Well, I'm sure that the CNN news crews are (officially) free to say anything that they want. Even if it is about AOL TIme Warner.. Just as MSNBC can say what they want about Microsoft..
Do you want to get brainwashed by the government (british or any other), period, or do you want to choose between a Anheuser-Busch or Time-Warner brainwash? Heck, you're free to take both! It's the same choice you're making when you select your newspaper. And don't tell me newspapers aren't just as opiniated, politically as well as commercially, as broadcasters.
The problem, in Denmark at least, is that there is no such thing as choosing to pay or not to pay the TV-tax. Only excuse is not owning a TV-set. No such option as hooking up a dish and sticking with foreign, commercial programming.
The socialists wants everybody to watch government TV, that way they can control what the people see. Liberals and conservatives don't think that way..
Fact: Socialdemocrat party in Denmark during the years 1985-1988 opposed the launching of an alternative, partly commercial station in Denmark, because they did not want the people to see commercials. They failed to realize that dishes were coming and soon most everybody would watch danish programming broadcasted from the UK. Ha!:-P
I don't get it. Mr. evironmentalist want's a espionage-free computer. And it has to look good, because it is targeted on the ever-fashion-aware Global Civil Society servants?
Why doesn't he go buy one a rugged laptop [dolch.com] and sticks linux on it? No backdoors, no espionage, all trusted computing for the field?
1. You embed all, and I mean all (since you don't have stored procedures), logic relating to these inquiries in to the GUI application. You then update each workstation with the new version of the client to support the changes. This involves rolling out the new version to hundreds of machines, causing worker downtime for each machine (or a few very late nights and expensive overtime for your IT staff). Then you find out a few days later that your QA staff didn't catch a very problematic bug that affects half the staff. It turns out the bug was very easy to fix, but you now have to redeploy the updated application to the hundreds of machines -- again.
Let there be no misunderstanding. Stored procedures are good.
But your scenario belongs to the Dilbert universe in absurdity and bad bad bad software design. I can think of the first few ways of making such updates work without having to update the client manually.
Fx. let the application check for updates everytime it is started, download it, install it and restart. Tada. This happends while the user fetches a cup of coffee = zero user downtime.
or have the application running on a (few) central server(s)... heck, it might even by webbased. Updates are transparent to the users..
I live in a very well developed country and power outages are unheard of. It's been serveral years since we had one. But then the other night there was a thunder, and my DSL adapter got fried.
ISP replaced it not questions asked, but what it that had been my beowolf cluster of [insert cool tech here]?
I remember my Amiga1200 with two internal 2.5" HDs fitted it still didn't overheat and it had no fan, not even the PSU. Come to think of it my C64 never made a sound and booted in 0.2s.
I remember an old Zenith Data Systems laptop.. monochrome cga lcd display.. Only like an inch thin!:) It had, like, 8 mhz 8086 cpu and it came with MS-DOS 3.2. I once made it boot with MS-DOS 5.2!! Havn't used it since. I mean.. it ran quake at 40 spf.. (seconds pr. frame:( ).. But man, it was silent! Only noise was from the dual 720k 3,5" floppy drives;-P
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Well, I'm sure that the CNN news crews are (officially) free to say anything that they want. Even if it is about AOL TIme Warner.. Just as MSNBC can say what they want about Microsoft..
It is a question of choice.
:-P
Do you want to get brainwashed by the government (british or any other), period, or do you want to choose between a Anheuser-Busch or Time-Warner brainwash? Heck, you're free to take both! It's the same choice you're making when you select your newspaper. And don't tell me newspapers aren't just as opiniated, politically as well as commercially, as broadcasters.
The problem, in Denmark at least, is that there is no such thing as choosing to pay or not to pay the TV-tax. Only excuse is not owning a TV-set. No such option as hooking up a dish and sticking with foreign, commercial programming.
The socialists wants everybody to watch government TV, that way they can control what the people see. Liberals and conservatives don't think that way..
Fact: Socialdemocrat party in Denmark during the years 1985-1988 opposed the launching of an alternative, partly commercial station in Denmark, because they did not want the people to see commercials. They failed to realize that dishes were coming and soon most everybody would watch danish programming broadcasted from the UK. Ha!
I take it the think has to be biodynamic, too?
I don't get it. Mr. evironmentalist want's a espionage-free computer. And it has to look good, because it is targeted on the ever-fashion-aware Global Civil Society servants?
Why doesn't he go buy one a rugged laptop [dolch.com] and sticks linux on it? No backdoors, no espionage, all trusted computing for the field?
I probably don't get it, do I?
We, who are about to salute you, die
1. You embed all, and I mean all (since you don't have stored procedures), logic relating to these inquiries in to the GUI application. You then update each workstation with the new version of the client to support the changes. This involves rolling out the new version to hundreds of machines, causing worker downtime for each machine (or a few very late nights and expensive overtime for your IT staff). Then you find out a few days later that your QA staff didn't catch a very problematic bug that affects half the staff. It turns out the bug was very easy to fix, but you now have to redeploy the updated application to the hundreds of machines -- again.
Let there be no misunderstanding. Stored procedures are good.
But your scenario belongs to the Dilbert universe in absurdity and bad bad bad software design. I can think of the first few ways of making such updates work without having to update the client manually.
Fx. let the application check for updates everytime it is started, download it, install it and restart. Tada. This happends while the user fetches a cup of coffee = zero user downtime.
or have the application running on a (few) central server(s)... heck, it might even by webbased. Updates are transparent to the users..
We, who are about to salute you, die.
Now, how about making my_tv_show.mpg and put it on Gnutella or Freenet?
We who are about to salute you, die.
I live in a very well developed country and power outages are unheard of. It's been serveral years since we had one. But then the other night there was a thunder, and my DSL adapter got fried.
ISP replaced it not questions asked, but what it that had been my beowolf cluster of [insert cool tech here]?
- Ranger
You can still bruteforce..
/etc/passwd:
...
Bruteforcing
1) generate possible password
2) oneway encrypt
3) compare
4) rinse and repeat until cracked
The write-only chip:
1) generate possible PIN (looping 0000-9999)
2) write to WOM
3) read flag
4)
Even if you made the memory REALLY slow, like 3 seconds to a write, you'd still run through all 10000 combinations in a matter of 8,3 hours..
- Ranger
Oops... make that $2.. not $20
- Ranger
Basically, yes..
But you still have to pay for GPRS access ($20/mb in Denmark), whereas Wi-Fi is free and thus prefered over mobile access when available..
- Ranger
I remember my Amiga1200 with two internal 2.5" HDs fitted it still didn't overheat and it had no fan, not even the PSU. Come to think of it my C64 never made a sound and booted in 0.2s.
:) It had, like, 8 mhz 8086 cpu and it came with MS-DOS 3.2. I once made it boot with MS-DOS 5.2!! Havn't used it since. I mean.. it ran quake at 40 spf.. (seconds pr. frame :( ).. But man, it was silent! Only noise was from the dual 720k 3,5" floppy drives ;-P
I remember an old Zenith Data Systems laptop.. monochrome cga lcd display.. Only like an inch thin!
Imagine a beowolf cluster of those!
-Ranger