Just use statistics from the last 20 or so successful logins. This would solve the problem at hand, and it would also make the acceptable timings tighter and tighter as you learn how to type the password almost without thinking.
Of course I claim the patent on this enhancement.;)
Parent is currently modded "Flamebait"... given the subject, he's probably flaming indeed, but he's right when he says that the problems are not technical. Please read the article before modding him again.
American products? Such as, say, Microsoft Windows?;)
Indeed, if we Europeans stopped developing our own technology and relied on US's, it would become truly inexpensive... in the US. Here, I'm not so sure.
GSM is cheap because everyone and his dog has a cellphone here, and that's because it offered cheap rates, useful services and good coverage from the beginning. Add to the mix the "status symbol" value cell phones had in the early days and the teenagers' addiction to SMSing (the best example of an useful service which was perfectly tailored to the market) and you're set for success. I don't know why cell phones are not so widely used in the US: AFAIK it's not for technical reasons because CDMA is widely believed to be technically superior, but we know this means absolutely nothing. Customers want *services*, they don't care about the best radio interface.
And, as someone already told you, GSM is not mandated by anyone except the market and it is not subsidized by anyone except the customers.
And finally, just to add my own piece of biased opinion, I prefer the European governments' socialist bend to the American government's fascist bend.
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The article from Newsforge had this (anonymous) comment attached to it. I didn't think of this, but it looks like he's right.
[disclaimer: as stated above, this comment was written by an Anonymous Reader -- I'm just pasting; any positive moderation doesn't belong to me, except a "+1 informative" if you will]
"As people may recall from the original settlement of the BSD lawsuit, three files had to be removed from BSD that represented things in SysV source. What is often forgotten, though, is that AT&T itself was in a far greater bind because while there was some SysV code in BSD, there was a LOT of "borrowed" and misattributed BSD code found to be in AT&T SysV. BSD permits this, but the license at the time required the advertising clause, and AT&T fraudulently ignored this. The actual settlement said that AT&T would no longer sue the BSD people, and that the University of California would also agree to hold AT&T harmless for misappropriating BSD code. Hence, much of the code that SCO owns is actually misattributed BSD code for which UC permitted AT&T (and it's decendents) to use."
"Now much of Linux also shares code derived from ancestrial BSD sources or people who have worked in common on both, and I am sure many of the same ancestrial routines still found today at the core of SysV are in fact also BSD derived. Hence, where common code may exist, it's code that AT&T originally misappropriated, and that SCO is free to use and relicense from the AT&T/BSD settlement, but in point of law neither AT&T nor the current SysV owner has actual legal copyright over. Perhaps the regents of UC could hall these SCO scum back into court, as they are in fact in material breach of the AT&T/BSD settlement if SCO now claims copyright "ownership" of that originally misappropriated code since the settlement gave AT&T no such rights."
Watch NINTENDO & IBM. They claim the next chip they use will combine the 2 chips. The GameCube right now already lets the GPU control the RAM they share.
Ah, you mean like the Amiga custom chips did twenty years ago.
(No I'm not trying to claim that the Amiga is the greatest and best and we should still be using unaccelerated A500s for all of our computing needs, but it did have some nice ideas in it)
A1. The CMB dipole shows that there is a center and that we're moving away from it at roughly 600 km/s, but that center isn't in any way special. More information here. There is no bulge because everything is expanding in an uniform way (gravity interactions notwhitstanding).
A2. I don't know, sorry. Anyway, the expansion of the Universe would account for a really tiny variation in the size and shape of the orbits; the effects of solar wind and interactions between the planets themselves are much more significant.
France? Why on Earth would someone want to nuke France out of the hundreds of other possibilities? China I could understand, but the French are mostly harmless.
P.S. "To nuke everyone at once, press and hold 0."
This reminds me of a question I always wanted to ask to some rocket engineer... Why don't they have a "safety exit" for the payload? It can't be that it's more expensive than the payload itself. As far as I know the Space Shuttle is supposed to be able to land safely if the launch fails (well, unless it explodes, as we all know) and I think that the manned missions of the Apollo era also did.
I have prepared scripts to turn the driver into Debian packages. If anyone finds them useful, please let me know. The feedback form on ATI's site didn't work for me, so: ATI folks, if you are listening, feel free to use my scripts.
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Gates... Big Brother... Ahahahaha!
Oh, shit.
Hmmmm, champagne!
They are in Utah, aren't they? I guess it would have to be peyote.
Just use statistics from the last 20 or so successful logins. This would solve the problem at hand, and it would also make the acceptable timings tighter and tighter as you learn how to type the password almost without thinking.
;)
Of course I claim the patent on this enhancement.
Parent is currently modded "Flamebait"... given the subject, he's probably flaming indeed, but he's right when he says that the problems are not technical. Please read the article before modding him again.
American products? Such as, say, Microsoft Windows? ;)
Indeed, if we Europeans stopped developing our own technology and relied on US's, it would become truly inexpensive... in the US. Here, I'm not so sure.
GSM is cheap because everyone and his dog has a cellphone here, and that's because it offered cheap rates, useful services and good coverage from the beginning. Add to the mix the "status symbol" value cell phones had in the early days and the teenagers' addiction to SMSing (the best example of an useful service which was perfectly tailored to the market) and you're set for success. I don't know why cell phones are not so widely used in the US: AFAIK it's not for technical reasons because CDMA is widely believed to be technically superior, but we know this means absolutely nothing. Customers want *services*, they don't care about the best radio interface.
And, as someone already told you, GSM is not mandated by anyone except the market and it is not subsidized by anyone except the customers.
And finally, just to add my own piece of biased opinion, I prefer the European governments' socialist bend to the American government's fascist bend.
The article from Newsforge had this (anonymous) comment attached to it. I didn't think of this, but it looks like he's right.
[disclaimer: as stated above, this comment was written by an Anonymous Reader -- I'm just pasting; any positive moderation doesn't belong to me, except a "+1 informative" if you will]
"As people may recall from the original settlement of the BSD lawsuit, three files had to be removed from BSD that represented things in SysV source. What is often forgotten, though, is that AT&T itself was in a far greater bind because while there was some SysV code in BSD, there was a LOT of "borrowed" and misattributed BSD code found to be in AT&T SysV. BSD permits this, but the license at the time required the advertising clause, and AT&T fraudulently ignored this. The actual settlement said that AT&T would no longer sue the BSD people, and that the University of California would also agree to hold AT&T harmless for misappropriating BSD code. Hence, much of the code that SCO owns is actually misattributed BSD code for which UC permitted AT&T (and it's decendents) to use."
"Now much of Linux also shares code derived from ancestrial BSD sources or people who have worked in common on both, and I am sure many of the same ancestrial routines still found today at the core of SysV are in fact also BSD derived. Hence, where common code may exist, it's code that AT&T originally misappropriated, and that SCO is free to use and relicense from the AT&T/BSD settlement, but in point of law neither AT&T nor the current SysV owner has actual legal copyright over. Perhaps the regents of UC could hall these SCO scum back into court, as they are in fact in material breach of the AT&T/BSD settlement if SCO now claims copyright "ownership" of that originally misappropriated code since the settlement gave AT&T no such rights."
Yes... on Earth. Maybe "they" were using smileys when the dinosaurs still ruled.
Watch NINTENDO & IBM. They claim the next chip they use will combine the 2 chips. The GameCube right now already lets the GPU control the RAM they share.
Ah, you mean like the Amiga custom chips did twenty years ago.
(No I'm not trying to claim that the Amiga is the greatest and best and we should still be using unaccelerated A500s for all of our computing needs, but it did have some nice ideas in it)
Using 802.11g to save cable industry? 802.11g... wireless... saving cable... no, it must be a joke.
You forgot porn, which I guess is in the 80%-90% range.
The key is at this time. Come on, anything done in just 4 days is bound to be a very very experimental hack.
...or maybe Oprilla.
Just go to -1. Any geek will know it's the ultimate version number, then you can only wrap around.
to Plan 9
Quake on Mars? Nah, you're gonna playing Doom on Deimos.
...or penis.
I'm not sure I would have any sanity left after reading through a single-file 30000-line document. ;)
Much better than the real world anyway, where this is likely in the >99% range.
A1. The CMB dipole shows that there is a center and that we're moving away from it at roughly 600 km/s, but that center isn't in any way special. More information here. There is no bulge because everything is expanding in an uniform way (gravity interactions notwhitstanding).
A2. I don't know, sorry. Anyway, the expansion of the Universe would account for a really tiny variation in the size and shape of the orbits; the effects of solar wind and interactions between the planets themselves are much more significant.
France? Why on Earth would someone want to nuke France out of the hundreds of other possibilities? China I could understand, but the French are mostly harmless.
P.S. "To nuke everyone at once, press and hold 0."
I don't know about your point, but the second statement is not equivalent to the first. Think about it.
This reminds me of a question I always wanted to ask to some rocket engineer... Why don't they have a "safety exit" for the payload? It can't be that it's more expensive than the payload itself. As far as I know the Space Shuttle is supposed to be able to land safely if the launch fails (well, unless it explodes, as we all know) and I think that the manned missions of the Apollo era also did.
I have prepared scripts to turn the driver into Debian packages. If anyone finds them useful, please let me know. The feedback form on ATI's site didn't work for me, so: ATI folks, if you are listening, feel free to use my scripts.
The Parhelia thing, though, I don't know about. Does that have any Linux drivers?
There is a beta driver on the Matrox site. I haven't tried it, I didn't put my hands on a Parhelia yet.