Stuck?? CLI is not the past. CLI is the future. I bet you still think of DOS when you think of CLIs.
Have you ever seen the power of the shell inside Maya? A real CLI and GUI are and do the same thing at the same time. And this is done perfectly in Maya. You can even drag a selected piece of code from the history/cli to your tool bar, to get a button. Also BASH plus the UNIX concept are what you use when you really use your computer. As opposed to just clicking on colorful clickables and using it like an applicance, while completely missing the point of having a computer.
Yes, every Windows, KDE, Gnome and OS X user, who does not also use the CLI, is completely missing the point of having a computer, and should get a appliance. Like a standalone DVD player.
And the designers of those UIs also completely missed the point, by not designing the UIs an a way that empowers you to actually automate things, but limits to to basically having a standalone media player, file manager, etc.
Maya has done it nearly right. They still ignore the 105 keys in front of every user too much, but at least they allow you to connect everything to everything and have everything to be a script or a UI at the same time.
Well, a doctor is only a apothecary with a tiny further training. Who after being finished, assumes that he knows everything and will continue to do so forever. If he does not know it, it does not exist. If he knows no cure, there is no cure. Also they are trained to “fix” the symptoms. (Which is practice means, to hide them under painkillers, so you can continue to ignore what you’re doing wrong.) Finding the causes is only happening in colorful Hollywood productions. In reality, it’s actually a taboo. Every time I ask a doctor to find the cause, I get a blank stare, and a “can’t parse” error. Or him telling me that a part of my body is the cause! (WTF? A part of the body an by definition not be the cause.)
Finding causes... it seems... is what scientists are for.
Although the mistakes were largely due to human error, buggy software also played a role.
What the...? And where do you think, that software came from?
Please hand in your geek card. Just like everyone who thinks that Kasparov lost against a machine, and not against a couple of engineers with a loong time to prepare.
You write that as if it was normal, to assume that schools exist to teach children knowledge and make them intelligent.
School is a direct advancement from what Otto von Bismarck wanted: Something like military service, but for children. To form them into what were the ideas back then: To obey, to sit still and listen, to train things over and over again, to learn them by heart, etc. Not to come up with free thoughts, ideas, and creativity. Because those would have created people who would want to lead themselves, not to blindly follow.
This was always the goal. And the idea that it could be something else, is a relatively new concept, that some dreamed about, but that still is very far from becoming real.
School is simply not what you should look at, if you want to educate your children to become creatives and leaders. Even 4chan is better at free thought and creativity, than any school.
But killing their agent would seriously anger the CIA. How are they going to release oh-so-fitting “tapes” of FUD then? (Tapes?? Seriosuly? A highly educated guy with tons of money can’t pay for a video camera?? Yeah, right.)
Well, a real programmer would probably say, that in that case, the holy grail is a codec that combines all functions of those codecs, and automatically selects the proper balance between implementations for any piece of video. ^^
ensuring that only people with lots of money can create browsers, run video sites, etc.
You seem to live under the delusion, that someone would actually sue me for this, and even if, that I would actually care. The MPEG LA won’t even be able to sue me.
As I previously said: Firefox does not need to do anything! Just bind to ffmpeg/ffdshow/CoreVideo. They all support H.264, and your responsibility is zero. You can still fall back to Theora, even if nobody will actually ever use it in the real world.
There is no either/or here. There is not even a compromise. You can have all your wishes and dreamy ideals, and we can have H.264. The whole problem is made-up. And only kept alive trough continued denial and ignorance of what I just said.
Every day, thousands of particles hit earth at speeds MUCH faster than what the LHC can do. They create black holes. If anything could have happened, we would all be dead for a looong time. In fact the universe would never have developed any planets, if this would create black holes.
Anyone who still mentions it... even if it’s only to say that there are some crazy people who are crazy... deserves to be bitch-smiten with a wet crocodile.
Yeah, because a site, that contains not a single argument, but only out-of-context quotes, and idiotic ideals, is just oh so cool.
It’s like stating that because some idiots do idiotic stuff with something, that thing must be idiotic too, and so must everyone else who uses it.
Show me your car, computer or really anything, and I build you a website showing nothing but idiots using it in idiotic ways, or using it like you do, but out of context, so that you look like a total idiot.
You know, those who hate ricers and those who are ricers are really the same group of people. Retarded extremists. People who know only two modes of thinking about something: 1. OMG it’s TEH BESTORZ!!!1one! or 2. EPIC FAIL CRAP, AAAAH, DIIIEEEU FAGXORZ!!!11one!
In a way, that IS the definition of art. Art is, what you believe is art. That’s the full definition. And the only definition. Marketing and attention-mongering are two of the many tools to make others believe things.
First of all, whoops... sorry it took four years to get delivered to my place. Yes, of course it was disconnected during that time! ^^
Second, strangely, after I had it, weird thinks will happen to the other owners. Like waking up in the room with the box, with no memory of the past eight hours, everything valuable stolen, and perhaps a used condom in their ass, filled with sperm from a goat.;)
[...] on the basis that in principle, content management is a justified objective which ensures that the broadest range of HD content is made available to citizens and consumers.
Here is a lesson for us all, on how to talk and act, if you want to push something trough that everybody hates: You state the exact opposite of what it will do. Which is of course, what everybody will want. And you get it across not only without the blink of an eye, but in a way that makes others feel like this is in fact reality, so that they start to believe it too.
Today’s wars are not fought with machines and deaths. They are fought with ideas / mindsets / realities, and people that you don’t have to kill, but instead make your “best friends”, so that they fight on your side.
I say, we as hackers (actually more “crackers”) should become the masters of that! Hack the human mind! As an extension of social engineering. But for good things! Psychology, social dynamics, true leadership and rhetorics. Those are the key skills.
Hmm... I should make a RPG out of that, to train my army... Muhahahaha;)
Actually, this is a good example of the definition of “free market”.
Complete freedom is essentially the law of the jungle. Or no laws for the strongest one, and the laws of the strongest one, for everybody else. Which 1. is exactly what this is. 2. is the opposite of democracy and a fair society.
Yeah, conservatives: a) free market b) democracy CHOOSE ONE!;)
You seem very eager, to support a sense of reality, that hurts yourself.
Please stop spreading mindsets into the people, that hurt us and yourself. Not even if it’s meant funny. Because in the end, the reason people adhere to such bullshit, is also the fault of people like you, who constantly feed it to them as the actual reality. (Which it is not!)
I’m sorry? The waterfall method it deprecated for what, 20 years now? Nowadays, everyone works with the spiral model. Which works nicely, and is in fact the only model I know, that actually works. Even Jesse Schell (chairman of the International Game Developers Association and professor at the Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center) does teach it in his book.
If you know this, you know, why most games are sold in the state they are. Development works like this: 1. Define what’s still missing from it, until it becomes salable. 2. Develop those things. 3. If it’s “good enough”, you’re done. Else, rinse and repeat. 4. PROFIT.
The problem is, that with big game businesses, point 1 not defined by the question, if it’s a good game. But solely by the question how to maximize money. So as soon as you bought it, who cares if it runs at all? As soon as you buy the next game too. When you see, how people vote for the same two bullshit parties over and over again, you know how many will stop buying. Nobody except maybe you.
GTA: SA and GTA IV perfectly prove this point.
GTA: SA: A friend of mine bought it. I downloaded it. I installed the crack, and it ran. My friend was not so lucky. It crashed before the title screen. R* offered not patch. Not even a statement. We went on gamecopyworld.com, and the crackers not only provided patches for the four places where it could crash before getting to play. No, they also offered a fix for the horrible bug that made the game look like a mutant urchin on nVidia cards. (One of the 3 points of every triangle, was wildly misplaced, moving around in 3d space.) You can imagine that he was very pissed.
GTA IV: Upon installation (we both did not buy it, as a punishment, and are proud of it), we both had a input lag of up to five seconds! Imagine accelerating the car, releasing the button because nothing happened, and then two seconds later seeing it accelerate. Yay. Also we already had misplaced flickering polygons in the intro! Before the game even started. (nVidia there, ATi/AMD here.) The game is also horribly badly developed. It stutters and is slow, despite having really crappy graphics. Hell, I installed comparable games, and they ran smooth as butter, despite having much more impressive graphics. I later found out, that they ported the game from the PS3 in a horribly bad fashion. You might know that the PS3 requires massive vector-multiprocessor-optimized design. Well, the result is, that the game requires at least 4 cores, to run properly. No matter how good your graphics card is. Sorry, but that is just a massive failure in porting the game. Unlike GTA III, which was a pretty sweet port, back then. It’s clear that this was a business decision, to quickly get the game out. Again, the only thing that helped, were patches, provided by crackers.
But EA is far worse. Ask anyone who tried managing his add-ons in The Sims (e.g. finding the proper way to install/uninstall/update that piece of shit.) can confirm that.
Imagine if employees would act that way: “Hey boss, you know, the economy is pretty bad right now and, $someOtherExcuseOrLie, bla bla bla... So this month I expect you to pay me 150% of my normal pay, for the same work. Or else I will have to quit, because you don’t have the proper engagement in the company and our contract. Thank you for understanding.”
That’s just as right/wrong. Now ask yourself, why it’s going this way, and not the other way around. I mean the company can just as badly work without employees, and you can just as well find another job.
The only difference: It’s a one-to-many relationship with companies vs people. People are fragmented and fragmentable. And bosses naturally assume a position of the world being under their control. Employees naturally assume a position of the supplicant. Despite this not being the case. Both give and take.
This results in something, that is practically the same as (unfairly) exploiting a monopoly. Which for good reasons is illegal. But unfortunately only, if it’s about any other market than the job market.
The solution is quite simple: Just as a boss can have multiple employees, a employee must be able to have multiple bosses. The fact that you can only have one boss at a time, is effectively killing most competition, and raising the risk for employees.
As you will know, this is partially the case, if you’re self-employed. Just that in that case, you don’t get all the benefits of working in a company. Like perhaps medical care, pension, and other departments taking care of billing etc. But who says that it’s not just as easily possible, for a company to offer these services to self-employed people with contracts? A “boss” can just as well have 20 hours a week subscriptions/leases with a proper contract. That contract can just as well include additional services like paying something into pension, medical care, and those external companies that handle billing etc. Either hidden in the normal costs, or explicitly stated.
I completely stopped trying to get into companies,and this is the only kind of contract I will ever have with a company again. The only hard part, is to find someone reliable, who can do the billing for you. I also recommend an experienced sales guy, who can be the interface between you any your clients, and find new clients for you, in exchange for a payment. If you want to free yourself, I can only recommend doing something similar.:)
of them to a company called Quova, who gave me back full location info on every 40th one.
Well, there you have it. Unless you can prove, that that filtering that Quova does, does not influence your results, you can’t really draw any information from it. Could just be selectivity, applied by Quova. Or a otherwise bad filter.
Only if you are safe in that regard, would you first have to look at the actual outgoing traffic, in case there are correlations. (Which, considering the data, seems very likely.)
Well, I use a greylisting system, with amavisd behind it, and the greylisting blocks 90%, before it even reaches the spam filter. (Which also keeps the resource usage down.) Then spamd and the other spam systems linked into in amavisd throw out nearly all the rest of the mails. I’d say 95% is a vast understatement. More like 99.5%.
Also, everything that is filtered by amavisd, still goes to the junk folder of my IMAP account, so I still can undo false positives.
Works pretty sweet for my own server. I simply can’t say, that spam is a problem for me anymore.
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Stuck?? CLI is not the past. CLI is the future. I bet you still think of DOS when you think of CLIs.
Have you ever seen the power of the shell inside Maya?
A real CLI and GUI are and do the same thing at the same time. And this is done perfectly in Maya. You can even drag a selected piece of code from the history/cli to your tool bar, to get a button.
Also BASH plus the UNIX concept are what you use when you really use your computer.
As opposed to just clicking on colorful clickables and using it like an applicance, while completely missing the point of having a computer.
Yes, every Windows, KDE, Gnome and OS X user, who does not also use the CLI, is completely missing the point of having a computer, and should get a appliance. Like a standalone DVD player.
And the designers of those UIs also completely missed the point, by not designing the UIs an a way that empowers you to actually automate things, but limits to to basically having a standalone media player, file manager, etc.
Maya has done it nearly right. They still ignore the 105 keys in front of every user too much, but at least they allow you to connect everything to everything and have everything to be a script or a UI at the same time.
I AM Vin Diesel, you insensitive clod! And I look BETTER than Frat Pitt!
Vin Diesel
Well, a doctor is only a apothecary with a tiny further training. Who after being finished, assumes that he knows everything and will continue to do so forever. If he does not know it, it does not exist. If he knows no cure, there is no cure.
Also they are trained to “fix” the symptoms. (Which is practice means, to hide them under painkillers, so you can continue to ignore what you’re doing wrong.) Finding the causes is only happening in colorful Hollywood productions. In reality, it’s actually a taboo. Every time I ask a doctor to find the cause, I get a blank stare, and a “can’t parse” error. Or him telling me that a part of my body is the cause! (WTF? A part of the body an by definition not be the cause.)
Finding causes... it seems... is what scientists are for.
Although the mistakes were largely due to human error, buggy software also played a role.
What the...?
And where do you think, that software came from?
Please hand in your geek card.
Just like everyone who thinks that Kasparov lost against a machine, and not against a couple of engineers with a loong time to prepare.
You write that as if it was normal, to assume that schools exist to teach children knowledge and make them intelligent.
School is a direct advancement from what Otto von Bismarck wanted:
Something like military service, but for children. To form them into what were the ideas back then:
To obey, to sit still and listen, to train things over and over again, to learn them by heart, etc.
Not to come up with free thoughts, ideas, and creativity. Because those would have created people who would want to lead themselves, not to blindly follow.
This was always the goal. And the idea that it could be something else, is a relatively new concept, that some dreamed about, but that still is very far from becoming real.
School is simply not what you should look at, if you want to educate your children to become creatives and leaders.
Even 4chan is better at free thought and creativity, than any school.
Considering that IBM has more than 380,000 employees, and many many more devices and sub-companies, I think they actually do.
Sup dawg, I herd you liek address translashun, so we put a NAT in your NAT, so you can translate while you translate.
But killing their agent would seriously anger the CIA. How are they going to release oh-so-fitting “tapes” of FUD then?
(Tapes?? Seriosuly? A highly educated guy with tons of money can’t pay for a video camera?? Yeah, right.)
Well, a real programmer would probably say, that in that case, the holy grail is a codec that combines all functions of those codecs, and automatically selects the proper balance between implementations for any piece of video. ^^
ensuring that only people with lots of money can create browsers, run video sites, etc.
You seem to live under the delusion, that someone would actually sue me for this, and even if, that I would actually care.
The MPEG LA won’t even be able to sue me.
Especially refusal to live in reality.
As I previously said:
Firefox does not need to do anything!
Just bind to ffmpeg/ffdshow/CoreVideo. They all support H.264, and your responsibility is zero.
You can still fall back to Theora, even if nobody will actually ever use it in the real world.
There is no either/or here. There is not even a compromise. You can have all your wishes and dreamy ideals, and we can have H.264.
The whole problem is made-up. And only kept alive trough continued denial and ignorance of what I just said.
In Soviet Russia becoming fabulously wealthy predicts having several models and trading them on your computer, because you say so. Excellent!
Every day, thousands of particles hit earth at speeds MUCH faster than what the LHC can do.
They create black holes.
If anything could have happened, we would all be dead for a looong time. In fact the universe would never have developed any planets, if this would create black holes.
Anyone who still mentions it... even if it’s only to say that there are some crazy people who are crazy... deserves to be bitch-smiten with a wet crocodile.
Yeah, because a site, that contains not a single argument, but only out-of-context quotes, and idiotic ideals, is just oh so cool.
It’s like stating that because some idiots do idiotic stuff with something, that thing must be idiotic too, and so must everyone else who uses it.
Show me your car, computer or really anything, and I build you a website showing nothing but idiots using it in idiotic ways, or using it like you do, but out of context, so that you look like a total idiot.
You know, those who hate ricers and those who are ricers are really the same group of people. Retarded extremists. People who know only two modes of thinking about something: 1. OMG it’s TEH BESTORZ!!!1one! or 2. EPIC FAIL CRAP, AAAAH, DIIIEEEU FAGXORZ!!!11one!
Frankly, you both can fuck right off.
This is attention-mongering and marketing.
In a way, that IS the definition of art.
Art is, what you believe is art. That’s the full definition. And the only definition.
Marketing and attention-mongering are two of the many tools to make others believe things.
First of all, whoops... sorry it took four years to get delivered to my place.
Yes, of course it was disconnected during that time! ^^
Second, strangely, after I had it, weird thinks will happen to the other owners. Like waking up in the room with the box, with no memory of the past eight hours, everything valuable stolen, and perhaps a used condom in their ass, filled with sperm from a goat. ;)
[...] on the basis that in principle, content management is a justified objective which ensures that the broadest range of HD content is made available to citizens and consumers.
Here is a lesson for us all, on how to talk and act, if you want to push something trough that everybody hates: You state the exact opposite of what it will do. Which is of course, what everybody will want. And you get it across not only without the blink of an eye, but in a way that makes others feel like this is in fact reality, so that they start to believe it too.
Today’s wars are not fought with machines and deaths. They are fought with ideas / mindsets / realities, and people that you don’t have to kill, but instead make your “best friends”, so that they fight on your side.
I say, we as hackers (actually more “crackers”) should become the masters of that! Hack the human mind! As an extension of social engineering. But for good things!
Psychology, social dynamics, true leadership and rhetorics. Those are the key skills.
Hmm... I should make a RPG out of that, to train my army... Muhahahaha ;)
Doesn’t that only work, when port 80 does respond (and does so fast enough)?
Actually, this is a good example of the definition of “free market”.
Complete freedom is essentially the law of the jungle. Or no laws for the strongest one, and the laws of the strongest one, for everybody else.
Which
1. is exactly what this is.
2. is the opposite of democracy and a fair society.
Yeah, conservatives: ;)
a) free market
b) democracy
CHOOSE ONE!
Thank you. From now on, I’ll quote your comment, whenever someone tries to argue, that /. is so much worse now, than it once was.
A honest question:
Are yo a masochist?
You seem very eager, to support a sense of reality, that hurts yourself.
Please stop spreading mindsets into the people, that hurt us and yourself. Not even if it’s meant funny.
Because in the end, the reason people adhere to such bullshit, is also the fault of people like you, who constantly feed it to them as the actual reality. (Which it is not!)
I’m sorry? The waterfall method it deprecated for what, 20 years now?
Nowadays, everyone works with the spiral model. Which works nicely, and is in fact the only model I know, that actually works.
Even Jesse Schell (chairman of the International Game Developers Association and professor at the Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center) does teach it in his book.
If you know this, you know, why most games are sold in the state they are. Development works like this:
1. Define what’s still missing from it, until it becomes salable.
2. Develop those things.
3. If it’s “good enough”, you’re done. Else, rinse and repeat.
4. PROFIT.
The problem is, that with big game businesses, point 1 not defined by the question, if it’s a good game. But solely by the question how to maximize money.
So as soon as you bought it, who cares if it runs at all? As soon as you buy the next game too. When you see, how people vote for the same two bullshit parties over and over again, you know how many will stop buying. Nobody except maybe you.
GTA: SA and GTA IV perfectly prove this point.
GTA: SA: A friend of mine bought it. I downloaded it. I installed the crack, and it ran.
My friend was not so lucky. It crashed before the title screen. R* offered not patch. Not even a statement.
We went on gamecopyworld.com, and the crackers not only provided patches for the four places where it could crash before getting to play. No, they also offered a fix for the horrible bug that made the game look like a mutant urchin on nVidia cards. (One of the 3 points of every triangle, was wildly misplaced, moving around in 3d space.)
You can imagine that he was very pissed.
GTA IV: Upon installation (we both did not buy it, as a punishment, and are proud of it), we both had a input lag of up to five seconds! Imagine accelerating the car, releasing the button because nothing happened, and then two seconds later seeing it accelerate. Yay.
Also we already had misplaced flickering polygons in the intro! Before the game even started. (nVidia there, ATi/AMD here.)
The game is also horribly badly developed. It stutters and is slow, despite having really crappy graphics. Hell, I installed comparable games, and they ran smooth as butter, despite having much more impressive graphics. I later found out, that they ported the game from the PS3 in a horribly bad fashion. You might know that the PS3 requires massive vector-multiprocessor-optimized design. Well, the result is, that the game requires at least 4 cores, to run properly. No matter how good your graphics card is.
Sorry, but that is just a massive failure in porting the game. Unlike GTA III, which was a pretty sweet port, back then.
It’s clear that this was a business decision, to quickly get the game out.
Again, the only thing that helped, were patches, provided by crackers.
But EA is far worse. Ask anyone who tried managing his add-ons in The Sims (e.g. finding the proper way to install/uninstall/update that piece of shit.) can confirm that.
Imagine if employees would act that way:
“Hey boss, you know, the economy is pretty bad right now and, $someOtherExcuseOrLie, bla bla bla... So this month I expect you to pay me 150% of my normal pay, for the same work. Or else I will have to quit, because you don’t have the proper engagement in the company and our contract. Thank you for understanding.”
That’s just as right/wrong.
Now ask yourself, why it’s going this way, and not the other way around.
I mean the company can just as badly work without employees, and you can just as well find another job.
The only difference: It’s a one-to-many relationship with companies vs people. People are fragmented and fragmentable.
And bosses naturally assume a position of the world being under their control. Employees naturally assume a position of the supplicant.
Despite this not being the case. Both give and take.
This results in something, that is practically the same as (unfairly) exploiting a monopoly. Which for good reasons is illegal. But unfortunately only, if it’s about any other market than the job market.
The solution is quite simple: Just as a boss can have multiple employees, a employee must be able to have multiple bosses.
The fact that you can only have one boss at a time, is effectively killing most competition, and raising the risk for employees.
As you will know, this is partially the case, if you’re self-employed. Just that in that case, you don’t get all the benefits of working in a company. Like perhaps medical care, pension, and other departments taking care of billing etc.
But who says that it’s not just as easily possible, for a company to offer these services to self-employed people with contracts?
A “boss” can just as well have 20 hours a week subscriptions/leases with a proper contract. That contract can just as well include additional services like paying something into pension, medical care, and those external companies that handle billing etc. Either hidden in the normal costs, or explicitly stated.
I completely stopped trying to get into companies,and this is the only kind of contract I will ever have with a company again. :)
The only hard part, is to find someone reliable, who can do the billing for you. I also recommend an experienced sales guy, who can be the interface between you any your clients, and find new clients for you, in exchange for a payment.
If you want to free yourself, I can only recommend doing something similar.
and sent
several million
of them to a company called Quova, who gave me back full location info on every 40th one.
Well, there you have it. Unless you can prove, that that filtering that Quova does, does not influence your results, you can’t really draw any information from it. Could just be selectivity, applied by Quova. Or a otherwise bad filter.
Only if you are safe in that regard, would you first have to look at the actual outgoing traffic, in case there are correlations. (Which, considering the data, seems very likely.)
Well, I use a greylisting system, with amavisd behind it, and the greylisting blocks 90%, before it even reaches the spam filter. (Which also keeps the resource usage down.)
Then spamd and the other spam systems linked into in amavisd throw out nearly all the rest of the mails.
I’d say 95% is a vast understatement. More like 99.5%.
Also, everything that is filtered by amavisd, still goes to the junk folder of my IMAP account, so I still can undo false positives.
Works pretty sweet for my own server.
I simply can’t say, that spam is a problem for me anymore.