I think you missed the point. When I said block the worm directly, I'm talking about those filters that scan attachements and look for the worm itself. If it finds the worm attached to your messages, it cleans off the worms and warns the sender that they may be infected. Sometimes they just drop the message entirely. Your admin should be dopeslapped for writing such a bonehead script, but that doesn't mean that proper filtering is useless. It's certainly better than just discarding every 127k message, especially as the size of the bogus message isn't always the same.
Flash MX has alternate display support (for the blind?) Does it have some sort of mechanism to dopeslap people who make their buttons look exactly like their background? Will it still take forever to load for people on dialup? Heck, will it still force you to effectively download the entire (or at least the majority) of the site when you first visit, instead of loading sections (pages) on demand like HTML? Will developers understand the importance of this when they're previewing their site from the local machine? Heck, I'm on broadband and I still have to wait forever for many flash animations (particuarly those that include lots of useless annoying background music or talking heads).
Flash isn't bad, but it's not the same kind of tool HTML is. Flash should complement HTML, not replace it.
ICQ was bought by AOL some time ago. There was discussion of mergeing the two services, but so far the only thing we've seen in ICQ moving to the AIM protocol. AIM and ICQ have somewhat different userbases however. AIM is primarily used by Americans and the technological neophytes. ICQ has a much more international userbase, and the users tend to be more technologically savvy.
Personally, I hate the Mirabilis ICQ client (the default install has how many buttons?), but I despise the AIM client (no offline messages and the bing-bong-here's-a-window-right-in-your-face interface. Note to developers: never autopopup windows on me, it's very rude.
The worst part of all of this is that the one client I really did like, Licq is completely floundering.
Boy, imagine if your code monkeys were saying that. Gee sir, I can code this up faster if I ignore all of the design standards and just stick GOTOs everywhere and skip the documentation. Or how about: we're not bothering to stick to the TCP/IP standard on our stack, we figure that it'll work OK with Win98, and it would cost more to actually make it standards compliant. What do we need standards for anyway, most of our users are still using Win98. Nobody in the software design field would last long with that attitude, but yet we allow it in our web designers. How odd.
Until you hit your back button to see a previous page and get dumped clear out of the site. Flash sites are the worst at "Is that a control or a decoration?" syndrome. Sometimes I find myself aimlessly clicking to try to find the non-intuitive custom controls on some flash page, and worse you can't even expect the cursor to change when you hover over a link like you can on a web page. Flash should not be used for your main page. It should be used for interactive demonstrations, small movie clips, or other highly interactive content. It should not be used for simple data retrieval (I don't want to fire up flash to find out what the stupid VCR codes for my remote control are), or your main website as it breaks the web UI model. It should also be used sparingly as some people will not be able to use it (blind people in particular).
You'll see the value once you start to make more friends. Especially if your friends have ugly email addresses on a variety of providers. Besides, there's an easier way to avoid spreading virusues than avoiding your addressbook: just avoid Outlook.
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Maybe we should start doing that for all mail trojans? I know I'd be thrilled to discover that man of various random sizes might disappear at my mail filter because it just happens to be the same size as a worm. Seems to me it'd be better just to block the worm directly...oops, many companies already do this.
That's not really true. Some famine is political in nature, but the much of the problem comes from areas that are simple overpopulated and have insufficent infastructure to support relief efforts. Frequently both factors are combined and you have areas with no food, no roads, and a government hostile to foreign aid. Sadly there is little we can do for these people, however as their population decreases they will exert less strain on the local agriculture and hopefully recover (assuming the drought isn't extended--extended droughts (changes in the local climate actually) have killed off entre civilizations before).
That's a somewhat unusual perspective. If your accountant falls down the stairs carrying your tax return to the mailbox and kills himself, does that mean the tax system claimed another life? If so, I'd imagine that any large project is going to claim at least a few lives.
IMHO, the Challenger crew is an example of the space program costing lives. Bob down in shuttle re-tiling who fell off the ladder and killed himself is not because he could have fallen off a ladder anywhere and it was merely incidental that he was working on a space vehicle at the time.
I don't need the law, I can just stop buying CDs (whoops, already did). The problem is that the RIAA is now saying that I'm not buying Britney Spears because I'm obviously getting them off P2P networks. The truth of the matter is I'm not getting Brittney Spears because she can't sing. Still, the record industry is going to try to charge me (via laws and fines) for that Spears album anyway, since the problem is obviously not on their end.
While SOSmath is a nice reference for finding old formulas, it's really quite horrible for learning Math. It has the same problem 90% of Math textbooks have, when they introduce new topics they tend to just give it a name (like say Laplace Transform) and give you the formula (with plenty of implicitly defined single letter greek variables) and tell you to go with it. There is no discussion on what it is useful for, when you need to use it, or even what problem domain this solution exists in. Heck, I don't think SOSmath even tells you how to intrepret any of the arcane syntax common in any high level math.
What? My old P90 (non MMX) ran Starcraft at full speed no problem. One thing I'm wondering, will WarIII still have the killer cutscenes like StarCraft? StarCraft was the only game were I've gone back and rewatched the cutscenes.
WE have filmed you sealing groceries last month. You have 3 days to stop this behavior or you will be banned from all Supermarkets in the tri-state area. Hope you enjoy farming and the 7-11.
In reality, most of these analogies are foolish as Broadband is a service not a product. If you are caught stealing Cable TV for instance the FBI doesn't raid your home and confiscate your TV, hence the reason most people are shocked at this news.
Ever use the TV-Out on those Geforce cards? Talk about an afterthought. Most of them seem to only implement the bare minimum circutry necessary to get the TV not to roll, and leave it at that; no further testing needed. I wonder if the Parhelia will have the reasonably nice TV out my ancient G200 has?
1. Yes. The RAID setup I'm using is a vinum solution. If I were to pull all of the disks out and stick them in a different FreeBSD machine (even one I just installed fresh) I would be able to get my data. Replacing a controller is no problem. In fact I alraedy had to do that when one of my Promise ATA controllers bit the dirt. Since I'm using software Raid (don't need super performance on my backup machine), the controllers are pretty generic.
2. You know, nobody else on this thread has off site storage either. They're talking about local CD changers. Honestly, offsite storage isn't terribly practical for home users. BTW, you can move the drives offsite if you like (removable harddrive for instance).
3. Yes, I do incremental backups (and weekly full backups). dump is a nice little program.
4. Technically the storage is in a different machine (a fileserver) but that's beside the point. This is the one advantage the offline (or write once) backup. I'm not overly concerned with malicoius deletion though. My home network is fairly secure and I don't make a lot of enemies.:)
This is pretty much a tradeoff between cost and paranoia. Sure you can backup to optical media, then have a Brinks truck immediatly pick it up and drop it into a vault half way across the country with reviewed forms and a armed guards preventing unauthorized access to your backups. Sure it's secure, but it's not practical for a home user or even a small business. The downside to tapes and optical/tape is that they are slow, expensive (relatively), and have limited access (I can restore any file in seconds, try to do that with offside tape storage).
Honestly, my first thought when I read your post: why don't you guys just buy a few HDs? I've built 2/3 of a TB of RAID5 storage for $1500US. Granted you'll probably want to spend around $5000US and get a real solution (not my ghetto setup) that will probably give you a full TB of storage for not a whole lot more than one of those 65GB 100 CD changers.
From what I remember of Hypercard, it would be more like the precursor to Flash than the WWW. Then again some people don't consider a website complete (or "professional") if it isn't done in Flash. Go figure.
Ironically, Hypercard is considerably more feature rich than Flash, with a sophisticated programming language (Hypertalk) and a very handy extension system (you could load modules into the resource fork of the stack, very cool).
While I'm normally an open-source advocate, I have trouble with this line of reasoning. Do you really expect a programmer to be able to write an MS-Word compatabile word processor for a mere $10k? If the programmer has a moderate-low income (for this area) of 50k/year, your $10k will give you approximately 2.4 man months worth of effort. You would be lucky to get a text window you can print from and change the font in that timeframe. Granted you would have the (probablly poorly-debugged) source to your crappy word processor, but what good that do for you?
Remember the big downside of those mats though? They had some of the lousiest games ever made for them. First off, almost all of them were "track and field" type things (except for the extra-boring dance aerobics). The track and field events were always the same, run in place (generally it took like 15 minutes to run a single course), and jump off the pad occasionally to make your character hurdle some sort of obsicle. If they had something like DDR on those NES pads, I'd probably sill be playing with it today.
No...but the book industry hasn't been hit by rampant piracy.
Have you ever been to your local library? It's like the 18th century version of Napster! They'll just let you read those books for free! Besides, have you ever checked out alt.binaries.e-book? It's like a Waldenbooks scanned into there. Granted the quality isn't as good (scanos galore) but does that ever stop anyone from listening to MP3s?
IIRC the original Gig-E hardware (if not the original spec) was Fiber only as well. Eventually people started coming out with copper hardware to save on costs. In most cases, the only real advantages to fiber are the long cable runs and the immunity to interference in noisy EM environments (like your typical computer room). The downside is the cost.
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I think you missed the point. When I said block the worm directly, I'm talking about those filters that scan attachements and look for the worm itself. If it finds the worm attached to your messages, it cleans off the worms and warns the sender that they may be infected. Sometimes they just drop the message entirely. Your admin should be dopeslapped for writing such a bonehead script, but that doesn't mean that proper filtering is useless. It's certainly better than just discarding every 127k message, especially as the size of the bogus message isn't always the same.
Flash MX has alternate display support (for the blind?) Does it have some sort of mechanism to dopeslap people who make their buttons look exactly like their background? Will it still take forever to load for people on dialup? Heck, will it still force you to effectively download the entire (or at least the majority) of the site when you first visit, instead of loading sections (pages) on demand like HTML? Will developers understand the importance of this when they're previewing their site from the local machine? Heck, I'm on broadband and I still have to wait forever for many flash animations (particuarly those that include lots of useless annoying background music or talking heads).
Flash isn't bad, but it's not the same kind of tool HTML is. Flash should complement HTML, not replace it.
Well, them and the record label execs.
ICQ was bought by AOL some time ago. There was discussion of mergeing the two services, but so far the only thing we've seen in ICQ moving to the AIM protocol. AIM and ICQ have somewhat different userbases however. AIM is primarily used by Americans and the technological neophytes. ICQ has a much more international userbase, and the users tend to be more technologically savvy.
Personally, I hate the Mirabilis ICQ client (the default install has how many buttons?), but I despise the AIM client (no offline messages and the bing-bong-here's-a-window-right-in-your-face interface. Note to developers: never autopopup windows on me, it's very rude.
The worst part of all of this is that the one client I really did like, Licq is completely floundering.
Boy, imagine if your code monkeys were saying that. Gee sir, I can code this up faster if I ignore all of the design standards and just stick GOTOs everywhere and skip the documentation. Or how about: we're not bothering to stick to the TCP/IP standard on our stack, we figure that it'll work OK with Win98, and it would cost more to actually make it standards compliant. What do we need standards for anyway, most of our users are still using Win98. Nobody in the software design field would last long with that attitude, but yet we allow it in our web designers. How odd.
...flash is fun...
Until you hit your back button to see a previous page and get dumped clear out of the site. Flash sites are the worst at "Is that a control or a decoration?" syndrome. Sometimes I find myself aimlessly clicking to try to find the non-intuitive custom controls on some flash page, and worse you can't even expect the cursor to change when you hover over a link like you can on a web page.
Flash should not be used for your main page. It should be used for interactive demonstrations, small movie clips, or other highly interactive content. It should not be used for simple data retrieval (I don't want to fire up flash to find out what the stupid VCR codes for my remote control are), or your main website as it breaks the web UI model. It should also be used sparingly as some people will not be able to use it (blind people in particular).
Just my $0.02
You'll see the value once you start to make more friends. Especially if your friends have ugly email addresses on a variety of providers. Besides, there's an easier way to avoid spreading virusues than avoiding your addressbook: just avoid Outlook.
Maybe we should start doing that for all mail trojans? I know I'd be thrilled to discover that man of various random sizes might disappear at my mail filter because it just happens to be the same size as a worm. Seems to me it'd be better just to block the worm directly...oops, many companies already do this.
That's not really true. Some famine is political in nature, but the much of the problem comes from areas that are simple overpopulated and have insufficent infastructure to support relief efforts. Frequently both factors are combined and you have areas with no food, no roads, and a government hostile to foreign aid. Sadly there is little we can do for these people, however as their population decreases they will exert less strain on the local agriculture and hopefully recover (assuming the drought isn't extended--extended droughts (changes in the local climate actually) have killed off entre civilizations before).
That's a somewhat unusual perspective. If your accountant falls down the stairs carrying your tax return to the mailbox and kills himself, does that mean the tax system claimed another life? If so, I'd imagine that any large project is going to claim at least a few lives.
IMHO, the Challenger crew is an example of the space program costing lives. Bob down in shuttle re-tiling who fell off the ladder and killed himself is not because he could have fallen off a ladder anywhere and it was merely incidental that he was working on a space vehicle at the time.
I don't need the law, I can just stop buying CDs (whoops, already did). The problem is that the RIAA is now saying that I'm not buying Britney Spears because I'm obviously getting them off P2P networks. The truth of the matter is I'm not getting Brittney Spears because she can't sing. Still, the record industry is going to try to charge me (via laws and fines) for that Spears album anyway, since the problem is obviously not on their end.
While SOSmath is a nice reference for finding old formulas, it's really quite horrible for learning Math. It has the same problem 90% of Math textbooks have, when they introduce new topics they tend to just give it a name (like say Laplace Transform) and give you the formula (with plenty of implicitly defined single letter greek variables) and tell you to go with it. There is no discussion on what it is useful for, when you need to use it, or even what problem domain this solution exists in. Heck, I don't think SOSmath even tells you how to intrepret any of the arcane syntax common in any high level math.
What? My old P90 (non MMX) ran Starcraft at full speed no problem. One thing I'm wondering, will WarIII still have the killer cutscenes like StarCraft? StarCraft was the only game were I've gone back and rewatched the cutscenes.
Well, it's more like:
WE have filmed you sealing groceries last month. You have 3 days to stop this behavior or you will be banned from all Supermarkets in the tri-state area. Hope you enjoy farming and the 7-11.
In reality, most of these analogies are foolish as Broadband is a service not a product. If you are caught stealing Cable TV for instance the FBI doesn't raid your home and confiscate your TV, hence the reason most people are shocked at this news.
Yes they are. You just can't see them because their lines are being hidden by the abscissa of the graph.
Ever use the TV-Out on those Geforce cards? Talk about an afterthought. Most of them seem to only implement the bare minimum circutry necessary to get the TV not to roll, and leave it at that; no further testing needed. I wonder if the Parhelia will have the reasonably nice TV out my ancient G200 has?
Wow, that's a lot of work to get like 4 people worldwide who still backup on floppies.
1. Yes. The RAID setup I'm using is a vinum solution. If I were to pull all of the disks out and stick them in a different FreeBSD machine (even one I just installed fresh) I would be able to get my data. Replacing a controller is no problem. In fact I alraedy had to do that when one of my Promise ATA controllers bit the dirt. Since I'm using software Raid (don't need super performance on my backup machine), the controllers are pretty generic. :)
2. You know, nobody else on this thread has off site storage either. They're talking about local CD changers. Honestly, offsite storage isn't terribly practical for home users. BTW, you can move the drives offsite if you like (removable harddrive for instance).
3. Yes, I do incremental backups (and weekly full backups). dump is a nice little program.
4. Technically the storage is in a different machine (a fileserver) but that's beside the point. This is the one advantage the offline (or write once) backup. I'm not overly concerned with malicoius deletion though. My home network is fairly secure and I don't make a lot of enemies.
This is pretty much a tradeoff between cost and paranoia. Sure you can backup to optical media, then have a Brinks truck immediatly pick it up and drop it into a vault half way across the country with reviewed forms and a armed guards preventing unauthorized access to your backups. Sure it's secure, but it's not practical for a home user or even a small business. The downside to tapes and optical/tape is that they are slow, expensive (relatively), and have limited access (I can restore any file in seconds, try to do that with offside tape storage).
I was wondering why your site was still up 15 minutes after posting this, then I discovered that the MAME links all 404.
Honestly, my first thought when I read your post: why don't you guys just buy a few HDs? I've built 2/3 of a TB of RAID5 storage for $1500US. Granted you'll probably want to spend around $5000US and get a real solution (not my ghetto setup) that will probably give you a full TB of storage for not a whole lot more than one of those 65GB 100 CD changers.
From what I remember of Hypercard, it would be more like the precursor to Flash than the WWW. Then again some people don't consider a website complete (or "professional") if it isn't done in Flash. Go figure.
Ironically, Hypercard is considerably more feature rich than Flash, with a sophisticated programming language (Hypertalk) and a very handy extension system (you could load modules into the resource fork of the stack, very cool).
While I'm normally an open-source advocate, I have trouble with this line of reasoning. Do you really expect a programmer to be able to write an MS-Word compatabile word processor for a mere $10k? If the programmer has a moderate-low income (for this area) of 50k/year, your $10k will give you approximately 2.4 man months worth of effort. You would be lucky to get a text window you can print from and change the font in that timeframe. Granted you would have the (probablly poorly-debugged) source to your crappy word processor, but what good that do for you?
Remember the big downside of those mats though? They had some of the lousiest games ever made for them. First off, almost all of them were "track and field" type things (except for the extra-boring dance aerobics). The track and field events were always the same, run in place (generally it took like 15 minutes to run a single course), and jump off the pad occasionally to make your character hurdle some sort of obsicle. If they had something like DDR on those NES pads, I'd probably sill be playing with it today.
No...but the book industry hasn't been hit by rampant piracy.
Have you ever been to your local library? It's like the 18th century version of Napster! They'll just let you read those books for free! Besides, have you ever checked out alt.binaries.e-book? It's like a Waldenbooks scanned into there. Granted the quality isn't as good (scanos galore) but does that ever stop anyone from listening to MP3s?
IIRC the original Gig-E hardware (if not the original spec) was Fiber only as well. Eventually people started coming out with copper hardware to save on costs. In most cases, the only real advantages to fiber are the long cable runs and the immunity to interference in noisy EM environments (like your typical computer room). The downside is the cost.