NASA's funding is ridiculously low. My college (University of Florida) was recently announced as one of the partner schools for NASA to help develop new launch procedures and vehicles so going into space is as safe and inexpensive as commercial airliners. The budget for this monumental task that will revolutionize mankind? 15 million. NASA has got 15 mil as a research budget. It's fucking NASA. They should have a few orders of magnitude more funding. Someone needs to convince Bush that in order to get a space-based laser missile defense system (for all those rouge ICBMs laying around) we need safe and efficient space flight. I mean, really, 15 million? The technological advances that have arisen from the few missions they've done have led to thousands of new products to improve every day life. Really, when is the US gonna take care of that?
I think the reason Linux might not run is if the Palladium chip (or however its implemented) checks to see if you have access to run/install whatever program. So it could check and see if you can run lilo, or whatever non MS approved program, and deny you access.
I seperated my body from my spirit a couple of months back, and I feel great! A few med students pulled it out of my ear canal. I keep it in a little glass jar on my top shelf.
probably because it is odd that your sig is longer than your message, and there is no clear seperator, so when first reading your posts, I thought you were just saying that out of the blue. Maybe he didn't get that it was your sig, or maybe the whole issue is such a non-issue that we find it ridiculous to change your sig to state your stance on this meaningless piece of legislation.
I think this argument is akin to a armored knight from the middle ages going into a battle with today's gangs. He'd be shot and killed pretty quickly, but in his time, his security was the best there was.
The problem is, I don't think the security of IE was ever the best of its time. Its not a matter of new attacks being invented that blow away its security, its a matter of seeing the vulnerabilities in it, like killers shooting for the armpits of armored police, cause that is where the hole in the armor is.
OpenBSD is pro-actively secure. It comes with everything disabled, and a record of no remote root holes in like, 3 years or something. FreeBSD is another operating system based on the Berkely Standard Distribution of Unix. I don't know too much about FreeBSD, but OpenBSD makes for a good firewall/gateway.
I don't think the uproar is due to the existence of copy protection on CDs. The problem is when the copy protection renders it unplayable. When I buy a CD, it should work like a CD, meaning, it should be playable in any CDDA compatible player, including my PC.
If the Macrovision VHS protected required you to buy special hardware to play it, we'd be pissed about that, too. Also, there is more common desire to listen to your music at work and home, without lugging around a ton of CDs. The desire to watch your movies at home and work isn't in much demand.
Correct me if I'm wrong folks, but I think the bad part is excluding hardware that should be compatible, thereby excluding legitimate consumers. A lot of us probably have issues with DVD regioning as well, but you can go and buy any DVD from Best Buy, and it will play in your DVD player or DVD drive. The same cannot be said for this new copy protection that protects consumers from listening to what they paid for.
Do what you want. What are you interested in? You don't want to wind up in a job you hate. Use the time to get an in-depth understanding and knowledge of whatever the hell you want. If you get good enough at it, you'll be hired for that, and you'll enjoy it a lot more than if you become the equivalent of a Y2K bug programmer.
Does your magazine ad have words to the effect that you are looking at an ad?
In some computer magazines, yes, I'll seen something to the effect of: "Paid Advertisement" when the ad looks like an article of the magazine. For example, some new gadget with a big article written about how great it us, and whatnot, trying to tap into the reader's trust of the magazine.
but this seems like the technology to make the light sabre game I've been dreaming about since I was 12.
The greater the difficulty, the more you had to be dead on with blocking laser blasts or opposing sabres (your sabre becomes thinner and more damaging with greater difficulty). The format would be arcade, much like the virtual cop style where you move from scene to scene, then hold steady and fight. Except the scenes would change frequently, and you would have the standard force abilities at your disposal.
Then, the PC version comes after the tech gets cheap enough for people to buy it, and you use the keyboard to navigate, and do the other flips, jumps, etc. Third person view, I'd think.
Anyway, thats what I do during class. That and think of how Yoda should've fought Dooku.
Hmmm. I guess my thought was, "Stores do not like unhappy customers, so they will refund the software" The thought of being locked up for trying to return products didn't occur to me. Although that would be a great thing to get arrested for.
maybe thats what people need to do, is going in groups to best buy, compusa, wherever you get software, buy it, refuse the EULA, and return it as a group. More than one person returning it can't be laughed out of the store. The more hassle it is for the local vendors, the less they will want to deal with that kind of crap, and maybe stock different things, and the effect will go up the chain to the software publisher that made the EULA so frickin stupid in the first place.
If anyone is in Gainesville, Florida and wants to try this, I'd be game. Reply.
I agree that him being the Darth Maul of AOTC was not the best way to go. I enjoyed watching it, but it was like sleeping with a prostitute. I felt cheap afterwards for enjoying what I know to be drivel. It's like that tax check the US government sent that was basically just an advance on your refund.
Bad analogies aside, I would have prefered him to walk in as he did, then fight Dooku completley with his mind. No flipping, not even moving. Just Yoda's frail hand extended, twitching to control his levitating light sabre, or gently pushing to give Dooku a force-punch. (like maul gave obiwan)
Also, Yoda should have been sad about fighting. Yoda is wise, therefore shoud not enjoy resorting to violence. They could have exchanged their words, then have Yoda give a disheartened sigh, and say something like, "My old padawan, still much to learn have you." Then commence the ass-whupping to make the general public hoot and hollar.
uhhh, correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the monarchy in the UK was just for show, and all the actual governing took place in Parliament with the Prime Minister. I thought the royal family was more just a PR thing for the government.
How to create a profitable business from Free Software is still a black art
Isn't offering support and configuring the way to make money off free software? I was under the impression that a lot of RedHat's income came from support contracts.
Well, if they crack one box then that provides access to all the other machines via the second NIC in the 192.168 range, which could potentially be more harmful, if that range is assumed secure by all other servers.
Well, thats where it gets tricky, I guess. What constitutes giving someone your email address? Does having your name, number, and address in the phone book mean you are willing to accept incoming transmissions by any of those means? Usually not. Unfortunately, there isn't any clear way to cut it off without everyone being hermits, if we're taking things to logical extremes, here. Back in real life, you'd have to make an argument about someone's intent when they post their email somewhere.
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or browsers would support the fucking standards.
a jimmmy troll, jimmy!
well, maybe one order of magnitude...
NASA's funding is ridiculously low. My college (University of Florida) was recently announced as one of the partner schools for NASA to help develop new launch procedures and vehicles so going into space is as safe and inexpensive as commercial airliners. The budget for this monumental task that will revolutionize mankind? 15 million. NASA has got 15 mil as a research budget. It's fucking NASA. They should have a few orders of magnitude more funding. Someone needs to convince Bush that in order to get a space-based laser missile defense system (for all those rouge ICBMs laying around) we need safe and efficient space flight. I mean, really, 15 million? The technological advances that have arisen from the few missions they've done have led to thousands of new products to improve every day life. Really, when is the US gonna take care of that?
This trip to Mars fully sponsored by Microsoft!
I love the fact that I sort by oldest first, and you, the first goddamned post, gets a "Redundant".
I mean, there were no other posts before yours, so really all the ones after this post are the redundant ones. I just found that amusing.
I think the reason Linux might not run is if the Palladium chip (or however its implemented) checks to see if you have access to run/install whatever program. So it could check and see if you can run lilo, or whatever non MS approved program, and deny you access.
I seperated my body from my spirit a couple of months back, and I feel great! A few med students pulled it out of my ear canal. I keep it in a little glass jar on my top shelf.
probably because it is odd that your sig is longer than your message, and there is no clear seperator, so when first reading your posts, I thought you were just saying that out of the blue. Maybe he didn't get that it was your sig, or maybe the whole issue is such a non-issue that we find it ridiculous to change your sig to state your stance on this meaningless piece of legislation.
I think this argument is akin to a armored knight from the middle ages going into a battle with today's gangs. He'd be shot and killed pretty quickly, but in his time, his security was the best there was.
The problem is, I don't think the security of IE was ever the best of its time. Its not a matter of new attacks being invented that blow away its security, its a matter of seeing the vulnerabilities in it, like killers shooting for the armpits of armored police, cause that is where the hole in the armor is.
+1 insightful!
OpenBSD is pro-actively secure. It comes with everything disabled, and a record of no remote root holes in like, 3 years or something. FreeBSD is another operating system based on the Berkely Standard Distribution of Unix. I don't know too much about FreeBSD, but OpenBSD makes for a good firewall/gateway.
Someone correct me if I'm an ignorant fool.
I don't think the uproar is due to the existence of copy protection on CDs. The problem is when the copy protection renders it unplayable. When I buy a CD, it should work like a CD, meaning, it should be playable in any CDDA compatible player, including my PC.
If the Macrovision VHS protected required you to buy special hardware to play it, we'd be pissed about that, too. Also, there is more common desire to listen to your music at work and home, without lugging around a ton of CDs. The desire to watch your movies at home and work isn't in much demand.
Correct me if I'm wrong folks, but I think the bad part is excluding hardware that should be compatible, thereby excluding legitimate consumers. A lot of us probably have issues with DVD regioning as well, but you can go and buy any DVD from Best Buy, and it will play in your DVD player or DVD drive. The same cannot be said for this new copy protection that protects consumers from listening to what they paid for.
Do what you want. What are you interested in? You don't want to wind up in a job you hate.
Use the time to get an in-depth understanding and knowledge of whatever the hell you want. If you get good enough at it, you'll be hired for that, and you'll enjoy it a lot more than if you become the equivalent of a Y2K bug programmer.
Does your magazine ad have words to the effect that you are looking at an ad?
In some computer magazines, yes, I'll seen something to the effect of: "Paid Advertisement" when the ad looks like an article of the magazine. For example, some new gadget with a big article written about how great it us, and whatnot, trying to tap into the reader's trust of the magazine.
but this seems like the technology to make the light sabre game I've been dreaming about since I was 12.
The greater the difficulty, the more you had to be dead on with blocking laser blasts or opposing sabres (your sabre becomes thinner and more damaging with greater difficulty). The format would be arcade, much like the virtual cop style where you move from scene to scene, then hold steady and fight. Except the scenes would change frequently, and you would have the standard force abilities at your disposal.
Then, the PC version comes after the tech gets cheap enough for people to buy it, and you use the keyboard to navigate, and do the other flips, jumps, etc. Third person view, I'd think.
Anyway, thats what I do during class. That and think of how Yoda should've fought Dooku.
Hmmm. I guess my thought was, "Stores do not like unhappy customers, so they will refund the software" The thought of being locked up for trying to return products didn't occur to me. Although that would be a great thing to get arrested for.
It couldn't be an unruly mob, you're right.
maybe thats what people need to do, is going in groups to best buy, compusa, wherever you get software, buy it, refuse the EULA, and return it as a group. More than one person returning it can't be laughed out of the store. The more hassle it is for the local vendors, the less they will want to deal with that kind of crap, and maybe stock different things, and the effect will go up the chain to the software publisher that made the EULA so frickin stupid in the first place.
If anyone is in Gainesville, Florida and wants to try this, I'd be game. Reply.
no worries, AC, you have already been assimilated, so you don't have to worry.
I agree that him being the Darth Maul of AOTC was not the best way to go. I enjoyed watching it, but it was like sleeping with a prostitute. I felt cheap afterwards for enjoying what I know to be drivel. It's like that tax check the US government sent that was basically just an advance on your refund.
Bad analogies aside, I would have prefered him to walk in as he did, then fight Dooku completley with his mind. No flipping, not even moving. Just Yoda's frail hand extended, twitching to control his levitating light sabre, or gently pushing to give Dooku a force-punch. (like maul gave obiwan)
Also, Yoda should have been sad about fighting. Yoda is wise, therefore shoud not enjoy resorting to violence. They could have exchanged their words, then have Yoda give a disheartened sigh, and say something like, "My old padawan, still much to learn have you." Then commence the ass-whupping to make the general public hoot and hollar.
uhhh, correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the monarchy in the UK was just for show, and all the actual governing took place in Parliament with the Prime Minister. I thought the royal family was more just a PR thing for the government.
But then again, I am just a stupid American.
How to create a profitable business from Free Software is still a black art
Isn't offering support and configuring the way to make money off free software? I was under the impression that a lot of RedHat's income came from support contracts.
Well, if they crack one box then that provides access to all the other machines via the second NIC in the 192.168 range, which could potentially be more harmful, if that range is assumed secure by all other servers.
Can't forget begotting. There is no place to get your begot kicks like the Bible.
I knew you were going to say that...
Well, thats where it gets tricky, I guess. What constitutes giving someone your email address? Does having your name, number, and address in the phone book mean you are willing to accept incoming transmissions by any of those means? Usually not. Unfortunately, there isn't any clear way to cut it off without everyone being hermits, if we're taking things to logical extremes, here. Back in real life, you'd have to make an argument about someone's intent when they post their email somewhere.