Very differnt, the plane is slower, the bullets are usually explosive and don't actually need to hit the plane, and at the end of the day you're not aiming for a bulls-eye, your aiming for a big hunk of metal which is slightly easier. Then consider that they often missed...
Im with you on that, it would take an insane amount of shopping to rack up $1.5 million, especially when the shop is already cheap! Thats about 1500 x $1000 PCs, unless Walmart sells anything much more expensive than that? Personally I would blame the idiots at the checkout, if it says "Chocolate $2" when you scan it but its a big box that takes 2 people to carry and says "TV" on the side, then your a fucking retard.
Im pretty sure most break-ins come from things like "can you swipe me in? i left my card in the car" or "i work for bob but they havnt put me on the system yet" and "hey can i just use your computer for a minute to print this?"
A few slight problems there - firstly: planes generally don't fly level and directly towards mountains for obvious reasons, secondly: at 2km (a bit over a mile) a 0.1 degree error translates to about 3.5m off target (ie you miss the plane), 0.1 is abit much to ask for a moving target...
This whole thing is some serious bullshit - are we really expected to believe that someone can point a laser at a plane the best part of a mile away going at anything over 100mph and actually hit someones eyes (which you cant see) behind a windscreen (which you can barely make out). Even if they were standing in the waiting room facing the parked plane 30 feet away it would be a challenge. If someone was that accurate they would just park near a runway and take pot-shots with a rifle, this is the most absurd bullshit scare-mongering, or how can i put it... 'terror' tactic that has been used to date to scare us, and behold, its not coming from the terrorists, its coming from media who need to sensationalise dog shit to get some ratings.
I've been thinking about some innovative new features for Firefox and ive come up with a few that should really push the competition..
1) 'Pusher' Technology - it would allow any website to 'push' un-signed software onto the users machine and run it totally automatically, this would be a boon for ease-of-use, it would also be able to force software to install without the users permission, bringing desktops into the DRM age peacefully.
2) 'PickPocket' - an extension to Mozilla's engine that would allow websites to access credit cards and other personal info without the user needing to lift a finger, this would speed up internet transactions and quickly fill the gap in the as yet un-patented '0-Click Shopping' arena.
3) 'MediaManager' technology will allow the user to enjoy a rich multimedia experiance by passing full control of the users speaker volume, microphone, web-can, monitor and force-feedback(r) joystick, we know users want to see your advert and they want to see it in full-screen video, lets not beat around the bush waiting for them to click on it..
Actually all your childhood memories were created with the express purpose of making shit-loads of money. Milking them for all they are worth is the least any competent business person should do, however their marketing-speak mission statement sounds like it was stretched to 5 bullet points because that was how many were in the power-point template.
I always wondered why types were machine specific (originally?) it doesnt seem like a good idea even if you do want to be portable - a type is a type, no fooling around, no-one thinks "do i want a quite short number here or a quite long number" they say "i want an 8/16/32/64 etc sized variable here and nothing else" - if you want to compile on a different machine, you're still going to want that size even if the bus/cpu is a different width, IMHO they should have just defined types as int1, int2, int3....int64 etc and let the compiler damn well figure it out - if you want to do 32 bit addition on a 16 bit machine the compiler would warn you, but still hack in 32 bit addition even if it took more instructions.
Lol I wont even get started on index overflowing in arrays, C is great for those hardcore bits of ricing, but memory managed high-level no-hacks programming is what most businesses need for major systems.
Makes you wonder - perhaps important systems like that should be written in a higher-level fully memory managed language, even if its slower, buying extra fast hardware to run it means nothing to a decent sized company, but loosing a million because of over-complex code with potentially 100's of little bugs means allot...
I've been going on about this idea for years - give people a cheap, dumb-terminal wireless PDA the size of a palm pilot when they enter an airport, all it does is pick up a signal from the nearest transmitter and then it can tell you exactly where you are, you can then type in your flight number and it will transmit back directions to your check-in, gate, where to get coffee, how long you have etc etc. you just drop it off as you board the plane, if it breaks its dirt cheap and if you try and nick it the transmitter will know. The same system could be used in millions of other places for endless things...
I think it would be pretty sexy to be the politican who removed such gems as "Those commiting sodomy shall be taken to the town square and burnt at the stake" etc?
Certainly is a pipe dream, but for the future perhaps technology laws could be written, not with a sunset clause but with insight into how technology could change.. its called future-proofing and most engineers understand it well, unfortunately politicians don't have the superior mind of the engineer and so should bow in before anyone with a masters.
This is really just bullshit isnt it? VoIP _is_ like a phone, the only reason that it shouldnt be classed as a phone system is to get around stupid ancient phone laws that should be updated instead of worked around, its like saying that by-passing CD 'copy protection' isnt a violation of the DMCA because its for back-up purposes, - it quite clearly is a violation, the real point is that the DMCA is crap.
How often does that happen? You generally update all your software with their individual bug-fixes etc anyway, sooner or later the new libraries would get in to each one (and be tested _with_ each program first)
Im not saying its a bad idea but in order for it to work it needs a damn good management system.
The west is looking more like great justice nations such as Saudi Arabia and China, 15 years is just insane, thats most of this guys life ruined, I really hope he did some bad things to deserve this, he should have atleast attempted to beat one of the agents to death with a CD rack.
Libraries/Dynamic linking.. About 30 years ago someone said "hmm, lets save disk and memory by having 1000's of different 'modules' that will be created by 1000's of different people and used in 1000's of different programs that will all share common functions.. what could go wrong?"
We live in a time where memory is cheap and network speed is fast, I'd rather run a 50MB program that just worked rather than a 500K program that took 4 hours of dependency and sub dependency fixing before it could work, Windows is a little better - people havn't really caught on to this whole dynamic thing so they just cram all the slightly out-of-date libraries in with the software or statically build it, and wadda you know? unless something has spectacularly screwed up, you never get a problem (its only when someone who _does_ understand dynamic libraries writes software that you get dll hell - take the GIMP and GAIM, both use GTK but they are always using different versions and Windows really doesnt like it. The whole thing needs a revamp and maybe it could actually work, but only if theres a seriously good library management system thats fool (and developer) proof and works every time...
I understand that but they want the best of both worlds - if they are selling a license only, then i want free replacements for scratched disks, free format upgrades - eg, if i buy a film on VHS, i want them to give me the same film on DVD (without the extras if they want to have those separate) for free when it comes out. Without even this we are being ripped off and most people arn't even aware of it.
file access permissions are used by the 'owner' of a certain computer like a lock is used on the door to your house, DRM is like some putting locks on all your internal doors and making you ask before you use the bathroom...
closed 1,278 illegal 'blog' web sites and 114 sites promoting 'gambling about free speech', 'superstitious political activities' and 'democratic propaganda'.
then why not call it DCM!? rights management makes it sound much more friendly and 'your-rights' orientated. It also hides the fact that this is used for purposes other than copyright! for example stopping you from fast forwarding adverts on a DVD that you have bought!
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Very differnt, the plane is slower, the bullets are usually explosive and don't actually need to hit the plane, and at the end of the day you're not aiming for a bulls-eye, your aiming for a big hunk of metal which is slightly easier. Then consider that they often missed...
Im with you on that, it would take an insane amount of shopping to rack up $1.5 million, especially when the shop is already cheap! Thats about 1500 x $1000 PCs, unless Walmart sells anything much more expensive than that? Personally I would blame the idiots at the checkout, if it says "Chocolate $2" when you scan it but its a big box that takes 2 people to carry and says "TV" on the side, then your a fucking retard.
Then imagine a beowulf cluster made up of lots of these clusters each as an individual virtual machine running beowulf over windows...
People have cars for privacy - its your own little home on wheels you can take anywhere, this is just a gloryfied rental car? Just get the bus...
Im pretty sure most break-ins come from things like "can you swipe me in? i left my card in the car" or "i work for bob but they havnt put me on the system yet" and "hey can i just use your computer for a minute to print this?"
A few slight problems there - firstly: planes generally don't fly level and directly towards mountains for obvious reasons, secondly: at 2km (a bit over a mile) a 0.1 degree error translates to about 3.5m off target (ie you miss the plane), 0.1 is abit much to ask for a moving target...
I like it! Can we hardcode it into the Linux kernel?
This whole thing is some serious bullshit - are we really expected to believe that someone can point a laser at a plane the best part of a mile away going at anything over 100mph and actually hit someones eyes (which you cant see) behind a windscreen (which you can barely make out). Even if they were standing in the waiting room facing the parked plane 30 feet away it would be a challenge. If someone was that accurate they would just park near a runway and take pot-shots with a rifle, this is the most absurd bullshit scare-mongering, or how can i put it... 'terror' tactic that has been used to date to scare us, and behold, its not coming from the terrorists, its coming from media who need to sensationalise dog shit to get some ratings.
I've been thinking about some innovative new features for Firefox and ive come up with a few that should really push the competition..
1) 'Pusher' Technology - it would allow any website to 'push' un-signed software onto the users machine and run it totally automatically, this would be a boon for ease-of-use, it would also be able to force software to install without the users permission, bringing desktops into the DRM age peacefully.
2) 'PickPocket' - an extension to Mozilla's engine that would allow websites to access credit cards and other personal info without the user needing to lift a finger, this would speed up internet transactions and quickly fill the gap in the as yet un-patented '0-Click Shopping' arena.
3) 'MediaManager' technology will allow the user to enjoy a rich multimedia experiance by passing full control of the users speaker volume, microphone, web-can, monitor and force-feedback(r) joystick, we know users want to see your advert and they want to see it in full-screen video, lets not beat around the bush waiting for them to click on it..
Actually all your childhood memories were created with the express purpose of making shit-loads of money. Milking them for all they are worth is the least any competent business person should do, however their marketing-speak mission statement sounds like it was stretched to 5 bullet points because that was how many were in the power-point template.
i.e.
1) Wait until someone who uses your logo is actually worth something.
2) Take legal action
3) Profit?
I always wondered why types were machine specific (originally?) it doesnt seem like a good idea even if you do want to be portable - a type is a type, no fooling around, no-one thinks "do i want a quite short number here or a quite long number" they say "i want an 8/16/32/64 etc sized variable here and nothing else" - if you want to compile on a different machine, you're still going to want that size even if the bus/cpu is a different width, IMHO they should have just defined types as int1, int2, int3....int64 etc and let the compiler damn well figure it out - if you want to do 32 bit addition on a 16 bit machine the compiler would warn you, but still hack in 32 bit addition even if it took more instructions.
Lol I wont even get started on index overflowing in arrays, C is great for those hardcore bits of ricing, but memory managed high-level no-hacks programming is what most businesses need for major systems.
Makes you wonder - perhaps important systems like that should be written in a higher-level fully memory managed language, even if its slower, buying extra fast hardware to run it means nothing to a decent sized company, but loosing a million because of over-complex code with potentially 100's of little bugs means allot...
I've been going on about this idea for years - give people a cheap, dumb-terminal wireless PDA the size of a palm pilot when they enter an airport, all it does is pick up a signal from the nearest transmitter and then it can tell you exactly where you are, you can then type in your flight number and it will transmit back directions to your check-in, gate, where to get coffee, how long you have etc etc. you just drop it off as you board the plane, if it breaks its dirt cheap and if you try and nick it the transmitter will know. The same system could be used in millions of other places for endless things...
I think it would be pretty sexy to be the politican who removed such gems as "Those commiting sodomy shall be taken to the town square and burnt at the stake" etc?
Certainly is a pipe dream, but for the future perhaps technology laws could be written, not with a sunset clause but with insight into how technology could change.. its called future-proofing and most engineers understand it well, unfortunately politicians don't have the superior mind of the engineer and so should bow in before anyone with a masters.
This is really just bullshit isnt it? VoIP _is_ like a phone, the only reason that it shouldnt be classed as a phone system is to get around stupid ancient phone laws that should be updated instead of worked around, its like saying that by-passing CD 'copy protection' isnt a violation of the DMCA because its for back-up purposes, - it quite clearly is a violation, the real point is that the DMCA is crap.
How often does that happen? You generally update all your software with their individual bug-fixes etc anyway, sooner or later the new libraries would get in to each one (and be tested _with_ each program first)
Im not saying its a bad idea but in order for it to work it needs a damn good management system.
The west is looking more like great justice nations such as Saudi Arabia and China, 15 years is just insane, thats most of this guys life ruined, I really hope he did some bad things to deserve this, he should have atleast attempted to beat one of the agents to death with a CD rack.
Libraries/Dynamic linking..
About 30 years ago someone said "hmm, lets save disk and memory by having 1000's of different 'modules' that will be created by 1000's of different people and used in 1000's of different programs that will all share common functions.. what could go wrong?"
We live in a time where memory is cheap and network speed is fast, I'd rather run a 50MB program that just worked rather than a 500K program that took 4 hours of dependency and sub dependency fixing before it could work, Windows is a little better - people havn't really caught on to this whole dynamic thing so they just cram all the slightly out-of-date libraries in with the software or statically build it, and wadda you know? unless something has spectacularly screwed up, you never get a problem (its only when someone who _does_ understand dynamic libraries writes software that you get dll hell - take the GIMP and GAIM, both use GTK but they are always using different versions and Windows really doesnt like it. The whole thing needs a revamp and maybe it could actually work, but only if theres a seriously good library management system thats fool (and developer) proof and works every time...
I understand that but they want the best of both worlds - if they are selling a license only, then i want free replacements for scratched disks, free format upgrades - eg, if i buy a film on VHS, i want them to give me the same film on DVD (without the extras if they want to have those separate) for free when it comes out. Without even this we are being ripped off and most people arn't even aware of it.
file access permissions are used by the 'owner' of a certain computer like a lock is used on the door to your house, DRM is like some putting locks on all your internal doors and making you ask before you use the bathroom...
closed 1,278 illegal 'blog' web sites and 114 sites promoting 'gambling about free speech', 'superstitious political activities' and 'democratic propaganda'.
then why not call it DCM!? rights management makes it sound much more friendly and 'your-rights' orientated. It also hides the fact that this is used for purposes other than copyright! for example stopping you from fast forwarding adverts on a DVD that you have bought!
Yes - download the mp3s, if you own it then its perfectly legal...