LifeStraw only costs $3, so the Lifesaver Bottle must obviously be 100 times better. Since LifeStraw is 99.9999% effective at filtering common bacteria, the slightly pricier version will probably start exhibiting homeopathic properties.
Russian security forces used tanks, flamethrowers, and at least one Mi-24 helicopter gunship. At least 334 hostages died, and approximately 700 were wounded.
Strategically speaking, there's a lot of long-term benefit from loudly and publically demonstrating that hostages are worthless.
You all should be grateful instead of pissing in their Cheerios.
"Thank you, oh benevolent masters, for supplying the software required to use the hardware that you gave me in exchange for money." Was that suitably deferential, or should I bend my knee more?
OMG, you mean you can't run the same computer equipment for 20 years and expect it to before useful work in a modern fashion?
Your reading comprehension is worse than your grammar. By 20, you mean 5. It still "[something] useful work in a modern fashion", except that it's been artificially crippled by recent driver updates.
Probably just because they want money. Let's burn them.
Child, meet Market. Customers don't want to spend more money than they have to. Paradoxically, this often means they'll spend even more money with the companies that don't put the squeeze on them.
Closed-source drivers can be OK, except they tend to discontinue support after a while.
Exactly. I have an aging GeForce 4 that's slow by current standards but still quite enough to mess around with Beryl and play Unreal Tournament. And yet, Nvidia has deprecated its drivers. When new kernels can no longer load the old module, I'll have to decide between resigning myself to that kernel version forever on this system or forking out a comparatively huge amount of cash. (Since this is an AGP system, I'll also have to replace the motherboard. And CPU. And memory. And probably throw in an IDE card so I can use the 320GB drive I bought last year.)
Again, this is a working system. I know it's not new and shiny, but it runs everything I want to run and there's no other reason I'd need to replace it right now. Suddenly that ATI card is looking far cheaper if it means that I won't have to literally upgrade my entire system as soon as they decide to stop providing closed binary drivers for it.
Oh, to head off the inevitable criticism from k1dd1es: this is what happens when you get old. Sure, I can afford a nice new system and I'm not a cheapskate about it. Still, I'm stubborn enough to not want to if I don't have to and it's the principle of the thing, and get off my lawn.
I guess he is just glad that you weren't so convinced that you dropped a few extra files onto his machine - all in order to protect your children from the non-existant menace. Congratulations, I am sure your witch hunting will be put to better use next time.
I tend to be of the same opinion, but I also recognize that there's such a thing as probable cause. Sometimes people act creepy just because they're eccentric. Other people act creepy because they really are doing creepy things.
There's a huge difference between looking more closely at someone who's drawn attention to themselves and framing that person. Most rational adults are quite capable of doing the former without stooping to the latter. The alternative is deliberately looking the other way regardless of warning signs, and frankly, that's just cowardice.
4 GB of memory, lol, amazing they could do anything with that!
I don't think so, at least not in the same sense. If you're running out of memory now, it's generally because you've loaded a dataset that's too big. Running out of memory "back in the day" meant that you couldn't physically squeeze another opcode into RAM, or that you had to remove a feature if you needed to store another 8-bit variable.
There's really nothing you can't theoretically do with a 128MB system today (save for loading ME2); you just won't be able to process as much data at once as on a larger system. You'll still have plenty of room to hold a reasonable number of executables in memory at the same time.
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I'm certain that someone of my Dad's generation who wrote software in the olden days (1960s/70s/80s)
I'm not that old, son. And your mother and I were wondering if you'd given any more thought to finding your own place.
I've done the same sort of thing with my GPL Palm software, Contraction Timer.
Whoa, hey, back up. Contraction Timer?
Husband: Honey, can you just hold it a second longer?
Wife: STOP PLAYING WITH THAT $#!$(@)#$! PALM AND GET YOUR ASS IN THE CAR!
Husband: But I almost have it uploaded!
Wife: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Imagine not needing elaborate schemes like virtual memory paging, harddrive caching, file systems, or even needing to compress things as often.
Virtual memory is A Good Thing (tm), and once you have a working VM system, paging can be a relatively easy add-on. Stripping out paging but keeping VM won't be all that much simpler, I don't think.
HD caching, I'll give you.
File systems? You'll still need to find all that data and mete out access to it. Since I don't know what latencies would be like in this storage, it's possible that current filesystems that are optimized for high latency and high throughput might still be reasonable.
Finally, at some point you're going to want to transfer that data from storage to the CPU or to another machine. As busses and network links have finite bandwidth, compression will still rule the day.
Having said that, I still welcome our terabyte-thumbdrive overlords.
I went to DigiPen and came out a pretty damn good programmer if I must say so.
I ask this out of ignorance of a "game school"'s curriculum, but what exactly do you learn programming-wise? Do you get exposed to different classes of languages? Discrete math? Linear algebra? Computational theory? It's cool that you learned to program in an environment that you enjoyed, but I'm not clear on how thoroughly they actually teach the theory.
any futher code that miguel releases under a true oss licence should be treated with extreme caution and prejudice.
You're just now reaching that conclusion? Some of us have been saying that for years, but we were just trolls, blind fools, who didn't understand that "pragmatism" trumps all else. Never mind that this short-term pragmatism is likely to bite us in the butt in a big way, in the court of public opinion if not the court of law: "look, those Linux guys even had to steal a decent language! They couldn't even do that without Microsoft."
I'm starting to think that Miguel de Icaza is an anagram of "Manchurian" in another language. I honestly can't think of any other rational explanation for his track record.
Does such a concept protect against SQL injection or not?
No. That is, it's not the right (and easy!) way to handle it, so you can assume that someone will invent a clever workaround that will defeat your code. Really, just use named parameters and be done with it. It's easier than building your queries by hand and far safer, so there's no reason whatsoever not to do it.
I find it hillarious and sad that most PHP tutorials recommend using the mysql_ functions, along with mysql_real_escape_str() function for doing database queries.
Amen. That's (literally) a firing offense at my job. Well, you won't lose your job, but I will set you on fire.
Just inject a new command to spread this update to all your peers and after you succeed, close down all of the command and control vectors.
No. Spread like wildfire, then after a short delay, wipe the drives.
Really.
Excepting the possibility of the worms using some 0-day exploit we don't know about yet, these are caused by people who couldn't be bothered to patch their systems, run AV scanners, use a firewall, or not click every OmGPupp1es.jpg.exe they come across. We've been telling people to do this stuff for years but no one listens because there's no real penalty for not doing so, other than the occasional sluggish computer (which people blame on their OS or other random cause).
Well, maybe it's time someone implemented that penalty. Maybe Aunt Martha will pay more attention to the "your computer wants to install critical security updates" message if the last time she ignored it she came home to a smoking hard drive.
Only a person seriously deficient in both maths and common sense would believe this.
Why is that? Where it the mathematical and common sense breakdown? Common sense would tend to indicate that if we can built something at least as smart as we are, then it could do the same.
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LifeStraw only costs $3, so the Lifesaver Bottle must obviously be 100 times better. Since LifeStraw is 99.9999% effective at filtering common bacteria, the slightly pricier version will probably start exhibiting homeopathic properties.
Strategically speaking, there's a lot of long-term benefit from loudly and publically demonstrating that hostages are worthless.
And to think, just a couple days ago they were announcing their 1000th member. Oh Network Time Protocol, how we love and hate you.
Oh, wait.
Is SMTP taken as a company name? I want to confuse geeks, too.
If nothing else, for security fixes. That alone is a huge motivation.
Isn't it normal to run old OSes on old machines?Only on Windows. Other OSes tend to become more efficient with time. OS X has a particularly strong reputation for this.
For the record, Nvidia says otherwise.
You all should be grateful instead of pissing in their Cheerios."Thank you, oh benevolent masters, for supplying the software required to use the hardware that you gave me in exchange for money." Was that suitably deferential, or should I bend my knee more?
Your reading comprehension is worse than your grammar. By 20, you mean 5. It still "[something] useful work in a modern fashion", except that it's been artificially crippled by recent driver updates.
Probably just because they want money. Let's burn them.Child, meet Market. Customers don't want to spend more money than they have to. Paradoxically, this often means they'll spend even more money with the companies that don't put the squeeze on them.
Exactly. I have an aging GeForce 4 that's slow by current standards but still quite enough to mess around with Beryl and play Unreal Tournament. And yet, Nvidia has deprecated its drivers. When new kernels can no longer load the old module, I'll have to decide between resigning myself to that kernel version forever on this system or forking out a comparatively huge amount of cash. (Since this is an AGP system, I'll also have to replace the motherboard. And CPU. And memory. And probably throw in an IDE card so I can use the 320GB drive I bought last year.)
Again, this is a working system. I know it's not new and shiny, but it runs everything I want to run and there's no other reason I'd need to replace it right now. Suddenly that ATI card is looking far cheaper if it means that I won't have to literally upgrade my entire system as soon as they decide to stop providing closed binary drivers for it.
Oh, to head off the inevitable criticism from k1dd1es: this is what happens when you get old. Sure, I can afford a nice new system and I'm not a cheapskate about it. Still, I'm stubborn enough to not want to if I don't have to and it's the principle of the thing, and get off my lawn.
I suspect it means:
c) tubgirl, etc.
Which still isn't legal, AFAIK, but definitely beyond "looking at playboy.com" in questionable judgment at work category.
I tend to be of the same opinion, but I also recognize that there's such a thing as probable cause. Sometimes people act creepy just because they're eccentric. Other people act creepy because they really are doing creepy things.
There's a huge difference between looking more closely at someone who's drawn attention to themselves and framing that person. Most rational adults are quite capable of doing the former without stooping to the latter. The alternative is deliberately looking the other way regardless of warning signs, and frankly, that's just cowardice.
Moderation and caution, my friend.
Actually, I think it's dead in the sense that Solaris is dead, meaning that it ain't.
I don't think so, at least not in the same sense. If you're running out of memory now, it's generally because you've loaded a dataset that's too big. Running out of memory "back in the day" meant that you couldn't physically squeeze another opcode into RAM, or that you had to remove a feature if you needed to store another 8-bit variable.
There's really nothing you can't theoretically do with a 128MB system today (save for loading ME2); you just won't be able to process as much data at once as on a larger system. You'll still have plenty of room to hold a reasonable number of executables in memory at the same time.
I'm not that old, son. And your mother and I were wondering if you'd given any more thought to finding your own place.
Whoa, hey, back up. Contraction Timer?
Husband: Honey, can you just hold it a second longer?
Wife: STOP PLAYING WITH THAT $#!$(@)#$! PALM AND GET YOUR ASS IN THE CAR!
Husband: But I almost have it uploaded!
Wife: You have no chance to survive make your time.
It gets old, trust me.
Virtual memory is A Good Thing (tm), and once you have a working VM system, paging can be a relatively easy add-on. Stripping out paging but keeping VM won't be all that much simpler, I don't think.
HD caching, I'll give you.
File systems? You'll still need to find all that data and mete out access to it. Since I don't know what latencies would be like in this storage, it's possible that current filesystems that are optimized for high latency and high throughput might still be reasonable.
Finally, at some point you're going to want to transfer that data from storage to the CPU or to another machine. As busses and network links have finite bandwidth, compression will still rule the day.
Having said that, I still welcome our terabyte-thumbdrive overlords.
I ask this out of ignorance of a "game school"'s curriculum, but what exactly do you learn programming-wise? Do you get exposed to different classes of languages? Discrete math? Linear algebra? Computational theory? It's cool that you learned to program in an environment that you enjoyed, but I'm not clear on how thoroughly they actually teach the theory.
You misspelled "upgrade".
No, I am not joking.
Close, but we can do better. I propose:
Faith in a product beyond rationality,
Unity with their overlords, without quibble, and
Confidence that their pet entity is the best in its class in the face of evidence to the contrary.
That would make Miguel one of the biggest FUC'ers in Microsoft's camp.
You're just now reaching that conclusion? Some of us have been saying that for years, but we were just trolls, blind fools, who didn't understand that "pragmatism" trumps all else. Never mind that this short-term pragmatism is likely to bite us in the butt in a big way, in the court of public opinion if not the court of law: "look, those Linux guys even had to steal a decent language! They couldn't even do that without Microsoft."
I'm starting to think that Miguel de Icaza is an anagram of "Manchurian" in another language. I honestly can't think of any other rational explanation for his track record.
It's not Ada. Isn't that enough?
Crud. I replied to the wrong post.
Does such a concept protect against SQL injection or not?No. That is, it's not the right (and easy!) way to handle it, so you can assume that someone will invent a clever workaround that will defeat your code. Really, just use named parameters and be done with it. It's easier than building your queries by hand and far safer, so there's no reason whatsoever not to do it.
Amen. That's (literally) a firing offense at my job. Well, you won't lose your job, but I will set you on fire.
No. Spread like wildfire, then after a short delay, wipe the drives.
Really.
Excepting the possibility of the worms using some 0-day exploit we don't know about yet, these are caused by people who couldn't be bothered to patch their systems, run AV scanners, use a firewall, or not click every OmGPupp1es.jpg.exe they come across. We've been telling people to do this stuff for years but no one listens because there's no real penalty for not doing so, other than the occasional sluggish computer (which people blame on their OS or other random cause).
Well, maybe it's time someone implemented that penalty. Maybe Aunt Martha will pay more attention to the "your computer wants to install critical security updates" message if the last time she ignored it she came home to a smoking hard drive.
When I discovered that I could read that all full speed, a little part of me died. I hate you.
Why is that? Where it the mathematical and common sense breakdown? Common sense would tend to indicate that if we can built something at least as smart as we are, then it could do the same.