If you are installing software from untrusted source all bets are off.
The general assumption should be "This is untrusted source, hence this is malware until proven otherwise".
So, if you really really wanted the software badly, you either install the software in virtual machine and study it, or on real isolated hardware and test it as much as you can (and in the end you could still be wrong).
Any user that thinks otherwise will eventually get infected no matter what OS they use.
You think anyone gives a fuck or is able to comprehend what this is all about. This is the land where mediocrity is highly regarded and prized, and any kind of progressive thinking highly frowned upon and taxed to death.
So open a US iTunes store account and download the app for your Canadian iPhone.
That's what I did and just talked to my mom for 40 min (otherwise long distance call). The sound quality is way better than any of the other alternatives.
Stability does not mean only "no crashes". It also means that you can run the same installation for years without having to re-install your OS for whatever reason.
I know it is possible to do that. I have Windows XP installation from 2002 still going without re-install, but it does require expert knowledge, really cautions browsing and constant tinkering and cleaning up of garbage from registry, temp files, residues of programs that I have uninstalled (or upgraded to newer versions) etc.
Since I have switched to Mac, I have to baby sit my OS installation way less if at all. It's much more resilient to user using it:D.
Education is not substitute for experience but neither is experience substitute for education.
No matter how much experience you have twiddling IRQ settings or writing software, it won't enable you to understand NP complete problems without actually studying the concepts at abstract level.
Bullshit. Go study something hard, like pure math or nuclear physics. In math in particular, you don't need anyone telling you anything. You don't need a professor for anything other than perhaps a couple of hour weekly consultation.
The experience will change you as a person and open your mind and eyes. You will understand and see things that you could not before. It will make you more aware, it will raise your level of self actualization and fulfillment. You will be a different person.
I could never understand anyone that went to university with a job in mind. That's completely missing the point of higher education.
Once you allow yourself (or your mind) to be transformed like this you will find jobs, and you will master what ever skill they require in no time. Success will come to the prepared mind.
Actually, that's nowhere near true. Don't let anyone or anything pigeon whole you, and especially not some semi scientific study done for entertainment purposes claiming that your mental abilities are declining in the 20s.
How about some data that shows at what age those of us that use our brains on a daily basis achieve our best work:
And I mean always. A lot of my friends are in that age group (and so am I) and they get snatched in days (some keep getting unsolicited calls at their current jobs to go work elsewhere).
The key is to be good. At 35 you should have substantial experience and evidence of growth behind you and you should really be a master of your domain. Fresh out of college kids have no chance to compete against you when it comes to proven ability to deliver, and you experience.
You also should be building a reputation and name for yourself. People in the industry, or at least local industry, should know about you.
And also if you are not learning something new each day of your life, you are wasting time.
Failing this, yes I can see how it would be hard to find a job at any age group.
I think MS completely missed the boat with power shell. Power shell is.NET from the shell. Gee, thanks. If I wanted to do real object oriented programming I'll use a real language for it. And just look how wordy and unintuitive and unrecoverable it is.
On UNIX shell is good at managing the file system and invoking programs, and yes it can be used to pipe stuff from one app to another. But when things get complex people usually resort to a scripting language. E.g your sig would be most likely done with Perl or Python or Ruby etc.
All Apple notebooks as of late 2008 have 2 button mouse/trackpad with advanced gestures.
Also, having 1920x1200 resolution on 15'' screen is not such a great idea. UI elements and fonts are just too small. Even on 17'' things get a little small.
But to each their own. You are buying a notebook for your needs so you choose what best fits you, of course.
But anyway, I have the math background to understand quantum mechanics, but I have not really gotten into it beyond basics to be able to speak about it with any authority.
However, I am quite appalled by over simplifications here on slashdot and peddling of religious or anti religious ideas based on very little understanding of actual science and theory.
it is the observer that collapses the waive function and "decides" if the cat is dead or alive. Before being observed cat is both dead and alive (it is in a state that is superposition of these two states).
Related quantum suicide and quantum immortality looks at the outcome of the experiment from the cat's point of view in which the cat is an observer.
That's actually quite flawed thinking based on the lack of understanding of modern quantum mechanics, and in particular the role of observer to the outcomes of quantum experiments.
In a lot of cases the observer actually "decides" the outcome of the experiment and then it makes sense to ask did the observer really make a decision or not? Hence the question of free will.
There are other interesting questions like what is an observer? And where exactly is it in humans (they have looked at every orifice we have and they have not found one).
Yes, but once you turn your phone back on to use it (you know since you are paying for it), you find your voice mail filled with junk mail, and dozens of SMS messages from spammers and from my service provider informing me that I missed the telemarketer calls.
What a lovely user experience. I would not at all be surprised that my own service provider has subscribed me to spam. After all it is in their direct financial interest.
This is why next time I buy a phone I am not buying anything that does not have a firewall app, or does not allow me to write one (perhaps Android platform will).
Otherwise, thank you very much I don't need a phone at all. IT's a thing of the past anyway, and it's time for it to die off just like radio and TV.
That "silent" ringer trick does not work because I have never gotten a repeat call from the same number.
I have gotten the same pre-recorded message but always from different and often bogus invalid number beginning with three zeros like 000-2345 and random area code.
So, what I have ended up doing currently is to set the silent ring tone at system wide level, and then add specific non-silent ring tone for all my contacts. That way if someone is not my contact too bad, they can at most leave me a message.
I still have to go through and delete all my junk voice mail.
I'm in Canada, and all my spam calls are from the numbers originating in the USA.
is a good phone firewall app that allows you to block calls from phone numbers by using simple globs (e.g. 909 ***-**** would drop all calls from area code 909).
I don't know if any phone has this (I know there is a $20 app for jail broken iPhone 3G), but it should be provided as part of the iPhone OS in the first place.
The user should be in control of their phone and who is allowed to get through to them. As it is now tele marketers can ruin you life:D.
Considering that at 22 most people are fresh out of college and their brain still well exercised.
After that they join the corporate slavery, where 5 years in cubes destroys their mind and numbs them down to the obedience level demanded by their PHBs, and corporate masters.
A few more decades of that and they will be completely senile.
Those who stay in academia on the other hand make their biggest achievements in late thirties (most at about 38).
No, and that is exactly what I'm saying. That is not a virus (something that propagates itself without user intervention).
Something that requires social engineering (lure of porn in this case) to get the user to run it is something else altogether. And like I said there is no way to protect any platform from the user who chooses to download malware and run it.
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You mean JDevelopers, JDevelopers, JDevelopers
You could run it in virtual machine running on computer not connecting to the internet.
You could disassemble the program (sometimes just looking at strings output of it is indicative of what it is) and analyze it.
If you are installing software from untrusted source all bets are off.
The general assumption should be "This is untrusted source, hence this is malware until proven otherwise".
So, if you really really wanted the software badly, you either install the software in virtual machine and study it, or on real isolated hardware and test it as much as you can (and in the end you could still be wrong).
Any user that thinks otherwise will eventually get infected no matter what OS they use.
I cannot find a thought expressed in the words
Are you from Canada?
You think anyone gives a fuck or is able to comprehend what this is all about. This is the land where mediocrity is highly regarded and prized, and any kind of progressive thinking highly frowned upon and taxed to death.
So yeah, Canadians will get what they deserve.
but the fact that system bus is almost 2 times faster, and that system memory is 2 times faster does matter a lot more.
So open a US iTunes store account and download the app for your Canadian iPhone.
That's what I did and just talked to my mom for 40 min (otherwise long distance call). The sound quality is way better than any of the other alternatives.
even a 5 year old used one will do the trick :D.
Stability does not mean only "no crashes". It also means that you can run the same installation for years without having to re-install your OS for whatever reason.
I know it is possible to do that. I have Windows XP installation from 2002 still going without re-install, but it does require expert knowledge, really cautions browsing and constant tinkering and cleaning up of garbage from registry, temp files, residues of programs that I have uninstalled (or upgraded to newer versions) etc.
Since I have switched to Mac, I have to baby sit my OS installation way less if at all. It's much more resilient to user using it :D.
Education is not substitute for experience but neither is experience substitute for education.
No matter how much experience you have twiddling IRQ settings or writing software, it won't enable you to understand NP complete problems without actually studying the concepts at abstract level.
Bullshit. Go study something hard, like pure math or nuclear physics. In math in particular, you don't need anyone telling you anything. You don't need a professor for anything other than perhaps a couple of hour weekly consultation.
The experience will change you as a person and open your mind and eyes. You will understand and see things that you could not before. It will make you more aware, it will raise your level of self actualization and fulfillment. You will be a different person.
I could never understand anyone that went to university with a job in mind. That's completely missing the point of higher education.
Once you allow yourself (or your mind) to be transformed like this you will find jobs, and you will master what ever skill they require in no time. Success will come to the prepared mind.
Actually, that's nowhere near true. Don't let anyone or anything pigeon whole you, and especially not some semi scientific study done for entertainment purposes claiming that your mental abilities are declining in the 20s.
How about some data that shows at what age those of us that use our brains on a daily basis achieve our best work:
http://sps.nus.edu.sg/~limchuwe/articles/youth.html
And I mean always. A lot of my friends are in that age group (and so am I) and they get snatched in days (some keep getting unsolicited calls at their current jobs to go work elsewhere).
The key is to be good. At 35 you should have substantial experience and evidence of growth behind you and you should really be a master of your domain. Fresh out of college kids have no chance to compete against you when it comes to proven ability to deliver, and you experience.
You also should be building a reputation and name for yourself. People in the industry, or at least local industry, should know about you.
And also if you are not learning something new each day of your life, you are wasting time.
Failing this, yes I can see how it would be hard to find a job at any age group.
I think MS completely missed the boat with power shell. Power shell is .NET from the shell. Gee, thanks. If I wanted to do real object oriented programming I'll use a real language for it.
And just look how wordy and unintuitive and unrecoverable it is.
On UNIX shell is good at managing the file system and invoking programs, and yes it can be used to pipe stuff from one app to another. But when things get complex people usually resort to a scripting language. E.g your sig would be most likely done with Perl or Python or Ruby etc.
All Apple notebooks as of late 2008 have 2 button mouse/trackpad with advanced gestures.
Also, having 1920x1200 resolution on 15'' screen is not such a great idea. UI elements and fonts are just too small. Even on 17'' things get a little small.
But to each their own. You are buying a notebook for your needs so you choose what best fits you, of course.
I haven't even mentioned consciousness anywhere.
But anyway, I have the math background to understand quantum mechanics, but I have not really gotten into it beyond basics to be able to speak about it with any authority.
However, I am quite appalled by over simplifications here on slashdot and peddling of religious or anti religious ideas based on very little understanding of actual science and theory.
In the famous Schrodinger's cat experiment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger's_cat
and related
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide
it is the observer that collapses the waive function and "decides" if the cat is dead or alive. Before being observed cat is both dead and alive (it is in a state that is superposition of these two states).
Related quantum suicide and quantum immortality looks at the outcome of the experiment from the cat's point of view in which the cat is an observer.
That's actually quite flawed thinking based on the lack of understanding of modern quantum mechanics, and in particular the role of observer to the outcomes of quantum experiments.
In a lot of cases the observer actually "decides" the outcome of the experiment and then it makes sense to ask did the observer really make a decision or not? Hence the question of free will.
There are other interesting questions like what is an observer? And where exactly is it in humans (they have looked at every orifice we have and they have not found one).
You are assuming here that only human mind can serve as an observer, and hence free will is all about humans.
Yes, but once you turn your phone back on to use it (you know since you are paying for it), you find your voice mail filled with junk mail, and dozens of SMS messages from spammers and from my service provider informing me that I missed the telemarketer calls.
What a lovely user experience. I would not at all be surprised that my own service provider has subscribed me to spam. After all it is in their direct financial interest.
This is why next time I buy a phone I am not buying anything that does not have a firewall app, or does not allow me to write one (perhaps Android platform will).
Otherwise, thank you very much I don't need a phone at all. IT's a thing of the past anyway, and it's time for it to die off just like radio and TV.
That "silent" ringer trick does not work because I have never gotten a repeat call from the same number.
I have gotten the same pre-recorded message but always from different and often bogus invalid number beginning with three zeros like 000-2345 and random area code.
So, what I have ended up doing currently is to set the silent ring tone at system wide level, and then add specific non-silent ring tone for all my contacts. That way if someone is not my contact too bad, they can at most leave me a message.
I still have to go through and delete all my junk voice mail.
I'm in Canada, and all my spam calls are from the numbers originating in the USA.
is a good phone firewall app that allows you to block calls from phone numbers by using simple globs (e.g. 909 ***-**** would drop all calls from area code 909).
I don't know if any phone has this (I know there is a $20 app for jail broken iPhone 3G), but it should be provided as part of the iPhone OS in the first place.
The user should be in control of their phone and who is allowed to get through to them. As it is now tele marketers can ruin you life :D.
Considering that at 22 most people are fresh out of college and their brain still well exercised.
After that they join the corporate slavery, where 5 years in cubes destroys their mind and numbs them down to the obedience level demanded by their PHBs, and corporate masters.
A few more decades of that and they will be completely senile.
Those who stay in academia on the other hand make their biggest achievements in late thirties (most at about 38).
http://sps.nus.edu.sg/~limchuwe/articles/youth.html
Oh it only brings fully 64 bit kernel (instead of the current 32 bit). Nothing much really. It's totally minor.
No, and that is exactly what I'm saying. That is not a virus (something that propagates itself without user intervention).
Something that requires social engineering (lure of porn in this case) to get the user to run it is something else altogether. And like I said there is no way to protect any platform from the user who chooses to download malware and run it.