But "sloppy coding" can == "bad security". The consistent appearence time and time again of buffer overflow expliot is constant with bad, bad programming practices that were mentioned in 1970 for Christ sakes.
"On Our Inability To Make Much", indeed!
Does anyone know what I am talking about? Any ever HEARD of the book called "Structured Programming"??????
...but this can only be a Good Thang. More crimes are solved by snitches than any other way and making it profitable to snitch will have a positive effect. Thank you, Microsoft - for once!
"building apps that are as smart as Outlook." I don't know if Outlook or IE is the single most horrible security risk in the history of computers but they are both at least tied for first place. RUN!!!!
...the first is a gerand used as an adjective of a vulger verb that violations Slashdot's TOS, so I will not type it here but it is commonly known as the "f-word".
And last word is "INSANE"!
Where exactly is this "overviews of the major software packages". I do see a lot of great things there (free software, 1000 free samples, etc.) but not this review.
Snail mail and PDF suck. The world traveller can get a webmail account and you can tell anyone who matters don't snail mail. Let the post office eat that junk mail that will not stop.
Don't invest in this nonsense. You wanna kiss your money good-bye, just give the money to the unemployed.
True, true, enough, maybe. But, did any of them sue for royalites or take out patents?
I am glad that you left out Arthur C. Clarke's invention of the geosynchronous satellite. I believe in fact that he had actually first published a paper in a journal of communications technology on it. Too bad, he didn't patent it - not that the old man is hurting for money. Still, "How I Lost a Billion Dollars in My Spare Time" (or something like that) was a good read.
George O. Smith? I will have to add that to my Must Read Someday list. Never heard of him.
On Ringworld - it is true? Could such a structure actually be built? With our current understanding of physics and engineering, given an unlimited budget and the multigenerational will. I cannot say that I believe that our human civilization is capable - even in the unlikely case that humankind united for 10,000 years (or more) to do it. Won't it like, require all of the material of all the asteriods and maybe the Oort Cloud? I would exclude material from the big planets - way too far down in a gravity well. But even if you used up all of the terrestrial planets and moons (except Earth and maybe Europa - it is not nice to destory biospheres), would that be enough?
And it would have to be a safe distance and not in Niven original position of 1 A.U. from the sun, if it was in this solar system. I am assuming this solar system because I think that the jury is still out on the possibilty of interstellar travel. But that is a whole other argument and I have launched ENOUGH tangents, thank you!
Okay, so the Altair spawned the S-100 (a good thang at the time). I would not blame it for Microsoft (the single worst nightmare in the herstory of computering). But if MCM was first, it was first. All it thought was the word of it to get to one other person who would then make another, knowledged or not, to have an impact on the future - ever heard of the butterfly effect? And beside, the herstory of science is full of people at different places and different times with no communication who make like discoveries or inventions. The invention of the personal computer, in fact, it really not just a leap in science, not after the integrated circuit was invented - it was just a matter of time.
Back to time - MCM was first. That counts as herstory, sorry. Not who had better PR.
...the teaching needs to be in the RIAA board room, in the Congress, in the Justice department. We need:
1. A tax on media, like DVD-R or CD-R. 2. Have it distributed to the artists and filmmakers and such. But not the obsolete distributors. 3. Restore the Bill of Rights, due process and get the vigelantes out of the Net and let us alone! 4. Destroy the Kontent Kartels. DIE! Copyright Nazis, DIE!
"The MCM was a little-known machine in its day. I was following the birth of the micro as it happened; I have a few copies of Byte Magazine #1 (July, 1975) to prove it. Nobody in that circle ever heard of MCM, I suspect."
Oh, holy sweet Jesus on a stick - the arrogance of my countryman is galactic in it's scope. "I never heard of it, it was in my favorite magazine, so it doesn't matter". Well, here's a quote for you...
"There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy"
I use Notepad as much as possible because it is everywhere and I just don't type much more than email or scripts...or posts. The only time I use a word processor is for my resume. Then I use Wordpad.
I cannot help but think of the example of Arthur C. Clarke and I pray that I remember this correctly. He had delivered the final draft of a novel to his publisher and told them that it was his last, he is retired, there will be no more. They send back a Keypro "portable" computer with WordStar installed. These beasties would gave you a hernia at the airport and probably would even meet today's strict carry-on standards.
So, he boots it up and plays with it. Tries out Wordstar. He is so jazzed that he rips out a whole frigging novel (over the course of a couple of days) and sends a draft to the publisher who is very pleasently "surprised", I think. Best investment they had ever made!
It was about this time, I was trashing Wordstar to any and all would could hear. I hated the program with it's insane four button keystrokes. This story shut me up, well for a bit. I love the novels he has written since.
..is in "Starship Troopers" where we had giants beetle who emit big ole lit farts that blaster asteriods from their orbit to fly ACROSS LIGHT YEARS from the aliens star system to our own. The filmmakers had NO IDEA of the distance, the time, or the energy involved to make that happen.
Ole Man Heinlein must have been turning in his grave. It makes me wanna lit a fart in their honor.
....this is WONDERFUL! That one of the world's largest boardcaster can see that sharing their library with the world enriches us all rather trying to squeeze every little shilling out every waveform (like Disney, for example) is wonderful.
These is what the digital revoluntion is about. Make all information free to all and we are are enriched. Let the dinosaurs at the MPAA/RIAA tremble and die.
Next is services, via self-replicating robots. Then goods via replicators or assemblers.
Someday, money will be irrelevant to the human condition. We will all be born rich.
Windows is a BUSINESS operating system - for desktops and servers running business and entertainment applications. I believe that anyone at Microsoft and especially, at their legal department would agree that using Windows to route trains or monitor nuclear reactions is just CRAZY!!! However engineered these system needs to pay. And pay BIG time. There are a disgrace to the industry. As well as the manager who allow this insanity.
This are CRITICAL SYSTEMS and no critical system should be running crap like Windows and even have a connection to the Internet - no connect AT ALL. They need to be secure. It was never designed for this!
The public is not cleared for this information! Do you want Jesse Ventrua* to visit you in the middle of the night all dress in black and with a.45 with a silencer in his hand!?!?!?!
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, really? Did that have an impact that entirely changed an industry?
But "sloppy coding" can == "bad security". The consistent appearence time and time again of buffer overflow expliot is constant with bad, bad programming practices that were mentioned in 1970 for Christ sakes.
"On Our Inability To Make Much", indeed!
Does anyone know what I am talking about? Any ever HEARD of the book called "Structured Programming"??????
...but this can only be a Good Thang. More crimes are solved by snitches than any other way and making it profitable to snitch will have a positive effect. Thank you, Microsoft - for once!
"The Simpsons" are NOT role models! I love the Simpsons, they make me laugh but no one in their right mind would copy what they do!
"building apps that are as smart as Outlook." I don't know if Outlook or IE is the single most horrible security risk in the history of computers but they are both at least tied for first place. RUN!!!!
...the first is a gerand used as an adjective of a vulger verb that violations Slashdot's TOS, so I will not type it here but it is commonly known as the "f-word".
And last word is "INSANE"!
Where exactly is this "overviews of the major software packages". I do see a lot of great things there (free software, 1000 free samples, etc.) but not this review.
http://www.myriad-online.com/enindex.htm
The best deal of the century, try before you buy. Why pirate Cakewalk? And yes, they take U.S. dollars, also.
I am just a very satisfied customer.
Snail mail and PDF suck. The world traveller can get a webmail account and you can tell anyone who matters don't snail mail. Let the post office eat that junk mail that will not stop.
Don't invest in this nonsense. You wanna kiss your money good-bye, just give the money to the unemployed.
True, true, enough, maybe. But, did any of them sue for royalites or take out patents?
I am glad that you left out Arthur C. Clarke's invention of the geosynchronous satellite. I believe in fact that he had actually first published a paper in a journal of communications technology on it. Too bad, he didn't patent it - not that the old man is hurting for money. Still, "How I Lost a Billion Dollars in My Spare Time" (or something like that) was a good read.
George O. Smith? I will have to add that to my Must Read Someday list. Never heard of him.
On Ringworld - it is true? Could such a structure actually be built? With our current understanding of physics and engineering, given an unlimited budget and the multigenerational will. I cannot say that I believe that our human civilization is capable - even in the unlikely case that humankind united for 10,000 years (or more) to do it. Won't it like, require all of the material of all the asteriods and maybe the Oort Cloud? I would exclude material from the big planets - way too far down in a gravity well. But even if you used up all of the terrestrial planets and moons (except Earth and maybe Europa - it is not nice to destory biospheres), would that be enough?
And it would have to be a safe distance and not in Niven original position of 1 A.U. from the sun, if it was in this solar system. I am assuming this solar system because I think that the jury is still out on the possibilty of interstellar travel. But that is a whole other argument and I have launched ENOUGH tangents, thank you!
Okay, so the Altair spawned the S-100 (a good thang at the time). I would not blame it for Microsoft (the single worst nightmare in the herstory of computering). But if MCM was first, it was first. All it thought was the word of it to get to one other person who would then make another, knowledged or not, to have an impact on the future - ever heard of the butterfly effect? And beside, the herstory of science is full of people at different places and different times with no communication who make like discoveries or inventions. The invention of the personal computer, in fact, it really not just a leap in science, not after the integrated circuit was invented - it was just a matter of time.
Back to time - MCM was first. That counts as herstory, sorry. Not who had better PR.
...the teaching needs to be in the RIAA board room, in the Congress, in the Justice department. We need:
1. A tax on media, like DVD-R or CD-R.
2. Have it distributed to the artists and filmmakers and such. But not the obsolete distributors.
3. Restore the Bill of Rights, due process and get the vigelantes out of the Net and let us alone!
4. Destroy the Kontent Kartels. DIE! Copyright Nazis, DIE!
"The MCM was a little-known machine in its day. I was following the birth of the micro as it happened; I have a few copies of Byte Magazine #1 (July, 1975) to prove it. Nobody in that circle ever heard of MCM, I suspect."
Oh, holy sweet Jesus on a stick - the arrogance of my countryman is galactic in it's scope. "I never heard of it, it was in my favorite magazine, so it doesn't matter". Well, here's a quote for you...
"There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy"
Yes, but as good as it was, it was FICTION!!!!
This is Real Science.
I use Notepad as much as possible because it is everywhere and I just don't type much more than email or scripts...or posts. The only time I use a word processor is for my resume. Then I use Wordpad.
I cannot help but think of the example of Arthur C. Clarke and I pray that I remember this correctly. He had delivered the final draft of a novel to his publisher and told them that it was his last, he is retired, there will be no more. They send back a Keypro "portable" computer with WordStar installed. These beasties would gave you a hernia at the airport and probably would even meet today's strict carry-on standards.
So, he boots it up and plays with it. Tries out Wordstar. He is so jazzed that he rips out a whole frigging novel (over the course of a couple of days) and sends a draft to the publisher who is very pleasently "surprised", I think. Best investment they had ever made!
It was about this time, I was trashing Wordstar to any and all would could hear. I hated the program with it's insane four button keystrokes. This story shut me up, well for a bit. I love the novels he has written since.
...to all spam. Just reply with "Please, sir, may I have another!"
IT"S A TRAP!!!
..is in "Starship Troopers" where we had giants beetle who emit big ole lit farts that blaster asteriods from their orbit to fly ACROSS LIGHT YEARS from the aliens star system to our own. The filmmakers had NO IDEA of the distance, the time, or the energy involved to make that happen.
Ole Man Heinlein must have been turning in his grave. It makes me wanna lit a fart in their honor.
Why burn them? Just either trim the MP3's or add a .1 second of silence. Strip the ID tags or update them. Better yet, convert to Ogg Vorbis!
....this is WONDERFUL! That one of the world's largest boardcaster can see that sharing their library with the world enriches us all rather trying to squeeze every little shilling out every waveform (like Disney, for example) is wonderful.
These is what the digital revoluntion is about. Make all information free to all and we are are enriched. Let the dinosaurs at the MPAA/RIAA tremble and die.
Next is services, via self-replicating robots.
Then goods via replicators or assemblers.
Someday, money will be irrelevant to the human condition. We will all be born rich.
Windows is a BUSINESS operating system - for desktops and servers running business and entertainment applications. I believe that anyone at Microsoft and especially, at their legal department would agree that using Windows to route trains or monitor nuclear reactions is just CRAZY!!! However engineered these system needs to pay. And pay BIG time. There are a disgrace to the industry. As well as the manager who allow this insanity.
This are CRITICAL SYSTEMS and no critical system should be running crap like Windows and even have a connection to the Internet - no connect AT ALL. They need to be secure. It was never designed for this!
The public is not cleared for this information! Do you want Jesse Ventrua* to visit you in the middle of the night all dress in black and with a .45 with a silencer in his hand!?!?!?!
(X-Files reference, dudes)
...Japanese will add a whole new meaning to the name,
Usagi!
The password is "Moom Prism Power, Make-up!"
And how long before Catgirls are a really? Watch those claws!
No, no, no. What CmdrTaco did is remove Microsoft's spin!
A really good operating system would not allow the apps to crash it!.