Companies don't sell software; they never have. They sell the license to use their software. You don't own Windows, or Half-Life, or any other copyrighted software; you're bound by the license agreement, and all you own is what that agreement gives you.... Activation is what you have a problem with, and that exists because people are dishonest.
Before activation, there was not much of a difference. If you bought a game, you could use it in whatever reasonable way you want (by reasonable, I mean roughly what you could do with a physical, non-digital item - ie, not distribute it). By adding activation, companies are bringing to light the difference between buying software and buying a license to use the software, and people are starting to get angry.
In my uneducated opinion, hospital security is entirely too lax. It seems to me that each (1-bed) room should have its own computer which hooked up to the equipment (such as pulse monitors). That computer then exposes only one port to the network, which only accepts connections from one IP address (as DNS can be faked), which itself can only be set up from within the room. Set up a tree like that: only the monitoring station can talk to the room servers, only the doctors' computers can talk to the monitoring station, and so on. A worm or virus would have to know about the protocols being used, as well as be executable on each system (I would expect the room computers to run something tiny, like QNX, the monitoring stations would run X on something, the doctor's computers running Windows, the servers running linux or unix, etc).
I also think every door in the hospital should have a card reader, and only let through those with valid cards. Even one "oops I operated on the wrong person" story is way too much, and I've heard of more than one. Have the doctors and nurses get a card every time they're going to a patient's room, and make that card able to unlock all the doors from here to there. An emergency card or remote would also be necessary, of course, but have it trigger an alarm somewhere so it wouldn't be abused (ie, using the emergency card to go everywhere because it's easier).
This is all very paranoid security, but with people's lives at stake, it seems worth it to me.
I do miss moo1's 32k ship strategy. Who needs big ships when you can have 32k little ships (no shields, no hull) each with 1 gun (biggest you can fit) and a good targetting computer. BAM!
There is something similiar you can do, esp if you're playing with another human. My friend and I had an uneasy peace going as we both were building up. He was taking the super-multipurpose doomstar approach, and I was taking the hordes of battleships with stellar converters on them. All of a sudden, all of the ships in our queues disappered... it seems there's a limited number of ships allowed in the game (512, I believe). I, of course, had the majority. Worked out well for me...
Why does this idea of body-generated electricity conjure up images of weary airport travelers sitting in cheap plastic chairs, power cords running from their laptops up their legs, connecting to heat collecting anal probes, charging said laptops for yet another round of Whack-a-Mole, business style?
Mr. Weinstein was so eager to spread his anti-spam gospel to the tortured masses that he only needed $200 and a cab for compensation. You know what? That's funny!
He mentioned that most of the time news shows don't give him any money. That makes more sense to me than what you seem to be proposing. Do people usually need to be given a lot of money for spreading their gospel?
> erase... files using DoD mil quality and even higher.
People keep saying this, but I remember being disappointed when I was trying to find free hardware because military protocol regarding hard drives involved some sort of explosives. What's the point of doing the rewrite thing if they then destroy the hard drives?
Do all your lecturers do that, or are some good enough at the subject they lecture to write their own problems?
All my lecturers do that. It's not an issue of being good or bad, it's an issue of time and efficiency. You need to have a textbook anyway: not all students learn best by listening to you talk, and even those students are going to miss class every once in a while. So, since you have a textbook, why not use all it has to offer?
The other thing about writing your own problems is that, in subjects such as calculus, it's pretty easy to write problems which range from ridiculously hard to literally impossible, just by adding one little term to an otherwise simple equation. Much better to use the textbook, which has been (exhaustively, one would hope) checked for such things, and which has answers (although usually not solutions, which most teachers require) in the back of the book, which IS helpful to students.
The difference between a good teacher and a bad teacher, then, is how they respond when you ask for help on a certain problem. My highly excellent physics teacher (Leonid Minkin) reads the problem from the book, writes it on the board, and then solves it. My crappy math teacher looks up the problem in his notes, and then copies his notes onto the board, and still manages to get confused in the process. They both assign problems from the book, but one is much better than the other.
It's not a long hop, to be sure, but I don't know how short it is. Apple and IBM worked together on the G5 processor, aka the IBM 970, and it is "derived from" the Power4 architecture, but they're not the same. As far as I can tell, the G5 adds 32-bit stuff to the pure 64-bit Power4, so that it's binary compatible with 32-bit programs (ie no recompiling). It also takes some things out, such as having a dual core (two processors on one chip) and replacing it with a single core.
In general, the PowerPC architecture and the POWER architecture are very similiar, but not the same. The PowerPC was based on POWER1, but had a few different design goals. From IBM's PowerPC page:
The architecture had to:
Permit a broad range of implementations, from low-cost controllers to high-performance processors
Be sufficiently simple so as to permit the design of processors that have a very short cycle time
Minimize effects that hinder the design of aggressive superscalar implementations
Include multiprocessor features
Define a 64-bit architecture that is a superset of the 32-bit architecture, providing application binary compatibility for 32-bit applications
There's a lot of stuff out there on this. IBM's page on the PowerPC describes it very well, and the POWER arch pages can show how it's grown: POWER2, POWER3, and POWER4.
Wikipedia also has some good articles on the PowerPC and Power architectures.
> You missed one: Products at discount prices, > delivered direct to your door. That can mean > "Generic Viagra" if you want, but also everything > from books to airplanes, the mundane to the exotic.
Score... how much to get an airplane delivered direct to my door?
A new worm has begun infecting XP systems that didn't install the latest patch. "It's their own fault, they should have kept up to date" said BG.
Said one user, "I was a little annoyed when I found out I couldn't access the network, so I played Freecell instead. Now, since I'm offline, I didn't get attacked by that nasty worm! Thanks Microsoft!"
If playing networked games are to be a part of your club, when you're working on your speech/application for why the club should be allowed don't forget to mention all the skills you'll be learning:
* Dual limitless resource management (Total Annihilation) * Dual limited resource management (*craft) * Single limit(ed|less) resource management (C&C, TA: Kingdoms) * Cooperation (team games) * Group coordination and leadership (ie, setting up an attack) * Civil design (base layout) * A deeper understanding of physics (various FPSs, plus a host of other games... like Worms!) * Learning to use the right tool for a job (IPX vs TCP/IP, certain units in RTS games, weapons in Worms...)
Be creative! Pick a game you like and go marketing on it.
The RIAA can participate in it as much as you can, and it's not like they are lying or threatening violence.
Of course they are. Reread their message:
"It appears that you are offering copyrighted music to others from your computer....When you break the law, you risk legal penalties. There is a simple way to avoid that risk: DON'T STEAL MUSIC either by offering it to others to copy or downloading it on a 'file-sharing' system like this. When you offer music on these systems, you are not anonymous and you can easily be identified."
If you look very carefully, you'll see the threat and how to behave in order to escape the threat. This is pure bullying behavior: "Do what I say or else".
The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend towards each other. Between depriving a man of one hour of his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: 'I feed on your energy.'
Massive multinational conglomerates have outgrown our justice system. Simply put, they're bigger than we, the people, could ever hope to be.
Nonsense. It's defeatist thinking like this that allows them to get away with what they're doing. KNOW that you're right, that what they're doing is wrong, and fight them on it. Don't just bend over.
Newbies ask the same questions over and over, not because they're clueless newbies, but because any knowledge posted on web forums is effectively lost to posterity.
It is my experience that clueless newbies do not know about groops.google.com, so they will post the same questions in any medium
He was differentiating between clueless newbies and non-clueless newbies. On newsgroups, non-clueless newbies can find the answers to their questions, and so don't need to ask them over and over. On bulletin boards, because there is no permanence, they have to ask the common questions over and over. Because of this, on BBs there is no effective difference between the clueless and the clueful.
If 1000 polled people all indicate that it took them precisely one year (365 days) to find a job, then - assuming good random selection of the sampling pool - there is a statistically strong case that an individual will need one year to find a job.
However, the problem with this website is that it does not rely upon a simple random sample, it takes its data from people who volunteer it. In other words, it is a self-selected sample, and those are Bad Bad Bad.
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Before activation, there was not much of a difference. If you bought a game, you could use it in whatever reasonable way you want (by reasonable, I mean roughly what you could do with a physical, non-digital item - ie, not distribute it). By adding activation, companies are bringing to light the difference between buying software and buying a license to use the software, and people are starting to get angry.
Tsk tsk, I'm disappointed... these guys are supposed to be all that, you'd think they would be able to hire a someone to design a valid webpage:
In my uneducated opinion, hospital security is entirely too lax. It seems to me that each (1-bed) room should have its own computer which hooked up to the equipment (such as pulse monitors). That computer then exposes only one port to the network, which only accepts connections from one IP address (as DNS can be faked), which itself can only be set up from within the room. Set up a tree like that: only the monitoring station can talk to the room servers, only the doctors' computers can talk to the monitoring station, and so on. A worm or virus would have to know about the protocols being used, as well as be executable on each system (I would expect the room computers to run something tiny, like QNX, the monitoring stations would run X on something, the doctor's computers running Windows, the servers running linux or unix, etc).
I also think every door in the hospital should have a card reader, and only let through those with valid cards. Even one "oops I operated on the wrong person" story is way too much, and I've heard of more than one. Have the doctors and nurses get a card every time they're going to a patient's room, and make that card able to unlock all the doors from here to there. An emergency card or remote would also be necessary, of course, but have it trigger an alarm somewhere so it wouldn't be abused (ie, using the emergency card to go everywhere because it's easier).
This is all very paranoid security, but with people's lives at stake, it seems worth it to me.
Why would he type "arghh"? Wouldn't he just say it? Maybe he was dictating...
There is something similiar you can do, esp if you're playing with another human. My friend and I had an uneasy peace going as we both were building up. He was taking the super-multipurpose doomstar approach, and I was taking the hordes of battleships with stellar converters on them. All of a sudden, all of the ships in our queues disappered... it seems there's a limited number of ships allowed in the game (512, I believe). I, of course, had the majority. Worked out well for me...
Ni!
Because you're a strange, sick little man.
He mentioned that most of the time news shows don't give him any money. That makes more sense to me than what you seem to be proposing. Do people usually need to be given a lot of money for spreading their gospel?
> erase ... files using DoD mil quality and even higher.
People keep saying this, but I remember being disappointed when I was trying to find free hardware because military protocol regarding hard drives involved some sort of explosives. What's the point of doing the rewrite thing if they then destroy the hard drives?
> Not to be picky but it starts with r0n and ends with Jeremy
Picky or pricky?
> A great teacher would write it on the board, and get YOU to solve it.
Perhaps, but that doesn't work so well in a lecture format. He may do that when you get help from him one-on-one, but I don't know.
All my lecturers do that. It's not an issue of being good or bad, it's an issue of time and efficiency. You need to have a textbook anyway: not all students learn best by listening to you talk, and even those students are going to miss class every once in a while. So, since you have a textbook, why not use all it has to offer?
The other thing about writing your own problems is that, in subjects such as calculus, it's pretty easy to write problems which range from ridiculously hard to literally impossible, just by adding one little term to an otherwise simple equation. Much better to use the textbook, which has been (exhaustively, one would hope) checked for such things, and which has answers (although usually not solutions, which most teachers require) in the back of the book, which IS helpful to students.
The difference between a good teacher and a bad teacher, then, is how they respond when you ask for help on a certain problem. My highly excellent physics teacher (Leonid Minkin) reads the problem from the book, writes it on the board, and then solves it. My crappy math teacher looks up the problem in his notes, and then copies his notes onto the board, and still manages to get confused in the process. They both assign problems from the book, but one is much better than the other.
> That would be "Queen's English".
That depends on what he meant: The Queen's English, or English as spoken in Queens, New York.
It's not a long hop, to be sure, but I don't know how short it is. Apple and IBM worked together on the G5 processor, aka the IBM 970, and it is "derived from" the Power4 architecture, but they're not the same. As far as I can tell, the G5 adds 32-bit stuff to the pure 64-bit Power4, so that it's binary compatible with 32-bit programs (ie no recompiling). It also takes some things out, such as having a dual core (two processors on one chip) and replacing it with a single core.
In general, the PowerPC architecture and the POWER architecture are very similiar, but not the same. The PowerPC was based on POWER1, but had a few different design goals. From IBM's PowerPC page:
There's a lot of stuff out there on this. IBM's page on the PowerPC describes it very well, and the POWER arch pages can show how it's grown: POWER2, POWER3, and POWER4. Wikipedia also has some good articles on the PowerPC and Power architectures.
I like that the last suggestion for "hampster" is "imposter".
> You missed one: Products at discount prices,
> delivered direct to your door. That can mean
> "Generic Viagra" if you want, but also everything
> from books to airplanes, the mundane to the exotic.
Score... how much to get an airplane delivered direct to my door?
I thought that guy got fired...
Sometimes, when he gets confused, he says "Foom".
That'd be a pretty bad off-by-one error...
Said one user, "I was a little annoyed when I found out I couldn't access the network, so I played Freecell instead. Now, since I'm offline, I didn't get attacked by that nasty worm! Thanks Microsoft!"
If playing networked games are to be a part of your club, when you're working on your speech/application for why the club should be allowed don't forget to mention all the skills you'll be learning:
* Dual limitless resource management (Total Annihilation)
* Dual limited resource management (*craft)
* Single limit(ed|less) resource management (C&C, TA: Kingdoms)
* Cooperation (team games)
* Group coordination and leadership (ie, setting up an attack)
* Civil design (base layout)
* A deeper understanding of physics (various FPSs, plus a host of other games... like Worms!)
* Learning to use the right tool for a job (IPX vs TCP/IP, certain units in RTS games, weapons in Worms...)
Be creative! Pick a game you like and go marketing on it.
Of course they are. Reread their message:
If you look very carefully, you'll see the threat and how to behave in order to escape the threat. This is pure bullying behavior: "Do what I say or else".
Nonsense. It's defeatist thinking like this that allows them to get away with what they're doing. KNOW that you're right, that what they're doing is wrong, and fight them on it. Don't just bend over.
He was differentiating between clueless newbies and non-clueless newbies. On newsgroups, non-clueless newbies can find the answers to their questions, and so don't need to ask them over and over. On bulletin boards, because there is no permanence, they have to ask the common questions over and over. Because of this, on BBs there is no effective difference between the clueless and the clueful.
However, the problem with this website is that it does not rely upon a simple random sample, it takes its data from people who volunteer it. In other words, it is a self-selected sample, and those are Bad Bad Bad.