if only Sikorsky had had Carmack's ability to turn raw bits into 40 tons of rotating machinery, he'd have patented the worldwide simultaneous orgasm machine by now.
Computers generate white noise by calculating random numbers and converting them to sound patterns.
So when you sample that to turn it back into a number, you've done nothing more than waste CPU, bus, and sound-board resources to create what is probably a degraded level of randomness.
The fact is, some people can be trusted to make closed-source code. And most people writing open-source code can't be trusted to remain trustworthy. Making closed-system security code open-source increases the likelihood of someone finding an exploit and exploiting it for their own gain. Closed reviews by competent, trustworthy groups will be just as effective in finding security problems and bugs, which can be fixed without alerting bad actors that an opportunity for mayhem exists.
Embedded OSes can be designed to disappear after transferring control to the application.
Time slicing, interrupt handling, and other process control is a burden on a full-speed computation. Good supercomputer programmers know this.
The OS can only be a hindrance and is not a boon to the advancement of computing limits. The story's headline is an inversion of logic. This might as well be an article about linux being used on a 10 MFLOP machine as a 10 TFLOP one.
All of the databases that actually do contain our information (credit bureaus, utility companies, etc.) virtually guarantee to screw something up eventually.
Any master database will, within a few years of collecting data, contain at least one error in every field.
Leaving you unrecognizable, unlocatable, and uncontrollable.
...but now you pay to get it fixed by tiny degrees, or you just live with daily crashes, and suspect you're just the one out of 20 in your neighborhood who got unlucky.
(Just please don't tell the Department of Justice on us. We couldn't stand having to pay them off again.)
If you tried to put that much information into the answers, they'd each be 40 pages long and contain at least one grammatical, typographical, or factual error per sentence.
Don't be so sure our rights are inalienable. The FCC's 7 dirty words are real. As are many other proscriptions on speech that sounds inciteful of crimes but may merely be sarcastic.
You can shout about the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution just like everyone else in your wing of the county jail while you're waiting for your lawyer to call back.
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if only Sikorsky had had Carmack's ability to turn raw bits into 40 tons of rotating machinery, he'd have patented the worldwide simultaneous orgasm machine by now.
(Hint: sarcasm.)
If you have to reverse-engineer a driver, what the fuck good is it?
then I'm all for it.
One cracker?
Try everyone in the state if you want a real test.
Fact: SCO owns what SCO owns.
Fact: What SCO owns has been copied into someone else's intellectual property.
SCO has a case.
just because it trashes your argument.
SCO's got a case.
Americans (and interested foreigners) still take democracy seriously...
It's self-consistent.
"The Internet is not Secure" means "You have to secure whatever you connect to it."
How many times do people need to be told this?
We've been through all this before.
...
The only question is whether the Bush administration is as moral as the Carter administration was.
Oh crap. I crack me up.
Mod that "funny" rather than "insightful".
Computers generate white noise by calculating random numbers and converting them to sound patterns.
So when you sample that to turn it back into a number, you've done nothing more than waste CPU, bus, and sound-board resources to create what is probably a degraded level of randomness.
The fact is, some people can be trusted to make closed-source code. And most people writing open-source code can't be trusted to remain trustworthy. Making closed-system security code open-source increases the likelihood of someone finding an exploit and exploiting it for their own gain. Closed reviews by competent, trustworthy groups will be just as effective in finding security problems and bugs, which can be fixed without alerting bad actors that an opportunity for mayhem exists.
Microsoft.Com doesn't need anything over a few kbps.
Superseded by "Pith Empowers."
-1 ignorant.
OS is not a necessary overhead.
Embedded OSes can be designed to disappear after transferring control to the application.
Time slicing, interrupt handling, and other process control is a burden on a full-speed computation. Good supercomputer programmers know this.
The OS can only be a hindrance and is not a boon to the advancement of computing limits. The story's headline is an inversion of logic. This might as well be an article about linux being used on a 10 MFLOP machine as a 10 TFLOP one.
All of the databases that actually do contain our information (credit bureaus, utility companies, etc.) virtually guarantee to screw something up eventually.
Any master database will, within a few years of collecting data, contain at least one error in every field.
Leaving you unrecognizable, unlocatable, and uncontrollable.
I wish people would stop pretending that an operating system adds to a computer's performance.
An operating system is overhead, and can only slow down your peak computing speed.
...but now you pay to get it fixed by tiny degrees, or you just live with daily crashes, and suspect you're just the one out of 20 in your neighborhood who got unlucky.
(Just please don't tell the Department of Justice on us. We couldn't stand having to pay them off again.)
If you tried to put that much information into the answers, they'd each be 40 pages long and contain at least one grammatical, typographical, or factual error per sentence.
Whoever bought this system is malfeasant.
It's clear no certification was done at all.
Out-source the programming to India.
It seems to work for everything else.
I think you can hire an Indian scribe for $5/hr, which is less than the TCO of most printers.
...which side will be the one to give birth to Big Brother...
Don't be so sure our rights are inalienable. The FCC's 7 dirty words are real. As are many other proscriptions on speech that sounds inciteful of crimes but may merely be sarcastic.
You can shout about the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution just like everyone else in your wing of the county jail while you're waiting for your lawyer to call back.
When marking your results, don't use "OK" and "NO" as the indicators.
They're virtually impossible to tell apart in rapid scanning.
Use "PASS" (not "PASSED") and "FAILED". The length differences alone will provide ample visual cuing to reviewers.