "Peace Police" will be 'round shortly to round you up.