If it's all the same to you, I wasn't "trying to be cool". That's just the way I've seen the plural written quite frequently so I assumed it was correct. Would it make you feel better if I ran everything past you first before posting? I'd hate to make the mistake of "trying to be cool" and offend you again.
It isn't illegal for Apple et al to give away software. It is illegal for a convicted monopoly abuser to try to perpetuate and extend said monopoly using anti-competive practices.
Don't forget about the story of MS nailing an NPO in Australia raising money using recycled PCs. Even though every PC sold has Windows as a portion of its cost, the recycled PCs were considered illegal (according to MS) because the Windows licenses were not transferable, therefore the NPO could not resell the PC unless it had the little MS certificate. Did MS just grant them a bunch of licenses? No, MS tried to bust the NPO and clean them out for every PC they might have sold.
MS's idea of "philanthropy" is exactly equivalent to that of a drug pusher. Their intention is to get you hooked so they can bleed you dry and control you.
Actually the Cesna would be more dangerous than a jet. Jets are typically pressurized to 8000 ft. whereas the Cesna is not pressurized. The rule is a 12 hour surface interval before a pressurized flight (or even a drive to the mountains), 24 hours for a non-pressurized flight.
The problem isn't with languages per se, but with programmers who don't really understand how computers work. I work in an IT shop and most of our programmers don't have a clue how computers work. If you tried to explain to them a buffer overrun they would have no idea what you are talking about. Languages that try to hold the programmers' hands don't help the problem since the programmers just write code that is inefficient and buggy in other ways.
The biggest problem with buggy code is programmers who don't know or don't care to know what it is they are really doing.
Since it took energy from your battery to vibrate the phone in the first place, you will lose more than you gain if you try to use that energy to recharge them.
This is basic law of thermodynamics. Did the collective intelligence of slash-dot just drop recently while I was asleep?
Anyone buying a Mac for raw number-crunching is an idiot, just as anyone using Windows for a firewall or a quad Xeon for an office machine is an idiot.
Don't tell that to all the folks in the scientific and bio fields doing number crunching on G4s.
Apple has done a pretty good job in the physical security area. Take their G4 towers for instance: By holding down command-S you can boot into single-user mode. A quick trip into "nicl" and you can remove the admin's password allowing you to login and change it.
To lock down single-user mode, apple provides a utility that will password-protect Open Firmware, preventing you from booting into single-user, or booting from anything other than the OpenFirmware selected boot device.
How about stealing the drive? The G4 towers have a latch on the back that you can secure with a padlock preventing opening of the case. If you need to bolt the computer to an anchor, you can just loop a cable through the latch to some sort of anchor.
Granted you can smash the lock, cut the cable, etc. but I'm not sure what more apple could do to help in the physical security area than they've already done.
To go beyond this, you'd really need to put the machine into a locked room, etc.
It isn't the Internet that is vulnerable, it is Microsoft products which are vulnerable. Those products in turn affect other systems due to the sheer number of computers running MS products. Start holding MS accountable for the bugs in their products and everyone benefits.
This really seems like good advice. I like the aspect of teaching co-workers. One of my biggest gripes in the office space is the fact that most corporate developers are clueless. Recently at work I found out that out of 50 or so "developers", only five had computers at home. None read/. or any books on programming.
Meanwhile, I have to go through their crap code and pull my hair out trying to divine what the hell they were smoking when they wrote some of it. Perhaps they just don't know any better.
Ditto on the feminine pronoun throughout the document. Call me old-school, but I find documents written using the feminine pronoun to be pandering to polical correctness. Other languages have a third gender for the neuter, but English has always used the masculine for that.
It seems silly to drill into students' heads for centuries the proper way to write English and then suddenly, because some hypersensitive twits with identity disorders get their panties in a twist, the schools are coerced into de-genderizing the world.
Everytime I hit a feminine pronoun misused for the neuter I stop and think about to whom it is referring because I keep thinking I lost the antecedent. But, then I remember, "oh yeah, the author is a twit," so I plug along. Eventually, I just get annoyed and quit reading.
I think the reason Apple is where they are and MSFT is where they are is the kinds of people attracted to work at Apple and Microsoft. People don't go to work for Apple in order to make zillions of dollars while striving to conquer the world, those people are already working at Microsoft. Similarly, no one who goes to work at Microsoft who wants to make cool products for people stays there very long. They are destroyed and driven out by the culture at Microsoft. In both cases, it's the people who make each company what it is.
HP has stated that PA-RISC will be replaced by Itanic no matter how bad that chip performs. And, after acquiring Alpha while gobbling up Compaq, we all know that chip is dead.
So, in the RISC world all that is left is Sun Sparc and IBM PowerPC/POWER chips.
I really liked the Alpha, but I'm really starting to like the POWER4 chip.
This looks like a blatant attempt to copy AppleScript. On OS X, one can send high-level object-oriented messages to applications, extract data and then manipulate the info with bash or perl scripts. And, you can wrap your AppleScript program with a nice GUI if you so choose.
Thanks for the info. Yours is probably the only post that was anywhere near the mark I was after. Looks like I've done about the same as you: Creatine, lots of protein, weight lifting, moderate cardio. I have not tried anything else, yet, so I was looking for addition info.
Over the past year, the Creatine helped quite a bit. I went from a 125 lbs geek to 155 lbs at age 35. I decided to start doing something about exercise since I sit at a desk all day. (Hm. I'm posting on/. -- that includes nights too.)
Judging from everything I've read on HGH, I will be staying far from this stuff.
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Unless stupidity is human nature.
If it's all the same to you, I wasn't "trying to be cool". That's just the way I've seen the plural written quite frequently so I assumed it was correct. Would it make you feel better if I ran everything past you first before posting? I'd hate to make the mistake of "trying to be cool" and offend you again.
I can't wait for the round of virii (outlook attachments) that trick this BIOS into thinking it's stolen.
Or, better yet, someone hacks Phoenix's server to tell all the BIOS's they are stolen.
This will be fun to watch.
So why doesn't MS just donate $1B in cash so that the NPO's can buy whatever kind of computer system they need?
MS tried this stunt ("giving away" copies of MS software) in California as a settlement for the anti-trust trial there; the judge was not amused.
It isn't illegal for Apple et al to give away software. It is illegal for a convicted monopoly abuser to try to perpetuate and extend said monopoly using anti-competive practices.
Don't forget about the story of MS nailing an NPO in Australia raising money using recycled PCs. Even though every PC sold has Windows as a portion of its cost, the recycled PCs were considered illegal (according to MS) because the Windows licenses were not transferable, therefore the NPO could not resell the PC unless it had the little MS certificate. Did MS just grant them a bunch of licenses? No, MS tried to bust the NPO and clean them out for every PC they might have sold.
The idea here is to recommend MS in the server room -- to your competitors. Let them get mired in the never-ending swamp of brainless MCSEs.
And yes, MCSEs are cheap and brainless, just ask MS. WeHaveTheWayOut.
This was the dumbest thing MS ever did to their greatest supporters: Calling them cheap idiots.
MS's idea of "philanthropy" is exactly equivalent to that of a drug pusher. Their intention is to get you hooked so they can bleed you dry and control you.
Just say No!
Actually the Cesna would be more dangerous than a jet. Jets are typically pressurized to 8000 ft. whereas the Cesna is not pressurized. The rule is a 12 hour surface interval before a pressurized flight (or even a drive to the mountains), 24 hours for a non-pressurized flight.
The problem isn't with languages per se, but with programmers who don't really understand how computers work. I work in an IT shop and most of our programmers don't have a clue how computers work. If you tried to explain to them a buffer overrun they would have no idea what you are talking about. Languages that try to hold the programmers' hands don't help the problem since the programmers just write code that is inefficient and buggy in other ways.
The biggest problem with buggy code is programmers who don't know or don't care to know what it is they are really doing.
Mac's don't have a BIOS; they use OpenFirmware just like Sun.
Dereferencing a null pointer on OS X causes a segfault. So much for your argument...
IE for the Mac is done by Microsoft's Mac Business Unit in San Fransisco, not the Redmond crowd. They may not be sharing any code.
Since it took energy from your battery to vibrate the phone in the first place, you will lose more than you gain if you try to use that energy to recharge them.
This is basic law of thermodynamics. Did the collective intelligence of slash-dot just drop recently while I was asleep?
Don't tell that to all the folks in the scientific and bio fields doing number crunching on G4s.
Apple has done a pretty good job in the physical security area. Take their G4 towers for instance: By holding down command-S you can boot into single-user mode. A quick trip into "nicl" and you can remove the admin's password allowing you to login and change it.
To lock down single-user mode, apple provides a utility that will password-protect Open Firmware, preventing you from booting into single-user, or booting from anything other than the OpenFirmware selected boot device.
How about stealing the drive? The G4 towers have a latch on the back that you can secure with a padlock preventing opening of the case. If you need to bolt the computer to an anchor, you can just loop a cable through the latch to some sort of anchor.
Granted you can smash the lock, cut the cable, etc. but I'm not sure what more apple could do to help in the physical security area than they've already done.
To go beyond this, you'd really need to put the machine into a locked room, etc.
You missed one. Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD.
You still use verbal communication?!? How incredibly gauche. Here we use mental communication directly to the Internet via brain implants.
I don't think OS X supports floppies at all. Maybe only USB ones if any.
It isn't the Internet that is vulnerable, it is Microsoft products which are vulnerable. Those products in turn affect other systems due to the sheer number of computers running MS products. Start holding MS accountable for the bugs in their products and everyone benefits.
This really seems like good advice. I like the aspect of teaching co-workers. One of my biggest gripes in the office space is the fact that most corporate developers are clueless. Recently at work I found out that out of 50 or so "developers", only five had computers at home. None read /. or any books on programming.
Meanwhile, I have to go through their crap code and pull my hair out trying to divine what the hell they were smoking when they wrote some of it. Perhaps they just don't know any better.
Ditto on the feminine pronoun throughout the document. Call me old-school, but I find documents written using the feminine pronoun to be pandering to polical correctness. Other languages have a third gender for the neuter, but English has always used the masculine for that.
It seems silly to drill into students' heads for centuries the proper way to write English and then suddenly, because some hypersensitive twits with identity disorders get their panties in a twist, the schools are coerced into de-genderizing the world.
Everytime I hit a feminine pronoun misused for the neuter I stop and think about to whom it is referring because I keep thinking I lost the antecedent. But, then I remember, "oh yeah, the author is a twit," so I plug along. Eventually, I just get annoyed and quit reading.
I think the reason Apple is where they are and MSFT is where they are is the kinds of people attracted to work at Apple and Microsoft. People don't go to work for Apple in order to make zillions of dollars while striving to conquer the world, those people are already working at Microsoft. Similarly, no one who goes to work at Microsoft who wants to make cool products for people stays there very long. They are destroyed and driven out by the culture at Microsoft. In both cases, it's the people who make each company what it is.
HP has stated that PA-RISC will be replaced by Itanic no matter how bad that chip performs. And, after acquiring Alpha while gobbling up Compaq, we all know that chip is dead. So, in the RISC world all that is left is Sun Sparc and IBM PowerPC/POWER chips. I really liked the Alpha, but I'm really starting to like the POWER4 chip.
This looks like a blatant attempt to copy AppleScript. On OS X, one can send high-level object-oriented messages to applications, extract data and then manipulate the info with bash or perl scripts. And, you can wrap your AppleScript program with a nice GUI if you so choose.
Thanks for the info. Yours is probably the only post that was anywhere near the mark I was after. Looks like I've done about the same as you: Creatine, lots of protein, weight lifting, moderate cardio. I have not tried anything else, yet, so I was looking for addition info.
/. -- that includes nights too.)
Over the past year, the Creatine helped quite a bit. I went from a 125 lbs geek to 155 lbs at age 35. I decided to start doing something about exercise since I sit at a desk all day. (Hm. I'm posting on
Judging from everything I've read on HGH, I will be staying far from this stuff.