if a journalist broke into a government computer systen or network to show how easy it was and the reported it he'd be labeled a "terrorist" and prosecuted for sure.
Chris Jones: "Bill, I think, (has) touched on it eloquently and well, which is the responsibility we have to be excellent in our products, to be excellent with our customers..."
the one thing that really pisses me off in movies about computer nerds are the sexy, spinning 3d graphics/text combination, as if that's what the screen actually looks like. but then i guess
yes, the traditional folks in the Academy couldn't adapt to this new sitauation, no big surprise.
but anyone who saw the movie knows that Gollum was probably the most likeable film character of 2002, and proof that all-digital characters can be taken seriously (unlike the infamous Jar-Jar)
or is interactive TV something like videophones that although we've seen it in sci-fi forever, would really not be that useful? it's one of those things we're *supposed* to want, and while it sounds cool, it doesn't really sound useful.
if you want to do surfing-type stuff, the web is much better (there's more content out there, pc monitors have much higher resolution, etc.), if you want sports highlights then watch ESPN, and if you want to learn something either go to the library, use the web or watch The Discovery Channel:)
it seems that many parties are pushing for interactive TV, but that the closest thing that seems to be successful is TiVo.
i just don't think people want to *think* and watch tv at the same time, that's kind of the point.
i've been meaning to learn assembly; i've tried reading the AoA PDFs, but for some reason i find dead trees to be much more useful for long reading sessions
A software architecture for a distributed computing system comprising: an application configured to handle requests submitted by remote devices over a network; and an application program interface to present functions used by the application to access network and computing resources of the distributed computing system.
Like Microsoft changing the name of Palladium to a 5 word, unacronym-able phrase the US gov't names an act to take power away from citizens of the US the Patriot Act.
Who would dare oppose something called the Patriot Act? That's great fodder for political campaigns ("John Congressman says he loves America, but he voted to raise taxes and even supported terrorists by voted against the Patriot Act").
A vote against the "Patriot Act" is a vote for Osama!
Of course the defendants blatantly denied everything and asked for proof. So in front of the judge and the rest of the audience, one of the programmers nonchalantly typed a sequence of keys on the defendant's software and... a huge easter egg showing the name of the original programmers appeared on the screen.:-)
iirc it was the developers of CP/M, suing Microsoft back in the 80s
plenty of people are bitching about spending $20... which is about the cost of going to see a movie (non-matinee) + popcorn + soda.
i, for one, plunked down a hard-earned $20 bill and am downloading it right now. i've got an extra p2-450 kicking around and will throw it on there. $20 seems like a good deal to familiarize ones's self with an official, popular unix operating system. hey, the The Unix Administrator's Handbook (a.k.a. the purple book) covers Solaris (8, but hey...).
if you're a fan of computing and have the means, this is certainly a good deal. hell, if Microsoft put up a non-commercial version of XP for $20 i'd get that too. one can never have too many operating systems to play with.
..and if you don't think it's a good deal, don't pay for it. i love linux, but i think linux has spoiled some folks. not that that's a bad thing;)
How to compete price-wise with free software? Microsoft may turn into a largely service-based company (like IBM seems to have done) than a product-oriented one. Who knows. Three cheers for OSS giving Microsoft something to sweat about.
any innovation (though i'm not sure this is) can be used for good and evil. besides, if a worm's going to max out your bandwidth they can do it without this awkwardly named protocol.
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if a journalist broke into a government computer systen or network to show how easy it was and the reported it he'd be labeled a "terrorist" and prosecuted for sure.
Ted: Be excellent to each other.
Bill: Party on, dudes.
this is a repost. which begs the question, is a first post on a dupe article really a first post?
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learn c. it's not as hard as it looks.
don't waste your time reading slashdot; do something useful instead.
this is obviously perl code
you mean "IT people" literally, since the main characters were 95% machine? ;)
wouldn't be as cool...
but anyone who saw the movie knows that Gollum was probably the most likeable film character of 2002, and proof that all-digital characters can be taken seriously (unlike the infamous Jar-Jar)
while (reading_slashdot) nerdiness++, social_life--;
if you want to do surfing-type stuff, the web is much better (there's more content out there, pc monitors have much higher resolution, etc.), if you want sports highlights then watch ESPN, and if you want to learn something either go to the library, use the web or watch The Discovery Channel :)
it seems that many parties are pushing for interactive TV, but that the closest thing that seems to be successful is TiVo.
i just don't think people want to *think* and watch tv at the same time, that's kind of the point.
i've been meaning to learn assembly; i've tried reading the AoA PDFs, but for some reason i find dead trees to be much more useful for long reading sessions
Hell, i think Apache can claim prior art...
I wished I'd learned C back in high school...
i'm waiting for people to play out Mortal Kombat "Fatality" moves on each other
Who would dare oppose something called the Patriot Act? That's great fodder for political campaigns ("John Congressman says he loves America, but he voted to raise taxes and even supported terrorists by voted against the Patriot Act").
A vote against the "Patriot Act" is a vote for Osama!
until someone cracks into the database and sells the x million verified email addresses to overseas spammers
iirc it was the developers of CP/M, suing Microsoft back in the 80s
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amen. but isn't fighting the only interesting thing to do besides programming and orgy sex?
i, for one, plunked down a hard-earned $20 bill and am downloading it right now. i've got an extra p2-450 kicking around and will throw it on there. $20 seems like a good deal to familiarize ones's self with an official, popular unix operating system. hey, the The Unix Administrator's Handbook (a.k.a. the purple book) covers Solaris (8, but hey...).
if you're a fan of computing and have the means, this is certainly a good deal. hell, if Microsoft put up a non-commercial version of XP for $20 i'd get that too. one can never have too many operating systems to play with.
How to compete price-wise with free software? Microsoft may turn into a largely service-based company (like IBM seems to have done) than a product-oriented one. Who knows. Three cheers for OSS giving Microsoft something to sweat about.
i agree, ipods are currently too expensive for my taste. why spend $499 for a 20GB ipod when i can get a new laptop for a few hundred more?
chinese restaurants have been doing this for ages.
any innovation (though i'm not sure this is) can be used for good and evil. besides, if a worm's going to max out your bandwidth they can do it without this awkwardly named protocol.