Yeah, I also wonder why he didn't search for things he didn't want, like using some single service for data storage, as opposed to a layer built over several providers I wonder why he didn't search for "encrypted flash disk changing robot", "encrypted gnomes", "dropbox alternative for people who dont want something like dropbox" or "latex bondage"
Firmware is driver-dependant, and thus OS-dependant, architecture-dependant and version-dependant It's worse than anything else - even hardware blobs can be run via emulators / virtual machines
each local port is linked to a list of remote hosts, differing by IP address and remote port You fail to allocate a new connection only if you can't find a local port for which there is no entry for the specific remote IP and remote port
Ah, units. "it does 20mph per gallon!". Watt is a measure of flow. He meant "pay for that 100 watt/hour times hours for your lamp". The 1/hour and hour eliminate each other - "that 100 watt for your lamp". He's paying that watt-hours - 100watthour every hour. I said hour so much it lost all meaning. What is it? some kind of boar?
The parent's point was that the virus attack occurred at the CPU factory. You can't protect against that by demanding anything from the API (CPU instruction set) - the thing implementing it is compromised
firmware != binary blob Your BIOS is not open source. Your NIC's microcode is not open source. None of this stops you from running an open software stack. The discussion here is about Radeon's open source drivers. Sure, the microcode is closed. So are the masks.
Google and Amazon are possible because of a large crowd. Facebook and Twitter and eBay don't work without a large existing crowd. So you pick a site which already has a large crowd, thus creating a monopoly.
oh noes! I didn't get a fully working program for free. I had to hack on it a bit! I might as well have converted all the systems to Windows just so I could buy that one program
If there's no room in the eye for a power cable, you could always replace the whole eye with a device. That sounds so cool and so creepy at the same time:)
Smell is relative... are you wondering what smells you could detect there? Well, none of the molecules your nose responds to exist at these tempratures. And neither do you, for that matter:)
Analysts read information sources (news papers? what secret news source do analysts use?) and produce, well, analyses. My parents, for instance, are working hard in the IT industry. In fact, they work so hard, on existing (NT) systems, that they wouldn't know Linux is growing so fast if they didn't have some concise business newsletter to tell them so.
How would an old-running company, whose core business is not IT, know it's using an out-dated system, and not the 'industry standard'? The more companies repeat how Linux is growing in market share and quickly becoming standard (and god knows I read that), the more it becomes consensus. It has to be repeated ad nauseum, before old businesses take it up
I kind of liked Second Life. It was just like There, in that they promised the same things, only Second Life seems to have more ability with it's scripting mechanism. I found it truly shows the user, after only a few days tinkering with scripts, all the obstacles of the platform. I hope they'll fix them all one day.
But what really bugged me about both There and Second Life, which was absent in the good days of Active Worlds, was that it was some sort of game, and the people were trying to play it. It made them a bit robot-like (much like the market speak of these companies), and a whole less fun. I prefer to talk to the actual person, not the persona he's trying to play.
Active Worlds had telepresence and people built stuff, but it was a chatroom and used for such. I built there, too, but just to show my friends (and my AW friends), not to gain meaningless credits.
I applaud Bush for invading Iraq. It has cost the US alot of money and reduced the dollar further. My rent is much lower now (I pay in dollars, but get payed in NIS)
I'm overjoyed reading Bush's next targets - all aggressive muslim countries who'll resist America at all cost - more money spent, dollar goes down.
I burst into manical laughter at the notion of Bush dropping nukes. MAD, man. MAD.
China's where it's at, just like you said. It's huge (never been conquered, only changed rulers from within), industrial, and have nukes. How is the US going to fight one of the biggest countries in the world and the maker of most of US's products?
Voting with your political power works even less. You can only do so every long while. You can only choose between just a few corrupt groups. In some commercial areas, you have dozens of corrupt groups to choose from.
The corps can fire you. But they can't really fire every employee who bans McDonalds - it's impractical, to enforce nor defend in court. The government can pursue you, and can pursue groups of people, not only in press releases and lawsuits.
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Thank you. At least you are going in the direction of what he wants
I agree. This looks like a job for good old rsync! Or an rsync-like device.
Yeah, I also wonder why he didn't search for things he didn't want, like using some single service for data storage, as opposed to a layer built over several providers
I wonder why he didn't search for "encrypted flash disk changing robot", "encrypted gnomes", "dropbox alternative for people who dont want something like dropbox" or "latex bondage"
Firmware is driver-dependant, and thus OS-dependant, architecture-dependant and version-dependant
It's worse than anything else - even hardware blobs can be run via emulators / virtual machines
each local port is linked to a list of remote hosts, differing by IP address and remote port
You fail to allocate a new connection only if you can't find a local port for which there is no entry for the specific remote IP and remote port
Ah, units. "it does 20mph per gallon!". Watt is a measure of flow. He meant "pay for that 100 watt/hour times hours for your lamp". The 1/hour and hour eliminate each other - "that 100 watt for your lamp". He's paying that watt-hours - 100watthour every hour. I said hour so much it lost all meaning. What is it? some kind of boar?
l2thermodynamics.
You already have as much free energy as you want, if the kind of energy you want is heat.
The parent's point was that the virus attack occurred at the CPU factory. You can't protect against that by demanding anything from the API (CPU instruction set) - the thing implementing it is compromised
PEBTAC
firmware != binary blob
Your BIOS is not open source. Your NIC's microcode is not open source. None of this stops you from running an open software stack.
The discussion here is about Radeon's open source drivers. Sure, the microcode is closed. So are the masks.
Yes. In the Google keyboard, there's no button next to 'a'. Just a black, lifeless void
Google and Amazon are possible because of a large crowd.
Facebook and Twitter and eBay don't work without a large existing crowd.
So you pick a site which already has a large crowd, thus creating a monopoly.
dammit, edited out my *cough*'s (don't use html-style next time)
a great invention!
oh noes! I didn't get a fully working program for free.
I had to hack on it a bit!
I might as well have converted all the systems to Windows just so I could buy that one program
You obviously never sold oil to western countries
If there's no room in the eye for a power cable, you could always replace the whole eye with a device. :)
That sounds so cool and so creepy at the same time
Smell is relative... are you wondering what smells you could detect there? Well, none of the molecules your nose responds to exist at these tempratures. And neither do you, for that matter :)
But is that post really Insightful?
But time and space seem to be the same.
Wait, let me try at near C velocity...
Analysts read information sources (news papers? what secret news source do analysts use?) and produce, well, analyses.
My parents, for instance, are working hard in the IT industry. In fact, they work so hard, on existing (NT) systems, that they wouldn't know Linux is growing so fast if they didn't have some concise business newsletter to tell them so.
How would an old-running company, whose core business is not IT, know it's using an out-dated system, and not the 'industry standard'?
The more companies repeat how Linux is growing in market share and quickly becoming standard (and god knows I read that), the more it becomes consensus. It has to be repeated ad nauseum, before old businesses take it up
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I kind of liked Second Life.
It was just like There, in that they promised the same things, only Second Life seems to have more ability with it's scripting mechanism.
I found it truly shows the user, after only a few days tinkering with scripts, all the obstacles of the platform.
I hope they'll fix them all one day.
But what really bugged me about both There and Second Life, which was absent in the good days of Active Worlds, was that it was some sort of game, and the people were trying to play it.
It made them a bit robot-like (much like the market speak of these companies), and a whole less fun. I prefer to talk to the actual person, not the persona he's trying to play.
Active Worlds had telepresence and people built stuff, but it was a chatroom and used for such. I built there, too, but just to show my friends (and my AW friends), not to gain meaningless credits.
Back in 2001, there was a marketing ploy of a local company - buy their products, get codes to play games (by javascript) on their site, for prizes.
.NET, before XmlHttpRequest)
I hacked the game script - it downloaded the "correct results" from the server (this was before
tcpdump and a second partner won me a back pack
I applaud Bush for invading Iraq. It has cost the US alot of money and reduced the dollar further. My rent is much lower now (I pay in dollars, but get payed in NIS)
I'm overjoyed reading Bush's next targets - all aggressive muslim countries who'll resist America at all cost - more money spent, dollar goes down.
I burst into manical laughter at the notion of Bush dropping nukes. MAD, man. MAD.
China's where it's at, just like you said.
It's huge (never been conquered, only changed rulers from within), industrial, and have nukes.
How is the US going to fight one of the biggest countries in the world and the maker of most of US's products?
Voting with your political power works even less.
You can only do so every long while.
You can only choose between just a few corrupt groups. In some commercial areas, you have dozens of corrupt groups to choose from.
The corps can fire you. But they can't really fire every employee who bans McDonalds - it's impractical, to enforce nor defend in court.
The government can pursue you, and can pursue groups of people, not only in press releases and lawsuits.