Hey, you're all over this story, aren't you? Stop being such a whiny cunt.
Let me respond to your points:
1. Anobody who would assume otherwise has his head so far up his ass he's not worth talking to.
2. Did you go to Western or Churchill? If so, you went to one of very few schools in the COUNTRY that will offer you a decent education. Count your blessings and don't generalize.
3. Lest you forget what happened in Taber. Besides, Americans aren't "all wack" about their right to bear arms - it's ingrained in their psyche. It's a cultural institution. If I lived in the states, I'd want a gun because everybody else owns one and would probably assume I do.
Don't try it. It's absurd and insulting if you understand that the music on a CD is just data.
However, I've heard that putting a rubber strip on the edge of your CDs improves sound quality. Basically, if a CD vibrates or spins inconsistently, your CD player will draw more or less power than normal. This fluctuation in power is detectable the output of your DAC (if it's on the same circuit as the CD player) or your amp (if it's on the same outlet). I don't know if any of this is true, but at least it's plausible.
You could interlace to 320x400 too (lowering the framerate to 25 or 30). Only worked for static
images. Other hacks included drawing pixels on the border for Sega Genesis-like graphics (that was the standard to behold for my friends and I back in the day).
The c64 did NOT have digital sound. It had a 3-voice synth/tone generator thing called the SID.
You could add a second SID for 6 voices (stereo).
The Amiga had 8-bit/4-channel sound (stereo). The 16-bit sound trick is a hack (although "superimposing" 2 8-bit waveforms will definitely improve sound quality).
Consider this: Most _commercial software_ programmers write software to make them money, not to impress the world with perfect software.
If you can release software with bugs and still make more money than your competition, you've won. What I'm trying to say is, the motivation to fix bugs is to gain marketshare, not to "do the right thing".
All this because there's no standard software testing lab, and no software "building code" to comply to.
Of course you're totally wrong for the ~ and ! operators. !true is always false. ~true is only false in one case, since true is defined to be any integer that is not false (or nonzero).
CA's are used to avoid man-in-the-middle attacks. SSH survives without CA's because it is assumed that a client will only be connecting to a handful of hosts, and therefore the user is able to personally verify each host key through physical means *. This assumption fails when applied to the web.
Your web browser currently ships with two (maybe more?) hard-coded keys: Verisign's and Thawte's. These keys are used to securely transfer the host keys of secure web sites you connect to.
I think each country needs its own CA, and I think browsers should ship with keys for all of those CAs. But it's really up to the browser vendors (by that I mean Microsoft, realistically).
* I know this doesn't often happen in the real world, but it should. You never know if your SSH connection is being relayed through another host unless you can verify the authenticity of the host key.
Decentralizing causes sprawl. Miles and miles of smaller offices creates the need for duplicate services (i.e., more tiny malls, more tiny lawn + bench "parks", more gas stations). Think centralization, but multiple "centres". Each "centre" can be zoned for amazingly high density.
Of course, I'm a big believer in urban planning - you might be from Houston or Jacksonville and not agree with me.
You're completely right about commute time, though, assuming that you stay in one place when you work. If you have to courier, are in sales or service, or do things like maintenance or catering, you spend a hell of a lot more time on the road.
Well, "drawing the line" doesn't get any more work done. In the desktop world, it doesn't matter where or why your application crashes - you lose work either way.
Knowing that your kernel is still "humming along" after X dies is no comfort at all to someone who just lost the document they were working on, or the contents of the web form they were filling out.
I wonder how they're going to explain the loud, mechanical computers & punch cards from the original series.
I remember seeing one episode where Kirk flips some switches on a panel - the computer (which was about the size of a washer & dryer set)said "PROCESSING" in a speak n' spell voice, made clicking noises for about 45 seconds and spat out a card.
Among the other problems with the March release, sources said, is that it won't take full advantage of multiprocessing systems or new video accelerators, such as Nvidia's recently announced GeForce 3 or ATI's Radeon.
Limited support for MP, and broken graphics acceleration for the Radeon, which is over a year old now.
Hmm... Wasn't MP identified as a critically important feature a few months ago when The Pentium and Athlon doubled the clock speed of the fastest G4? Weren't Mac users overjoyed that their favourite tools were no longer going to require application-level support to run on more than one processor?
And can you imagine the new UI without video acceleration? Can you imagine doing realtime 3D at all without video acceleration?
OS X is more like Debian 3.0 than it is like kernel 2.4. People need to stop thinking of "new kernel" as "new stable platform". The distribution is the platform.
That said, I won't expect anything major will be intentionally left out of Debian 3.0, FreeBSD 6.0 or OpenBSD 3.0. The release sins of Microsoft and Apple do not apply to open source distributions.
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Should register my.an.us.
Hey, you're all over this story, aren't you? Stop being such a whiny cunt.
Let me respond to your points:
1. Anobody who would assume otherwise has his head so far up his ass he's not worth talking to.
2. Did you go to Western or Churchill? If so, you went to one of very few schools in the COUNTRY that will offer you a decent education. Count your blessings and don't generalize.
3. Lest you forget what happened in Taber. Besides, Americans aren't "all wack" about their right to bear arms - it's ingrained in their psyche. It's a cultural institution. If I lived in the states, I'd want a gun because everybody else owns one and would probably assume I do.
Don't try it. It's absurd and insulting if you understand that the music on a CD is just data.
However, I've heard that putting a rubber strip on the edge of your CDs improves sound quality. Basically, if a CD vibrates or spins inconsistently, your CD player will draw more or less power than normal. This fluctuation in power is detectable the output of your DAC (if it's on the same circuit as the CD player) or your amp (if it's on the same outlet). I don't know if any of this is true, but at least it's plausible.
You can get in Calgary.
Fuck Red bull. Tastes like Flintstones vitamins n' ass. Drink Sobe[tm] instead.
The aluminum in pop cans will not oxidize unless the can is open and exposed to air. So that argument is bullshit.
IMO, Coke/sprite/etc taste better in a can, but beer is better in a bottle. (Extra old stock being the exception).
KNI == Katmai New Instructions
Sure, if you like it oily and heavy, you cheese-eating surrender monkey.
You could interlace to 320x400 too (lowering the framerate to 25 or 30). Only worked for static
images. Other hacks included drawing pixels on the border for Sega Genesis-like graphics (that was the standard to behold for my friends and I back in the day).
The c64 did NOT have digital sound. It had a 3-voice synth/tone generator thing called the SID.
You could add a second SID for 6 voices (stereo).
The Amiga had 8-bit/4-channel sound (stereo). The 16-bit sound trick is a hack (although "superimposing" 2 8-bit waveforms will definitely improve sound quality).
http://www.covenant.dk/
Fruity pop cyberpunk music.
Consider this: Most _commercial software_ programmers write software to make them money, not to impress the world with perfect software.
If you can release software with bugs and still make more money than your competition, you've won. What I'm trying to say is, the motivation to fix bugs is to gain marketshare, not to "do the right thing".
All this because there's no standard software testing lab, and no software "building code" to comply to.
L = elle
HO = a chaud
OQ = au cul
She's got hotness of the ass. (I translated that literally to show my disrepect).
Of course you're totally wrong for the ~ and ! operators. !true is always false. ~true is only false in one case, since true is defined to be any integer that is not false (or nonzero).
That's because you're far too elite for your own good, you fucking elite rivethead.
Stop dropping subculture hints. Nobody cares. <--- maybe that should be my sig?
Which is totally useless if the rootkit hides itself my loading a kernel module.
For the goatse.cx wary, go to www.securityfocus.com and search for "Analysis of the KNARK rootkit".
CA's are used to avoid man-in-the-middle attacks. SSH survives without CA's because it is assumed that a client will only be connecting to a handful of hosts, and therefore the user is able to personally verify each host key through physical means *. This assumption fails when applied to the web.
Your web browser currently ships with two (maybe more?) hard-coded keys: Verisign's and Thawte's. These keys are used to securely transfer the host keys of secure web sites you connect to.
I think each country needs its own CA, and I think browsers should ship with keys for all of those CAs. But it's really up to the browser vendors (by that I mean Microsoft, realistically).
* I know this doesn't often happen in the real world, but it should. You never know if your SSH connection is being relayed through another host unless you can verify the authenticity of the host key.
Why would Americans go across the border to get Canadian toilets?
Master of Puppets
Metallica, Megadeth and Testament are (were) where it's at before they all started to suck in 1996.
Decentralizing causes sprawl. Miles and miles of smaller offices creates the need for duplicate services (i.e., more tiny malls, more tiny lawn + bench "parks", more gas stations). Think centralization, but multiple "centres". Each "centre" can be zoned for amazingly high density.
Of course, I'm a big believer in urban planning - you might be from Houston or Jacksonville and not agree with me.
You're completely right about commute time, though, assuming that you stay in one place when you work. If you have to courier, are in sales or service, or do things like maintenance or catering, you spend a hell of a lot more time on the road.
Well, "drawing the line" doesn't get any more work done. In the desktop world, it doesn't matter where or why your application crashes - you lose work either way.
Knowing that your kernel is still "humming along" after X dies is no comfort at all to someone who just lost the document they were working on, or the contents of the web form they were filling out.
Can I quote you on that?
"StarOffice runs like a dog (provided the dog in question has three of it's feet embedded in concrete and is strung out on thorazine)" -- Cid Highwind
I wonder how they're going to explain the loud, mechanical computers & punch cards from the original series.
I remember seeing one episode where Kirk flips some switches on a panel - the computer (which was about the size of a washer & dryer set)said "PROCESSING" in a speak n' spell voice, made clicking noises for about 45 seconds and spat out a card.
Yeah, like how someone would be outside and have two shadows. Heh.
Among the other problems with the March release, sources said, is that it won't take full advantage of multiprocessing systems or new video accelerators, such as Nvidia's recently announced GeForce 3 or ATI's Radeon.
Limited support for MP, and broken graphics acceleration for the Radeon, which is over a year old now.
Hmm... Wasn't MP identified as a critically important feature a few months ago when The Pentium and Athlon doubled the clock speed of the fastest G4? Weren't Mac users overjoyed that their favourite tools were no longer going to require application-level support to run on more than one processor?
And can you imagine the new UI without video acceleration? Can you imagine doing realtime 3D at all without video acceleration?
OS X is more like Debian 3.0 than it is like kernel 2.4. People need to stop thinking of "new kernel" as "new stable platform". The distribution is the platform.
That said, I won't expect anything major will be intentionally left out of Debian 3.0, FreeBSD 6.0 or OpenBSD 3.0. The release sins of Microsoft and Apple do not apply to open source distributions.
Thank you for completing the Troll-Karma Whore dichotomy.
Don't mod me up, or I'll be guilty of meta-whoring.
PS: To the guy who was wondering: the acronyms mean You Have Been Trolled. Have A Nice Day.