None of which will benefit people like me, of course.
You're right, you know. The space program should be cancelled, so the money can be used to ensure that bags of chips and six packs of beer can be regularly delivered to your door by courier.
This demonstrates that while some species may be continuing to come closer to extinction, even the 'biodiversity' harpies don't have a complete grasp of the situation.
Often enough said hand-wringing is just another shakedown operation.
If you can hear/see it you can copy it. But not in a digitally perfect manner.
All the industry is trying to prevent is an easy to use red 'Record' button in common programs, and a simple drag-n-drop copy method. DRM accomplishes that.
You can legitimately, and within licence terms, purchase an OEM copy of Windows and/or Office without buying a complete 'Whitebox' system from a local vendor. The requirement from Microsoft is (or has, in case they've changed it quite recently) been that the OEM bundle has to include a motherboard and processor, or a hard drive. I wanted another OEM W2K copy about a year and a half ago, so I went to the local parts dealer and bought a Hard drive and the copy of W2K, which cost $160 bundled that way.
About 10 months ago, I bought a big old SCSI hard drive for another project, off eBay. It cost me all of $30. The vendor bundled in a free copy of Office 97 OEM (unopened, full copy) that I hadn't even noticed mentioned in the fine print of the deal. That's old Office software, but it's always handy to have another 'legitimate' copy to be able to trace back to if The Man comes looking.
Unless that format isn't the 'standard' that emerges, in which case two years from now you've got a burner for which media is available from one vendor by mail order, at seven to ten times the price of the media that becomes the de-facto 'standard.'
In the US at least, this makes sense; the government is bound (well, to some degree) by the Constitution; corporations have no such limits on their behavior.
The US Constitution was written specifically to limit the reach of government. It's shocking to see people bemoaning the fact that it doesn't limit what private individuals and organizations can do. Don't you see? You're asking for government to be allowed to step in and say: 'you can't do that anymore' to private individuals and organizations. That's exactly the kind of thing the Constitution was drafted to prevent.
6 megs might be seen as some to be a small amount of memory. Please don't use up the adverb 'very' in this fashion, however. Many of us have coded in less than 100K of memory. Some of the smaller controllers (i.e. Motorola 6805s) have less than 128 bytes of Read/Write memory (and less than 2K of program memory) and are quite useful. Assembly language becomes necessary.
6 megs is one hell of a lot of memory. What kind of bloatware world have I fallen asleep and woken up to find myself in?
The only way to prove that a system are secure is to release all specifications (ie. source code)
Sadly, the source code is the only specification there is for a certain amount of the software out there.
Which is really a flaw in methodology. Software is inherently superior if there is a more rigorous design effort put into it than sitting down and hacking out code. There should be design documents, a formal plan. Data structures laid out ahead of time. Specifications like an SRS, code review documents, test plans. All that stuff that people who just hack away at code seem to shudder at.
What's shocking is that this point is even a matter of controversy. I'm sure some people will consider me making this comment to be 'flamebait.'
Grants proposals can now be written up. Zoologists can make their career by studying these poor creatures.
Man as a species can't relax until we have a published report, filed away in libraries across the globe, that detail exactly where and how these creatures exist. Which of course, makes it much easier for somebody to wipe them out someday.
It's similar to the way we've dug up all the archaeological relics we can find out of places, like the pyramids, where they've been preserved for eons. To put them in metal cabinets in steel and glass museums.
They call it science.
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I just got Technician, after years of procrastinating, and I want to get proficient at code so I can get General, and because I am interested in getting into QSL. Those ultra-low-cost low-power rigs (I am looking at putting together a Pixie II have a lot of appeal.
I have never, ever, had to call in anybody from Tech Support. Back about six months ago when I was in charge of keeping the embedded developers happy in a Telemetry lab, I could throw Windows on a box, without any third party anything, and expect it to authenticate and hook up to the DHCP server automatically. Of course, all the server side stuff was Unix at that shop...
You are making the fallacious assumtion that everybody hacking away at the code to find vulnerabilities is on the good-guy's side.
Open Source makes it easier for skilled outsiders to penetrate and do damage to a system.
Shit, don't try to tell me it isn't easier, once you've penetrated a system, to introduce a trojan into the init(8) program on a Linux box. The compiler is sitting right there on the machine, and the source code is ready at hand. To do a similar thing to introduce a trojan onto, say, a MacOS version 8 machine, or a Solaris box, is a far more difficult excercise.
Now, if we could just find the fabled ACLU members who would defend to the death John Ashcroft's right to give a speech, things would start to make more sense.
As it stands, that quote always comes off as a rather smug bromide.
What better way to learn how a computer is put together than to put one together?
Great, now you know what those monkeys in the screwdriver shop get paid $8 an hour for doing. How impressive.
Sorry for being so negative, but it ain't like it used to be in the old days when you actually learned something by building your own system (i.e. in the days before the IBM PC). It's a matter of piloting a phillips screwdriver without hurting yourself, and not a heck lot more than that.
Oh, come on. There was buzz in the technical community about USB for several years before Apple or Microsoft had support for it in their operating system. I remember getting all the sample connectors from the big vendors, and all the hype about the 'great thing coming' and all that.
USB didn't come from Apple OR Microsoft. My point wasn't one about a horse race between those two entities. I'm just tired of people claiming it's yet another 'Apple Innovation.'
Would your PC have a USB port on it right now if it wern't put onto a Mac first for B. Gates to notice and snap up?
I maintain, and I know I'm not alone, that the USB port on the PC came out at least as early if not earlier than it did on Apple hardware. I know that all my older Pentium socket 7 motherboards had the USB header on them long before Windows 98 came out. Even my oldest Pentium 166 motherboard has a USB header, and all I had to do was go to CompUSA and buy the short connector-cable to bring it out to the case edge and use it.
USB didn't become mainstream and popular until it was incorporated in Windows 98. It has nothing at all to do with the timing of it's introduction on Apple machines.
I agree there is a place in the market for the Macintosh computers, but it's the botique market. Kind of like the Buick, when most people are driving Chevies. (no, NOT some fancy European sportscar... the Mac is NOT a Mercedes- that niche is filled with SGI, HP, or Sun hardware).
And then an entire family gets to hear "what's this junk?" from the guy whose opinion about computers they respect the most. Quite possibly they'll all come to equate 'linux' as being the same as the crud demo DVD that came for free with their DVD player.
I am not saying it's a good thing, but it's how the scenario will play out.
they would not have were it not for Walmarts monopolistic position
Now, hold on a minute here. WalMart is not a monopoly. You should be more careful in how you use langauge. The DOJ made a vigorous and expensive effort to get Microsoft identified as a Monopoly. If you go throwing the word around in ways it's NOT defined, you weaken the strength of the case against Microsoft.
The Postal Service is a Monopoly, the Social Security Administration is a Monopoly. WalMart is hardly a monopoly.
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None of which will benefit people like me, of course.
You're right, you know. The space program should be cancelled, so the money can be used to ensure that bags of chips and six packs of beer can be regularly delivered to your door by courier.
This demonstrates that while some species may be continuing to come closer to extinction, even the 'biodiversity' harpies don't have a complete grasp of the situation.
Often enough said hand-wringing is just another shakedown operation.
Yes. It's your other account(s) that generate the negative feedback.
Or, perhaps you're making way too big a deal about what they're calling this thing.
If you can hear/see it you can copy it. But not in a digitally perfect manner.
All the industry is trying to prevent is an easy to use red 'Record' button in common programs, and a simple drag-n-drop copy method. DRM accomplishes that.
You can legitimately, and within licence terms, purchase an OEM copy of Windows and/or Office without buying a complete 'Whitebox' system from a local vendor. The requirement from Microsoft is (or has, in case they've changed it quite recently) been that the OEM bundle has to include a motherboard and processor, or a hard drive. I wanted another OEM W2K copy about a year and a half ago, so I went to the local parts dealer and bought a Hard drive and the copy of W2K, which cost $160 bundled that way.
About 10 months ago, I bought a big old SCSI hard drive for another project, off eBay. It cost me all of $30. The vendor bundled in a free copy of Office 97 OEM (unopened, full copy) that I hadn't even noticed mentioned in the fine print of the deal. That's old Office software, but it's always handy to have another 'legitimate' copy to be able to trace back to if The Man comes looking.
So, you're going to base your criticism of the intelligence community on a version of it depicted in a Hollywood film?
Yeah. I don't think James Bond should get to waste all that cool gear either!
That's an excellent way of getting the Museum to continue to hold Linux events.
Unless that format isn't the 'standard' that emerges, in which case two years from now you've got a burner for which media is available from one vendor by mail order, at seven to ten times the price of the media that becomes the de-facto 'standard.'
Hadn't you heard? Only a stupid cow lets themself be herded into the expensive crowded pasture.
Move out. Let your net connectivity be a liberating force.
Silicon Valley has made itself obsolete.
In the US at least, this makes sense; the government is bound (well, to some degree) by the Constitution; corporations have no such limits on their behavior.
The US Constitution was written specifically to limit the reach of government. It's shocking to see people bemoaning the fact that it doesn't limit what private individuals and organizations can do. Don't you see? You're asking for government to be allowed to step in and say: 'you can't do that anymore' to private individuals and organizations. That's exactly the kind of thing the Constitution was drafted to prevent.
6 megs might be seen as some to be a small amount of memory. Please don't use up the adverb 'very' in this fashion, however. Many of us have coded in less than 100K of memory. Some of the smaller controllers (i.e. Motorola 6805s) have less than 128 bytes of Read/Write memory (and less than 2K of program memory) and are quite useful. Assembly language becomes necessary.
6 megs is one hell of a lot of memory. What kind of bloatware world have I fallen asleep and woken up to find myself in?
The only way to prove that a system are secure is to release all specifications (ie. source code)
Sadly, the source code is the only specification there is for a certain amount of the software out there.
Which is really a flaw in methodology. Software is inherently superior if there is a more rigorous design effort put into it than sitting down and hacking out code. There should be design documents, a formal plan. Data structures laid out ahead of time. Specifications like an SRS, code review documents, test plans. All that stuff that people who just hack away at code seem to shudder at.
What's shocking is that this point is even a matter of controversy. I'm sure some people will consider me making this comment to be 'flamebait.'
But.... but.... don't you understand?
Grants proposals can now be written up. Zoologists can make their career by studying these poor creatures.
Man as a species can't relax until we have a published report, filed away in libraries across the globe, that detail exactly where and how these creatures exist. Which of course, makes it much easier for somebody to wipe them out someday.
It's similar to the way we've dug up all the archaeological relics we can find out of places, like the pyramids, where they've been preserved for eons. To put them in metal cabinets in steel and glass museums.
They call it science.
I just got Technician, after years of procrastinating, and I want to get proficient at code so I can get General, and because I am interested in getting into QSL. Those ultra-low-cost low-power rigs (I am looking at putting together a Pixie II have a lot of appeal.
I have never, ever, had to call in anybody from Tech Support. Back about six months ago when I was in charge of keeping the embedded developers happy in a Telemetry lab, I could throw Windows on a box, without any third party anything, and expect it to authenticate and hook up to the DHCP server automatically. Of course, all the server side stuff was Unix at that shop...
You are making the fallacious assumtion that everybody hacking away at the code to find vulnerabilities is on the good-guy's side.
Open Source makes it easier for skilled outsiders to penetrate and do damage to a system.
Shit, don't try to tell me it isn't easier, once you've penetrated a system, to introduce a trojan into the init(8) program on a Linux box. The compiler is sitting right there on the machine, and the source code is ready at hand. To do a similar thing to introduce a trojan onto, say, a MacOS version 8 machine, or a Solaris box, is a far more difficult excercise.
I'm always looking for bugs in my software, because I know that there always will be bugs to find.
That's the mindset of the 'full employment, forever' software guy.
A signifcant part of the software that I have written commercially does things like administer theraputic electric shocks to people suffering in pain.
Bugs in such software can cause severe problems, even death, to the end user.
At a certain point the firmware has to be released to testing, rigorous testing has to be completed, and a product released.
It's a cop out, in fact it's the classic software-guy cop out, to never want to say 'it's done.'
Now, if we could just find the fabled ACLU members who would defend to the death John Ashcroft's right to give a speech, things would start to make more sense.
As it stands, that quote always comes off as a rather smug bromide.
What better way to learn how a computer is put together than to put one together?
Great, now you know what those monkeys in the screwdriver shop get paid $8 an hour for doing. How impressive.
Sorry for being so negative, but it ain't like it used to be in the old days when you actually learned something by building your own system (i.e. in the days before the IBM PC). It's a matter of piloting a phillips screwdriver without hurting yourself, and not a heck lot more than that.
Why did you say that word: 'cheap'?
Opera is one of the most expensive Web Browsers on the market today.
Disclosure: I have a registered copy.
Oh, come on. There was buzz in the technical community about USB for several years before Apple or Microsoft had support for it in their operating system. I remember getting all the sample connectors from the big vendors, and all the hype about the 'great thing coming' and all that.
USB didn't come from Apple OR Microsoft. My point wasn't one about a horse race between those two entities. I'm just tired of people claiming it's yet another 'Apple Innovation.'
Would your PC have a USB port on it right now if it wern't put onto a Mac first for B. Gates to notice and snap up?
I maintain, and I know I'm not alone, that the USB port on the PC came out at least as early if not earlier than it did on Apple hardware. I know that all my older Pentium socket 7 motherboards had the USB header on them long before Windows 98 came out. Even my oldest Pentium 166 motherboard has a USB header, and all I had to do was go to CompUSA and buy the short connector-cable to bring it out to the case edge and use it.
USB didn't become mainstream and popular until it was incorporated in Windows 98. It has nothing at all to do with the timing of it's introduction on Apple machines.
I agree there is a place in the market for the Macintosh computers, but it's the botique market. Kind of like the Buick, when most people are driving Chevies. (no, NOT some fancy European sportscar... the Mac is NOT a Mercedes- that niche is filled with SGI, HP, or Sun hardware).
Yes.
And then an entire family gets to hear "what's this junk?" from the guy whose opinion about computers they respect the most. Quite possibly they'll all come to equate 'linux' as being the same as the crud demo DVD that came for free with their DVD player.
I am not saying it's a good thing, but it's how the scenario will play out.
they would not have were it not for Walmarts monopolistic position
Now, hold on a minute here. WalMart is not a monopoly. You should be more careful in how you use langauge. The DOJ made a vigorous and expensive effort to get Microsoft identified as a Monopoly. If you go throwing the word around in ways it's NOT defined, you weaken the strength of the case against Microsoft.
The Postal Service is a Monopoly, the Social Security Administration is a Monopoly. WalMart is hardly a monopoly.