I'd think you would be in the catbird seat guy, the film industry is using shit piles of CGI FX eating up tons of storeage and using unimagineable amounts of processor resources, lots of custom written shaders, tweeked renders and specialty programs, and you'll not only be able to work on all those cool technologies, but you actually be able to comunicate with the artsy types using it! A freind of mine is doing the 3D animation in collge, he does his homework on a two processor opteron with RAID 5 running Linux. That's about as geeky a student machine as you can get.
comparing a stack based computer to a register based computer is the same as comparing a HP calculator to a TI. The stack based machine will be blazingly effiecent, but it take a proper mindset to program it and not everybody can do it.
Now I'm impressed, after five minutes of spinning on the hosted server, a text only static page gave a link to an alternate server, a personal server in his basement and it works, a bit slow but it works!
Actualy my son used to be a cook at Hooters and while at a corp function, some guy introduced himself just like that, this guy sat in an office and watched what happened on the all of the security cameras in three different resturants; actually seems like a pretty good gig, getting paid to watch big breasted girls with an exhibitionistic streak all day. Mix in a few other conspiracy theories taken to extremes, should be good for a chuckle or two, I lauaghed my ass off writing it.
Hello Red; You don't know me but I'm your watcher. My job is to watch what you do on the internet and who you talk to on the telephone and where you drive your car. This take ooddles and ooddles of storage, so here is what we did; you see when you buy a forty gig hard-drive, what you really get is 240 gig hard-drive but you can only use 40 of it. The other 200 is for us! We store everthing we want to know about you on your own computer, and VoIP gives us boners! Soon We going to get everybody on Fiber, well remember the Sun's tagline, "the network is the computer" muaahahahahah, the possibilities are mindnumbing! OBTW when you turn your computer off, it really isn't off, just those fans, the hard-drive sound effects, and the CPU heater are off (fooled everone with that didn't we). the only way to really turn off you computer is to throw the mains circuit breaker, pull out the battery on the motherboard, and wait fifteen minutes for the capacitors to discharge. I bet your wondering why I'm telling you all of this; it's because the more people know, the less they'll believe, so tell everybody (we even tried to get this into an episode of X Files). Next week we've arranged for our alien friends to abduct you and do some serious anal probing, so remember tell everybody; life will be easier if you tell everybody regards, budgenator p.s. tell everybody p.s.s tell everybody and we'll only abduct and anal probe you once so, tell everybody, keep it to yourself, we'll erase your tetanus shot record!
That'll do it, pretty convoluted, wget has to be on the server and executable by nobody and of course the stupid php script has to be there as well, but this is similar to one that was in the wild.
We used to just walk around with a clipboard in the Army, maybe do some scribbling and pointing once in a while for emphysis. Get at least three other people to follow you, and people would cross the street to avoid you!
Gates, isn't he that guy that used to run Microsoft? I never made the connection before, but Bush did pretty much let them off the hook, and then big dogs at microsoft quickly became irrelevant without crushing the stock price and killing a lot of 401K's; and they say Bush is stupid!
Actualy I've worked pretty closely with some guys from the DEA, FBI, BATF and Secret Service, and the truth is they're not bad people but I wouldn't want their trash talk to turn into group-think either. One thing we should realize is that the mid and lower levels people know they have powers that they shouldn't have and they need these powers to keep some really vicious people under control. Most of these guys have families and they want to protect their families as much as they want to protect us, and if they mis-use these powers they really shouldn't have, they'll be taken away, they realize this. Using these let's call them Supra-legal powers in cases of normal criminality would be such an abuse.
"well of course I searched for child porn, how else am I able to decide if we need new laws to control the problem; this Senator for one will continue to search for child porn and will even download the images to make sure it's really child porn and not 30year old models pretending.... think of the children"
Yeah and we all should squirt ourselves full of KY jelly in case some space aliens want to anal probe us. If a couple of clueless newspaper reporter can track somebody down that quickly via AOL search records, Imagine what the NSA or the DOJ could do. What's even scarier, imagine what foriegn intellegence agencies or drug cartels could do target individuals that annoy them. Probably this is good, too many people have a false sense of anonymity on the net, now we have a chance to know what they know.
yeah so what's your point, when your out there doing things, there is a tendency to offend people who are out there talking about doing things. If the organisation was founded to push an agenda and the agenda get taken over by a bunch of mamby-pamby soccer-mom types who just want everyone to get along; sometimes the passion gets lost. Linus pisses people off, RMS pisses people off a lot of people pisses people off, I'd rather be around people that piss me off, they're usualy the honest ones. Parent posts under his name, Parens posts his Email address, Parens post his freaken cellphone number, you post Anonymous Coward.
Microsoft sacrificed security for user-friendliness which was actually quite astute back in the pre-network days for a computer intended to sit in the one user, one computer paradigm; Unix/Linux sacrificed user-friendliness for security which makes more sense in at multi-user networked paradigm. Both systems are putting competitive pressure on the other and as a result the differences is rapidly decreasing. If Linux is too complicated for developers, whatcha gonna do when windows is the same? I don't think Linux is too complicated because an OSS program developed to run natively in Linux and port to Windows runs better and is easier to install than an OSS program developed to run natively in windows. The complication of developing and running windows is only going to increase because the old guard is getting the boot and a new generation is taking over at Microsoft and they are letting and or forcing Microsofties, the rank and file developers, to code up to professional standards, which means sooner or later a lot of ugly hacks left in for backward compatability are going to disapear once the speghetti starts to get straightened out. Don't think the level of security effects the level of complication in program developement; what is going to happen when people's antivirus programs start to monitor a programs behaviour and your program is using depreciated functions and sloppy security allowed two generation of windows ago?
ok step one download install_flash_player.exe and save to desktop, step two
Ok, you can't do exactly that. It's more like: download an application to install, save it to my desktop, Shift rt. click the installer file and run-as admin to install it in the privilaged programs directory
, windows XP Home SP2 (Dell OEM) responds: with the Run As window and I uncheck Current user and check The following user: admin:password ->OK; which pops-up an error window;
Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to acess the item
WTF admin doesn't have appropriate permissions? Anybody who sees the above as normal, expected, and uncomplicated computer behaviour is a lunatic; if the underlying operating system is this bizzar and convoluted, what chance does a program developer have to create simple elegent software? OBTH I didn't have to Shift Rt. Click to get the Run As option in fact the shift seems to be ignored. If a program is properly written, it never gets outside the HKCU registry hive during runtime; and certainly never touches system files. seems that it's pretty rare that a program is written properly and installers have a habit of installing drivers in system areas, and putting crap in start-up areas and making everything preload and ET-phone home. it takes fifteen minutes for the average user to go from login to a useable desktop. The article said OSS is too complicated, and I'm saying bullshit, there really isn't much difference anymore in the degree of complication and it's getting to the point where windows is more complicated than Linux. I think when Vista hits the streets people are going to look at the BSOD of Win9X as the good 'ol days.
Oh Bull, Linux isn't hard because it's Linux or sort of LSB compliant or anything else other than it's hard because its secure and because it's secure it's difficult to install libaries willy-nilly all over the file system; when Windows becomes secure, it'll be difficult too. Right now the windosers just don't get basic security from the inside, they only get it as a tack on from the outside; and running windows is becoming a huge pain in the ass; so much of their tacked on security is completely brain-dead nothing is integrated. Explain to me this why can't I download an application to install, save it to my desktop, rt. click the installer file and run-as admin to install it in the privilaged programs directory?
I find it silly that different distros keep configuration files in different locations I find it silly that in windows you can't, just seems elegent to me to have some system-wide defaults a normal user can't change and some stored in his user area that he can.
For the most part when I install a OSS program that has been ported over from Linux, it runs fine as an unpriveleged user, I can normally install it in my user area and not pollute the system files with beta or alpha quality software and it runs; compare that to installing McAfee, you have to use IE period, you have to let McAfee install an ActiveX controll into IE period, you have to do this as admin, period and that means find site as user, find out you have to be admin, change user, wait fifteen minutes for all the autostart and ET-Phone home programs decide to let you use your computer! Then after you've got it installed and running guess what a window pops-up say "new definitions found, you need to be admin to install"! In linux I can just
su -c"pacman -S clamav"
type in the admin password and pacman goobles up everything I need and installs it. In windows if you try to install an windows OSS program or a commercial program anywhere but the default location you're asking for trouble.
All they would need to do is start a rumor that if two sites otherwise rank equal, then the tie breaker goes to the most standards complient, then watch the Search Engine Optimizer go crazy to meet the standards!
sorry but to the average windoser, if it crashes the computer ( as in anything remotely related to the hardware or software) it's not the "computer" that's wrong but your site; and if you've crashed their 'puter any fix you suggest is forever tainted with suspicion.
It's not the Feds that Maine is investigating it's Verizon, the problem is Maine doesn't care about National Security becuase it's the a federal juridiction not state, the same as the feds don't care about the state laws of Maine. Verizons only has two hopes, first is that the state backs down becuase of the feds, and failing that Verizon closes ranks and just says "I plead the 5th admendment" no matter what they are asked and pray that the investigation stalls due to lack of evidence.
The feds WILL lose. Maine is investigating Verizon for criminal activity not the USG (Unites States Government), the feds are sueing to prevent the disclosure of the information
"Any document request," Assistant Attorney General Peter Keisler wrote in the letter, ". . . would place Verizon in a position of having to confirm or deny the existence of information that cannot be confirmed or denied without harming national security."
sounds to me that verizon is between the rock and the hard place. They can refuse to answer, get held in contempt and jailed untill the state judge feels like letting them go or they can go to levenworth and break rocks for twenty years! I guess we know why AT&T gave them their own "closet" and network access rather than records, if you don't know, you can't testify.
Wonder what happens if Maine does this, gets sued by the Feds, loses and then says "yeah so what are you going to do invade us?", of course getting sold to Quebec to pay off the settlement might suck, but New Brunswick wouldn't be too bad. Sucession could be interesting, I'm sure Maine doesn't have enough National Guard in state to defend itself against the foriegn power of the federal government cause they are all in Iraq, and of course the Feds are in the same boat with the Army and don't really have enough uncommitted assets to mount an invasion unless they used clerks and cooks to do it.
It's weird, it's cheaper to get basic cable TV plus internet than it is to get internet alone; then after a storm the filters that block the standard channels quit working so I've got everything except the premium channels.
It's a lot easier to turn the other cheek when your trade included fell trees, hewing timbers and ripping logs into planks by hand in a time when most people were goat herders and merchants.
sometimes copying is easier said than done, and actually some very lucurative drugs not only aren't patented, but the NIH actualy did all of the testing and gained FDA approval then just gave it away to a company to produce. Some drug companys deal strickly in orphan drugs that sell for thousands a day and aren't patented.
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I'd think you would be in the catbird seat guy, the film industry is using shit piles of CGI FX eating up tons of storeage and using unimagineable amounts of processor resources, lots of custom written shaders, tweeked renders and specialty programs, and you'll not only be able to work on all those cool technologies, but you actually be able to comunicate with the artsy types using it! A freind of mine is doing the 3D animation in collge, he does his homework on a two processor opteron with RAID 5 running Linux. That's about as geeky a student machine as you can get.
comparing a stack based computer to a register based computer is the same as comparing a HP calculator to a TI. The stack based machine will be blazingly effiecent, but it take a proper mindset to program it and not everybody can do it.
Now I'm impressed, after five minutes of spinning on the hosted server, a text only static page gave a link to an alternate server, a personal server in his basement and it works, a bit slow but it works!
posted at 6:30 and it got slashdoted, five hours later its still slashdotted.
Actualy my son used to be a cook at Hooters and while at a corp function, some guy introduced himself just like that, this guy sat in an office and watched what happened on the all of the security cameras in three different resturants; actually seems like a pretty good gig, getting paid to watch big breasted girls with an exhibitionistic streak all day. Mix in a few other conspiracy theories taken to extremes, should be good for a chuckle or two, I lauaghed my ass off writing it.
Hello Red;
You don't know me but I'm your watcher. My job is to watch what you do on the internet and who you talk to on the telephone and where you drive your car. This take ooddles and ooddles of storage, so here is what we did; you see when you buy a forty gig hard-drive, what you really get is 240 gig hard-drive but you can only use 40 of it. The other 200 is for us! We store everthing we want to know about you on your own computer, and VoIP gives us boners! Soon We going to get everybody on Fiber, well remember the Sun's tagline, "the network is the computer" muaahahahahah, the possibilities are mindnumbing! OBTW when you turn your computer off, it really isn't off, just those fans, the hard-drive sound effects, and the CPU heater are off (fooled everone with that didn't we). the only way to really turn off you computer is to throw the mains circuit breaker, pull out the battery on the motherboard, and wait fifteen minutes for the capacitors to discharge.
I bet your wondering why I'm telling you all of this; it's because the more people know, the less they'll believe, so tell everybody (we even tried to get this into an episode of X Files). Next week we've arranged for our alien friends to abduct you and do some serious anal probing, so remember tell everybody; life will be easier if you tell everybody
regards, budgenator
p.s. tell everybody
p.s.s tell everybody and we'll only abduct and anal probe you once so, tell everybody, keep it to yourself, we'll erase your tetanus shot record!
We used to just walk around with a clipboard in the Army, maybe do some scribbling and pointing once in a while for emphysis. Get at least three other people to follow you, and people would cross the street to avoid you!
Gates, isn't he that guy that used to run Microsoft? I never made the connection before, but Bush did pretty much let them off the hook, and then big dogs at microsoft quickly became irrelevant without crushing the stock price and killing a lot of 401K's; and they say Bush is stupid!
Actualy I've worked pretty closely with some guys from the DEA, FBI, BATF and Secret Service, and the truth is they're not bad people but I wouldn't want their trash talk to turn into group-think either. One thing we should realize is that the mid and lower levels people know they have powers that they shouldn't have and they need these powers to keep some really vicious people under control. Most of these guys have families and they want to protect their families as much as they want to protect us, and if they mis-use these powers they really shouldn't have, they'll be taken away, they realize this. Using these let's call them Supra-legal powers in cases of normal criminality would be such an abuse.
just some wannabe-cop writing a research paper for Criminal Science 205, a real ghoul hides his tracks better.
"well of course I searched for child porn, how else am I able to decide if we need new laws to control the problem; this Senator for one will continue to search for child porn and will even download the images to make sure it's really child porn and not 30year old models pretending .... think of the children"
a few searches for long pig or canabalism would be ghoulish.
Yeah and we all should squirt ourselves full of KY jelly in case some space aliens want to anal probe us.
If a couple of clueless newspaper reporter can track somebody down that quickly via AOL search records, Imagine what the NSA or the DOJ could do. What's even scarier, imagine what foriegn intellegence agencies or drug cartels could do target individuals that annoy them. Probably this is good, too many people have a false sense of anonymity on the net, now we have a chance to know what they know.
yeah so what's your point, when your out there doing things, there is a tendency to offend people who are out there talking about doing things. If the organisation was founded to push an agenda and the agenda get taken over by a bunch of mamby-pamby soccer-mom types who just want everyone to get along; sometimes the passion gets lost. Linus pisses people off, RMS pisses people off a lot of people pisses people off, I'd rather be around people that piss me off, they're usualy the honest ones.
Parent posts under his name, Parens posts his Email address, Parens post his freaken cellphone number, you post Anonymous Coward.
Microsoft sacrificed security for user-friendliness which was actually quite astute back in the pre-network days for a computer intended to sit in the one user, one computer paradigm; Unix/Linux sacrificed user-friendliness for security which makes more sense in at multi-user networked paradigm.
Both systems are putting competitive pressure on the other and as a result the differences is rapidly decreasing. If Linux is too complicated for developers, whatcha gonna do when windows is the same? I don't think Linux is too complicated because an OSS program developed to run natively in Linux and port to Windows runs better and is easier to install than an OSS program developed to run natively in windows. The complication of developing and running windows is only going to increase because the old guard is getting the boot and a new generation is taking over at Microsoft and they are letting and or forcing Microsofties, the rank and file developers, to code up to professional standards, which means sooner or later a lot of ugly hacks left in for backward compatability are going to disapear once the speghetti starts to get straightened out.
Don't think the level of security effects the level of complication in program developement; what is going to happen when people's antivirus programs start to monitor a programs behaviour and your program is using depreciated functions and sloppy security allowed two generation of windows ago?
step two, windows XP Home SP2 (Dell OEM) responds:
with the Run As window and I uncheck Current user and check The following user: admin:password ->OK; which pops-up an error window;WTF admin doesn't have appropriate permissions? Anybody who sees the above as normal, expected, and uncomplicated computer behaviour is a lunatic; if the underlying operating system is this bizzar and convoluted, what chance does a program developer have to create simple elegent software? OBTH I didn't have to Shift Rt. Click to get the Run As option in fact the shift seems to be ignored.
If a program is properly written, it never gets outside the HKCU registry hive during runtime; and certainly never touches system files. seems that it's pretty rare that a program is written properly and installers have a habit of installing drivers in system areas, and putting crap in start-up areas and making everything preload and ET-phone home. it takes fifteen minutes for the average user to go from login to a useable desktop.
The article said OSS is too complicated, and I'm saying bullshit, there really isn't much difference anymore in the degree of complication and it's getting to the point where windows is more complicated than Linux. I think when Vista hits the streets people are going to look at the BSOD of Win9X as the good 'ol days.
I find it silly that different distros keep configuration files in different locations I find it silly that in windows you can't, just seems elegent to me to have some system-wide defaults a normal user can't change and some stored in his user area that he can.
For the most part when I install a OSS program that has been ported over from Linux, it runs fine as an unpriveleged user, I can normally install it in my user area and not pollute the system files with beta or alpha quality software and it runs; compare that to installing McAfee, you have to use IE period, you have to let McAfee install an ActiveX controll into IE period, you have to do this as admin, period and that means find site as user, find out you have to be admin, change user, wait fifteen minutes for all the autostart and ET-Phone home programs decide to let you use your computer! Then after you've got it installed and running guess what a window pops-up say "new definitions found, you need to be admin to install"! In linux I can just type in the admin password and pacman goobles up everything I need and installs it. In windows if you try to install an windows OSS program or a commercial program anywhere but the default location you're asking for trouble.
All they would need to do is start a rumor that if two sites otherwise rank equal, then the tie breaker goes to the most standards complient, then watch the Search Engine Optimizer go crazy to meet the standards!
sorry but to the average windoser, if it crashes the computer ( as in anything remotely related to the hardware or software) it's not the "computer" that's wrong but your site; and if you've crashed their 'puter any fix you suggest is forever tainted with suspicion.
It's not the Feds that Maine is investigating it's Verizon, the problem is Maine doesn't care about National Security becuase it's the a federal juridiction not state, the same as the feds don't care about the state laws of Maine. Verizons only has two hopes, first is that the state backs down becuase of the feds, and failing that Verizon closes ranks and just says "I plead the 5th admendment" no matter what they are asked and pray that the investigation stalls due to lack of evidence.
Maine is investigating Verizon for criminal activity not the USG (Unites States Government), the feds are sueing to prevent the disclosure of the information
sounds to me that verizon is between the rock and the hard place. They can refuse to answer, get held in contempt and jailed untill the state judge feels like letting them go or they can go to levenworth and break rocks for twenty years! I guess we know why AT&T gave them their own "closet" and network access rather than records, if you don't know, you can't testify.
Wonder what happens if Maine does this, gets sued by the Feds, loses and then says "yeah so what are you going to do invade us?", of course getting sold to Quebec to pay off the settlement might suck, but New Brunswick wouldn't be too bad. Sucession could be interesting, I'm sure Maine doesn't have enough National Guard in state to defend itself against the foriegn power of the federal government cause they are all in Iraq, and of course the Feds are in the same boat with the Army and don't really have enough uncommitted assets to mount an invasion unless they used clerks and cooks to do it.
It's weird, it's cheaper to get basic cable TV plus internet than it is to get internet alone; then after a storm the filters that block the standard channels quit working so I've got everything except the premium channels.
It's a lot easier to turn the other cheek when your trade included fell trees, hewing timbers and ripping logs into planks by hand in a time when most people were goat herders and merchants.
sometimes copying is easier said than done, and actually some very lucurative drugs not only aren't patented, but the NIH actualy did all of the testing and gained FDA approval then just gave it away to a company to produce. Some drug companys deal strickly in orphan drugs that sell for thousands a day and aren't patented.