Noah got a pair of every species into his arc. I'll ask him, that should cover mammals.
For the sea, I suppose I could just use another scientific principle. Take a litre of sea water, identify the number of species in it, and multiply by the volume of the sea.
For the air, I'll command a NASA spy sattelite and have it log images to a website, and have all of/. classify the images which contain birds.
"the number of students
who admit to using illegally copied "free" software remains high but
dropped noticeably between 1996-97 and the 2000-01 school year."
Buy one. Play with it. Still find that you have post its(r) everywhere, another GSM phone anyway which you use because you look stupid talking to what everyone else thinks is a palm...
...still use a diary because your new PDA runs out of batteries anyway... etc etc
"A successful covert channel running at up to 450 bits/s was demonstrated on the IBM PC/AT, several different Compaq ProLineas, and the Sun Microsystems SPARCstation 20 and Ultra 1 workstations. The attack was successful under MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and Windows 98, Windows NT 3.5 and 4.0, and Sun Microsystems Solaris 2.5, 2.5.1, Solaris 7, and Trusted Solaris 2.5 and 2.5.1."
I have therefore taped up every light in the office, and to be extra sure I randomly switch the numlock, scrollock and caps LOCk on and oFF in order to add soME error to the sySTEM.
Millions do, every day. I live in Morocco, where they have the most profitable McDonalds in the world per square metre of floor space. Think low pay rates and high amounts of customers.
In Morocco, try finding somewhere open to serve you food at 3.30pm when you just finished hacking your mail server and you haven't eaten since 7am.
I don't eat at McDonalds every day, and never by choice but by necessity.
Will it improve the time it takes to get served?
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Well.. I saw a movie the other day (70s movie) where a guy goes to McDonalds and gets served in an instant. Wow. That's never happened to me. The movie was some Time Machine thing with the main characters HG Wells and Jack the Ripper. Can't remember the title.
Does the watch incorporate a timer between the time I pay and the time I get served, and start beeping (indicating I will get my meal free, and automatically reversing the transaction) when the doofus behind the counter still hasn't served me my McChicken and Fries within the time limit I specify?
- The plane fare won't be that much more than flying people from Europe to the States, really
- Africa has Internet and needs to know best practices probably more than the US. ICANN is for the whole Internet, not just the US, who already have a pretty good hang of it
- Why not use the money to boost a local economy plagued by problems, and have the Internet guys there experience something as close to cool as Internet will get for them?
Check out TLDs in Africa: often managed by state monopoly telecoms companies. People like me (I work in Morocco) fight hard to get the Africans to wake up to Internet and use it to save money. Why not publicise it in Africa.
Think cheap medical advice. Think distance learning. Think cheaper communications. Think portable skills. Think teleworking from a poor village. Think economies boosted by cybercafes.
Gnutella is the way. It will win.
I got sick of Napster users moaning when it got shut down. I am getting sick of Morpheus users who think Gnutella is new and invented by Morpheus.
But most of all I'm sick of all these Matrix references and the newscasters who tell the story like they told Napster, not understanding anything at all.
Who gives a shite about the protocol, or the companies? You can get what you want just depends on how clever you are with internet. Better that simple tools don't exist so that mt evening news is not polluted by some dick trying to sound like he is hip with filesharing stories.
Well the real issue here is DMCA. That's what is so bloody ridiculous.
The Amercian justice system has proved time and time again that it just costs taxpayers money, and rarely does justice in this kind of cases. See Microsoft anti-trust.
What a load of crap.
Land of the free???? Nothing's free in the US, not speech, not the right to have your own political opinions, not nuthin.
Complete software development against incomplete is where the commercial/free comes in. You can get free software, but can you get any bozo to run it? No, not today, and perhaps not ever.
The hardest part of development is actually the UI, not the math, not the loops, not the debugging. Most of us developers consider that fun. The shitty part is the UI, and Microsoft are winning that war. They sell the easy to use wizard. Few GPL programs include a really universal UI, even if there are examples out there. Think differences between Apache (apache.conf) and IIS (point-and-click)
We can argue about intricacies but the fact is that a company that doesn't want to pay someone to develop software might still pay someone to configure/customise. We don't need to keep re-inventing the wheel, a lot of packages just need decent configurations. And for real bespoke development, you're going to do it in house anyway, not buy Microsoft which is ridiculously unconfigurable and unhackable just because you don't have the source code.
It's about end-product usability and stuff, not about GPL and Windows apps which have very very little in common and work on different models anyway.
"a lot of us (including myself) work on commercial software during the day and work on our own interesting free products on our off-hours."
Well I spend my day configuring FREE software for in-house, or for a fee. I'm way happier doing that than building something someone already built before me. that I can paint, decorate, and customise. That's the difference in my view.
Ahhh yes, but with more energy, certain better designs are possible.
Things are getting too small anyway. I love all this handheld stuff but my latest mobile phone has buttons so small I have to use a pen to push the numbers accurately. Stop the minimisation rush and we will have room for proper battery holders again!
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Noah got a pair of every species into his arc. I'll ask him, that should cover mammals.
/. classify the images which contain birds.
For the sea, I suppose I could just use another scientific principle. Take a litre of sea water, identify the number of species in it, and multiply by the volume of the sea.
For the air, I'll command a NASA spy sattelite and have it log images to a website, and have all of
Hows that?
Yeah right.
Hack of ID3 tag... hmmm
Kinda like burning your own CD-TEXT CDs so that suddenly your CDTEXT player becomes a PDA
Come on
The more you steal, the less you admit?
Buy one. Play with it. Still find that you have post its(r) everywhere, another GSM phone anyway which you use because you look stupid talking to what everyone else thinks is a palm...
...still use a diary because your new PDA runs out of batteries anyway... etc etc
I have therefore taped up every light in the office, and to be extra sure I randomly switch the numlock, scrollock and caps LOCk on and oFF in order to add soME error to the sySTEM.
Please eXCUSe the caps.
Millions do, every day. I live in Morocco, where they have the most profitable McDonalds in the world per square metre of floor space. Think low pay rates and high amounts of customers. In Morocco, try finding somewhere open to serve you food at 3.30pm when you just finished hacking your mail server and you haven't eaten since 7am. I don't eat at McDonalds every day, and never by choice but by necessity.
Well.. I saw a movie the other day (70s movie) where a guy goes to McDonalds and gets served in an instant. Wow. That's never happened to me. The movie was some Time Machine thing with the main characters HG Wells and Jack the Ripper. Can't remember the title.
Does the watch incorporate a timer between the time I pay and the time I get served, and start beeping (indicating I will get my meal free, and automatically reversing the transaction) when the doofus behind the counter still hasn't served me my McChicken and Fries within the time limit I specify?
Euh... don't you mean 28800baud or 28.8Kbps?
Come on. Why not in Ghana?
- The plane fare won't be that much more than flying people from Europe to the States, really
- Africa has Internet and needs to know best practices probably more than the US. ICANN is for the whole Internet, not just the US, who already have a pretty good hang of it
- Why not use the money to boost a local economy plagued by problems, and have the Internet guys there experience something as close to cool as Internet will get for them?
Check out TLDs in Africa: often managed by state monopoly telecoms companies. People like me (I work in Morocco) fight hard to get the Africans to wake up to Internet and use it to save money. Why not publicise it in Africa.
Think cheap medical advice. Think distance learning. Think cheaper communications. Think portable skills. Think teleworking from a poor village. Think economies boosted by cybercafes.
Please don't be so Western-centric.
As Britain I regularly beat American All Stars in Joe Madden's Football, but that doesn't make the UK better than the US at American Football :)
Gnutella is the way. It will win. I got sick of Napster users moaning when it got shut down. I am getting sick of Morpheus users who think Gnutella is new and invented by Morpheus. But most of all I'm sick of all these Matrix references and the newscasters who tell the story like they told Napster, not understanding anything at all. Who gives a shite about the protocol, or the companies? You can get what you want just depends on how clever you are with internet. Better that simple tools don't exist so that mt evening news is not polluted by some dick trying to sound like he is hip with filesharing stories.
The fact that ElcomSoft's argument is tenuous doesn't make DMCA a good law either.
Well the real issue here is DMCA. That's what is so bloody ridiculous. The Amercian justice system has proved time and time again that it just costs taxpayers money, and rarely does justice in this kind of cases. See Microsoft anti-trust. What a load of crap. Land of the free???? Nothing's free in the US, not speech, not the right to have your own political opinions, not nuthin.
Errr.... if the test was done on grass, how would all these people have broken bones anyway? Was it the osteoporosis Marine core?
Complete software development against incomplete is where the commercial/free comes in. You can get free software, but can you get any bozo to run it? No, not today, and perhaps not ever.
The hardest part of development is actually the UI, not the math, not the loops, not the debugging. Most of us developers consider that fun. The shitty part is the UI, and Microsoft are winning that war. They sell the easy to use wizard. Few GPL programs include a really universal UI, even if there are examples out there. Think differences between Apache (apache.conf) and IIS (point-and-click)
We can argue about intricacies but the fact is that a company that doesn't want to pay someone to develop software might still pay someone to configure/customise. We don't need to keep re-inventing the wheel, a lot of packages just need decent configurations. And for real bespoke development, you're going to do it in house anyway, not buy Microsoft which is ridiculously unconfigurable and unhackable just because you don't have the source code.
It's about end-product usability and stuff, not about GPL and Windows apps which have very very little in common and work on different models anyway.
"a lot of us (including myself) work on commercial software during the day and work on our own interesting free products on our off-hours."
Well I spend my day configuring FREE software for in-house, or for a fee. I'm way happier doing that than building something someone already built before me. that I can paint, decorate, and customise. That's the difference in my view.
Ahhh yes, but with more energy, certain better designs are possible. Things are getting too small anyway. I love all this handheld stuff but my latest mobile phone has buttons so small I have to use a pen to push the numbers accurately. Stop the minimisation rush and we will have room for proper battery holders again!