Amen... In my own modestly egocentric opinion, this network has totolly lost what I call the "functional tech" focus.
Gaming is cool, but it's not the information I need to make a living. G4/TechTV is missing out on a major demographic - old farts who identify with Leo-type solutions to real-world problems. I really don't need to know how to cheat an XBox game - I need to know how to cheat the XBox O/S.
That level of tech information is what G4/TechTV has discarded. Hopefully, Leo's return represents their recognition of this loss.
Sigh. You live in a perfect world, and hopefully, your perfect genes will not be passed on. It is an imperfect world. Do you know how many children of parents with less than perfect circumstances you would condemn? Some of whom have contributed greatly to mankind, let alone having had happy lives.
It strikes me that a woman with enough love in her heart to genuinely care for an aging (admit it) character actor may be more than capabable of giving enough love to see her child through life?
I have some better advice for you - just abstain altogether. It's the only way to be sure.
Or, for just over twice the price of your wall mount (about $90 US), I picked up two used 19" Trinitron monitors - the the balance of the thousand dollars will buy you a much roomier (again, used) desk, and leave enough left over for quite a lot of beer - which, if you consume enough, will let you percieve a four-monitor setup...
Found in an especially kludgy bit of MS code that the programmer was clearly not happy about. This was from the golden DOS 3.x days when our company, a major supplier of IBM terminal emulators especially for the airline industry) was moving from a proprietary platform to a PC platform and paid MS a chunk-o-change for source to DOS. A good bit of code to review - ranging from quite clever to abysmal. Far too much of the latter, I'm afraid.
Ummm... Some brakes (btw, folks "breaks" are what happens to your bones when your "brakes" fail) ARE powered by belts. Quite a number of the Cadillac ElDorado series had hydraulic brake boost rather than vacuum boost. Yes, I had one (1978), Yes I broke a belt, and yes, that much steel (the ElDorado that year was the heaviest Cadillac) with no brake or steering boost is quite a handful.
Please feel free to post about something chastising those who have no clue when you are in fact, truly and sadly clueless.
Actually, "No good germs" is a pretty dramatic oversimplification. How's your digestion? If you're missing some of your micro-fauna, not so good, I'll bet. We are, in fact, pretty dependent on many good germs in and out of our bodies - a lot of good things, like beer, cheese, bread, wine, certain antibiotics, and an increasing number of pharmaceuticals exist only because of good germs.
In recent news, tests on rodents have yielded positive results from exposure to a genetically modified version of the beasties that cause tooth decay. The GM version doesn't produce damaging acids as a by-product and they displace the decay-causing bacteria.
Back to the topic - using fire to fight fire has a price - but it does work. It seems we are in a climate where everyone and their dog from AOL to Real to any of the other auto software auto-updaters can install and run software on our machines anyway.
Further, the Internet is a public system where individual rights mean much less than the rights of the many - much like the rights we surrender when we drive down the public motorways, it can be argued that there is no right to operate a PC in a way that damages or impairs the infrastructure.
To stretch the roadway analogy a bit, what's being suggested is that the "highway cops" fix your tires instead of letting you blast around serving as a threat to other users.
--- "It is the duty of a patriot to protect his country from its government" -- Thomas Paine
We've already got good voting machines here - they're called Lotto machines. Any wino can walk in with a lotto ticket that he's scribbled on with a piece of road tar, and the machines do a great job of reading the ticket - plus, you get a paper printout for verification - plus, the system knows which ticket went to which store. Audit trails, hardcopy - Hmmm,
But we don't need (or want) all that silly accountability stuff to re-elect Bush do we...?
If we can afford to launch an unmanned rocket to bring it down, we can instead use the same vehicle to boost it into a higher, safer orbit. More space junk? Not really - the space junk we're worried about now is not the big goodies, but the countless loose bits of debris that are so hard to track - yet so bad to run into.
So why boost it? We have no shortage of the raw materials used to build the Hubble here on earth - but getting goodies into orbit is very expensive. At some point, hopefully soon, quite a few bits of the Hubble could be more valuable as space salvage, than as burned debris on the bottom of the Pacific.
Ok, this is the Craig Venter of Celera fame. Remember the great Human Genome race? Celera wanted "to patent those parts of the genome it thinks are important and useful, charging researchers who want access to the sequences. Celera has already filed preliminary patents for 6,500 genes."
But the knowledge to produce viruses for whatever purpose goes open source. Bizarre - this guy wants to patent the air we breath and then make fusion weapons technology open to everyone, on the theory that white hats will always prevail.
Problem is, some things are not readily defended against, and viruses have to be one of the things we are least effective in blocking. Sorry Craig, I'm not sure we need to turn a thousand tigers loose before we've REALLY learned to tame the ones that are out there already.
"The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents."
Sigh,
Do you people ever get tired. Here's an idea - Maybe evolution IS intelligent design. At it's heart, these creation so-called science arguments have one fundamental flaw - because we cannot comprehend anything more complex than ourselves, we make our creator as dumb as we are.
Evolution happens all around you - it's real, it works, get over it.
"Man is certainly stark mad: He cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens." - Montaigne
Nice try - OSX has its roots in BSD, not Linux.
On the other hand, there is a working model for anyone who wants to cook up a valid home use distro - all you need is a hardware vendor to give you a consistent platform to put it on.
The truth is probably that Linux is ready for any use you care to put it to - keeping in mind that Linux is an O/S, not 3000 plus applications.
If Linux is not "ready for the home user" it is because no distro that I am aware of offers the following:
One O/S One Desktop with VERY limited config options. One web browser One email client One set of four or so games - you know which four. Two or three cool extras, like, gasp, Internet
Connection Sharing. Two text editors. Oh, and what the heck, let's throw in some buggy
features like RPC/DCOM.
Find a distro that's willing to amputate "Linux" to the above, and really focus on making just those things work, and we'll have something "ready for home use" - but then, Windows has already done that for us.
Oh, and don't forget to sell our imaginary distro for a few hundred bucks so we can afford cool licensed fonts.
Sorry, given the number of Windows problems my friends and family contact me with, I'm not so sure "Linux" is what's not ready for the home user. Frankly, if you tried to install (let alone purchase) all of the windows shrink-wrap packages that make up an average Linux distro, I guarantee you will have significant problems. But that's not what a typical "home user" does, is it?
So, Mr. Szulik, you're the CEO - put some effort into making a Linux distro that is shaved down to the pathetic shadow of itself that the average Windows home user actually uses, and I think you'll find "Linux" is magically more than ready for the average home user. All we need is Flash player that actually works.
We are clearly in a time when we are increasingly vulnerable. If we are not capable of stopping these types of attacks in their tracks, we can count on remaining vulnerable not just to the mafia boys of the world, but to nations and organizations who are deadly intent on causing as much destruction as possible.
1) ISPs should allow any and all traffic - they're just service providers. Great idea - and the highway system (ok, let's say toll roads) should let folks drive down them with an M1 Abrahams tank. Armed. Fact is, service providers must for both idealistic ethical and pragmatic financial reasons must choose the greater good of the majority of users - not the imagined rights of any individual to screw it up for everyone else.
2) Cutting users off from the Internet seems a bit harsh. Bull. Having suffered through the Code Red degradation of service, I can guarantee that is a trivial harshness that is necessary. I turned over my scan lists to @home and they politely replied that they were "notifying" the offenders. If these guys were in charge of quarantining an Ebola outbreak we'd all be barfing blood. Blanket port blocking, on the other hand, wrongly damages and restricts responsible users.
3) M$ "fixes" their problems. More pure bull. M$ historically doesn't "fix" problems - they deny, accuse the evil virus writers, then finally stick bandaids on gaping holes - after suggesting that the users employee unworkable workarounds. The real problems are deeply rooted in fundamental design flaws and cannot truly be fixed without a major overhaul - oh yeah, I guess that would be Windows ME.
If enough users who purchase and use defective software get blown off the internet, then maybe, just maybe we'll see fewer ignorant (not stupid - there's a difference) users blundering down the electronic highways in battle tanks just cause some slick salesman in Seattle told them tanks made great family cars.
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Amen... In my own modestly egocentric opinion, this network has totolly lost what I call the "functional tech" focus.
Gaming is cool, but it's not the information I need to make a living. G4/TechTV is missing out on a major demographic - old farts who identify with Leo-type solutions to real-world problems. I really don't need to know how to cheat an XBox game - I need to know how to cheat the XBox O/S.
That level of tech information is what G4/TechTV has discarded. Hopefully, Leo's return represents their recognition of this loss.
Sigh. You live in a perfect world, and hopefully, your perfect genes will not be passed on. It is an imperfect world. Do you know how many children of parents with less than perfect circumstances you would condemn? Some of whom have contributed greatly to mankind, let alone having had happy lives.
It strikes me that a woman with enough love in her heart to genuinely care for an aging (admit it) character actor may be more than capabable of giving enough love to see her child through life?
I have some better advice for you - just abstain altogether. It's the only way to be sure.
Sheez
Or, for just over twice the price of your wall mount (about $90 US), I picked up two used 19" Trinitron monitors - the the balance of the thousand dollars will buy you a much roomier (again, used) desk, and leave enough left over for quite a lot of beer - which, if you consume enough, will let you percieve a four-monitor setup...
"Sigs? We don't neeed no steenking sigs"
"Microsoft rapes babies in the park"
Found in an especially kludgy bit of MS code that the programmer was clearly not happy about. This was from the golden DOS 3.x days when our company, a major supplier of IBM terminal emulators especially for the airline industry) was moving from a proprietary platform to a PC platform and paid MS a chunk-o-change for source to DOS. A good bit of code to review - ranging from quite clever to abysmal. Far too much of the latter, I'm afraid.
Ummm... Some brakes (btw, folks "breaks" are what happens to your bones when your "brakes" fail) ARE powered by belts. Quite a number of the Cadillac ElDorado series had hydraulic brake boost rather than vacuum boost. Yes, I had one (1978), Yes I broke a belt, and yes, that much steel (the ElDorado that year was the heaviest Cadillac) with no brake or steering boost is quite a handful.
Please feel free to post about something chastising those who have no clue when you are in fact, truly and sadly clueless.
Actually, "No good germs" is a pretty dramatic oversimplification. How's your digestion? If you're missing some of your micro-fauna, not so good, I'll bet. We are, in fact, pretty dependent on many good germs in and out of our bodies - a lot of good things, like beer, cheese, bread, wine, certain antibiotics, and an increasing number of pharmaceuticals exist only because of good germs.
In recent news, tests on rodents have yielded positive results from exposure to a genetically modified version of the beasties that cause tooth decay. The GM version doesn't produce damaging acids as a by-product and they displace the decay-causing bacteria.
Back to the topic - using fire to fight fire has a price - but it does work. It seems we are in a climate where everyone and their dog from AOL to Real to any of the other auto software auto-updaters can install and run software on our machines anyway.
Further, the Internet is a public system where individual rights mean much less than the rights of the many - much like the rights we surrender when we drive down the public motorways, it can be argued that there is no right to operate a PC in a way that damages or impairs the infrastructure.
To stretch the roadway analogy a bit, what's being suggested is that the "highway cops" fix your tires instead of letting you blast around serving as a threat to other users.
---
"It is the duty of a patriot to protect his country from its government" -- Thomas Paine
We've already got good voting machines here - they're called Lotto machines. Any wino can walk in with a lotto ticket that he's scribbled on with a piece of road tar, and the machines do a great job of reading the ticket - plus, you get a paper printout for verification - plus, the system knows which ticket went to which store. Audit trails, hardcopy - Hmmm,
But we don't need (or want) all that silly accountability stuff to re-elect Bush do we
Please help, I am sigless - will code for sigs.
If we can afford to launch an unmanned rocket to bring it down, we can instead use the same vehicle to boost it into a higher, safer orbit. More space junk? Not really - the space junk we're worried about now is not the big goodies, but the countless loose bits of debris that are so hard to track - yet so bad to run into.
So why boost it? We have no shortage of the raw materials used to build the Hubble here on earth - but getting goodies into orbit is very expensive. At some point, hopefully soon, quite a few bits of the Hubble could be more valuable as space salvage, than as burned debris on the bottom of the Pacific.
Homeless, will code for sigs.
Ok, this is the Craig Venter of Celera fame. Remember the great Human Genome race? Celera wanted "to patent those parts of the genome it thinks are important and useful, charging researchers who want access to the sequences. Celera has already filed preliminary patents for 6,500 genes."
But the knowledge to produce viruses for whatever purpose goes open source. Bizarre - this guy wants to patent the air we breath and then make fusion weapons technology open to everyone, on the theory that white hats will always prevail.
Problem is, some things are not readily defended against, and viruses have to be one of the things we are least effective in blocking. Sorry Craig, I'm not sure we need to turn a thousand tigers loose before we've REALLY learned to tame the ones that are out there already.
"The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents."
Sigh, Do you people ever get tired. Here's an idea - Maybe evolution IS intelligent design. At it's heart, these creation so-called science arguments have one fundamental flaw - because we cannot comprehend anything more complex than ourselves, we make our creator as dumb as we are. Evolution happens all around you - it's real, it works, get over it. "Man is certainly stark mad: He cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens." - Montaigne
Let Berkely build it - then let MIT hack it!
Cheers
Nice try - OSX has its roots in BSD, not Linux. On the other hand, there is a working model for anyone who wants to cook up a valid home use distro - all you need is a hardware vendor to give you a consistent platform to put it on.
Well, that's one opinion by a major distro maker.
The truth is probably that Linux is ready for any
use you care to put it to - keeping in mind that
Linux is an O/S, not 3000 plus applications.
If Linux is not "ready for the home user" it is
because no distro that I am aware of offers the
following:
One O/S
One Desktop with VERY limited config options.
One web browser
One email client
One set of four or so games - you know which four.
Two or three cool extras, like, gasp, Internet
Connection Sharing.
Two text editors.
Oh, and what the heck, let's throw in some buggy
features like RPC/DCOM.
Find a distro that's willing to amputate "Linux"
to the above, and really focus on making just those
things work, and we'll have something "ready for
home use" - but then, Windows has already done
that for us.
Oh, and don't forget to sell our imaginary distro
for a few hundred bucks so we can afford cool
licensed fonts.
Sorry, given the number of Windows problems my
friends and family contact me with, I'm not so
sure "Linux" is what's not ready for the home
user. Frankly, if you tried to install (let alone
purchase) all of the windows shrink-wrap packages
that make up an average Linux distro, I guarantee
you will have significant problems. But that's
not what a typical "home user" does, is it?
So, Mr. Szulik, you're the CEO - put some effort
into making a Linux distro that is shaved down to
the pathetic shadow of itself that the average
Windows home user actually uses, and I think you'll
find "Linux" is magically more than ready for
the average home user. All we need is Flash player
that actually works.
We are clearly in a time when we are increasingly vulnerable. If we are not capable of stopping these types of attacks in their tracks, we can count on remaining vulnerable not just to the mafia boys of the world, but to nations and organizations who are deadly intent on causing as much destruction as possible.
1) ISPs should allow any and all traffic - they're just service providers. Great idea - and the highway system (ok, let's say toll roads) should let folks drive down them with an M1 Abrahams tank. Armed. Fact is, service providers must for both idealistic ethical and pragmatic financial reasons must choose the greater good of the majority of users - not the imagined rights of any individual to screw it up for everyone else.
2) Cutting users off from the Internet seems a bit harsh. Bull. Having suffered through the Code Red degradation of service, I can guarantee that is a trivial harshness that is necessary. I turned over my scan lists to @home and they politely replied that they were "notifying" the offenders. If these guys were in charge of quarantining an Ebola outbreak we'd all be barfing blood. Blanket port blocking, on the other hand, wrongly damages and restricts responsible users.
3) M$ "fixes" their problems. More pure bull. M$ historically doesn't "fix" problems - they deny, accuse the evil virus writers, then finally stick bandaids on gaping holes - after suggesting that the users employee unworkable workarounds. The real problems are deeply rooted in fundamental design flaws and cannot truly be fixed without a major overhaul - oh yeah, I guess that would be Windows ME.
If enough users who purchase and use defective software get blown off the internet, then maybe, just maybe we'll see fewer ignorant (not stupid - there's a difference) users blundering down the electronic highways in battle tanks just cause some slick salesman in Seattle told them tanks made great family cars.