HAHA Exactly! LAWS are the last thing you should be thinking about when starting a business. I suggest you spend sweat blood and tears to build up a business and then have a Nedermeyer from some licensing bureau turn it all to shit because you simply refused to consult the local law. Excellent idea!
Rosalind Franklin was a brilliant [female] scientist specializing in x-ray crystalography. It was Rosalind Franklin that identified two forms of DNA, and correlated their diffraction images with the helix shape. Watson and Crick were secretly, and intentionally passed Franklin's in-depth research (some would say "stole"). If Franklin had not died of cancer (probably due to working so much with radiation) at such a young age she would have undoubtedly presented the discovery of the helix nature of DNA (she was far ahead of Watson and Crick, while they were still fscking around with broken models). Watson went on to write The Double Helix, which slandered Franklin, to which even Crick objected. Franklin's paper on DNA was published in the same journal as two other papers (one of which was Watson/Crick's), AFTER the other two, and EDITED without her knowledge to imply that her research merely confirmed rather than provided the foundation for Watson's and Crick's work. After being made so miserable working at the same lab with Watson and Crick, she went on to other things briefly virus research, in which her partner, surprise again, also won a Nobel prize.
Personally I think it is a damned shame. We should be celebrating Rosalind Franklin. Or at the VERY LEAST we should have (and should still) heard her name. Crick and Watson really come off as clueless chauvanistic assholes. Granted, a Nova episode is one data point, but usually their programs are really good, and I'd like to hear other opinions if other people know more about this issue.
Also, if you want to entirely replace your windows desktop, just minimize your taskbar and run KDE, you won't even know you are on a windows box (or for that matter, replace your GUI shell with the Cygwin X server in your system.ini!)
So basically, as the cost of intermediate levels of storage comes down, you can manifest the different levels of persistence in that storage. Certainly not all data is created equally, and things like temporary file systems, and "real" RAM swap can be kicked to an intermediate cache before hitting disk. In fact, IIRC, hard disks already have some memory on board for internal use...it just isn't visible or available for general use to the operating system or rest of the computer (I could be wrong here). I would never want to have to rely on a battery for persistent storage, but perhaps advancing technology is allowing us to make these choices in gradation of persistence.
I SSH into his machine every week and build/fix/configure/backup whatever is wrong or out of date.
This is the kind of hands off tech support I like to get from my plumber, mechanic and company IT department.
HUH? Logging in weekly to "build/fix/configure/backup whatever is wrong" is "hands off"?
All I'm suggesting is to put a bunch of us in the same room while we do it and place a company logo outside the door.
My god, what a hideous hideous failure of technology. "LINUX IS GREAT (except you have to hire a bunch of geeks to log in weekly to fix it)". And we wonder why there is little mainstream desktop adoption...
I had the impression that 3DES was pretty damn strong, but it was very slow. AES was chosen for several reasons, to fit military and government criteria, one of which was reasonable simplicity and speed. It does not mean that AES is the "strongest" crypto out there (that's pretty meaningless...crypto is never proven strong, it is only proven weak).
In a bold move, the RIAA is suing all telephone operators. Apparently, it has been found, that young people often talk on the phone with each other, often engaging in "party lines" which are "napster like networks" for audio transmission. This activity has been found to date back to the 1970s, leading to calculations of staggering losses. Unfortunately, the RIAA forgot to consult the law that says "The Telephone Company always wins".
Next up according to leaked reports, is CB radio. A high level of corruption has even been found in police departments accross the country who surreptitiously use these "audio sharing networks".
Heh. This is amusing. Replace 'fusion' with 'fission' and you have the 1950's prediction of a blindingly shiny chrome plated robot-driven Jetson flying-car wife-baking-apple-pie-in-3-seconds future.
It's amusing how each new technology spawns such utopean views of the future. I love the old advertisements for "magnetic belts" and "electric hairbrushes". It's the wave of the future!
Evil Ass Educators Suppress Time Cube,
and dumb ass students condone such evil. Cubeless institutions are spreaders of evil, and students lack mentality to challenge it.
Ah, a timeless axiom of the human condition. Or The Onion news headlines? YOU DECIDE!:)
1. And the law is their set of dividing and multiplying by zero. As long as they maintain their incorrect dividing and multiplying by zero, then they enable me to cause things to cease to exist, and that is why I have the power to do so.
Coauthor: Yahoo Serious
I have to say, he has a pretty solid case. I cannot believe that Australia is denying this man's right to divide and multiply by zero because obviously he has shown time and the speed of light equal one another, such you alter one, you alter the other, and this in turn enables the altering of the speed of light within Einstein's relativity. I mean, that is fundamental to splitting the Beer Atom!
1) Is technological progress inherently good? Who does it benefit and who does it hurt (if any)? If technological progress is inherently good, are scientists ethically or morally responsible for their inventions? Are consumers responsible for their use of technology?
2) We are seeing that technology is making the world increasingly dangerous in the form of "asynchronous threats" or rather individual empowerment through technology that cannot be foreseen or prevented. (briefcase bombs, artificially engineered diseases, computer viruses, etc.). Is this a threat to human interdependence, or an inevitable feature?
3) Technology is making the world a lot smaller, and eroding private space and information. Will the ability of people to be in constant contact with each other, and perhaps in constant surveillance of each other, be a good thing or a bad thing? How will this affect human society and culture?
4) Lastly, are we asking these questions too late? Will humans ever be able to control the path of discovery and uses of technology? If not, should we?
"I have installed more distributions of Linux and every other OS than you can imagine. Never have I ever had an installer do that. I have never had software set an immutable bit. I googled it and can't find much either. Nope. Not likely. Not impossible, but I am betting I have installed a couple hundred more boxes than you if you think this was the problem."
The point is: who the fuck cares WHY it happened. It happened. And it prevented her from doing something she can do in Windows. That alone should be a red flag, regardless of whether she is brilliant or retarded. None of the things she was trying to was abnormal, and they could all be done on a 7+ YEAR OLD version of Windows.
Following the Microsoft recommendations in the Framework SDK might be a
good idea - they seem pretty well thought out, and the code is going to look and feel familiar to other.NET programmers.
> -----Original Message----- > Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 7:01 PM > Subject: [Mono-list] C# coding standards for Mono > > Hey kids, > > Has anybody taken a stab at a C# coding standard for Mono classes? I'm > thinking something along the lines of Sun's Java Coding Conventions > (http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/html/CodeConvTO C.doc.html) >
Here are some tweaks I remember doing on my w2k system (search google for actual details).
* Turn off all unnecessary services (I have like, 3 services started automatically, and a few on manual which automatically turn themselves on. Remember, do NOT "disable" RPC services, you will be hella screwed. Also, I found if you turn off "protected storage", then BASIC Auth in IE will take like 5 minutes...go figure)
* I seem to recall doing some registry tweak to turn on DMA for my cd rom
* There are well known disk cache, and nt kernel paging registry tweaks...only really necessary if you are limited on RAM.
* Get a utility with which you can modify your "Startup" items (not in the start menu, but in the registry). Lots of sneaky programs like to hide shit in there and start up every single freaking time (no thank you Quicktime!).
Slashdot Mirror
"First off, asking questions about the law on Slashdot is a futile endeavour"
Actually, I am looking to run a side business and have found this Ask Slashdot very helpful, thankyouverymuch
HAHA Exactly! LAWS are the last thing you should be thinking about when starting a business. I suggest you spend sweat blood and tears to build up a business and then have a Nedermeyer from some licensing bureau turn it all to shit because you simply refused to consult the local law. Excellent idea!
For those who didn't catch the Nova episode.
Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin was a brilliant [female] scientist specializing in x-ray crystalography. It was Rosalind Franklin that identified two forms of DNA, and correlated their diffraction images with the helix shape. Watson and Crick were secretly, and intentionally passed Franklin's in-depth research (some would say "stole"). If Franklin had not died of cancer (probably due to working so much with radiation) at such a young age she would have undoubtedly presented the discovery of the helix nature of DNA (she was far ahead of Watson and Crick, while they were still fscking around with broken models). Watson went on to write The Double Helix, which slandered Franklin, to which even Crick objected. Franklin's paper on DNA was published in the same journal as two other papers (one of which was Watson/Crick's), AFTER the other two, and EDITED without her knowledge to imply that her research merely confirmed rather than provided the foundation for Watson's and Crick's work. After being made so miserable working at the same lab with Watson and Crick, she went on to other things briefly virus research, in which her partner, surprise again, also won a Nobel prize.
Personally I think it is a damned shame. We should be celebrating Rosalind Franklin. Or at the VERY LEAST we should have (and should still) heard her name. Crick and Watson really come off as clueless chauvanistic assholes. Granted, a Nova episode is one data point, but usually their programs are really good, and I'd like to hear other opinions if other people know more about this issue.
1. Claim that the Japanese are hiding weapons of mass destruction in Mount Fuji
"Post on Slashdot"
start XWin -rootless -screen 0 1024 768
Rootless mode is indeed sweet.
Also, if you want to entirely replace your windows desktop, just minimize your taskbar and run KDE, you won't even know you are on a windows box (or for that matter, replace your GUI shell with the Cygwin X server in your system.ini!)
So basically, as the cost of intermediate levels of storage comes down, you can manifest the different levels of persistence in that storage. Certainly not all data is created equally, and things like temporary file systems, and "real" RAM swap can be kicked to an intermediate cache before hitting disk. In fact, IIRC, hard disks already have some memory on board for internal use...it just isn't visible or available for general use to the operating system or rest of the computer (I could be wrong here). I would never want to have to rely on a battery for persistent storage, but perhaps advancing technology is allowing us to make these choices in gradation of persistence.
Make the Tyranny of the Three Column View stop!
Next they'll have rss feeds and w3cboxes!
Sock in the Stock Market! That thing never goes down!
This one's expectations have been lowered. The program is working. Excellent.
My god, what a hideous hideous failure of technology. "LINUX IS GREAT (except you have to hire a bunch of geeks to log in weekly to fix it)". And we wonder why there is little mainstream desktop adoption...
nothing interesting?
Yeah, because Mr. LL!@:#HASZXKJABM@N#!@$R^SADF&ZYHAJSKABNDF isn't an uncommon name at all!
I had the impression that 3DES was pretty damn strong, but it was very slow. AES was chosen for several reasons, to fit military and government criteria, one of which was reasonable simplicity and speed. It does not mean that AES is the "strongest" crypto out there (that's pretty meaningless...crypto is never proven strong, it is only proven weak).
RIAA suing telephone company.
In a bold move, the RIAA is suing all telephone operators. Apparently, it has been found, that young people often talk on the phone with each other, often engaging in "party lines" which are "napster like networks" for audio transmission. This activity has been found to date back to the 1970s, leading to calculations of staggering losses. Unfortunately, the RIAA forgot to consult the law that says "The Telephone Company always wins".
Next up according to leaked reports, is CB radio. A high level of corruption has even been found in police departments accross the country who surreptitiously use these "audio sharing networks".
Heh. This is amusing. Replace 'fusion' with 'fission' and you have the 1950's prediction of a blindingly shiny chrome plated robot-driven Jetson flying-car wife-baking-apple-pie-in-3-seconds future.
It's amusing how each new technology spawns such utopean views of the future. I love the old advertisements for "magnetic belts" and "electric hairbrushes". It's the wave of the future!
Ah, a timeless axiom of the human condition. Or The Onion news headlines? YOU DECIDE!
I have to say, he has a pretty solid case. I cannot believe that Australia is denying this man's right to divide and multiply by zero because obviously he has shown time and the speed of light equal one another, such you alter one, you alter the other, and this in turn enables the altering of the speed of light within Einstein's relativity. I mean, that is fundamental to splitting the Beer Atom!
Gah, Asymmetric, sorry
1) Is technological progress inherently good? Who does it benefit and who does it hurt (if any)? If technological progress is inherently good, are scientists ethically or morally responsible for their inventions? Are consumers responsible for their use of technology?
2) We are seeing that technology is making the world increasingly dangerous in the form of "asynchronous threats" or rather individual empowerment through technology that cannot be foreseen or prevented. (briefcase bombs, artificially engineered diseases, computer viruses, etc.). Is this a threat to human interdependence, or an inevitable feature?
3) Technology is making the world a lot smaller, and eroding private space and information. Will the ability of people to be in constant contact with each other, and perhaps in constant surveillance of each other, be a good thing or a bad thing? How will this affect human society and culture?
4) Lastly, are we asking these questions too late? Will humans ever be able to control the path of discovery and uses of technology? If not, should we?
"I would definitely reconfigure my server to redirect anyone with a referer from Slashdot to a very tiny ascii picture of my wang."
You mean, like this?
You could probably implement a killer CRM system with a Kevin Smith movie...
"I have installed more distributions of Linux and every other OS than you can imagine. Never have I ever had an installer do that. I have never had software set an immutable bit. I googled it and can't find much either. Nope. Not likely. Not impossible, but I am betting I have installed a couple hundred more boxes than you if you think this was the problem."
The point is: who the fuck cares WHY it happened. It happened. And it prevented her from doing something she can do in Windows. That alone should be a red flag, regardless of whether she is brilliant or retarded. None of the things she was trying to was abnormal, and they could all be done on a 7+ YEAR OLD version of Windows.
Here are some tweaks I remember doing on my w2k system (search google for actual details).
* Turn off all unnecessary services (I have like, 3 services started automatically, and a few on manual which automatically turn themselves on. Remember, do NOT "disable" RPC services, you will be hella screwed. Also, I found if you turn off "protected storage", then BASIC Auth in IE will take like 5 minutes...go figure)
* I seem to recall doing some registry tweak to turn on DMA for my cd rom
* There are well known disk cache, and nt kernel paging registry tweaks...only really necessary if you are limited on RAM.
* Get a utility with which you can modify your "Startup" items (not in the start menu, but in the registry). Lots of sneaky programs like to hide shit in there and start up every single freaking time (no thank you Quicktime!).