It's funny when someone says they tried to install linux and it didn't work, they get chastised for trying. If he never mentioned Linux at all, there would be at least 5 users asking "Yes, but does it run Linux?";)
I'm going with alliance. It'd be stupid for Apple to be assimilated by IBM when Apple is on the rise and not appearing to peak any time soon. Besides, they've already partnered with IBM for chips. Why not let IBM help Apple sell more computers so that they can sell more chips to put in those machines. That seems perfectly logical.
IBM, IMHO, is getting a bit of an old-and-crusty feel to it. It'd do them some good to get a little more hip. Besides, all the Unix/Linux experience they have could help Apple, and eventually help the open source through Darwin.
This is sadly all-to-familiar. I do graphic design work on the side, and the guy who rounds up the business cannot type a legible message to save his life. The sad part is that some of my projects are assigned via e-mail, and I end up spending 30 minutes just trying to figure out what he means.
(Mildly off-topic, but...) I know that it's super cool now-a-days to use "u" and "ur" and those types of abbreviations, but I think the English language is being butchered (which isn't saying much because the English language is butchering many other languages) by this modern lack-of-respect for spelling, grammar (or some semblance of grammar, to cover my own ass), and overly-shortened words.
But, I guess it this is the only real ill the Internet does for the world, the good far out weighs the bad.
I am / was redesigning my website, with a database overhaul. A friend of mine convinced me to store passwords in the database w/ some sort of encryption. I'd had experience with the MD5 hashes somehow matching, so I looked for an alternative method. SHA-1 was it.
PHP has the built-in function but my server doesn't support it. Instead I used another implementation: http://www.tecknik.net/sha-1/
I thought there was even a JavaScript implementation somewhere, though I can't seem to find it.
SHA-1, if nothing else, is cooler because it's more fun to say. "Em dee five" versus "Sha, One" which is alot like "Sha, right!" from Wayne's World.
Why is it that mobile phone numbers seem less expendable to me than e-mail addresses. My past habits have been: If I get enough spam that it BOTHERS me, then change my e-mail. This is really easy since I have a web host that allows plenty of pop3 e-mail addresses (esp. if it has "vacation auto-responses" built in). I think only one person in my history has complained about my almost-yearly e-mail addy changes. I think if I were getting over a grand of spam, I'd just kill that e-mail addy and get a new one...
I thought I had the worng link but then realized it might be the wrong linkg. At which point I navigated to the root, and then realized it was, in fact, a 403 error (not a 404). That means/. not bad URL.
God, I hope I didn't spell anything wrong (except the word I meant to)...
It makes perfect sense. You STREAM it, not download it. You can't copy it to your computer and save it there from within the program. You can merely stream the audio, which is not the same as saving it to your hdd.
As far as the "private" performance, it should hold up in that only your invited/allowed "friends" (at this point up to 30) can listen to any given song at any given time. It's not offered to the general public. This would be like me having some friends over and playing music from my personal MP3 library. It's not a public performance because only my friends are listening to it, and they are only there because I invited them to the private gathering.
But the tricksy lawyerses will probably take away the precious anyway they like because they hates the precious and would rather see us dead than have it.
And, damnit, I JUST moved to Cali a few months ago. But, I seriously doubt they can get everyone to have government installed GPS in their car due to privacy concerns. If whatever-car-rental company can't give me a speeding ticked based on GPS because that is invasion of privacy, this method will not fly.
Of course, he was mad. Lots of people buying your $20 application means lots of money. Apple making something almost just like it means you lose some potential money (from people like me who feel that paying for a javascript/PHP/applescript engine that everyone else builds wigets for isn't quite right). But it is only $20 bucks (about 4 hours of work at minimum wage).
Unless there is a free version out there that I missed. Maybe I'll break down and buy it one day...
I think it is partially true. A major web server, for instance, would be under scrutiny. Those would be, most of the time, Linux and Windows. On the desktop front, BSDs/MacOSx don't have alot of public mindshare, so all the exploits being researched are for Windows, since it is pretty ubiquitous on the desktop. But, I think it depends on if the survey is for potentiality-to-be-exploited or history-of-not-getting-exploited. If it is the latter, your observation is true. It's security through obscurity. If the author meant the former, then your observation is wrong. But if it is through obscurity, it seems Palm or Symbian OS, ones that qualify as constant computing operating systems (as most non-geek people I know spend more time on their cell phone than on a computer), would rank pretty high. Just my observations.
That is exactly what I was going to suggest. Mozilla raised $250K in dontations for FireFox ads. It would really be philanthropic to buy an annoying company and let it die. Alternativly, since someone else would step up to take their place and be just as annoying, some appointed leader could create a non-intursive / geek-pleasing ad standard and do battle against everyone else. Sounds like a good source forge project;)
The only cool thing about putting 4 wheels on the Segway HT (aka Centaur) is that you can climb over curbs. I've seen several places since I moved to LA that don't have handycap ramps on corners. I think you might be able to ramp an HT off of a curb, but you are pretty screwed if you want to get back on the curb AND stay on the machine w/o a ramp. This thing (apparently) makes that possible. If it could also climb stairs (on thing I think the HT should be able to do to be a viable form of personal-area-transportation), it would be a bit more worthwhile. Unfortunatly it is much larger than the HT.
It would also make more sense to fabricate a lighter vehicle rather than use an existing (heavy) platform. The lighter the vehicle, the less energy it would take to move it. I was thinking, perhaps, a carbon fiber and aluminum body. But, then the 10 grand figure would increase (but it would probably be worth it as far as bragging rights are concerned).
Wow. Mod points aren't getting handed out like candy at a Mardi Gras parade like they used to.:P
Pisser, yes. But, whatever. I'll deal with the negative impacts as well as the lack of personal gratification of having the ability to tell people that they are saying the same thing as everyone else.
It's the same idea he was pushing when he wanted live video on his website. He apparently had someone write a java video viewer, and some sort of codec developed / under development. Basically, the eye will focus on certain parts of an image, so that part needs to be clearest. That was the way that was supposed to work. Compress the nonessential parts more than the essential. The NEW thing he is saying is that the eye can only has 9 kbs of bandwidth or whatever it was (I haven't read the article since it debuted), so we should compress it to that level. I reckon the problem is that the eye sees a different way digital compression.
So, I agree. It sounds like a great idea, but it'd have to be tested alot to get it just right, if that is possible.
In the mean time Robert X Cringley thinks that they should turn the old lines into video streaming conduits for on-demand programming.
Seems like a good idea, but there is no way the telcos could sit down and think of doing that. They just aren't that innovative. Otherwise, they'd have been on VoIP awhile ago.
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It's funny when someone says they tried to install linux and it didn't work, they get chastised for trying. If he never mentioned Linux at all, there would be at least 5 users asking "Yes, but does it run Linux?" ;)
I'm going with alliance. It'd be stupid for Apple to be assimilated by IBM when Apple is on the rise and not appearing to peak any time soon. Besides, they've already partnered with IBM for chips. Why not let IBM help Apple sell more computers so that they can sell more chips to put in those machines. That seems perfectly logical. IBM, IMHO, is getting a bit of an old-and-crusty feel to it. It'd do them some good to get a little more hip. Besides, all the Unix/Linux experience they have could help Apple, and eventually help the open source through Darwin.
This is sadly all-to-familiar. I do graphic design work on the side, and the guy who rounds up the business cannot type a legible message to save his life. The sad part is that some of my projects are assigned via e-mail, and I end up spending 30 minutes just trying to figure out what he means. (Mildly off-topic, but...) I know that it's super cool now-a-days to use "u" and "ur" and those types of abbreviations, but I think the English language is being butchered (which isn't saying much because the English language is butchering many other languages) by this modern lack-of-respect for spelling, grammar (or some semblance of grammar, to cover my own ass), and overly-shortened words. But, I guess it this is the only real ill the Internet does for the world, the good far out weighs the bad.
I am / was redesigning my website, with a database overhaul. A friend of mine convinced me to store passwords in the database w/ some sort of encryption. I'd had experience with the MD5 hashes somehow matching, so I looked for an alternative method. SHA-1 was it.
PHP has the built-in function but my server doesn't support it. Instead I used another implementation: http://www.tecknik.net/sha-1/
I thought there was even a JavaScript implementation somewhere, though I can't seem to find it.
SHA-1, if nothing else, is cooler because it's more fun to say. "Em dee five" versus "Sha, One" which is alot like "Sha, right!" from Wayne's World.
I'm wondering how long he has to study before the tour...
Why is it that mobile phone numbers seem less expendable to me than e-mail addresses. My past habits have been: If I get enough spam that it BOTHERS me, then change my e-mail. This is really easy since I have a web host that allows plenty of pop3 e-mail addresses (esp. if it has "vacation auto-responses" built in). I think only one person in my history has complained about my almost-yearly e-mail addy changes. I think if I were getting over a grand of spam, I'd just kill that e-mail addy and get a new one...
I thought I had the worng link but then realized it might be the wrong linkg. At which point I navigated to the root, and then realized it was, in fact, a 403 error (not a 404). That means /. not bad URL.
God, I hope I didn't spell anything wrong (except the word I meant to)...
I don't know about standards compliant, but at least usable by all browsers (for the most part).
Don't forget TZero.
It makes perfect sense. You STREAM it, not download it. You can't copy it to your computer and save it there from within the program. You can merely stream the audio, which is not the same as saving it to your hdd.
As far as the "private" performance, it should hold up in that only your invited/allowed "friends" (at this point up to 30) can listen to any given song at any given time. It's not offered to the general public. This would be like me having some friends over and playing music from my personal MP3 library. It's not a public performance because only my friends are listening to it, and they are only there because I invited them to the private gathering.
But the tricksy lawyerses will probably take away the precious anyway they like because they hates the precious and would rather see us dead than have it.
It's supposed to be...
"Yes... but does can it run Linux?"
:P
And, damnit, I JUST moved to Cali a few months ago. But, I seriously doubt they can get everyone to have government installed GPS in their car due to privacy concerns. If whatever-car-rental company can't give me a speeding ticked based on GPS because that is invasion of privacy, this method will not fly.
Of course, he was mad. Lots of people buying your $20 application means lots of money. Apple making something almost just like it means you lose some potential money (from people like me who feel that paying for a javascript/PHP/applescript engine that everyone else builds wigets for isn't quite right). But it is only $20 bucks (about 4 hours of work at minimum wage).
Unless there is a free version out there that I missed. Maybe I'll break down and buy it one day...
I think it is partially true. A major web server, for instance, would be under scrutiny. Those would be, most of the time, Linux and Windows. On the desktop front, BSDs/MacOSx don't have alot of public mindshare, so all the exploits being researched are for Windows, since it is pretty ubiquitous on the desktop. But, I think it depends on if the survey is for potentiality-to-be-exploited or history-of-not-getting-exploited. If it is the latter, your observation is true. It's security through obscurity. If the author meant the former, then your observation is wrong. But if it is through obscurity, it seems Palm or Symbian OS, ones that qualify as constant computing operating systems (as most non-geek people I know spend more time on their cell phone than on a computer), would rank pretty high. Just my observations.
That is exactly what I was going to suggest. Mozilla raised $250K in dontations for FireFox ads. It would really be philanthropic to buy an annoying company and let it die. Alternativly, since someone else would step up to take their place and be just as annoying, some appointed leader could create a non-intursive / geek-pleasing ad standard and do battle against everyone else. Sounds like a good source forge project ;)
Bollocks. I meant Groening. What a shitty joke that turned out to be.
why not matt goering?
trust me, it's not.
The only cool thing about putting 4 wheels on the Segway HT (aka Centaur) is that you can climb over curbs. I've seen several places since I moved to LA that don't have handycap ramps on corners. I think you might be able to ramp an HT off of a curb, but you are pretty screwed if you want to get back on the curb AND stay on the machine w/o a ramp. This thing (apparently) makes that possible. If it could also climb stairs (on thing I think the HT should be able to do to be a viable form of personal-area-transportation), it would be a bit more worthwhile. Unfortunatly it is much larger than the HT.
It would also make more sense to fabricate a lighter vehicle rather than use an existing (heavy) platform. The lighter the vehicle, the less energy it would take to move it. I was thinking, perhaps, a carbon fiber and aluminum body. But, then the 10 grand figure would increase (but it would probably be worth it as far as bragging rights are concerned).
They'll get John Belushi. Oh, wait. No...
They'll get Chris Farley. Ah, damn. Not again...
Maybe that guy from Mad TV?
Wow. Mod points aren't getting handed out like candy at a Mardi Gras parade like they used to. :P
Pisser, yes. But, whatever. I'll deal with the negative impacts as well as the lack of personal gratification of having the ability to tell people that they are saying the same thing as everyone else.
It's the same idea he was pushing when he wanted live video on his website. He apparently had someone write a java video viewer, and some sort of codec developed / under development. Basically, the eye will focus on certain parts of an image, so that part needs to be clearest. That was the way that was supposed to work. Compress the nonessential parts more than the essential. The NEW thing he is saying is that the eye can only has 9 kbs of bandwidth or whatever it was (I haven't read the article since it debuted), so we should compress it to that level. I reckon the problem is that the eye sees a different way digital compression.
So, I agree. It sounds like a great idea, but it'd have to be tested alot to get it just right, if that is possible.
In the mean time Robert X Cringley thinks that they should turn the old lines into video streaming conduits for on-demand programming.
Seems like a good idea, but there is no way the telcos could sit down and think of doing that. They just aren't that innovative. Otherwise, they'd have been on VoIP awhile ago.
Obviously someone liked the game... Solitaire that is.