That's just untrue, glass IS a solid, which happens to have some property of liquids. Proof? It can be melted!
Now there are materials that are almost impossible to classify, I don't remember the name, but it looks like clay, but is hard when you touch it, and breaks when you try to fold it. However, if you leave for a couple hours on a table, it will flow like goo.
You imply that.NET will be succesful; this remains to be proven..NET (and C#) is competing with the Java plaftorm. There's thousands of applications, libraries, freely available source code, there's millions of Java programmers out there... so it's not exactly as likely as you seem to think.
I seriously doubt we will ever see transparent aluminum. In order for it to succceed, the atoms would have to be aligned in a crystaline matrix. Such a matrix would likely create a hard, yet weak substance.
This post is rather amusing when you know that:
1. most metals as we know them have a crystalline form, except maybe mercury as it's liquid at usual temperatures, and
2. glass is NOT crystalline, and yet is the first thing we think of when we think of a transparent material.
3. plastics, which are the second thing we think of, are not crystalline either, they're polymers, id est long chains of molecules.
Oh and guess what: there's more Linux systems on the 'net currently than MacOS systems, and there's no shortage of Mac viruses... kind of destroys your argument doesn't it?
Why are there no BeOS virii running around? No one fucking uses it.
Excuse me, I'm talking about the operating system that runs about 30% of all servers on the Internet, not some obscure dead toy.
The standard C library is deficient, not C itself
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Most buffer overflows would have been avoided had the C library included dynamically allocated strings. Static buffers ARE evil for arbitrary length data such as strings. There is no reason to limit most input (as is pointed out in the GNU coding standard) to arbitrary length anyway, and there is no significant performance penalty if they are implemented properly (IE not reallocating and copying the whole string every time a character is happened to it).
The fact that it's not implemented in the standard makes it so that programmers are more likely to be lazy and use what they are provided with (sprintf, snprintf, scanf...), no matter how broken it is.
Alot of these shareware/spyware schemes are complete asshole tactics and could affect Linux users too if anyone gave a shit about them.
Bah you're talking out of your fucking ass. The fact is, there is no virus and no spyware on Linux. Now you can hypothesize all you want, it's NOT THERE NOW.
And you know why it's not going to happen anytime soon? Should a real virus happen, counter measures would likely be introduced in new distros or even kernel if needed, instead of relying on costly third party schemes.
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Just tell them, "I'm sorry, our (ISO-9001|DoD|nuclear) approved security procedures forbid us to use (Office|MS|macros). Can you send the docs in PDF?"
Pretending to be paranoid about security makes customers happy. Even if it's BS.
... and actually recipients usually like it. I know of several people who have found work this way, and apparently they got no complaint.
IMO it's not as illegitimate as the previous stories seemed to imply, provided you use a sensible list of address (jobs@company.com for example), and not a grep of Usenet addresses.
There's really no comparison between batching a few dozen resumes to somewhat relevants, and sending hundreds of thousands of porno mail ("Do not open this mail if you've below 18!" -- still laughin about this one) to completely random addresses.
The problem with the poor dude that was derided here was that he was a fucking moron; he would not have had any problem had he apologized or just even shut up after being told not to send more mail.
Player killing in a persistent environment is not as fun as it appears at first sight. When you play Counter Strike, and you encounter grief players, cheaters, stalkers, spawn killers or plain dumbasses, you can just connect to another server, or play with people you know, etc.
In a persistent world, when you encounter such situations, you have no option but to pull the plug. That's probably why out of 40ish EQ servers, only 4 of them allow PvP, and most of them are in the lower end in the number of players.
New games such as DAoC are trying to change this by allowing you to decide when you want to engage in PvP combat, which is probably a good way to go.
Tradeable items do not decay, and their appearance rate is either constant, or increasing as avatars gain in average level, therefore the offering grows while the market is roughly constant.
Secondly, new items are being discovered as avatars gain in level or as the world is expanded, reducing the value of older items.
Except that those batteries are most likely at 12V (maybe 24V). Let's say you have a 100W 12V bulb, it would draw I=P/V=100/12=8.3A. One of those would draw a 100 A.h battery in 100/8.3=12h.
3 of those would draw 3 batteries in 12h, too.
Now marine batterys are a different beast than car batteries. For one they hold a LOT more energy, as weight is less of a concern on a boat, obviously, and also because they need to be able to function for long periods of time when the engine has to be stopped, unlike car batteries which are mostly discharged for start up.
From the article, you can't even get an unlimited service. This means that, should you get hacked, or have some dysfunctionnal software, you could get charged mucho $$$ at the end of the month.
They pay 250 for 10GB download / month, this is just insane.
Here I get unlimited 512kbps (128kbps upload) for 50, with good service overall.
The article says it happens when the kernel is compiled for Pentium processors; but does this happen if the kernel is compiled for a K7?
By the way, I had to shelve my nVidia card a couple months ago because of this... I have an Athlon and it kept hard freezing. The bug doesn't happen with a Voodoo card.
If you were a struggling proprietary commercial software developer would you join the BSA? Is Microsoft a member of BSA? Are they struggling? Seriously.
" No matter how you hype it, it's just not legal for a company to own (or sometimes not) a single copy of Adobe Photoshop or Microsoft Office and run it on 10's or 100's of computers. Somebody has to enforce the law or it breaks down. "
This somebody is supposed to be the "police" and "justice", or it breaks down.
"Incedentally, it's the same copyright law that keeps your GPL software free that they are protecting! "
The GPL uses the copyright system against itself. Without copyright, there would be little need for GPL.
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Apparently they have come up with a super funky non-linear hyperbolic multi-dimensional accounting system to come up with it.
That's just untrue, glass IS a solid, which happens to have some property of liquids. Proof? It can be melted!
Now there are materials that are almost impossible to classify, I don't remember the name, but it looks like clay, but is hard when you touch it, and breaks when you try to fold it. However, if you leave for a couple hours on a table, it will flow like goo.
You imply that .NET will be succesful; this remains to be proven. .NET (and C#) is competing with the Java plaftorm. There's thousands of applications, libraries, freely available source code, there's millions of Java programmers out there ... so it's not exactly as likely as you seem to think.
I seriously doubt we will ever see transparent aluminum. In order for it to succceed, the atoms would have to be aligned in a crystaline matrix. Such a matrix would likely create a hard, yet weak substance.
This post is rather amusing when you know that:
1. most metals as we know them have a crystalline form, except maybe mercury as it's liquid at usual temperatures, and
2. glass is NOT crystalline, and yet is the first thing we think of when we think of a transparent material.
3. plastics, which are the second thing we think of, are not crystalline either, they're polymers, id est long chains of molecules.
Tux Racer changed from free software to proprietary software.
Mono changed from free software to free software.
Your comparison sucks.
Hey, I totally agree with you, I'm not reading /. to be force fed with MORE industrially-produced blockbusters.
/., so why suck 'dem balls and provide them with the free coverage they don't really need?
What's puzzling is that most mainstream medias do cover (favorably!) blockbusters because they are funded by the MPAA through advertising.
It's odd, I didn't see any MPAA ads on
Hmm, and yeah, go see Amelie.
Oh and guess what: there's more Linux systems on the 'net currently than MacOS systems, and there's no shortage of Mac viruses ... kind of destroys your argument doesn't it?
Why are there no BeOS virii running around? No one fucking uses it.
Excuse me, I'm talking about the operating system that runs about 30% of all servers on the Internet, not some obscure dead toy.
Most buffer overflows would have been avoided had the C library included dynamically allocated strings. Static buffers ARE evil for arbitrary length data such as strings. There is no reason to limit most input (as is pointed out in the GNU coding standard) to arbitrary length anyway, and there is no significant performance penalty if they are implemented properly (IE not reallocating and copying the whole string every time a character is happened to it).
...), no matter how broken it is.
The fact that it's not implemented in the standard makes it so that programmers are more likely to be lazy and use what they are provided with (sprintf, snprintf, scanf
Alot of these shareware/spyware schemes are complete asshole tactics and could affect Linux users too if anyone gave a shit about them.
Bah you're talking out of your fucking ass. The fact is, there is no virus and no spyware on Linux. Now you can hypothesize all you want, it's NOT THERE NOW.
And you know why it's not going to happen anytime soon? Should a real virus happen, counter measures would likely be introduced in new distros or even kernel if needed, instead of relying on costly third party schemes.
Just tell them, "I'm sorry, our (ISO-9001|DoD|nuclear) approved security procedures forbid us to use (Office|MS|macros). Can you send the docs in PDF?"
Pretending to be paranoid about security makes customers happy. Even if it's BS.
... and actually recipients usually like it. I know of several people who have found work this way, and apparently they got no complaint.
IMO it's not as illegitimate as the previous stories seemed to imply, provided you use a sensible list of address (jobs@company.com for example), and not a grep of Usenet addresses.
There's really no comparison between batching a few dozen resumes to somewhat relevants, and sending hundreds of thousands of porno mail ("Do not open this mail if you've below 18!" -- still laughin about this one) to completely random addresses.
The problem with the poor dude that was derided here was that he was a fucking moron; he would not have had any problem had he apologized or just even shut up after being told not to send more mail.
Bah it's always been like that. Stop that good ole' days BS. I know, I was there.
Player killing in a persistent environment is not as fun as it appears at first sight. When you play Counter Strike, and you encounter grief players, cheaters, stalkers, spawn killers or plain dumbasses, you can just connect to another server, or play with people you know, etc.
In a persistent world, when you encounter such situations, you have no option but to pull the plug. That's probably why out of 40ish EQ servers, only 4 of them allow PvP, and most of them are in the lower end in the number of players.
New games such as DAoC are trying to change this by allowing you to decide when you want to engage in PvP combat, which is probably a good way to go.
Simple:
Tradeable items do not decay, and their appearance rate is either constant, or increasing as avatars gain in average level, therefore the offering grows while the market is roughly constant.
Secondly, new items are being discovered as avatars gain in level or as the world is expanded, reducing the value of older items.
Hey Heather,
Don't you have email at wired? Did they cut on spendings that much?
Except that those batteries are most likely at 12V (maybe 24V). Let's say you have a 100W 12V bulb, it would draw I=P/V=100/12=8.3A. One of those would draw a 100 A.h battery in 100/8.3=12h.
3 of those would draw 3 batteries in 12h, too.
Now marine batterys are a different beast than car batteries. For one they hold a LOT more energy, as weight is less of a concern on a boat, obviously, and also because they need to be able to function for long periods of time when the engine has to be stopped, unlike car batteries which are mostly discharged for start up.
No matter how barbaric something is, as long as (you think) it makes you pay less taxes, it's good!
I bet you consider yourself a christian, on top of it. Remember what Jesus had to say about forgiveness, love of money and turning the other cheek?
We tried lowering the drinking age. A lot of young people got killed.
So you moved the drinking age back up, and of course kids stopped drinking.
Give me a sec while I roll on the floor laughing and convulsing. No, I'm not having a seizure.
Mod me the fuck down, if you dare:
US minors are not responsible, but they can be sentenced to death. Almost no other country in the world does that. Way to go, USA!
US adults below 21 cannot drink alcohol, but they can serve and get killed in the army. Way to go, USA!
From the article, you can't even get an unlimited service. This means that, should you get hacked, or have some dysfunctionnal software, you could get charged mucho $$$ at the end of the month.
They pay 250 for 10GB download / month, this is just insane.
Here I get unlimited 512kbps (128kbps upload) for 50, with good service overall.
The article says it happens when the kernel is compiled for Pentium processors; but does this happen if the kernel is compiled for a K7?
... I have an Athlon and it kept hard freezing. The bug doesn't happen with a Voodoo card.
By the way, I had to shelve my nVidia card a couple months ago because of this
No. The conclusion is: and therefore it does'nt matter to humanity if it dies a deserved death.
If you were a struggling proprietary commercial software developer would you join the BSA?
Is Microsoft a member of BSA? Are they struggling? Seriously.
" No matter how you hype it, it's just not legal for a company to own (or sometimes not) a single copy of Adobe Photoshop or Microsoft Office and run it on 10's or 100's of computers. Somebody has to enforce the law or it breaks down. "
This somebody is supposed to be the "police" and "justice", or it breaks down.
"Incedentally, it's the same copyright law that keeps your GPL software free that they are protecting! "
The GPL uses the copyright system against itself. Without copyright, there would be little need for GPL.