Considering my active boycott against all media companies and artists in support of the RIAA, this sounds almost too good to be true... I mean what better way to railroad such a blatent attempt to destroy our civil liberties than to bring down the supporters from the inside... Too bad the rest of society refuses to take a stand to prevent corporate entities from invading their privacy and bad customer service while hiding behind pieces of paper, but then hey, as long as the artists that Mtv tells them are cool support the RIAA, people are natually going to jump on the bandwagon...
Im so glad when they publish articles like this, because it just reenforces the fact that Im not buying crap from these people. But the sad thing is, the people that Im boycotting are all bands and singers that suck and I dont listen to anyway....
Good for AOL, with more and more of the big boys supporting Linux, even if they arent making the PC and just bundling their software with Lindows, the familiar name should bring the everyday average Joe Schmoe who likes the comfort of what he already knows, but wants to try something a little different. Of course, we will have our typical Linux Elitists who will say ignorant things like "I dont think real Linux users would be dumb enough to use AOL" and crap along those lines. But you know what, if the target audience were Linux geeks, they wouldnt distribute it with Lindows. Besides, if you like using Lynx and Pine, then thats your option, after all, it is open source and free so your not tied down to anything. I think this is a good step towards bringing Linux one step closer to the desktop, after all, if Grandma knows her AOL interface, shell be more inclined to buy the $200 dollar PC that has AOLs name on it, since she only uses it for that anyway. This is exactly what Linux was lacking to get average people to think again about switching.
Actually, your right, I didnt consider the "music that sucks" factor, especially in a cubicle farm, itd sound like an airport, or worse, a Walmart with all their display sound systems playing. Although when I had my own office, a 5.1 sound system rocked... but imagine the costs of paying for a setup like this for every employee in an company like say... USAA or Citi... the costs would be astronomical...
With all M-Soft bashing aside, this actually isnt all that bad of an idea. I especially liked the D# screen technology (which may or may not already exist). Doing a multi-screen desktop is annoying, I hate having to look at different monitors with a nice big gap between them, a single monitor like that actually seems somewhat more practical (which again, may or may not already exist). And the idea of dragging files onto a laptop seemingly actually isnt a bad one, although Id get annoyed with the possibility of dragging to far and always ending up on the laptop, and Im sure some technical issue will cause a slight 3 second delay when that happens, just enough to annoy me. Other than that, the rest reminds me of my office when I was still doing laser shows. 5.1 surround sound (although I always keep my sound effects off, their annoying), voice email and memos, XML, most of this technology already exists, and truth be told, if it hasnt been fully embraced by the office community now, why would it in 5 years? And the only time Ive ever seen news articles quoted, are on blogs. Anyway, depite the fact that you could make a lot of this stuff happen now, and most of it seems unnecessary, its actually not a bad vision, but I wouldnt pay the money for a company of about 5,000 people to all have a setup like this...
Dont exclude cygwin entirely, just include the cygwin1.dll (and possible bash) and throw all the Open Source available for cygwin in. If need be, compile these and distribute that way... Its how I run X and ssh at the office on my NT machine to tunnel home. Even if you had to use a full cygwin install, you could just do a "bash --login -c " and you can run whatever program from batch files in windows.... although there are some really good OSS that you can run that are Windows based, Mozilla, Openoffice.. and Im not to sure but I believe GTK is open to windows (or is that Qt... damned Linux standards, why dont you just combine!!) so some GTK based apps should work as well. Anyway, dont just limit yourself, the cygwin apps can be made to work with a little batch file...
I have to commend MIt for their effort in this field. This is definitly a idea whos time should have happened much earlier. Inside of our online learning portion of our intranet, we offer many such free courses to individuals in our company willing to learn (hence our title for this "Willing Learner"). I know of other professors at local Universitis that would take full advantage of this. An idea like this coming from MIT can only raise the bar of education for other institutions and students willing to take advantage of this. I can say Ill be looking at some of this content myself...
The concept of a single sign-on, no matter who makes it, is a bad one. All it would take to steal your identity and all complent sites is to get your info off one. This is more of a security issue than a "who makes it" issue. Do we trust Microsoft... a billion+ dollar company, or do we trust a bunch of free software enthusiests and company who are contributing to a project that they arent making any money off of it? Not to ruffle any feathers here, but I dont think Im going to trust the disgruntled developers who arent getting paid. This article is just a blantent attempt to say "I dont like it because its Microsoft".
You know, everyone just bitches about the RIAA, DMCA, and other such infringements on our freedom. The answer is simple... BOYCOTT!!! If a company supports the RIAA or uses the DMCA to infringe on our rights, dont support their products in any way. If Congressman Dipshit supports a law in favor of these, vote for his opponent. If Sony uses the DMCA do crack down on something that affects your life in such a way that you do not like, buy their competitors products. Spread rumors about how a mother lost a lawsuit when her babys hand was mangled in a DVD player, and Sony won the counter suit. Resist buying that PS2 and buy something else. At what point did we lose control of our lives? Why is it that big corporations can shit on us and tell us what we can and can not do with our products? Fsck them... They can kiss my ass. I wont be bullied by big corporations or their advocate groups. Im sick of these guys hideing behind "policy", something that is on paper. It cant physically prohibit you from doing something, so why are we subject to it. Its simple, dont buy the products of the supporters of the RIAA. Make them lose money. If they lose profit over it, they will discontinue contributions to such an agency, so the RIAA will be disbanned, the Chairman will be out of a job sleeping on the street in a cardboard box, so that we can all laugh at them and urinate on them in their sleep. Get control and do something about it, your the consumer, and your supposed to always be right...
The first step is admiting you have a problem.... now that Microsoft has gotten past the denial stage they can now move to stage 2, that is doing something about it....
For years, Ive used a 5 dollar repair kit I saw at a local computer store. It came with a screwdriver with interchangable heads, a claw for picking up dropped screws, a chip puller, and a pair of needle nose plyers. I added a static ground strap and its worked great for years. You might want to get a good set of utilities and keep a CD/Floppy case with these. And your all set. Ive tried the more expensive kits with all the bells and whistles, such as dust vaccums, solder, and all sorts of odd screw heads, and the truth is all I ever used out of them was the philips head screw drivers, the jewlers screwdrivers (which was more forced since I wasnt using anything else out of the kit) and the claw. So just keep a small kit, which I see similar ones at Walmart and other stores these days, and a decent set of utilities. As far as these go, I usually keep a copy of the Ultimate Boot Disk or something with AEFdisk for quick partition and formats, WIPE.COM, a boot disk for each major OS, the CD's for each OS, a virus scanner (I prefer Norton myself), a floppy based memory tester like DocMem for quick assessments of faulty RAM, a simple hardware troubleshooter, and a copy of every ISP cd I can get my hands on, especially AOL (I have copies of every AOL from 3 up). Theres another CD with other various utilities such as common drivers that I come across, PKZIP and WINZIP, and a few other things. It all fits in 1 CD case, some guys I know keep bigger collections of utilities. Get to know more of the utilities built into Windows and you should need less utilities... Hope this helps..
I doubt it. We are talking about movie execs here... if youve seen some of the movies that they make, youd know that they arent smart enough to come up with a plot like that...
Ive used the device for the past fews years to defeat Macrovision, and for legitimate purposes. The tool itself is not illegal. Since the TV in my room doesnt have composite or component inputs on it, I have to run it through my VCR. When I first got my DVD player, I noticed my video would fritz out, so I put a stabalizer in line with it to eliminate the problem. Now I can watch DVD's no problem, and what do you know, its not being used illegally. I doubt the company could be sued, since this kind of technology has legitimate purposes, such as Time Base Correctors in video decks and editing stations. So I doubt the manufacturers of the tools would be sued... but in this day and age of MPAA payed lawyers, I wouldnt doubt it, but theyd be shooting themselves in the foot when their editing decks no longer have SMTPE sync capabilities.
Wow, devices that beam sound directly at me used for advertising... in the past vandalism on billboards were pretty amusing, if not unsightly. If people start to vadalize these devices, say by cracking them with bats so we dont have to hear any unwanted advertisements, Id say vandalism will have taken on a new role, going from destructive to useful.
Something like this would be very practical and sturdyactually. DPSS Yag lasers are used all the time on touring laser productions all the time, and they are Solid State infrared lasers witha frequency doubling crystal on them, and they can withstand the abuse that drunken roadies put them through. As far as practicality, an infrared laser is far more efficient than a visible laser. I think, if I remember correctly, a 100 Watt infared laser could cut through a human target (dont remember if that is completly through) in about 2 seconds, so imagine that multiplied by a factor of 10... Considering a 20 watt Yag (pure green solid state laser at 532 nm) can cut through a 2x4 of wood in about 5 to 10 seconds, and they use coper vapor lasers for metal cutting and prototyping... and taking into consideration that you can cause damage at great distances at the speed of light and without detection Id have to say a kilowatt infrared laser would be pretty effective as a weapon...
Its funny, in almost every every comparison on M-Softs list, it read to me like "Linux has this, but ". With the exception of ASP support, almost all of the features that are supported on Windows are also supported in Linux, as --->FREE--- (this word was omited from just about everything in the Linux column) add-ons mind you. And the funny thing is, it seemed to me that the whole comparison was done based on a Windows network (ie. Linux supports SMB via Samba...), which most of these features wouldnt be necessary if there wasnt a need for Windows connectivity on the network... Basically what I got from the page was if I want to set up a Windows based network with Active Directory running IIS for ASP support, I should probally run Windows, if I have a Windows server, Linux can act as a client with a bunch of add-ons, but if I wanted a less expensive network with little to no tech support that I wouldnt use anyway (after all, checking the various FAQs and LUG's on the web prove to be more helpful than some pimply faced intern whos reading from a script on screen anyhow) I can run Linux, which has the capability to be backwards compatible via add-ons with the Windows network that Im throwing out... Thanks M-Soft, thats all the reassurance I need...
Oh... and by the way... M-Soft, with all the great features of Windows, forgot to mention that when you go with Windows as your higher priced native alternative to the less compatible with Windows networks Linux, your also getting your enterprise locked into M-Softs licensing scam... after all Mr Balmer, who Im sure is missing lots of sleep over this issue, if your execs cant figure out a way to make Windows cost less than the competitors free OSS alternative, just lock your customers into slavery with legal trickery and evil EULA's....
And the sad thing is as Im reading this, I notice Slashdots advertisement banners and almost scream.... This kind of rant almost reminds me of Tyler's advertisement rant in Fight Club... Im almost tempted now to go paint the Used Motor Oil can Make fetilizer on a billboard now...
Theres too much discussion about what can and cannot be defined as a cyber-attack. We all had our definition of terrorism redefined after 9-11, after all noone thought that using commercial vehicles as weapons against us was something that could happen in reality, only in Tom Clancy novels. Now we know that its possible, but the whole trick of it is to get us where we least expect it. If there is some sort of cyber-attack, its going to be something that we dont expect, anything from a mass DoS attack on key ISP's to actually bombing the FDIC or some other electronic dependent financial/educational/ect institution, no necessarily a goverment facility. As far as if they are capable of it, why not, after all if they can hijack a plane with a box cutter, or if 1 supposidly 13 year old can DoS http://www.grc.com (see story on site) to a stand still, then anything is possible. They have shown their creativity to use low tech items against us, all they would have to do is something along the lines of getting about 100 of them to zap a phone junction box with Tesla Coils and knock out some phones and hurt some people.... After all, the goal of terrorism is to terrorize, which means hit us where and when we least expect it in a way we dont expect...
IMHO, you should do a mix of C and C++ and use the Standard Template Librarys vector, deque, or list classes instead of an array. Hell, even if you use an array, the STL functions and algorithms still work on them. You can even use the Queue and Stack wrappers if thats what your doing... Thats just my opinion though....
" So to play Doom 3 I will need a minumum of $130.
$50 for the game and $80 for Radeon 7500 - the lowest spec card mentioned as working.
And top of the line - GeForce 4ti - is about $300
(ebay prices)
I'd better start saving."
Hell, since Im gonna spend countless nights playing this game, the amount of money Ill save buying 12 packs as opposed to beers at the bar will more than pay for the hardware for this game!!
"it is really sad... given that China is the next world superpower... and we can only bask in our ignorance, self-indulgence, arrogance, and naievete for so long...."
Wow, the Chinese invent something and now their ready for world domination..... this should have made news earlier....
Well, its interesting that you bring this up since this was the final project I had in college Electronics. Its actually a pretty long project, but very fun and educational. First thing is to decide on an achitecture in which to build your system on, then find as much technical information on the device as possible. I went off an 8086, and finding Intels technical documentation for this isnt very hard. From the pin outs, you can kind of start to figure out what you want your device to do. Mine didnt use any disk I/O, it used serial based communication, so in addition to memory, DMA, ect ect, I had to find the correct UART for the serial device. Its been some time since Ive actually done this though. But finding the documentation isnt very difficult, and when I did this I already had 4+ years experience in computer/electronics, and the 2 years of college to add to it. If you get a basic understanding of digital logic circuits, the rest kind of falls in to place if your willing to do lots of reading and persist in your efforts. Best of luck....
An excerpt off of a web page from a old college professor of mine states:
When should you comment. You should comment your code as you are writing it, when what you are doing is fresh in you mind. If you wait to comment it after everything is written, you may have forgotten why you did something a particular way or what a complicated section of code does.
What should you comment. It is possible to over comment code. Every line of code does not need a comment.
The key things you should comment are:
Put identification comments at the beginning of every source code file.
Each function, including main, should have a comment before it stating its purpose, even if it is a one line function.
Anytime you are doing something complicated in your code. If you can't glance at it and know what it is doing, comment it.
Anytime you are doing something new. I hate to learn things twice, so when I use a library function that I have never used before, I put some extra comments in the code, so I don't have to go look up the function the next time I need to use it.
He is a wise man, so I still use his page as reference for other things as well. It contains tons of info on C++ coding style and C++ in general. If interested, his site is at http://home.satx.rr.com/rdevore/sac/
Although it is preventing the music from being played in a computer, its not really a copy protection scheme. Its a protection mechinism to save us from the damage caused to people if Celine Dions music would actually have to be listened to. Ecch, makes me shudder to think of it, oh the humanity.....
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Considering my active boycott against all media companies and artists in support of the RIAA, this sounds almost too good to be true... I mean what better way to railroad such a blatent attempt to destroy our civil liberties than to bring down the supporters from the inside... Too bad the rest of society refuses to take a stand to prevent corporate entities from invading their privacy and bad customer service while hiding behind pieces of paper, but then hey, as long as the artists that Mtv tells them are cool support the RIAA, people are natually going to jump on the bandwagon...
Im so glad when they publish articles like this, because it just reenforces the fact that Im not buying crap from these people. But the sad thing is, the people that Im boycotting are all bands and singers that suck and I dont listen to anyway....
Good for AOL, with more and more of the big boys supporting Linux, even if they arent making the PC and just bundling their software with Lindows, the familiar name should bring the everyday average Joe Schmoe who likes the comfort of what he already knows, but wants to try something a little different. Of course, we will have our typical Linux Elitists who will say ignorant things like "I dont think real Linux users would be dumb enough to use AOL" and crap along those lines. But you know what, if the target audience were Linux geeks, they wouldnt distribute it with Lindows. Besides, if you like using Lynx and Pine, then thats your option, after all, it is open source and free so your not tied down to anything. I think this is a good step towards bringing Linux one step closer to the desktop, after all, if Grandma knows her AOL interface, shell be more inclined to buy the $200 dollar PC that has AOLs name on it, since she only uses it for that anyway. This is exactly what Linux was lacking to get average people to think again about switching.
Actually, your right, I didnt consider the "music that sucks" factor, especially in a cubicle farm, itd sound like an airport, or worse, a Walmart with all their display sound systems playing. Although when I had my own office, a 5.1 sound system rocked... but imagine the costs of paying for a setup like this for every employee in an company like say... USAA or Citi... the costs would be astronomical...
With all M-Soft bashing aside, this actually isnt all that bad of an idea. I especially liked the D# screen technology (which may or may not already exist). Doing a multi-screen desktop is annoying, I hate having to look at different monitors with a nice big gap between them, a single monitor like that actually seems somewhat more practical (which again, may or may not already exist). And the idea of dragging files onto a laptop seemingly actually isnt a bad one, although Id get annoyed with the possibility of dragging to far and always ending up on the laptop, and Im sure some technical issue will cause a slight 3 second delay when that happens, just enough to annoy me. Other than that, the rest reminds me of my office when I was still doing laser shows. 5.1 surround sound (although I always keep my sound effects off, their annoying), voice email and memos, XML, most of this technology already exists, and truth be told, if it hasnt been fully embraced by the office community now, why would it in 5 years? And the only time Ive ever seen news articles quoted, are on blogs. Anyway, depite the fact that you could make a lot of this stuff happen now, and most of it seems unnecessary, its actually not a bad vision, but I wouldnt pay the money for a company of about 5,000 people to all have a setup like this...
Dont exclude cygwin entirely, just include the cygwin1.dll (and possible bash) and throw all the Open Source available for cygwin in. If need be, compile these and distribute that way... Its how I run X and ssh at the office on my NT machine to tunnel home. Even if you had to use a full cygwin install, you could just do a "bash --login -c " and you can run whatever program from batch files in windows.... although there are some really good OSS that you can run that are Windows based, Mozilla, Openoffice.. and Im not to sure but I believe GTK is open to windows (or is that Qt... damned Linux standards, why dont you just combine!!) so some GTK based apps should work as well. Anyway, dont just limit yourself, the cygwin apps can be made to work with a little batch file...
I have to commend MIt for their effort in this field. This is definitly a idea whos time should have happened much earlier. Inside of our online learning portion of our intranet, we offer many such free courses to individuals in our company willing to learn (hence our title for this "Willing Learner"). I know of other professors at local Universitis that would take full advantage of this. An idea like this coming from MIT can only raise the bar of education for other institutions and students willing to take advantage of this. I can say Ill be looking at some of this content myself...
Let me correct that last sentence... Its the post, not the article... doh
The concept of a single sign-on, no matter who makes it, is a bad one. All it would take to steal your identity and all complent sites is to get your info off one. This is more of a security issue than a "who makes it" issue. Do we trust Microsoft... a billion+ dollar company, or do we trust a bunch of free software enthusiests and company who are contributing to a project that they arent making any money off of it? Not to ruffle any feathers here, but I dont think Im going to trust the disgruntled developers who arent getting paid. This article is just a blantent attempt to say "I dont like it because its Microsoft".
You know, everyone just bitches about the RIAA, DMCA, and other such infringements on our freedom. The answer is simple... BOYCOTT!!! If a company supports the RIAA or uses the DMCA to infringe on our rights, dont support their products in any way. If Congressman Dipshit supports a law in favor of these, vote for his opponent. If Sony uses the DMCA do crack down on something that affects your life in such a way that you do not like, buy their competitors products. Spread rumors about how a mother lost a lawsuit when her babys hand was mangled in a DVD player, and Sony won the counter suit. Resist buying that PS2 and buy something else. At what point did we lose control of our lives? Why is it that big corporations can shit on us and tell us what we can and can not do with our products? Fsck them... They can kiss my ass. I wont be bullied by big corporations or their advocate groups. Im sick of these guys hideing behind "policy", something that is on paper. It cant physically prohibit you from doing something, so why are we subject to it. Its simple, dont buy the products of the supporters of the RIAA. Make them lose money. If they lose profit over it, they will discontinue contributions to such an agency, so the RIAA will be disbanned, the Chairman will be out of a job sleeping on the street in a cardboard box, so that we can all laugh at them and urinate on them in their sleep. Get control and do something about it, your the consumer, and your supposed to always be right...
The first step is admiting you have a problem.... now that Microsoft has gotten past the denial stage they can now move to stage 2, that is doing something about it....
For years, Ive used a 5 dollar repair kit I saw at a local computer store. It came with a screwdriver with interchangable heads, a claw for picking up dropped screws, a chip puller, and a pair of needle nose plyers. I added a static ground strap and its worked great for years. You might want to get a good set of utilities and keep a CD/Floppy case with these. And your all set. Ive tried the more expensive kits with all the bells and whistles, such as dust vaccums, solder, and all sorts of odd screw heads, and the truth is all I ever used out of them was the philips head screw drivers, the jewlers screwdrivers (which was more forced since I wasnt using anything else out of the kit) and the claw. So just keep a small kit, which I see similar ones at Walmart and other stores these days, and a decent set of utilities. As far as these go, I usually keep a copy of the Ultimate Boot Disk or something with AEFdisk for quick partition and formats, WIPE.COM, a boot disk for each major OS, the CD's for each OS, a virus scanner (I prefer Norton myself), a floppy based memory tester like DocMem for quick assessments of faulty RAM, a simple hardware troubleshooter, and a copy of every ISP cd I can get my hands on, especially AOL (I have copies of every AOL from 3 up). Theres another CD with other various utilities such as common drivers that I come across, PKZIP and WINZIP, and a few other things. It all fits in 1 CD case, some guys I know keep bigger collections of utilities. Get to know more of the utilities built into Windows and you should need less utilities... Hope this helps..
I doubt it. We are talking about movie execs here... if youve seen some of the movies that they make, youd know that they arent smart enough to come up with a plot like that...
Ive used the device for the past fews years to defeat Macrovision, and for legitimate purposes. The tool itself is not illegal. Since the TV in my room doesnt have composite or component inputs on it, I have to run it through my VCR. When I first got my DVD player, I noticed my video would fritz out, so I put a stabalizer in line with it to eliminate the problem. Now I can watch DVD's no problem, and what do you know, its not being used illegally. I doubt the company could be sued, since this kind of technology has legitimate purposes, such as Time Base Correctors in video decks and editing stations. So I doubt the manufacturers of the tools would be sued... but in this day and age of MPAA payed lawyers, I wouldnt doubt it, but theyd be shooting themselves in the foot when their editing decks no longer have SMTPE sync capabilities.
Wow, devices that beam sound directly at me used for advertising... in the past vandalism on billboards were pretty amusing, if not unsightly. If people start to vadalize these devices, say by cracking them with bats so we dont have to hear any unwanted advertisements, Id say vandalism will have taken on a new role, going from destructive to useful.
Something like this would be very practical and sturdyactually. DPSS Yag lasers are used all the time on touring laser productions all the time, and they are Solid State infrared lasers witha frequency doubling crystal on them, and they can withstand the abuse that drunken roadies put them through. As far as practicality, an infrared laser is far more efficient than a visible laser. I think, if I remember correctly, a 100 Watt infared laser could cut through a human target (dont remember if that is completly through) in about 2 seconds, so imagine that multiplied by a factor of 10... Considering a 20 watt Yag (pure green solid state laser at 532 nm) can cut through a 2x4 of wood in about 5 to 10 seconds, and they use coper vapor lasers for metal cutting and prototyping... and taking into consideration that you can cause damage at great distances at the speed of light and without detection Id have to say a kilowatt infrared laser would be pretty effective as a weapon...
Its funny, in almost every every comparison on M-Softs list, it read to me like "Linux has this, but ". With the exception of ASP support, almost all of the features that are supported on Windows are also supported in Linux, as --->FREE--- (this word was omited from just about everything in the Linux column) add-ons mind you. And the funny thing is, it seemed to me that the whole comparison was done based on a Windows network (ie. Linux supports SMB via Samba...), which most of these features wouldnt be necessary if there wasnt a need for Windows connectivity on the network... Basically what I got from the page was if I want to set up a Windows based network with Active Directory running IIS for ASP support, I should probally run Windows, if I have a Windows server, Linux can act as a client with a bunch of add-ons, but if I wanted a less expensive network with little to no tech support that I wouldnt use anyway (after all, checking the various FAQs and LUG's on the web prove to be more helpful than some pimply faced intern whos reading from a script on screen anyhow) I can run Linux, which has the capability to be backwards compatible via add-ons with the Windows network that Im throwing out... Thanks M-Soft, thats all the reassurance I need...
Oh... and by the way... M-Soft, with all the great features of Windows, forgot to mention that when you go with Windows as your higher priced native alternative to the less compatible with Windows networks Linux, your also getting your enterprise locked into M-Softs licensing scam... after all Mr Balmer, who Im sure is missing lots of sleep over this issue, if your execs cant figure out a way to make Windows cost less than the competitors free OSS alternative, just lock your customers into slavery with legal trickery and evil EULA's....
And the sad thing is as Im reading this, I notice Slashdots advertisement banners and almost scream.... This kind of rant almost reminds me of Tyler's advertisement rant in Fight Club... Im almost tempted now to go paint the Used Motor Oil can Make fetilizer on a billboard now...
Theres too much discussion about what can and cannot be defined as a cyber-attack. We all had our definition of terrorism redefined after 9-11, after all noone thought that using commercial vehicles as weapons against us was something that could happen in reality, only in Tom Clancy novels. Now we know that its possible, but the whole trick of it is to get us where we least expect it. If there is some sort of cyber-attack, its going to be something that we dont expect, anything from a mass DoS attack on key ISP's to actually bombing the FDIC or some other electronic dependent financial/educational/ect institution, no necessarily a goverment facility. As far as if they are capable of it, why not, after all if they can hijack a plane with a box cutter, or if 1 supposidly 13 year old can DoS http://www.grc.com (see story on site) to a stand still, then anything is possible. They have shown their creativity to use low tech items against us, all they would have to do is something along the lines of getting about 100 of them to zap a phone junction box with Tesla Coils and knock out some phones and hurt some people.... After all, the goal of terrorism is to terrorize, which means hit us where and when we least expect it in a way we dont expect...
IMHO, you should do a mix of C and C++ and use the Standard Template Librarys vector, deque, or list classes instead of an array. Hell, even if you use an array, the STL functions and algorithms still work on them. You can even use the Queue and Stack wrappers if thats what your doing... Thats just my opinion though....
" So to play Doom 3 I will need a minumum of $130.
$50 for the game and $80 for Radeon 7500 - the lowest spec card mentioned as working.
And top of the line - GeForce 4ti - is about $300
(ebay prices)
I'd better start saving."
Hell, since Im gonna spend countless nights playing this game, the amount of money Ill save buying 12 packs as opposed to beers at the bar will more than pay for the hardware for this game!!
"it is really sad... given that China is the next world superpower... and we can only bask in our ignorance, self-indulgence, arrogance, and naievete for so long...."
Wow, the Chinese invent something and now their ready for world domination..... this should have made news earlier....
Well, its interesting that you bring this up since this was the final project I had in college Electronics. Its actually a pretty long project, but very fun and educational. First thing is to decide on an achitecture in which to build your system on, then find as much technical information on the device as possible. I went off an 8086, and finding Intels technical documentation for this isnt very hard. From the pin outs, you can kind of start to figure out what you want your device to do. Mine didnt use any disk I/O, it used serial based communication, so in addition to memory, DMA, ect ect, I had to find the correct UART for the serial device. Its been some time since Ive actually done this though. But finding the documentation isnt very difficult, and when I did this I already had 4+ years experience in computer/electronics, and the 2 years of college to add to it. If you get a basic understanding of digital logic circuits, the rest kind of falls in to place if your willing to do lots of reading and persist in your efforts. Best of luck....
An excerpt off of a web page from a old college professor of mine states:
When should you comment.
You should comment your code as you are writing it, when what you are doing is fresh in you mind.
If you wait to comment it after everything is written, you may have forgotten why you did something a particular way or what a complicated section of code does.
What should you comment.
It is possible to over comment code. Every line of code does not need a comment.
The key things you should comment are:
Put identification comments at the beginning of every source code file.
Each function, including main, should have a comment before it stating its purpose, even if it is a one line function.
Anytime you are doing something complicated in your code. If you can't glance at it and know what it is doing, comment it.
Anytime you are doing something new. I hate to learn things twice, so when I use a library function that I have never used before, I put some extra comments in the code, so I don't have to go look up the function the next time I need to use it.
He is a wise man, so I still use his page as reference for other things as well. It contains tons of info on C++ coding style and C++ in general. If interested, his site is at http://home.satx.rr.com/rdevore/sac/
Although it is preventing the music from being played in a computer, its not really a copy protection scheme. Its a protection mechinism to save us from the damage caused to people if Celine Dions music would actually have to be listened to. Ecch, makes me shudder to think of it, oh the humanity.....