My kids and wife started playing some "Dungeons and Dragons" type console game decades ago in a marathon tag-team fashion. After almost a week of 24 hr game play they got to the end and beat the game, The finally screen said " this was but a dream, return to the beginning and go forth dauntlessly" They were not amused.
yeah that sounds good. Games are like computers, every time you think you've got the optimum price to performance ratio, there a new breakthrough so you start over refactor for the new tech. There is a saying "The road to failure is paved with perfection, The road to success is paved with good-enough".
Expert witnesses get paid $300.00 to $600.00 and hour; expecting them to be unbiased is like expecting Gartner to give Linux a fair reveiw in a Microsoft funded study
They don't need "fake" experts they just need "real" experts that emphasis points that they want heard and minimize points they don't. In an adversarial legal system each side does this; it's up to the jury to decide which expert is full of it. The other thing you have to realize is that "experts" that whore themselves out to lawyers usually have a level of expertise that is less than that you wouyld expect from an expert that actually makes his/her living in their field of expertise rather than forensics.
You would think I could download something to the desktop, virus scan it, and fire up the installer, run-as admin, but no it doesn't work in XP. Next I tried to switch-user to admin, click through the file system to the user desktop and install but again windows says admin isn't trusted in a user's desktop! Finally I figured out the after I scanned the install to move it to a shared folder and run-as admin so I tried that and for a third time I was stymied. In a last ditch attempt I copied the file to the shared folder and was able to install as admin using the run-as feature. Thank goodness I learned how to install a program before the OS was discontinued! Aren't we glad Windows XP is so user friendly.
Vista's constant indexing can make many computers crawl, especially after you install an antivirus. Which ends up basically scanning each file again and again each time the indexing accesses that file. So basically it's like running with a full antivirus scan in the background at all times. So that's what it's doing, I've found that most annoying, luckily when the wife bought the machine she picked out a multimedia machine and it had killer, insanely fast SATA hard-drives, lots of memory, and quick graphics; so Vista seemly a tad slow rather than snailish like everybodym else is saying
the codebase is probably a nightmare to maintain as far as operating systems go. from what I understand is that's a typical Microsoft SNAFU; XP staarted life as a nightmare of NT spaghetti code, and Vista was the refactor replacement. Personnaly I like Vista better than XP, they implemented the privilege escalation for a LUA in a much saner way than XP did, now installing software isn't such a nightmare lije it was in XP, but I still boot primarily into Linux.
A problem I'm seeing with my granddaughter is the geeky pantywaist types that were given wedgies in the gym locker room when they were 13 are now the people teaching our 13 year olds and most of them haven't matured any in the mean time. An interesting solution might be to allow temporary teaching certs to seasoned mature professionals and a major tax break to industries that allow their seasoned and mature professionals to take sabbaticals to teach in our schools. A little fresh blood tends to raise standards a bit.
Programming is mostly a case of working out how to translate a problem into a procedure. If we quit limiting programming to Computer and Technical fields, just think how much better the world would be in general if that skill was held in general.
Pons and Fleischman may not have succeeded Maybe they have in a way, while their device is unarguably impractical and any particular one has about a 1 in one hundred chance of producing even a one time flash in the pan, it has allowed many reputable researchers to do research in this field without destroying their reputation by simply saying "we're trying to disprove Pons and Fleichmann". If Arata's technique proves it is reliable reproducible, able to restart after a shut down and scalable, you'll see a real land-rush into cold fusion and maybe a couple of additional breakthroughs.
actually my take was he was using notepad to generate and maintain the "database" and wanted to graduate to something a little more sophisticated like a entry form to put records into a flat file like one that is pretty trivial to program in Perl, python or php
no they have a script that catches them, schools with the IP block 001.000. get hit a lot, Harvard with the 254.254 block hasn't been gotten to yet that's all:)
Makes you wonder who easy it really was for somebody to shutdown Syria's power grid and air defenses just before a building that looked suspiciously like a nuclear reactor containment structure disappeared overnight.
Well we know that "they" have a "secret" room at AT&T and probably all of the others as well, so we have to assume that "they" have a direct fiber into tier 1 backbones and are capable of parsing email and http traffic for trigger words in real-time. With that much capacity, why would they need Aunt Minnie's box for?
I agree with you, Cali has had rolling-blackout for no good reasons other than lack of infra-structure and greed. If they can't install the infrastructure to power their own state mainly due to NIMBY Soccer-moms and obstructionist greens, how are they going to export to the whole country?
Somewhere along the line there is going to be a break in accountability and sooner or later, if you signed for 100 laptops, you had better be able to produce 100 laptops or 100 signatures on equipment issue receipts. If you can't your going to pay for the shortage and if your lucky they'll be able to depreciate them down but 10 cents on the dollar can really add up.
yes my kid (in the Army) would nuc a harddrive from orbit and reinstall everything, being easier than figuring out what some shake-and-bake lieutenant did to FUBAR the thing besides asking the sadist questions "OBTW you did back-up everything you wanted to keep didn't you Sir?" was one of the perks of the job. Of course now that EDS is vendoring support we have to pay for troubleshooting before they nuc it anyways.
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My kids and wife started playing some "Dungeons and Dragons" type console game decades ago in a marathon tag-team fashion. After almost a week of 24 hr game play they got to the end and beat the game, The finally screen said " this was but a dream, return to the beginning and go forth dauntlessly" They were not amused.
yearoflinuxonthedesktop!
New years day was the Vista release date.
yeah that sounds good. Games are like computers, every time you think you've got the optimum price to performance ratio, there a new breakthrough so you start over refactor for the new tech. There is a saying "The road to failure is paved with perfection, The road to success is paved with good-enough".
Expert witnesses get paid $300.00 to $600.00 and hour; expecting them to be unbiased is like expecting Gartner to give Linux a fair reveiw in a Microsoft funded study
They don't need "fake" experts they just need "real" experts that emphasis points that they want heard and minimize points they don't. In an adversarial legal system each side does this; it's up to the jury to decide which expert is full of it. The other thing you have to realize is that "experts" that whore themselves out to lawyers usually have a level of expertise that is less than that you wouyld expect from an expert that actually makes his/her living in their field of expertise rather than forensics.
I thought she left because of all the red she made
You would think I could download something to the desktop, virus scan it, and fire up the installer, run-as admin, but no it doesn't work in XP. Next I tried to switch-user to admin, click through the file system to the user desktop and install but again windows says admin isn't trusted in a user's desktop! Finally I figured out the after I scanned the install to move it to a shared folder and run-as admin so I tried that and for a third time I was stymied. In a last ditch attempt I copied the file to the shared folder and was able to install as admin using the run-as feature. Thank goodness I learned how to install a program before the OS was discontinued! Aren't we glad Windows XP is so user friendly.
Now try opening a cmd.exe prompt!
Does it run under wine?
Vista's constant indexing can make many computers crawl, especially after you install an antivirus. Which ends up basically scanning each file again and again each time the indexing accesses that file. So basically it's like running with a full antivirus scan in the background at all times.
So that's what it's doing, I've found that most annoying, luckily when the wife bought the machine she picked out a multimedia machine and it had killer, insanely fast SATA hard-drives, lots of memory, and quick graphics; so Vista seemly a tad slow rather than snailish like everybodym else is saying
the codebase is probably a nightmare to maintain as far as operating systems go.
from what I understand is that's a typical Microsoft SNAFU; XP staarted life as a nightmare of NT spaghetti code, and Vista was the refactor replacement. Personnaly I like Vista better than XP, they implemented the privilege escalation for a LUA in a much saner way than XP did, now installing software isn't such a nightmare lije it was in XP, but I still boot primarily into Linux.
and left you with no forwarding address
A problem I'm seeing with my granddaughter is the geeky pantywaist types that were given wedgies in the gym locker room when they were 13 are now the people teaching our 13 year olds and most of them haven't matured any in the mean time. An interesting solution might be to allow temporary teaching certs to seasoned mature professionals and a major tax break to industries that allow their seasoned and mature professionals to take sabbaticals to teach in our schools. A little fresh blood tends to raise standards a bit.
Programming is mostly a case of working out how to translate a problem into a procedure.
If we quit limiting programming to Computer and Technical fields, just think how much better the world would be in general if that skill was held in general.
Pons and Fleischman may not have succeeded
Maybe they have in a way, while their device is unarguably impractical and any particular one has about a 1 in one hundred chance of producing even a one time flash in the pan, it has allowed many reputable researchers to do research in this field without destroying their reputation by simply saying "we're trying to disprove Pons and Fleichmann". If Arata's technique proves it is reliable reproducible, able to restart after a shut down and scalable, you'll see a real land-rush into cold fusion and maybe a couple of additional breakthroughs.
actually my take was he was using notepad to generate and maintain the "database" and wanted to graduate to something a little more sophisticated like a entry form to put records into a flat file like one that is pretty trivial to program in Perl, python or php
Those guys, the real sleezey obnoxious asshole ones will work on percentage; they're the ones you want.
That would be cool, forgiven debt counts as income. You have to remember it was the IRS that put Capone in prison not the FBI!
For Chicago to pass an ordinance like that would be like bulldozing a building with a historic marker out front!
no they have a script that catches them, schools with the IP block 001.000. get hit a lot, Harvard with the 254.254 block hasn't been gotten to yet that's all :)
Makes you wonder who easy it really was for somebody to shutdown Syria's power grid and air defenses just before a building that looked suspiciously like a nuclear reactor containment structure disappeared overnight.
The Chinese are the ones that have been attacking computer networks in the US, Pakistan and India, so let's try and convince them first.
Well we know that "they" have a "secret" room at AT&T and probably all of the others as well, so we have to assume that "they" have a direct fiber into tier 1 backbones and are capable of parsing email and http traffic for trigger words in real-time. With that much capacity, why would they need Aunt Minnie's box for?
I agree with you, Cali has had rolling-blackout for no good reasons other than lack of infra-structure and greed. If they can't install the infrastructure to power their own state mainly due to NIMBY Soccer-moms and obstructionist greens, how are they going to export to the whole country?
Somewhere along the line there is going to be a break in accountability and sooner or later, if you signed for 100 laptops, you had better be able to produce 100 laptops or 100 signatures on equipment issue receipts. If you can't your going to pay for the shortage and if your lucky they'll be able to depreciate them down but 10 cents on the dollar can really add up.
yes my kid (in the Army) would nuc a harddrive from orbit and reinstall everything, being easier than figuring out what some shake-and-bake lieutenant did to FUBAR the thing besides asking the sadist questions "OBTW you did back-up everything you wanted to keep didn't you Sir?" was one of the perks of the job. Of course now that EDS is vendoring support we have to pay for troubleshooting before they nuc it anyways.