I use this a lot when im trying to navigate my way through a new 3d enviornment or backtrack to find an old website link. You simply go with your instinct, and more often than not it ends up being the path previously traveled. An interesting approach to idiot proof security;).
ok, this is bad... but what i see as a far worse problem is that most oems dont bother setting passwords on windows xp installs.
i've even seen this happen on a thinkpad, and i would have thought ibm of all people to know better. i've seen this on a few venders before but i cant remember exactly which ones, has anyone else seem this happen before?
It should also be noted that MAC addresses actually provide required functionality, modern day networking is built around them... For the life of me, i cannot think of any productive use for cpu id's.
Thats almost scary, but I have the same exact setup with my girlfriend, with the exception that she ordered the I heart my geek shirt on her own;). Im starting to wonder if I should ask her if she hangs out with anyone named Julien:p. On a serious note, i tried to get my girlfriend to play daoc with me, and it more or less faltered. The sims? she cant pry herself off... and checks packetnews and ircspy for a leaked beta of sims 2 daily. the tycoon games? she loves em. anything else? its up in the air. The best thing you can do in this situation is feel around and figure out what kind of title she might enjoy. I didnt think my girlfriend would ever play a fps, but given the right gameplay (Alice) it works. Keep an open mind and always have hope;).
Yea, after reading stateoftheunions comment i had a better understanding of the purpose of yours. Initially i couldnt even draw a parallel between the article and your analogy, but after a cup of coffee and a couple of replies its all starting to sink in. Not being an energy buff, this is all fairly new to me but another comment linked to JETs site, where i was able to read an overview of the nuts and bolts of their system, its pretty amazing stuff... and it seems much safer than our current nuclear setup. There was an article in the april 2003 wired IIRC on the insane restrictions on nuclear waste storage (10k years safely) which is preventing Yucca mountain from being ok'd as a storage facility, which leads to fuel rods spending WAY too much time in cooling pools. An earthquake an order of magnitude higher than what we're used to and we would all be glowing green for quite some time... At any rate, its good to see people working on a problem that really, really needs to be dealt with.
A more suitable analogy would be to compare it to implementing a network protocol into an application. Your analogy seems to downplay the achievement these people have worked for:(
i would make it a requirement to code an enjoyable 2600 rom:p The ammount of work that goes into creating an entertaining title while only working with 4k of rom space and 128 bytes of memory is staggering. Mind you, most of my emails are larger than 4k.... I dunno, maybe im just being sappy, but it really brings a smile to my face to see coders throwing themselves into what i can only characterize as a digital bootcamp, simply for the love of the game. Long live passionate programmers:D.
Listen, I understand your concern. I thought about my own post before hitting submit. There is an enormous difference between someone that holds a different political view from yours and someone that peddles child pornography. Notice in my post that i mentioned the word judge? Thats because one is still required to do this. Im a liberal, and believe you me, when something fishy starts happening with surveillance of my internet connection, ill be screaming with the rest of you. However, thats not what happened. They used a properly issued warrent to sniff the connection of some fuckass who thought little girls (or boys) were sexy. Im glad hes off the streets.
you still need a judge to ok something like this, and who *really* wants to bother supporting child porno slime. These guys followed the letter of the law, and im glad they caught the guy. Case closed.
Im not a scientist, so you can largely discount anything i say as rubbish, but i have read articles to the effect that light does indeed slow down when passing through certain materials, namely water and diamonds IIRC. I believe this was the beginning steps of developing a light based computer, where controlling a photons movement was the major challenge. Also, I cant help but thinking ive seen other/. stories about scientists being able to "trap" photons in a non-mobile state for breif periods of time. Is this not "changing the speed of light"?
For proof, check out this. This drive was defragged about a week ago, and although it does go through heavy use, the current low disk space causes massive fragmentation.
For anyone complaining about speed, keep in mind this is a.1 release of Pear, and speed is always (or should be) secondary to functionality. Im sure by a 1.0 release things will be a lot snappier. Lets just all applaud the fact that this actually sort of works;).
it just so happens that on a recent launch a wormhole accidentally opened and the money was split into an infinite number of parallel universes, where the cash began to interfere with itself until it imploded, leaving only this ball of lint in my pocket....
Actually, AMD has been working on this for a bit longer than Intel IIRC, which is why we can expect dual core AMD chips in 2005, while Intels offering is set to appear about a year later.
I actually read the article, and although i can't tell you too much about what it means, i can tell you that these guys sound damn smart. I mean DAMN smart.
If they cant download the updates, and havoc is all the more extreme because of poor MS coding, it only shines a brighter light on alternative operating systems. Ive been saying forever that the year MS perfects its anti-piracy technique really WILL BE the year of the linux desktop, and this (at least in my eyes) is a step closer to that.
America is the epitome of short attention spans, loud colorfull comercials, and above all, the need to convince our children that spending is the most important thing they can do. The corporations that are supported by politicians that YOU DIDNT BOTHER VOTING AGAINST helped this happen. If your child is too busy collecting pokemon cards (because you have been guilted by society into working 60 hours a week to buy them) to pay attention to petty things like math or science, well... tough luck.
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I use this a lot when im trying to navigate my way through a new 3d enviornment or backtrack to find an old website link. ;).
You simply go with your instinct, and more often than not it ends up being the path previously traveled. An interesting approach to idiot proof security
ok, this is bad... but what i see as a far worse problem is that most oems dont bother setting passwords on windows xp installs.
i've even seen this happen on a thinkpad, and i would have thought ibm of all people to know better. i've seen this on a few venders before but i cant remember exactly which ones, has anyone else seem this happen before?
Burning karma, but my stories are never accepted, and this is an interesting article on how patent reform is progressing in the US.
but it doesnt stand a snowballs chance in court. :(.
Whats really disturbing is that Monsanto vs Schmeiser actually has. Patents suck
It should also be noted that MAC addresses actually provide required functionality, modern day networking is built around them... For the life of me, i cannot think of any productive use for cpu id's.
Thats almost scary, but I have the same exact setup with my girlfriend, with the exception that she ordered the I heart my geek shirt on her own ;). :p. ;).
Im starting to wonder if I should ask her if she hangs out with anyone named Julien
On a serious note, i tried to get my girlfriend to play daoc with me, and it more or less faltered. The sims? she cant pry herself off... and checks packetnews and ircspy for a leaked beta of sims 2 daily. the tycoon games? she loves em. anything else? its up in the air. The best thing you can do in this situation is feel around and figure out what kind of title she might enjoy. I didnt think my girlfriend would ever play a fps, but given the right gameplay (Alice) it works. Keep an open mind and always have hope
but they obviously have *cough* a certain linux *cough* company *cough, redhat... die* beat....
Yea, after reading stateoftheunions comment i had a better understanding of the purpose of yours. Initially i couldnt even draw a parallel between the article and your analogy, but after a cup of coffee and a couple of replies its all starting to sink in. Not being an energy buff, this is all fairly new to me but another comment linked to JETs site, where i was able to read an overview of the nuts and bolts of their system, its pretty amazing stuff... and it seems much safer than our current nuclear setup.
There was an article in the april 2003 wired IIRC on the insane restrictions on nuclear waste storage (10k years safely) which is preventing Yucca mountain from being ok'd as a storage facility, which leads to fuel rods spending WAY too much time in cooling pools. An earthquake an order of magnitude higher than what we're used to and we would all be glowing green for quite some time...
At any rate, its good to see people working on a problem that really, really needs to be dealt with.
A more suitable analogy would be to compare it to implementing a network protocol into an application. :(
Your analogy seems to downplay the achievement these people have worked for
i would make it a requirement to code an enjoyable 2600 rom :p :D.
The ammount of work that goes into creating an entertaining title while only working with 4k of rom space and 128 bytes of memory is staggering. Mind you, most of my emails are larger than 4k....
I dunno, maybe im just being sappy, but it really brings a smile to my face to see coders throwing themselves into what i can only characterize as a digital bootcamp, simply for the love of the game.
Long live passionate programmers
Listen, I understand your concern. I thought about my own post before hitting submit. There is an enormous difference between someone that holds a different political view from yours and someone that peddles child pornography.
Notice in my post that i mentioned the word judge? Thats because one is still required to do this.
Im a liberal, and believe you me, when something fishy starts happening with surveillance of my internet connection, ill be screaming with the rest of you. However, thats not what happened.
They used a properly issued warrent to sniff the connection of some fuckass who thought little girls (or boys) were sexy. Im glad hes off the streets.
you still need a judge to ok something like this, and who *really* wants to bother supporting child porno slime.
These guys followed the letter of the law, and im glad they caught the guy. Case closed.
Or like Pres Bush debating John Kerry on the ethics of war ;)
Im not a scientist, so you can largely discount anything i say as rubbish, but i have read articles to the effect that light does indeed slow down when passing through certain materials, namely water and diamonds IIRC. I believe this was the beginning steps of developing a light based computer, where controlling a photons movement was the major challenge. /. stories about scientists being able to "trap" photons in a non-mobile state for breif periods of time. Is this not "changing the speed of light"?
Also, I cant help but thinking ive seen other
For proof, check out this. This drive was defragged about a week ago, and although it does go through heavy use, the current low disk space causes massive fragmentation.
at how Microsoft still manages to convince everyone that fragmentation is "part of the computing experience".
For anyone complaining about speed, keep in mind this is a .1 release of Pear, and speed is always (or should be) secondary to functionality. Im sure by a 1.0 release things will be a lot snappier. ;).
Lets just all applaud the fact that this actually sort of works
it just so happens that on a recent launch a wormhole accidentally opened and the money was split into an infinite number of parallel universes, where the cash began to interfere with itself until it imploded, leaving only this ball of lint in my pocket....
Fuck em. Thats a little too underhanded for my tastes, let alone my dollar.
Actually, AMD has been working on this for a bit longer than Intel IIRC, which is why we can expect dual core AMD chips in 2005, while Intels offering is set to appear about a year later.
I actually read the article, and although i can't tell you too much about what it means, i can tell you that these guys sound damn smart. I mean DAMN smart.
If they cant download the updates, and havoc is all the more extreme because of poor MS coding, it only shines a brighter light on alternative operating systems.
Ive been saying forever that the year MS perfects its anti-piracy technique really WILL BE the year of the linux desktop, and this (at least in my eyes) is a step closer to that.
Oddly enough the underdog also seems to have a better product at a lower price, and a much larger drive for innovation. Just my 2c ;)
Actually, its on the way, and AMD seems damn excited about it :). Yes, im an AMD fanboy, but this seems pretty damn impressive...
America is the epitome of short attention spans, loud colorfull comercials, and above all, the need to convince our children that spending is the most important thing they can do.
The corporations that are supported by politicians that YOU DIDNT BOTHER VOTING AGAINST helped this happen. If your child is too busy collecting pokemon cards (because you have been guilted by society into working 60 hours a week to buy them) to pay attention to petty things like math or science, well... tough luck.