Teh Epress bettur tahn salashdottur? Me thinks not. Slashdot is teh people that are engineeres and scientets and techinal peopel that do stuff. Thier are also sudents and other rilly smary people who think and express them selves good.
Touring also hurts the artists, who are no more than slaves to their creativity until they have to become shitty just to have some peace of mind.
Your banter, while righteous, is for the most part accurate. However, touring does not hurt artists. Most real talent in the music industry are, first and foremost, performers. Most of them enjoy playing for people and performing, and quite a bit of money they make is made touring, as opposed to record sales.
For the past, say 50000 years, since music was invented, there has been no method of reproducing it, short of live performance. Once recording was invented, things got a little weird. Musicians are all about playing music. The recording thing is just a 'recent' fad.
This, combined with the fact that the president wants the ability to reschedule elections in the event of a terrorist attack is making me rather paranoid, and I have never been a member of the 'tin foil hat' birgade.
Why should any company providing a service vital to the country not be subject to the same rules about information disclosure as the government? (I intended to say that without irony, but considering how Jr. has been trying to hide everything lately...)
...does the FBI know about this? I have heard about some of the PHP busts in recent years, but all this talk about how 'powerful' this new PHP is makes me wonder how dangerous it is. It sounds expensive, too. I hope that this doesn't lead nice young kids, into a life of crime. Imagine, hords of young, glassy-eyed kids stealing stuff like...video games and movies just to fund their PHP habbit.
True, but I was only using that as an example of potential BADTHINGS(tm) that could happen if parameters could be passed. Even if it would execute, FORMAT still has the fail-safe steps to make sure that you don't accidentally nuke yourself.
Would rm -rf have been better? (It's been awhile, that syntax may be slightly off...)
The article is rather vague on this point. The could mean that Hackers cannot pass command line parameters to the programs, which would probably make the bug more of a nusance. OTOH, they could mean that once started, they cannot interface with the text window/GUI. This would be a big deal to me, because as I mentioned, it might allow them to pass command line parameters when starting it.
For example, FORMAT c: \Y or something similar to bypass the fail-safe that the FORMAT command had?
I have played lasertag and paintball, both have their problems:
Paitball:
Paintball tends to be expensive compaired to lasertag.
Paintball can cause minor injuries (yeah, I know, sissys not apply, but girls are less interested in getting all banged up that boy are.)
People who 'bunker' in lasertag aren't a hazard to life and limb.
Paintball is fun until you have some jerk show up in your casual game who has spent $2000 on gear. What's the point of that? It isn't really a big test of skill to use digial semi-automatic equipment to power paint the other team.
Location: you have to pretty much play at a field, unless you have lots of friends to play with and your own 'back 40'.
Lasertag:
If it's really sunny out, just forget it.
Covering sensors. On purpose or accident, it sucks trying to shoot someone with a covered sensor.
Range. You have none. Laser tag is great for simulating handgun battles, though.
Corrective fire. You can't really see what you are hitting. Aim VERY carefully.
Batteries. Not as pricy as paintballs, but you will go through them like crazy.
Popularity. Paintball is way more popular, or at least more organized.
I have yet to see these new fangled, so-called 'floppy disks' prove themselves in any sort of meaningful way. I have been using my TRS-80 with it's casset tape storage since 1980, and I have no intention of switching horses in mid-stream!
I was working at ChimpUSA about 7 years ago in the upgrades department. A woman with the 'clueless drone' expression came up and asked for a new cpu and mobo.
"Would you like us to istall it for you?" (Not an attempt at selling over-priced services, just an attempt to prevent the inevitable.)
"No, I'll do it myself"
After the requsite hour she called back and claimed that the mobo didn't work.
"Did you hook up the power supply? Make sure the CPU was properly seated? Checked the RAM? Plugged in the drives? Proper grounding on backplane screws?"
She answered yes to each question as I explained each of them to her. After a good 30 minutes of trouble shooting...
"Oh yeah, when I was putting the motherthingy in, I poped off a brown cylinder with my screwdriver. is that important?"
"Hmmm, yeah, capaciters can be important. They probably didn't put it on the board to look cute."
And that is how I know the guy. I sold a mobo to his mother.
"...
since the UN is on the case we can rest at night, assured that there will be no more Spam. The UN has done away with war, hunger, and disease, so they have moved on to the next pressing thing.
So, then I can safely assume that starting next week, my Spam problem will be permanently resolved, via the great spam treaty of 04!
(Of course, it will have a secret clause that states we will attack yugoslavia should they mount a cavalry offensive against westphalia, and that will start world war 3. Small price to pay, though...)
I worked for Chimp USA in college. Most people there didn't know a damn thing about comuters, so I was the 'go to' guy when a customer asked a 'difficult' technical question. ("Does this computer have 66 or 100 speed RAMS?")
They had extended warrenty plans that they tried to sell people, that they called 'spiffs'. (can't recall what it stood for, but some coporate weasle doubletalk.) They were basically insurance plans. They were legit, and if your stuff failed in the time period, you got a check back for repairs or replacement. The catch was that most people don't keep paperwork for the warranties for 3-5 years. (Most people can't find a manual in 6 months, let alone reciepts.)
They didn't pay comissions to the salespeople, but they gave small bonuses for selling spiffs. I imagine that playing real comissions would cost too much, corp management seemed to be REALLY cheap. One career salesman quit because the comissions were so lousy compaired to most other jobs.
We also had 'cheapskate customers' that would come in and suck up all the little sale items. Typicaly, most stuff that went on sale there was basically junk. They got stuff for 'free' (after rebate) or really cheap, but you only get what you pay for. I personally buy name brand electronics, and I have NEVER been dissapointed.
I imagine that BB is probably the same way. Stupid staff (because they are too cheap to hire real talent) and overworked money grubbing managers.
People keep saying this, but the ONLY crashs I 've ever had with W2K, is when huge chunks of my HD went bad. Even then, the system slowly died as more and more critical files got nailed by bad sectors, as opposed to frying when a single file went missing on boot.
Keep the system decently patched, locked down, and don't install any malware. Simple. LINUX fanatics and MS shills both need to take a deep breath and step back for a moment. There is enough room on the internet for everyone...Except for those dirty, heathen, inhuman scum who use IMACS. Miserable fat Belgian bastards!
(The last comment, was ironic humor. I mention this for the benefit of the inevitable 3 clueless AC twits who will post scathing replys.)
The problem is, it isn't 'Big Brother' that is watching you, it's Mel, the Homeland Security Guard who looks up interesting facts about you becase he is bored that is watching.
Give me a facist dystopian govenment and day over noisy neighbors...
I would just like to throw in my unwanted $.02, and say that of all the programming/expression/whatever languages I have played with over the years, SQL is about the most clunk and inelegant I have seen. Is this just me?
*sigh* We saved them from the hun twice last century, and (possibly) once from the bolshevik hoards. We buy Harry Potter books by the shipload, and we put up with Hugh Grant's acting. Doesn't that cut us enough slack to get a shot at being vaporised by vogons?
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Teh Epress bettur tahn salashdottur? Me thinks not. Slashdot is teh people that are engineeres and scientets and techinal peopel that do stuff. Thier are also sudents and other rilly smary people who think and express them selves good.
Mac people aer dumbheads.
Touring also hurts the artists, who are no more than slaves to their creativity until they have to become shitty just to have some peace of mind.
Your banter, while righteous, is for the most part accurate. However, touring does not hurt artists. Most real talent in the music industry are, first and foremost, performers. Most of them enjoy playing for people and performing, and quite a bit of money they make is made touring, as opposed to record sales.
For the past, say 50000 years, since music was invented, there has been no method of reproducing it, short of live performance. Once recording was invented, things got a little weird. Musicians are all about playing music. The recording thing is just a 'recent' fad.
This is an interesting concept, but it is hardly a new field/application. (see 'Gentic Programming', by Koza, for example. Website).
This, combined with the fact that the president wants the ability to reschedule elections in the event of a terrorist attack is making me rather paranoid, and I have never been a member of the 'tin foil hat' birgade.
Why should any company providing a service vital to the country not be subject to the same rules about information disclosure as the government? (I intended to say that without irony, but considering how Jr. has been trying to hide everything lately...)
...does the FBI know about this? I have heard about some of the PHP busts in recent years, but all this talk about how 'powerful' this new PHP is makes me wonder how dangerous it is. It sounds expensive, too. I hope that this doesn't lead nice young kids, into a life of crime. Imagine, hords of young, glassy-eyed kids stealing stuff like...video games and movies just to fund their PHP habbit.
Damn kids.
True, but I was only using that as an example of potential BADTHINGS(tm) that could happen if parameters could be passed. Even if it would execute, FORMAT still has the fail-safe steps to make sure that you don't accidentally nuke yourself.
Would rm -rf have been better? (It's been awhile, that syntax may be slightly off...)
The article is rather vague on this point. The could mean that Hackers cannot pass command line parameters to the programs, which would probably make the bug more of a nusance. OTOH, they could mean that once started, they cannot interface with the text window/GUI. This would be a big deal to me, because as I mentioned, it might allow them to pass command line parameters when starting it.
For example, FORMAT c: \Y or something similar to bypass the fail-safe that the FORMAT command had?
I have played lasertag and paintball, both have their problems:
Paitball:
Paintball tends to be expensive compaired to lasertag.
Paintball can cause minor injuries (yeah, I know, sissys not apply, but girls are less interested in getting all banged up that boy are.)
People who 'bunker' in lasertag aren't a hazard to life and limb.
Paintball is fun until you have some jerk show up in your casual game who has spent $2000 on gear. What's the point of that? It isn't really a big test of skill to use digial semi-automatic equipment to power paint the other team.
Location: you have to pretty much play at a field, unless you have lots of friends to play with and your own 'back 40'.
Lasertag:
If it's really sunny out, just forget it.
Covering sensors. On purpose or accident, it sucks trying to shoot someone with a covered sensor.
Range. You have none. Laser tag is great for simulating handgun battles, though.
Corrective fire. You can't really see what you are hitting. Aim VERY carefully.
Batteries. Not as pricy as paintballs, but you will go through them like crazy.
Popularity. Paintball is way more popular, or at least more organized.
Both can be fun, though.
Put another button on the damn mouse! ...I get confused when I have only one button to click...
I have yet to see these new fangled, so-called 'floppy disks' prove themselves in any sort of meaningful way. I have been using my TRS-80 with it's casset tape storage since 1980, and I have no intention of switching horses in mid-stream!
Harumph!
...Finally, someone who had a good idea on how to market music, and I don't drink coffee...
I was working at ChimpUSA about 7 years ago in the upgrades department. A woman with the 'clueless drone' expression came up and asked for a new cpu and mobo.
"Would you like us to istall it for you?" (Not an attempt at selling over-priced services, just an attempt to prevent the inevitable.)
"No, I'll do it myself"
After the requsite hour she called back and claimed that the mobo didn't work.
"Did you hook up the power supply? Make sure the CPU was properly seated? Checked the RAM? Plugged in the drives? Proper grounding on backplane screws?"
She answered yes to each question as I explained each of them to her. After a good 30 minutes of trouble shooting...
"Oh yeah, when I was putting the motherthingy in, I poped off a brown cylinder with my screwdriver. is that important?"
"Hmmm, yeah, capaciters can be important. They probably didn't put it on the board to look cute."
And that is how I know the guy. I sold a mobo to his mother. "...
Oh, I don't know that. I find most KB articles from MS to be pretty funny....
Weeeeeeel now,
since the UN is on the case we can rest at night, assured that there will be no more Spam. The UN has done away with war, hunger, and disease, so they have moved on to the next pressing thing.
So, then I can safely assume that starting next week, my Spam problem will be permanently resolved, via the great spam treaty of 04!
(Of course, it will have a secret clause that states we will attack yugoslavia should they mount a cavalry offensive against westphalia, and that will start world war 3. Small price to pay, though...)
I worked for Chimp USA in college. Most people there didn't know a damn thing about comuters, so I was the 'go to' guy when a customer asked a 'difficult' technical question. ("Does this computer have 66 or 100 speed RAMS?")
They had extended warrenty plans that they tried to sell people, that they called 'spiffs'. (can't recall what it stood for, but some coporate weasle doubletalk.) They were basically insurance plans. They were legit, and if your stuff failed in the time period, you got a check back for repairs or replacement. The catch was that most people don't keep paperwork for the warranties for 3-5 years. (Most people can't find a manual in 6 months, let alone reciepts.)
They didn't pay comissions to the salespeople, but they gave small bonuses for selling spiffs. I imagine that playing real comissions would cost too much, corp management seemed to be REALLY cheap. One career salesman quit because the comissions were so lousy compaired to most other jobs.
We also had 'cheapskate customers' that would come in and suck up all the little sale items. Typicaly, most stuff that went on sale there was basically junk. They got stuff for 'free' (after rebate) or really cheap, but you only get what you pay for. I personally buy name brand electronics, and I have NEVER been dissapointed.
I imagine that BB is probably the same way. Stupid staff (because they are too cheap to hire real talent) and overworked money grubbing managers.
FOUR! FIVE! Awe, crap, you got me...never learned to count.
People keep saying this, but the ONLY crashs I 've ever had with W2K, is when huge chunks of my HD went bad. Even then, the system slowly died as more and more critical files got nailed by bad sectors, as opposed to frying when a single file went missing on boot. Keep the system decently patched, locked down, and don't install any malware. Simple. LINUX fanatics and MS shills both need to take a deep breath and step back for a moment. There is enough room on the internet for everyone...Except for those dirty, heathen, inhuman scum who use IMACS. Miserable fat Belgian bastards! (The last comment, was ironic humor. I mention this for the benefit of the inevitable 3 clueless AC twits who will post scathing replys.)
I think Binary Uility System would be more accurate...
The problem is, it isn't 'Big Brother' that is watching you, it's Mel, the Homeland Security Guard who looks up interesting facts about you becase he is bored that is watching.
Give me a facist dystopian govenment and day over noisy neighbors...
...They will just be hungry for small companies again in an hour.
I would just like to throw in my unwanted $.02, and say that of all the programming/expression/whatever languages I have played with over the years, SQL is about the most clunk and inelegant I have seen. Is this just me?
The $4k is just a security deposit. The graduating students hack into the schools accounts and steal the $4k back once they get their diploma.
Ummm, If they are smart enough to flash a NIC with a new MAC, I don't think that keeping their computers free of virii will be a problem...
...Although, the possibilities of porting MS Bob to LINUX are intriguing...
*sigh* We saved them from the hun twice last century, and (possibly) once from the bolshevik hoards. We buy Harry Potter books by the shipload, and we put up with Hugh Grant's acting. Doesn't that cut us enough slack to get a shot at being vaporised by vogons?