Doesn't matter, the old design is still (il)legal tender.
2. A new design takes time to counterfeit.
Exactly, so they'll keep using the old ones (see #1). However, their are the "king of the mountain" counterfeiters that are just in it for the accomplishment of gettting away with a phony bill, but they also do not typically do large runs of their bills.
3. New designs incorporate tougher security measures.
See #2 and #1.
4. New note designs promote consumer vigilance.
I guess, but if I have only explicitly checked my money for fun to see the different things added to the new bills. I don't really care if I have a phony bill, if it was good enough to be given to me, its good enough to spend.
5. New bank notes are successfully introduced and old ones replaced every day.
No, the old ones are not replaced, they are still valid money, and every 20years is hardly every day. Plus the note in question has been replaced in 1996 so the new one would be 7 years.
The way I see "granting access" is that the person must 1st be authenticated, ie identified as "themselves" and then authorized.
To get a shell on any of my systems, you must first authenticate youself with your userid and then your password or key with authorize you access. The buffer overflow does neither. Also if a user shares an account and knows a password, this is fraudently authenticating themselves even though they pass the authorization step.
Your mention of authorization makes me think that simply put, unauthorized is any access that has circumvented any authorization and/or authentication measures that have been put on the system. This would include buffer overflows, backdoors, etc. This would not include default passwords not being changed.
Popups are (unfortunately) part of the web experience, they are not circumventing anything on your computer.
Actually telling blockbuster is your job. Take the movie back and demand a refund. That is what I did when I rented a movie that blocked out the remote control to force me to watch ads/previews or whatever.
I still don't see a "halfway" to *anything* in this.
Another thing to consider is that a 30" widescreen tv has less total screen real estate than a 30" normal 4x3 tv. And I think that stretching normal tv to fit a widescreen looks completely stupid.
Since then I have only watched letterbox. It is the way the director intended you to view it.
Actually, there are 2 formats for movies, 1.85:1 (16x9 or letterbox) and 2.35:1. I could be wrong (I rarely see movies in the theater), but I believe that most are actually 2.35:1 and their transfer to DVD or video letterbox would still involve pan and scan. However, some DVDs are left in 2.35:1.
Is how well these things are selling in a proprietary format. This should wake up the music industry into possibly providing a new digital format that is standard, because it appears as though people want something different/in addition to CD.
I run X on an AMD 100MHZ chip at home. I have no complaints about the performace of X (I use WindowMaker, not KDE or Gnome). Its only Netscape's horrible rendering engine that kills me on nested tables. Otherwise the box works fine for what I use it for (a firewall and a modem).
Should ISPs charge for email? Yes, they already do. Should their be a tax on email? No, this is rediculous. If their was a percieved need to have pay by mail, then it would already exist. There are pay websites, right? Plus it would be way to hairy with interstate/international regulations. I think that if everyone deleted spam instead of reading/following the liks inside of it, then it would go away on its own.
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Sun's memory bandwidth is less than desirable, on par with a low end PIV. The Itanium has the highest sustained memory bandwidth outside of shared memory and other single purpose "super computers".
If I remember correctly, the whole budget for NASA is something like 20B a year and about 1/2 of that is space related, where the other half is for aeronautics. A comparison budget is the "war on drugs" has a budget for 20B. Which would you rather fund?
I've been thinking that Sun would get bought for a year or so, and I think that it will suck for computing in general. The way I see it, if Sun were to be bought, then their product line would be reduced to their larger machines just like the Proliant servers are pretty much the only thing that survived the Compaq acquisition. This will mean a drastic decrease in the number of people using Solaris, and it will be a nitche/legacy product.
Solaris is an incredibly mature OS. Just read the manpage for the sar command some day. Also there is Trusted Solaris, and F-C2 security certification, etc. Linux is my favorite OS, but Solaris definitely has my respect for its stability, scalability and maturity. And the number of users of Solaris would decrease dramatically if Sun were acquired. Think about how different the Microsoft userbase would be if they suddenly had no desktop presence and were only servers.
However, I also think that Sun should hold in there. I mean a 30% drop in sales, thats almost to be expected in todays economic situation. I mean travel is down like 50-70% in some places. Also one has to keep in mind that Sun machines have a longer lifetime on average than say a PC, so thier volume of sales will be lower in comparison.
Sun does need to get the performance of thier Sparc chips up to the others. Thier performance is a big drawback to the pricetag of a Sun machine. But everything else about thier hardware is top noche. I mean they are so anal with their hardware that they put lot numbers on each of thier ethernet cables. And their machines are just perfectly engineered. Any box that I've been inside of, I never thought "Why the hell did they put that there?".
But, who knows maybe this will be a good thing. I mean all of their employees will go to work somewhere, and maybe Solaris and NFS sources will be opened up.
However, if it were up to me, I'd just prefer Sun sticked around for a while.
Re:This disease is blown way out of proportion.
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Irresponsible and sensational journalism makes people panic for nothing.
We compound our worries beyond all reason. Life expectancy in the United States has doubled during the twentieth century. We are better able to cure and control diseases than any other civilization in history. Yet we hear that phenomenal numbers of us are dreadfully ill. In 1996 Bob Garfield, a magazine writer, reviewed articles about serious diseases published over the course of a year in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and USA Today. He learned that, in addition to 59 million Americans with heart disease, 53 million with migraines, 25 million with osteoporosis, 16 million with obesity, and 3 million with cancer, many Americans suffer from more obscure ailments such as temporomandibular joint disorders (10 million) and brain injuries (2 million). Adding up the estimates, Garfield determined that 543 million Americans are seriously sick-a shocking number in a nation of 266 million inhabitants. "Either as a society we are doomed, or someone is seriously double-dipping," he suggested.
The press (and the people that pay attention to it) like to sensationalize things about 1) disease 2) man against man "crimes" 3) weather/natural disasters. When in actuality your much more likely to die from any number of other accidents than being a "victem" of these headline incidents.
Any burning software that supports rockridge extensions can have longer filenames.
Another solution is to pack up the files into an archive (gz, bz, zip, rar etc..)
Just for the record gz and bz (I'm assuming bzip) are just compressors, not compressors/archivers like zip and rar. So using gz and bz will not help with filename limits.
Righto. My father had a watch from the '70s that was "wrist powered" (sounds bad:)
Also, I've seen recently where there are flashlights that are powered by shaking them.
One thing that noone has mentioned is that a side benefit besides "stealing" power from these vibrations would be the dampening of the vibrations which would also reduce noise.
Yes its done. Thanks for HP for providing most of the port. Also, there is RH Advanced Server for the Itanium (also about $1k), and Oracle is supported on the Itanium.
Re:A (hopefully) unbiased opinion on Perl v. Pytho
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I too don't think that Python's documentation is bad, in fact I actually think that its excellent. Much like the K&R C book. One thing that I admire about Pythons documentation, is that you could recreate the language from "Language Reference" section.
I find that there are 2 (if not many more) kinds of documentation. Documentation that is meant to be read (more like a book), and documentation that is meant to be used (looked up while using like manpages and msdn). I believe that Python is that of the former, while PHP is that of the latter.
Its very hard for a hardware manufacturer to patch one of their products, which is quite different from software. Bearing that in mind, no hardware manufacturer would release a product with known flaws.
Also, I consider RedHat.0 releases public betas **cough cough**. Do you remember 7.0????
The more powerful the chips intel pushes the less effcient the coder becomes, i remember when i used to tweak my programs so they would run optimally on a slower machines
Yeah, I said that too when the PII came out. Sure there is always going to be bloat in code, especially in large projects. But you are more than welcome to go to ebay and get an 8088 or an Apple II and enjoy a machine that fits your computing needs (floppy drive or tape drive your pick).
Me, I would like to have a computer fast enough to do things like audio/video editing, real time ogg encoding, or whatever. I surely would not mind buying a computer today thats 4x faster than these new P4s for about $1000. I'd find a need for it or enjoy the lack of bloat feeling, who cares?
Although I have had 0 formal training in programming, one thing I've read and have incorporated into my coding is early optimization == bad. 1st write good code, then find out where the bottlenecks are (if any) and then optimize those bottlenecks. There are even great profiling tools out there to help you do these things.
However, they have done right things, and they certainly can rest on their laurels for a while. This just popped into my head. Linux has not had big upgrades. With M$, there was DOS, WIN 3.1, nt 5.3, win 95, win 2000, win xp. And since I've been using linux in 94, the system is pretty much the same. I can't think of a feature from the releases of RH4->9 that I could explain to a non geek. Maybe, kde/gnome (basically a win95 ripoff), maybe usb support, but there has not been big bold releases that were landmarks to the end user.
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I don't know how you define "flaw", but Jimmy Carter's reputation is fine.
1. The new design is different from the old one.
Doesn't matter, the old design is still (il)legal tender.
2. A new design takes time to counterfeit.
Exactly, so they'll keep using the old ones (see #1). However, their are the "king of the mountain" counterfeiters that are just in it for the accomplishment of gettting away with a phony bill, but they also do not typically do large runs of their bills.
3. New designs incorporate tougher security measures.
See #2 and #1.
4. New note designs promote consumer vigilance.
I guess, but if I have only explicitly checked my money for fun to see the different things added to the new bills. I don't really care if I have a phony bill, if it was good enough to be given to me, its good enough to spend.
5. New bank notes are successfully introduced and old ones replaced every day.
No, the old ones are not replaced, they are still valid money, and every 20years is hardly every day. Plus the note in question has been replaced in 1996 so the new one would be 7 years.
Fixed markets, its not just for the Mafia anymore.
The way I see "granting access" is that the person must 1st be authenticated, ie identified as "themselves" and then authorized.
To get a shell on any of my systems, you must first authenticate youself with your userid and then your password or key with authorize you access. The buffer overflow does neither. Also if a user shares an account and knows a password, this is fraudently authenticating themselves even though they pass the authorization step.
Your mention of authorization makes me think that simply put, unauthorized is any access that has circumvented any authorization and/or authentication measures that have been put on the system. This would include buffer overflows, backdoors, etc. This would not include default passwords not being changed.
Popups are (unfortunately) part of the web experience, they are not circumventing anything on your computer.
A store has the right to carry anything that they want. If kiddie porn were legal would you sell it in your store? I wouldn't.
Actually telling blockbuster is your job. Take the movie back and demand a refund. That is what I did when I rented a movie that blocked out the remote control to force me to watch ads/previews or whatever.
I still don't see a "halfway" to *anything* in this.
Another thing to consider is that a 30" widescreen tv has less total screen real estate than a 30" normal 4x3 tv. And I think that stretching normal tv to fit a widescreen looks completely stupid.
Since then I have only watched letterbox. It is the way the director intended you to view it.
Actually, there are 2 formats for movies, 1.85:1 (16x9 or letterbox) and 2.35:1. I could be wrong (I rarely see movies in the theater), but I believe that most are actually 2.35:1 and their transfer to DVD or video letterbox would still involve pan and scan. However, some DVDs are left in 2.35:1.
Is how well these things are selling in a proprietary format. This should wake up the music industry into possibly providing a new digital format that is standard, because it appears as though people want something different/in addition to CD.
I run X on an AMD 100MHZ chip at home. I have no complaints about the performace of X (I use WindowMaker, not KDE or Gnome). Its only Netscape's horrible rendering engine that kills me on nested tables. Otherwise the box works fine for what I use it for (a firewall and a modem).
Should ISPs charge for email? Yes, they already do. Should their be a tax on email? No, this is rediculous. If their was a percieved need to have pay by mail, then it would already exist. There are pay websites, right? Plus it would be way to hairy with interstate/international regulations. I think that if everyone deleted spam instead of reading/following the liks inside of it, then it would go away on its own.
I paid 5 bucks for a FIRST POST!
Sun's memory bandwidth is less than desirable, on par with a low end PIV. The Itanium has the highest sustained memory bandwidth outside of shared memory and other single purpose "super computers".
the cost of the shuttle program is horrendous...
If I remember correctly, the whole budget for NASA is something like 20B a year and about 1/2 of that is space related, where the other half is for aeronautics. A comparison budget is the "war on drugs" has a budget for 20B. Which would you rather fund?
I've been thinking that Sun would get bought for a year or so, and I think that it will suck for computing in general. The way I see it, if Sun were to be bought, then their product line would be reduced to their larger machines just like the Proliant servers are pretty much the only thing that survived the Compaq acquisition. This will mean a drastic decrease in the number of people using Solaris, and it will be a nitche/legacy product.
Solaris is an incredibly mature OS. Just read the manpage for the sar command some day. Also there is Trusted Solaris, and F-C2 security certification, etc. Linux is my favorite OS, but Solaris definitely has my respect for its stability, scalability and maturity. And the number of users of Solaris would decrease dramatically if Sun were acquired. Think about how different the Microsoft userbase would be if they suddenly had no desktop presence and were only servers.
However, I also think that Sun should hold in there. I mean a 30% drop in sales, thats almost to be expected in todays economic situation. I mean travel is down like 50-70% in some places. Also one has to keep in mind that Sun machines have a longer lifetime on average than say a PC, so thier volume of sales will be lower in comparison.
Sun does need to get the performance of thier Sparc chips up to the others. Thier performance is a big drawback to the pricetag of a Sun machine. But everything else about thier hardware is top noche. I mean they are so anal with their hardware that they put lot numbers on each of thier ethernet cables. And their machines are just perfectly engineered. Any box that I've been inside of, I never thought "Why the hell did they put that there?".
But, who knows maybe this will be a good thing. I mean all of their employees will go to work somewhere, and maybe Solaris and NFS sources will be opened up.
However, if it were up to me, I'd just prefer Sun sticked around for a while.
Shamelessly taken from http://bowlingforcolumbine.com/library/fear/index
The press (and the people that pay attention to it) like to sensationalize things about 1) disease 2) man against man "crimes" 3) weather/natural disasters. When in actuality your much more likely to die from any number of other accidents than being a "victem" of these headline incidents.
Any burning software that supports rockridge extensions can have longer filenames.
Another solution is to pack up the files into an archive (gz, bz, zip, rar etc..)
Just for the record gz and bz (I'm assuming bzip) are just compressors, not compressors/archivers like zip and rar. So using gz and bz will not help with filename limits.
Righto. My father had a watch from the
'70s that was "wrist powered" (sounds bad:)
Also, I've seen recently where there are flashlights that are powered by shaking them.
One thing that noone has mentioned is that a side
benefit besides "stealing" power from these vibrations would be the dampening of the vibrations which would also reduce noise.
and are well underway (Done?) with x86-64
Yes its done. Thanks for HP for providing most of the port. Also, there is RH Advanced Server for the Itanium (also about $1k), and Oracle is supported on the Itanium.
I too don't think that Python's documentation is bad, in fact I actually think that its excellent. Much like the K&R C book. One thing that I admire about Pythons documentation, is that you could recreate the language from "Language Reference" section.
I find that there are 2 (if not many more) kinds of documentation. Documentation that is meant to be read (more like a book), and documentation that is meant to be used (looked up while using like manpages and msdn). I believe that Python is that of the former, while PHP is that of the latter.
Presidents don't pass laws, Congress does.
Yeah, right, and Congress declares war too.
Its very hard for a hardware manufacturer to patch one of their products, which is quite different from software. Bearing that in mind, no hardware manufacturer would release a product with known flaws.
.0 releases public betas **cough cough**. Do you remember 7.0????
Also, I consider RedHat
The more powerful the chips intel pushes the less effcient the coder becomes, i remember when i used to tweak my programs so they would run optimally on a slower machines
Yeah, I said that too when the PII came out. Sure there is always going to be bloat in code, especially in large projects. But you are more than welcome to go to ebay and get an 8088 or an Apple II and enjoy a machine that fits your computing needs (floppy drive or tape drive your pick).
Me, I would like to have a computer fast enough to do things like audio/video editing, real time ogg encoding, or whatever. I surely would not mind buying a computer today thats 4x faster than these new P4s for about $1000. I'd find a need for it or enjoy the lack of bloat feeling, who cares?
Although I have had 0 formal training in programming, one thing I've read and have incorporated into my coding is early optimization == bad. 1st write good code, then find out where the bottlenecks are (if any) and then optimize those bottlenecks. There are even great profiling tools out there to help you do these things.
MS is really doing less and less right.
However, they have done right things, and they certainly can rest on their laurels for a while.
This just popped into my head. Linux has not had big upgrades. With M$, there was DOS, WIN 3.1, nt 5.3, win 95, win 2000, win xp. And since I've been using linux in 94, the system is pretty much the same. I can't think of a feature from the releases of RH4->9 that I could explain to a non geek. Maybe, kde/gnome (basically a win95 ripoff), maybe usb support, but there has not been big bold releases that were landmarks to the end user.