Oh, thanks. As if I didn't burn enough brain cells trying to decipher Eva and Lain (and I'm not finished watching Lain yet). Some anime is better than hard drugs.
No, it's a heavily modified Debian distrib. Very "dumbed-down", almost to the point of useless. I guess they were trying to compete with Windows. The GUI install was a custom job, so that's part of what they're selling.
that's for the fan abuse at the end of Evangelion!
Bitch, bitch, bitch. Death and Rebirth/End of Evangelion are coming out early next year from Manga. Supposedly, that should satisfy your complaints about the end of the TV series.
And check the trailers for Final Fantasy X. It looks beautiful, and the north american version is said to have decent voice acting.
I'll give you the tentacle pr0n, though. What are they thinking?
The PowerQuest stuff works great. I've had W2K, Win98, Linux (Redhat, Corel, Debian), and BeOS on my machine at the same time, and booted between them. Microsoft managed to break PartitionMagic with W2K (suprise!) so that I have to boot into Win98 to edit partitions, but apart from that there are no problems. Just keep your BootMagic Rescue disk around in case you accidentally write LILO to the wrong place:)
Further, because of the national Interac network, Canadians were able to take advantage of the single system quickly, and took to it in a big way. In contrast, the U.S. has Visa and MasterCard running their debit card systems, and it's not as popular. You'd be amazed at the number of people in the US who still write checks for stuff in stores.
A few years ago, a study found that there were more direct debit transactions in Canada than the US. That's total, not per capita.
The US is widely concidered to have the least efficient banking system in the world.
There's a (potentially) better solution: Netflix. I've just started using it, but in theory it looks good. For $20.00 a month, you get as many DVD's as you want, for as long as you want, but you can only hold on to 3 at a time. When you send one back, they send you the next one on your list. The disks get send to your mailbox and the return mailers are pre-paid. Seems like a good deal to me.
That page is great! Look at all the shovelware that's included. And every bundle includes am 'MS Memory Card', even though it's got a hard disk, so the base system obviously doesn't ship with enough RAM.
Here's the best quote on the page, "Don't pay exorbitant prices in auctions or wait in long lines for your XBox. Enjoy all the XBox has to offer with a great bundle from GameStop!" If $600.00 for a console and 3 games isn't 'exorbitiant' can someone tell me whatthehell is?
Thanks, I knew Zortech, Wizard, and Lattice were bought, but I got the buyers muddled.
I think Walter Bright should be encouraged to keep doing what he is doing. Your comments about TopSpeed (I remember that one, too) are an illustration of how the software industry is going today; a small number of big companies buying a large number of small companies, with deminishing choices for the consumer. Let's encourage all the innovtion we can, even if we dont' think the idea is particularly sound.
I remember trying to make the Zortech compiler work for an old project of mine circa maybe 1989.
Didn't Borland end up buying the Zortech compiler and turning it into Turbo C? There were a lot of C compilers back then.
Which reminds me, back in 1987 I was working with the Computer Innovations CI86 compiler. The documentation was a few hundred pages of photocopies in a 3-ring binder, no tools, just the debugger and linker, but it came with the source. Find a commericial compiler these days that includes the source.
US government controls about 80% of the worlds reserves of helium, which is of course nonflammable but due to the tensions of the 1930's refused to export to Germany leading to the use of hydrogen instead.
There's a classic alternate history short story by Fritz Lieber called Catch that Zeppelin! based on just that fact.
Check out this article from Newsweek which is typical of this kind of stuff. My favorite part is the paragraph about "Steve Gibson, a respected info-security guru". Respected? Yeah, right! The rest of the article is good for a laugh, especially when the writer sits down to test BlackIce Defender.
Uh huh. Go play an hour of Ultimate Frisbee, and after you've scraped yourself off the floor (like I did) tell me it's not a sport. Face it, people invent new sports all the time, and if they become popular enough, they become spectator sports. Look at beach volleyball for another example, and tell me those people aren't working.
Not so. Motor sports are endurance sports, like triathalon or marthathon. F1 and CART drivers are all in very good shape. They do continuous conditioning work and lose weight, up to 15 lbs or more, during the course of a two-hour race.
Because, if you'd read the article, you'd see that China blocks access to certain sites, which is filtering. Would you call NetNanny a firewall? I think not.
I don't think that is entirely accurate, either. The main article says that China is filtered not firewalled, as the editorial states. This makes more sense, since IIRC, a lot of servers in China got hit by Code Red. This shouldn't have happened if there was a Great Firewall of China.
I think you are giving up to quickly. There are some circumstances where ebooks work perfectly. I've had a Rocketbook (now EB1100) for a couple of years now, and I've found it easy to use, easy to read, and very convenient. I've read a few novels on it (when they were cheaper than the hardcopy versions) but it's really great for out-of-print and public domain stuff. Fictionwise (www.fictionwise.com) sells science fiction short stories (many classics, that you can't find anywhere else) for less than a buck a pop. And novels for not a lot more.
And the reader is very nice for travelling, since it holds a number of books, and ends up taking up far less room and weight than the equivalent paper copies.
I can't see paper vanishing any time soon, and I think the download to PC style of ebook is a pain, but the dedicated reader devices are really good, and have their place in the market. And if nobody likes ebooks, why does a Google search turn up more than ten pages of ebook sites?
That's not so far-fetched. The US army has a history of using comic-books as training manuals. I know they hired a famous comic artist (Will Eisner?) to illustrate some of them. It worked really well.
The real problem is that there aren't any manuals any more. Half the software you buy these days is downloaded, and the rest come with a dinky lttle manual that's little more that the installation instructions. If the fat, bloated software moguls would start shipping hardcopy with their software again it would be a start.
No, I was thinking more of a pre-emptive strike; fixing the anti-virus software before the thing becomes widespread. Instead, they seem to be closing the barndoor after the horse has left.
I've got no problem with them sharing the source code, hell, I think it's a good thing. I'm just suprised an virus writer would do it.
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Check the second link. The author is 'Zulu' and he says he from Argentina. He gives us the full source code for the damn thing. He also specs out a number of other possible senarios for viruses in PDf files. If Macafee, Symantec, et al were on the ball, they'd be checking sites like this, so they could nip these things in the bud. But then they'd never get their names on CNET and ZDNET every other day.
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Oh, thanks. As if I didn't burn enough brain cells trying to decipher Eva and Lain (and I'm not finished watching Lain yet). Some anime is better than hard drugs.
No, it's a heavily modified Debian distrib. Very "dumbed-down", almost to the point of useless. I guess they were trying to compete with Windows. The GUI install was a custom job, so that's part of what they're selling.
or has some major safety problems.
Like this?
Bitch, bitch, bitch. Death and Rebirth/End of Evangelion are coming out early next year from Manga. Supposedly, that should satisfy your complaints about the end of the TV series.
And check the trailers for Final Fantasy X. It looks beautiful, and the north american version is said to have decent voice acting.
I'll give you the tentacle pr0n, though. What are they thinking?
The PowerQuest stuff works great. I've had W2K, Win98, Linux (Redhat, Corel, Debian), and BeOS on my machine at the same time, and booted between them. Microsoft managed to break PartitionMagic with W2K (suprise!) so that I have to boot into Win98 to edit partitions, but apart from that there are no problems. Just keep your BootMagic Rescue disk around in case you accidentally write LILO to the wrong place :)
Isn't that Rastafarian?
A few years ago, a study found that there were more direct debit transactions in Canada than the US. That's total, not per capita.
The US is widely concidered to have the least efficient banking system in the world.
There's a (potentially) better solution: Netflix. I've just started using it, but in theory it looks good. For $20.00 a month, you get as many DVD's as you want, for as long as you want, but you can only hold on to 3 at a time. When you send one back, they send you the next one on your list. The disks get send to your mailbox and the return mailers are pre-paid. Seems like a good deal to me.
Here's the best quote on the page, "Don't pay exorbitant prices in auctions or wait in long lines for your XBox. Enjoy all the XBox has to offer with a great bundle from GameStop!" If $600.00 for a console and 3 games isn't 'exorbitiant' can someone tell me whatthehell is?
A company called nCompass did that a few years ago. Guess what? Microsoft bought them, and buried the product.
I think Walter Bright should be encouraged to keep doing what he is doing. Your comments about TopSpeed (I remember that one, too) are an illustration of how the software industry is going today; a small number of big companies buying a large number of small companies, with deminishing choices for the consumer. Let's encourage all the innovtion we can, even if we dont' think the idea is particularly sound.
Didn't Borland end up buying the Zortech compiler and turning it into Turbo C? There were a lot of C compilers back then.
Which reminds me, back in 1987 I was working with the Computer Innovations CI86 compiler. The documentation was a few hundred pages of photocopies in a 3-ring binder, no tools, just the debugger and linker, but it came with the source. Find a commericial compiler these days that includes the source.
There's a classic alternate history short story by Fritz Lieber called Catch that Zeppelin! based on just that fact.
Check out this article from Newsweek which is typical of this kind of stuff. My favorite part is the paragraph about "Steve Gibson, a respected info-security guru". Respected? Yeah, right! The rest of the article is good for a laugh, especially when the writer sits down to test BlackIce Defender.
Uh huh. Go play an hour of Ultimate Frisbee, and after you've scraped yourself off the floor (like I did) tell me it's not a sport. Face it, people invent new sports all the time, and if they become popular enough, they become spectator sports. Look at beach volleyball for another example, and tell me those people aren't working.
Not so. Motor sports are endurance sports, like triathalon or marthathon. F1 and CART drivers are all in very good shape. They do continuous conditioning work and lose weight, up to 15 lbs or more, during the course of a two-hour race.
It's worse than that. Not only did it infect Hotmail servers, but servers on Microsoft's internal network.
Because, if you'd read the article, you'd see that China blocks access to certain sites, which is filtering. Would you call NetNanny a firewall? I think not.
99%. Humans are 99% genetically compatible with chimpanzees. If I was a chimp, I'd be insulted. As a human being, I could sympathize.
And the reader is very nice for travelling, since it holds a number of books, and ends up taking up far less room and weight than the equivalent paper copies.
I can't see paper vanishing any time soon, and I think the download to PC style of ebook is a pain, but the dedicated reader devices are really good, and have their place in the market. And if nobody likes ebooks, why does a Google search turn up more than ten pages of ebook sites?
The real problem is that there aren't any manuals any more. Half the software you buy these days is downloaded, and the rest come with a dinky lttle manual that's little more that the installation instructions. If the fat, bloated software moguls would start shipping hardcopy with their software again it would be a start.
(Joke)
I've got no problem with them sharing the source code, hell, I think it's a good thing. I'm just suprised an virus writer would do it.
Me? Cynical?