We've got an internal web system thats supposed to be IE only. They only enforce the IE only stuff on the production site, not the development site. One of the developers was having an issue with cascading style sheets and kanji rendering properly. He came into my office and mozilla 0.9.9 rendered it perfectly while IE went to hell in a hand basket and was "generating an error log"
Needless to say, The developer went back and installed mozilla (though they still target IE) and I've been lobbying the manager of the project to widen the browser scope.
Three Cheers for the hard work put into the making of Mozilla. Its good to see what comes out of a development model thats based on quality, not time to ship.
Horray for a browser that at least makes an attempt at following standards (instead of trying to create ones!)
I went not expecting any plot / character development / continuity and wasn't disappointed.
Yeah, there were huge gaps.
Couple of things I wondered about...
Weren't all the clans leaders dragged out to that vampire church in the last movie and their blood drained into the Mr. Frost who then became the Blood God? Apparently someone doesn't open their mail, or slept in after dusk on accident...
Was it just me or as soon as you saw that huge pool of blood you thought: "Yup, blades gonna fall into that and they'll have a blade rising out of the blood ready to whoop some ass scene"
If vampirism is a viral infection, how can you have a pure blood vampire?
Just thoughts. Though the weapons were whoop-ass. Too bad blade didn't have those flash bang grenades in the last movie, they could have cut about 25 minutes off the first movie.
Instead of the "War on Drugs" it'll be the "War on piracy" We'll hear rethoric on tv, about those horrible people who are smuggling illegal non-copyprotected products over the boarders. They'll speak of people smuggling motherboards under baby blankets, and people swallowing processors in condoms...
We'll hear great stories about CEA (Copyright Enforcement Agency) busting into back alley motherboard labs. We'll hear about the Taiwanese motherboard cartels...
We'll see great pictures of smiling agents standing behind fold out tables covered with confiscated non copy protected harddrives wrapped up in plastic wrap as the press huddles around.
I'm right along with you. The only reason I'm forced to use MicroSuck and not linux is because of outlook and project. Now I could get around both of those with vmware, but my workstation here is just a bit on the gutless side...
I've got a whole bunch of HPUX boxes under heavy load Right now I've got one box at 860 days of uptime and another near the 500 mark. Granted their Stratus boxes (www.stratus.com) so their fully redundant, but the OS is rock solid.
That's funny, at last check openoffice has a port for BeOS. Also at last check, openoffice had no problem dealing with any microsoft document (abeit project) that had been thrown at it.
We dropped lots of "cluster" type bombs. These are bright yellow and have a parachute and the non-detontation rate is like 15% (which is pretty piss poor...) Their only considered mines because they didn't detonate right away.
I think a bright yellow tube with a parachute lying on the ground is a little more obvious then a mine that was buried in the ground by the USSR 10 years ago.
Granted they aren't any easier to clean up then land mines, but at you know what your working with.
1. Since your files are being mirrored all over the place, what you need is a harddrive thats superfast and big, but doesn't need to be not reliable. What I'm thinking would serve the purpose awesomely would be a 100gig piece of ram with a ni-cad/fuelcell battery attached to it.
2. Since, obviously everything's going to be encrypted, I would think that you'd probably had some special hardware onboard that'd be doing the encrypting. Since I'm of an orwellian bend, I'm thinking you'd have some special access card with a key on it that would be used for the encoding. This way if you went to some other computer, you'd stick in your key and have access to your files.
So in the future this is what I think a machine would look like...
The cool thing with the ram, is using it as a general purpose filesystem and for system memeory, you start to blur the seperation from loading something into memory and just executing it. The filesytem is no longer stored as much as its a memory offset away... Also, you'd be payed for your level of opt-in. If someone wants to have an island and not contribute, then they'd have to pay out of pocket for the services. If you do choose to contribute, your cost would be offset by what you'd make back by contributing.
That's debatable. Removing Saddam would completely destablize that whole area. You'd see all its neighbors (claiming reperations for past mis-deeds) carving out a chunk of Iraq for themselves.
America won in that it protected its interests in the region (oil!) and slowed the creation of another SANAN (Small And Nuclear Armed Nation).
What I didn't like was our willingness to accept Saddam's excuses whenever we went to inspect his weapons facilities.
The guy has a history of using his weapons on his own people (read the Kurds(sp?))
What you could see happen is something like the following...
1. RIAA does some research and sees that kids goto the mall and swap pirated songs.
2. RIAA informs the mall that they might be held responsible for the infringments since they're not preventing them.
3. Mall installs device that floods the spectrum with junk wireless packets to flood out the use of P2P.
Presto, kids can't goto the mall and trade songs/warez anymore.
As the technology becomes more pervasive, I could see schools installing such devices as well, since the prospect of cheating and/or goofing off goes up exponentially.
The technology already exists to-do such things. Some cities have talked about installing devices that create cellphone "dead zones".
- I could do the right thing, but it feels so good to be so bad...
After some fatal flaw is found in the protocol, some yahoo will write a virus that exploits this flaw and uploads code that turns your P2P device into a propagator of said virus, ad naseau... And who said viruses don't model biological functions...
"haha, my handheld has an infection rate near 99%"
On the positive side of this, I suppose you could write a self propgating virus that would fix the protocol as it infects...
Some how being run over by an electric car would be rather humilating...
Your in the ambulance and the guy says "what kind of car ran over your leg and you mutter 'Corbin Sparrow'" suddenly the dude just losses it and starts laughing at you.
You get to the hospital and doctor is like "Damn, 4th one this week. Damn you electric monsters (with fist raised in the air)" (and the doctor would that guy from young frankenstin)
Yeah I know I'm wacked... I think its the water...
I've installed Linux on this box HP Vectra, Pentium 2 450, 192MB of ram and I've got everything working, here's my two problems...
1. Outlook - This is a non-sequitor because of evolution, but since they don't have there connector out yet, its impossilbe for me to use. My company uses exchange for everything, meetings, tasks, etc... If I can't hit "accept" when I get a meeting request, its no good to me, and my boss routinely sends me contacts...
2. Project - This is a big issue for me. If I could get a project replacement, I could be free at last, however, without project I'm screwed. My boss doesn't write me email and ask me about something, he looks at a project file in a common area we both have access to. Then if he doesn't see its been updated he writes me email or sends me a meeting request (see how the two are intertwined...)
What if the process has forked off a bunch of children? Are you going to archive all the children at the same time? What if the process has a whole bunch of files in/tmp, are you going to roll them up into the freeze state as well? What if your using pthreads? Are you going to keep the state for each thread? How about file pointers?
I think the better solution is to write a new signal called "SIGFREEZE" and have programs just write code that could handle such an event. Let the program figure out how to save their own stuff.
A good example would be a program that was calculating pi. The programmer would have to implient a signal handler that would when it recieved a SIGFREEZE would stop its computating and write what its currently working on out to file. The other thing the programmer should be doing is periodically writing their data out to a file anyway. Then the programmer should have implement a command line option that would facilitate reloading from a saved state.
I feel sorry for all the people at Cloud 9 who ended up losing their jobs because some 14 year old kid got their kicks bringing down a whole ISP. Hopefully by the ISP closing, the group of people will get more brazen until their caught. I just hope no other companies had die because of it.
Maybe one day, we will have fusion...
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The problem is that it doesn't give any good options. I'd like to shop for the best deal, and I'd even pay a bit more for some premium options, but I have no options. Where I live, (South Grafton, Massachusetts) my options for high speed access are Verison DSL only. Oh and guess who owns the phone line connected to my house... you guessed it... Verison... My only non-long distance dialup connection would be... you guessed it...Verizon. So either way, i'm throwing money into the mouth of the beast.
Well, I gotta go pay my verison bill...
Chaos reigns in the best laid plans of mice and men.
1. The feds have that key catcher system. so like that mobster, if they do sneak in and make a copy of your harddrive and can't decrypt it, they'll just wait for you to put in password...
2. They have tempest... all they have todo is record the electromagnetic energy coming from your monitor and they can see what's on your screen.
3. They can burst in with guns and restrain you before you could destroy any of the evidence.
He'll just start bitching the first time some old lady gets flagged as a terrorist and gets stripped searched. Then you'll hear "If they were using Oracle 8i this wouldn't have happened..." Whats that saying... To Error is human, to really screw things up and ruin peoples lives takes a whole goverment... Yeah, either way with or without Larry's help, I'm sure when I go to get my drivers license renewed the lady will swipe my drivers license through the little slot and suddenly I'll be lookiing down a really large caliber weapon and some guy will say "Sir.. could you come with us" and they'll interrogate me about the rash of naked sky diving bank robberies or some other outlandish thing...
Pretty much, I don't have much faith in the goverment not screwing the whole thing up and then screwing people.
-- I'm not stupid, I just pretend to be at work ---
I agree with you there when it comes to the hiss... I've got a good ole Ensoniq in my box and if you turn off XMMS, and turn up the gain, you'll hear a hiss everytime my harddrive is accessed.
As for the latency of USB, I would think they'd recommend that you don't have anything else on the bus while your using it. This isn't a problem since most decent USB chipsets have 2 channels anyway. Also if it really became a problem, you could pull out that crappy pci sound card and put a pci USB card in its place:-)
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We've got an internal web system thats supposed to be IE only. They only enforce the IE only stuff on the production site, not the development site. One of the developers was having an issue with cascading style sheets and kanji rendering properly. He came into my office and mozilla 0.9.9 rendered it perfectly while IE went to hell in a hand basket and was "generating an error log"
Needless to say, The developer went back and installed mozilla (though they still target IE) and I've been lobbying the manager of the project to widen the browser scope.
Three Cheers for the hard work put into the making of Mozilla. Its good to see what comes out of a development model thats based on quality, not time to ship.
Horray for a browser that at least makes an attempt at following standards (instead of trying to create ones!)
I went not expecting any plot / character development / continuity and wasn't disappointed.
Yeah, there were huge gaps.
Couple of things I wondered about...
Weren't all the clans leaders dragged out to that vampire church in the last movie and their blood drained into the Mr. Frost who then became the Blood God? Apparently someone doesn't open their mail, or slept in after dusk on accident...
Was it just me or as soon as you saw that huge pool of blood you thought: "Yup, blades gonna fall into that and they'll have a blade rising out of the blood ready to whoop some ass scene"
If vampirism is a viral infection, how can you have a pure blood vampire?
Just thoughts. Though the weapons were whoop-ass. Too bad blade didn't have those flash bang grenades in the last movie, they could have cut about 25 minutes off the first movie.
Just thoughts.
Instead of the "War on Drugs" it'll be the "War on piracy" We'll hear rethoric on tv, about those horrible people who are smuggling illegal non-copyprotected products over the boarders. They'll speak of people smuggling motherboards under baby blankets, and people swallowing processors in condoms...
We'll hear great stories about CEA (Copyright Enforcement Agency) busting into back alley motherboard labs. We'll hear about the Taiwanese motherboard cartels...
We'll see great pictures of smiling agents standing behind fold out tables covered with confiscated non copy protected harddrives wrapped up in plastic wrap as the press huddles around.
Not that were that far off from this right now...
"insert wacky hijinks..."
I'm right along with you. The only reason I'm forced to use MicroSuck and not linux is because of outlook and project. Now I could get around both of those with vmware, but my workstation here is just a bit on the gutless side...
I've got a whole bunch of HPUX boxes under heavy load
Right now I've got one box at 860 days of uptime and another near the 500 mark. Granted their Stratus boxes (www.stratus.com) so their fully redundant, but the OS is rock solid.
That's funny, at last check openoffice has a port for BeOS. Also at last check, openoffice had no problem dealing with any microsoft document (abeit project) that had been thrown at it.
what if the robot also had solar power as well to suppliment it's chemically generated power.
We dropped lots of "cluster" type bombs. These are bright yellow and have a parachute and the non-detontation rate is like 15% (which is pretty piss poor...) Their only considered mines because they didn't detonate right away.
I think a bright yellow tube with a parachute lying on the ground is a little more obvious then a mine that was buried in the ground by the USSR 10 years ago.
Granted they aren't any easier to clean up then land mines, but at you know what your working with.
On a serious note... Please elope!
My Fiance' and I are planning a wedding as I'm reading this...
Planning a wedding is like writing assembly in binary...
Just remember: Life after highschool is just highschool with money, with gradation in 50 years...
I know it' on Nick...
Invader Zim: cancelled
Here's something to chew on...
1. Since your files are being mirrored all over the place, what you need is a harddrive thats superfast and big, but doesn't need to be not reliable. What I'm thinking would serve the purpose awesomely would be a 100gig piece of ram with a ni-cad/fuelcell battery attached to it.
2. Since, obviously everything's going to be encrypted, I would think that you'd probably had some special hardware onboard that'd be doing the encrypting. Since I'm of an orwellian bend, I'm thinking you'd have some special access card with a key on it that would be used for the encoding. This way if you went to some other computer, you'd stick in your key and have access to your files.
So in the future this is what I think a machine would look like...
Processor: 5-10ghz
Ram: 100-200gig's
Video: HDsomething
Harddrive: something solidstate
Network: >=1gig/sec
The cool thing with the ram, is using it as a general purpose filesystem and for system memeory, you start to blur the seperation from loading something into memory and just executing it. The filesytem is no longer stored as much as its a memory offset away... Also, you'd be payed for your level of opt-in. If someone wants to have an island and not contribute, then they'd have to pay out of pocket for the services. If you do choose to contribute, your cost would be offset by what you'd make back by contributing.
Just Ideas...
Feel free to flame me, I can't take it...
1. It's a OO programming langugage that's been around for a while and its mature.
:-P
2. The GUI is sweet.
3. It's cross platfrom (Kylix for linux)
Go right ahead and flame me, I don't care
Isn't that what HURD is all about? Also, I think Plan 9 would be a good OS for this as well.
That's debatable. Removing Saddam would completely destablize that whole area. You'd see all its neighbors (claiming reperations for past mis-deeds) carving out a chunk of Iraq for themselves.
America won in that it protected its interests in the region (oil!) and slowed the creation of another SANAN (Small And Nuclear Armed Nation).
What I didn't like was our willingness to accept Saddam's excuses whenever we went to inspect his weapons facilities.
The guy has a history of using his weapons on his own people (read the Kurds(sp?))
What you could see happen is something like the following...
1. RIAA does some research and sees that kids goto the mall and swap pirated songs.
2. RIAA informs the mall that they might be held responsible for the infringments since they're not preventing them.
3. Mall installs device that floods the spectrum with junk wireless packets to flood out the use of P2P.
Presto, kids can't goto the mall and trade songs/warez anymore.
As the technology becomes more pervasive, I could see schools installing such devices as well, since the prospect of cheating and/or goofing off goes up exponentially.
The technology already exists to-do such things. Some cities have talked about installing devices that create cellphone "dead zones".
- I could do the right thing, but it feels so good to be so bad...
After some fatal flaw is found in the protocol, some yahoo will write a virus that exploits this flaw and uploads code that turns your P2P device into a propagator of said virus, ad naseau... And who said viruses don't model biological functions...
"haha, my handheld has an infection rate near 99%"
On the positive side of this, I suppose you could write a self propgating virus that would fix the protocol as it infects...
Some how being run over by an electric car would be rather humilating...
Your in the ambulance and the guy says "what kind of car ran over your leg and you mutter 'Corbin Sparrow'" suddenly the dude just losses it and starts laughing at you.
You get to the hospital and doctor is like "Damn, 4th one this week. Damn you electric monsters (with fist raised in the air)" (and the doctor would that guy from young frankenstin)
Yeah I know I'm wacked... I think its the water...
I've installed Linux on this box HP Vectra, Pentium 2 450, 192MB of ram and I've got everything working, here's my two problems...
1. Outlook - This is a non-sequitor because of evolution, but since they don't have there connector out yet, its impossilbe for me to use. My company uses exchange for everything, meetings, tasks, etc... If I can't hit "accept" when I get a meeting request, its no good to me, and my boss routinely sends me contacts...
2. Project - This is a big issue for me. If I could get a project replacement, I could be free at last, however, without project I'm screwed. My boss doesn't write me email and ask me about something, he looks at a project file in a common area we both have access to. Then if he doesn't see its been updated he writes me email or sends me a meeting request (see how the two are intertwined...)
Once I get those, I'm free...
What if the process has forked off a bunch of children? Are you going to archive all the children at the same time? What if the process has a whole bunch of files in /tmp, are you going to roll them up into the freeze state as well? What if your using pthreads? Are you going to keep the state for each thread? How about file pointers?
I think the better solution is to write a new signal called "SIGFREEZE" and have programs just write code that could handle such an event. Let the program figure out how to save their own stuff.
A good example would be a program that was calculating pi. The programmer would have to implient a signal handler that would when it recieved a SIGFREEZE would stop its computating and write what its currently working on out to file. The other thing the programmer should be doing is periodically writing their data out to a file anyway. Then the programmer should have implement a command line option that would facilitate reloading from a saved state.
Thats my take on it...
If you see any problems with it... bring it on.
I agree with Cringley on this. Microsoft is just using this as a PR bit to capitalize on our fears about security...
I also agree when it comes to the whole "microsoftizing" the whole security thing and using as a way to back more people into a corner...
I feel sorry for all the people at Cloud 9 who ended up losing their jobs because some 14 year old kid got their kicks bringing down a whole ISP. Hopefully by the ISP closing, the group of people will get more brazen until their caught. I just hope no other companies had die because of it.
Maybe one day, we will have fusion...
The problem is that it doesn't give any good options. I'd like to shop for the best deal, and I'd even pay a bit more for some premium options, but I have no options. Where I live, (South Grafton, Massachusetts) my options for high speed access are Verison DSL only. Oh and guess who owns the phone line connected to my house... you guessed it... Verison... My only non-long distance dialup connection would be... you guessed it...Verizon. So either way, i'm throwing money into the mouth of the beast.
Well, I gotta go pay my verison bill...
Chaos reigns in the best laid plans of mice and men.
I think this all might be a bit mute anyway...
1. The feds have that key catcher system. so like that mobster, if they do sneak in and make a copy of your harddrive and can't decrypt it, they'll just wait for you to put in password...
2. They have tempest... all they have todo is record the electromagnetic energy coming from your monitor and they can see what's on your screen.
3. They can burst in with guns and restrain you before you could destroy any of the evidence.
He'll just start bitching the first time some old lady gets flagged as a terrorist and gets stripped searched. Then you'll hear "If they were using Oracle 8i this wouldn't have happened..." Whats that saying... To Error is human, to really screw things up and ruin peoples lives takes a whole goverment... Yeah, either way with or without Larry's help, I'm sure when I go to get my drivers license renewed the lady will swipe my drivers license through the little slot and suddenly I'll be lookiing down a really large caliber weapon and some guy will say "Sir.. could you come with us" and they'll interrogate me about the rash of naked sky diving bank robberies or some other outlandish thing...
Pretty much, I don't have much faith in the goverment not screwing the whole thing up and then screwing people.
-- I'm not stupid, I just pretend to be at work ---
I agree with you there when it comes to the hiss... I've got a good ole Ensoniq in my box and if you turn off XMMS, and turn up the gain, you'll hear a hiss everytime my harddrive is accessed.
:-)
As for the latency of USB, I would think they'd recommend that you don't have anything else on the bus while your using it. This isn't a problem since most decent USB chipsets have 2 channels anyway. Also if it really became a problem, you could pull out that crappy pci sound card and put a pci USB card in its place
-- I'm not an idiot, but I play on at work --