Yeah, it's not new. But given the fact that OpenSSL is the basic of most security/cryptography packages, it is wise to give the largest number of people the news that they should update. And i think it is no mistake to say slashdot IS popular.
I do not read dozens of lists, and my primary sources are slashdot, cnn, lemonde and one or two others. If i had not seen the news on slashdot, i wouldn't be aware of it, until i eventualy ran mandrake update. Ok it seems like it is non-exploitable, but it should be known though.
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Maybe you can think to it as a kind of darwinism. As you can see it in other competitions (for example E=M6 and which does not aim at combat), basicly you build a robot which applies one (or many) solution to a given problem. He has to adapt himself to the problem, and in fact, YOU have to do the adaptation, at least in his physical design. Then when you ar building the AI, you can have him adapt to different strategies. But you can really think that for the problem you are concerned, there is one or two "better" strategies, which will surely get better results. And i think it is true, even if i'd prefer seing clever, fun, unusual strategies get more success. The best wins and rules the world, isn't it this way for robots ? The best.
And i forgot to add, for many people (my family included), VHS quality is good. And some even think a 5 year old tape erased 15 times can still be watched... I just wanted to explain that high quality digital clips are not really in people's mind. Except for the DVD they play on a TV, which they would have NO need to encode, by the way.
I can't agree more. It is really a pain in the ass to get up with all codecs type and version. My only solution is to put the installers of the video and audio codec with each clip i encode. It prevents me to get many calls from my family when they would complain "the movie does not start" or "i do not hear anything". And i include them, because they are non techie, and may not have access to the internet, and furthermore would not know what to download
I know it is not the topic, but is anyone aware of any same type of comparison with audio codecs ? I mean, if someone encodes a clip, it is humanly possible to compare two videos / pictures and have an overall opinion. But i think that it is far less simple with audio media, as i have difficulties to "feel" the differences between two audio streams, and of course i cannot compare then step by step like still images;)
But, quoting the article, the description of the "typical mid-range desktop PC with the following configuration [...]". Is it _really_ the standard config today? Duh,i may be a little outdated with my poor athlon 1gz. Well, gotta go back to work, and prostitute myself for a new computer;)
I know Shannon as someone who tells we need to sample a signal at rate which is minimum twice the highest frequency found in the sampled signal. Is this related to that ?
I can't quite understand what turbo codes are, and if there is no relation, well.... yeah, i'd be off-topic;)
Thanx to John Carmack (Quake, Doom & co) i can prove you're wrong : There ARE commercial grade games available to linux. Not many, i confess, but not crappy ones too ! Btw, he induces a lot of work, support and enhancements into the 3D-cards manufacturers' driver, whether it be for linux or windows. Partly because of the popularity of his games, OpenGL keeps being available on many OS, which may not be the case otherwise.
No problem with that, i often do the same : i am a morrowind addict, and have spent countless hours wandering around, reading books, being amazed by the wonderful world they created. Extended by the add-ons.
But what about the proportion of people behaving this way ? The vast majority of people likes to play a game they can have a sensation of freedom, but which provides them guides so they know what to do when they realize "hey, what have i been doing for an hour ? let's really play this game !"
In some way, having guides prevents people from having to think "... well, what should i do now ?" after they had fun with something in the game and wanted to get back on the "main" thing
Some years ago, it was possible to damage a monitor by software (i think). It would be funny to see CRT displays explore (or implode, i don't know which), by groups of 28. Fireworks in the office for everyone !
To sum things up : The software maker can't be held responsible due to the EULA. For example a doctor uses the device with his patients. The user is the doctor, so he accepts the device may not be reliable. Let's say the patient would be suffering whatever due to the use of this device, he accepted to go to that particular doctor, and accepts the use of his medicine and tools. If the patient goes to that doctor, he has faith in his knowledge. If the doctor uses some device, he has faith in their performance. There is no way he could be forced to guess / know / evaluate the risks of using such device. I am pretty sure many manufacturers use EULA-type things, and that would not prevent them from producing quality products. What should the doctor do ? Use only his intuition, to cover his ass, because in any device lurks the possibility to see his patient die a horrible death ? Or use something he knows works well 99% or which is approved / used by others ?
Back to the "radiation problem", some material security check might have been set up, for example to prevent emission above a specified human -acceptable rate... I guess, at least we should assume software CAN go wrong
But i like drawing caligraphic text on my CD ! Does it imply i'll be surpassed by TrueType quality text on my CDs ?! If only i was a font, i'd never run out of job. (sigh)
I can't wait to have this personnal foldable / rollable 24 inch monitor i could bring with me on lan parties, instead of a 30kg 21" And i would really enjoy having my electricity bill reduced by the same rate as the weight...
So... It enable you to use your devices without booting your os ? So basicly you can get things running up as quickly as a tv set if your computer was powered off, and that's all ?
BTW, is this feature useless if you computer is already powered up ? But it's pretty cool to see it is possible!
> there are thousands of possible cable channels, all with different content
Hey. Nobody says anything about evening news and news channel ? Whole families watch them during dinner (including kids & infants, who if they do not really understand, do remember what they see)
The news speak 80% about death, war & violence. This means real violence. No one turns off the tv set, no one angers, because "hey, we've got to be aware of what happens !".
After that, the very same people are complaining about violence in video games. But they forget one thing : video games are not free, contrary to evening news.
The game must be bought, and to buy it you *should* have the age required on the box, which in some way ensures you are smart enough to understand this is fiction, that this is not the way things happen, that you are not to do the same things, that the game may be stupid...
If a 11 year old plays such games (too many to name them all), it is the parents responsability. If they allow it, then they can't complain. And if they then complain, aren't they... stupid too ?
> Violence is a tool to attract male teenagers with pocket change in the "young warrior" stage of maturation
Virtual violence can keep away from stress and real violence.
I may be adding my Troll 0.02$, but i sometime enjoy playing dumb-ass-violent-idiotic games, becase it often gives me a great stress relief.
After 5 minutes of carmageddon, i get some good laughing. Playing alien vs predator (which does not refer to real-life violence, but i love speedy good game) while listening to black metal can drain my whole stress away in a quarter hour. Just as instagib q3.
And after that, i have evacuated all the anger i could have, and i'm again the smiling cute boy my girlfriend is so fond of. Either that or having sex, the result is the same, but video games do not make her eyes shine.
> The desktop is fine, if I don't like it it's VERY easy to delete.
Not if the installer requests administrator privilege, and puts some shortcuts on the desktop of the "All User" profile, which is not accessible for modification to standard users.
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> So maybe the only way to uninstall this software was to burn the hard drive... who knows...
This is really done in some company where they think data security and theft really matters. Burning old scratched tapes or crushing broken HD to pieces was mandatory in a firm worked in.
But voodoo & exorcism is furthermore needed when trying to uninstall some software...
I have a dream : everyone starts working on the 13th of every month. There would be no date conflict, and furthermore, you would have much more holidays:-)
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As always, why not ? Possible, fun, proud to achieve it.
And these are way cheaper if you have a failure ;)
Yeah, it's not new. But given the fact that OpenSSL is the basic of most security/cryptography packages, it is wise to give the largest number of people the news that they should update. And i think it is no mistake to say slashdot IS popular.
I do not read dozens of lists, and my primary sources are slashdot, cnn, lemonde and one or two others. If i had not seen the news on slashdot, i wouldn't be aware of it, until i eventualy ran mandrake update. Ok it seems like it is non-exploitable, but it should be known though.
Maybe you can think to it as a kind of darwinism. As you can see it in other competitions (for example E=M6 and which does not aim at combat), basicly you build a robot which applies one (or many) solution to a given problem. He has to adapt himself to the problem, and in fact, YOU have to do the adaptation, at least in his physical design. Then when you ar building the AI, you can have him adapt to different strategies. But you can really think that for the problem you are concerned, there is one or two "better" strategies, which will surely get better results. And i think it is true, even if i'd prefer seing clever, fun, unusual strategies get more success. The best wins and rules the world, isn't it this way for robots ? The best.
And i forgot to add, for many people (my family included), VHS quality is good. And some even think a 5 year old tape erased 15 times can still be watched... I just wanted to explain that high quality digital clips are not really in people's mind. Except for the DVD they play on a TV, which they would have NO need to encode, by the way.
I can't agree more. It is really a pain in the ass to get up with all codecs type and version. My only solution is to put the installers of the video and audio codec with each clip i encode. It prevents me to get many calls from my family when they would complain "the movie does not start" or "i do not hear anything". And i include them, because they are non techie, and may not have access to the internet, and furthermore would not know what to download
I know it is not the topic, but is anyone aware of any same type of comparison with audio codecs ? I mean, if someone encodes a clip, it is humanly possible to compare two videos / pictures and have an overall opinion. But i think that it is far less simple with audio media, as i have difficulties to "feel" the differences between two audio streams, and of course i cannot compare then step by step like still images ;)
But, quoting the article, the description of the "typical mid-range desktop PC with the following configuration [...]". Is it _really_ the standard config today? Duh,i may be a little outdated with my poor athlon 1gz. Well, gotta go back to work, and prostitute myself for a new computer ;)
I know Shannon as someone who tells we need to sample a signal at rate which is minimum twice the highest frequency found in the sampled signal. Is this related to that ?
.... yeah, i'd be off-topic ;)
I can't quite understand what turbo codes are, and if there is no relation, well
Thanx to John Carmack (Quake, Doom & co) i can prove you're wrong : There ARE commercial grade games available to linux. Not many, i confess, but not crappy ones too !
Btw, he induces a lot of work, support and enhancements into the 3D-cards manufacturers' driver, whether it be for linux or windows. Partly because of the popularity of his games, OpenGL keeps being available on many OS, which may not be the case otherwise.
No problem with that, i often do the same : i am a morrowind addict, and have spent countless hours wandering around, reading books, being amazed by the wonderful world they created. Extended by the add-ons.
But what about the proportion of people behaving this way ? The vast majority of people likes to play a game they can have a sensation of freedom, but which provides them guides so they know what to do when they realize "hey, what have i been doing for an hour ? let's really play this game !"
In some way, having guides prevents people from having to think "... well, what should i do now ?" after they had fun with something in the game and wanted to get back on the "main" thing
Some years ago, it was possible to damage a monitor by software (i think). It would be funny to see CRT displays explore (or implode, i don't know which), by groups of 28. Fireworks in the office for everyone !
> If you're ripping around at 150mph on non Z-rated tired, and one blows, it's your own damned fault, not that of the manufacturer.
Well, that won't prevent the driver to try to sue the manufacturer. And maybe win, that's the problem...
To sum things up : The software maker can't be held responsible due to the EULA. For example a doctor uses the device with his patients. The user is the doctor, so he accepts the device may not be reliable. Let's say the patient would be suffering whatever due to the use of this device, he accepted to go to that particular doctor, and accepts the use of his medicine and tools. If the patient goes to that doctor, he has faith in his knowledge. If the doctor uses some device, he has faith in their performance. There is no way he could be forced to guess / know / evaluate the risks of using such device. I am pretty sure many manufacturers use EULA-type things, and that would not prevent them from producing quality products. What should the doctor do ? Use only his intuition, to cover his ass, because in any device lurks the possibility to see his patient die a horrible death ? Or use something he knows works well 99% or which is approved / used by others ?
Back to the "radiation problem", some material security check might have been set up, for example to prevent emission above a specified human -acceptable rate... I guess, at least we should assume software CAN go wrong
Hummmm ... 28 lethal dose, 28 killed in explosing, 28 comments so far. Well i'd better log off before my browser kills me !
But i like drawing caligraphic text on my CD ! Does it imply i'll be surpassed by TrueType quality text on my CDs ?! If only i was a font, i'd never run out of job. (sigh)
I can't wait to have this personnal foldable / rollable 24 inch monitor i could bring with me on lan parties, instead of a 30kg 21" ...
And i would really enjoy having my electricity bill reduced by the same rate as the weight
So... It enable you to use your devices without booting your os ? So basicly you can get things running up as quickly as a tv set if your computer was powered off, and that's all ?
BTW, is this feature useless if you computer is already powered up ?
But it's pretty cool to see it is possible!
Please correct me if i said anything stupid !
> there are thousands of possible cable channels, all with different content
... stupid too ?
Hey. Nobody says anything about evening news and news channel ? Whole families watch them during dinner (including kids & infants, who if they do not really understand, do remember what they see)
The news speak 80% about death, war & violence. This means real violence. No one turns off the tv set, no one angers, because "hey, we've got to be aware of what happens !".
After that, the very same people are complaining about violence in video games. But they forget one thing : video games are not free, contrary to evening news.
The game must be bought, and to buy it you *should* have the age required on the box, which in some way ensures you are smart enough to understand this is fiction, that this is not the way things happen, that you are not to do the same things, that the game may be stupid...
If a 11 year old plays such games (too many to name them all), it is the parents responsability. If they allow it, then they can't complain. And if they then complain, aren't they
> [...] the game stops selling. BMX:XXX tanked, to my knowledge, as did DOA:Extreme Beach Volleyball
Yes, but they reached stores. Sam'n'Max2 would not have that fate, although it has everything needed to make huge sales.
I know, offtopic. But i cannot accept that.
> Quitting it can be hard because of habit not the actual drinking.
Same with alcoohol. Which is as legal as cafeine.
> The desktop is fine, if I don't like it it's VERY easy to delete.
Not if the installer requests administrator privilege, and puts some shortcuts on the desktop of the "All User" profile, which is not accessible for modification to standard users.
> So maybe the only way to uninstall this software was to burn the hard drive... who knows...
This is really done in some company where they think data security and theft really matters. Burning old scratched tapes or crushing broken HD to pieces was mandatory in a firm worked in.
But voodoo & exorcism is furthermore needed when trying to uninstall some software...
I have a dream : everyone starts working on the 13th of every month. There would be no date conflict, and furthermore, you would have much more holidays :-)