The moral of the story: When the
united state's military says you are not to build a giant cannon, you do not build a giant canon, be it by lack of funds or surplus of lead.
The thing is, some people do now talk on the phone in public, but this hasn't changed the dynamics of family and socialization for the worse.
Speak for yourself! In my experience pretty women at the grocery store usually get cell phone calls just as I approach them. And somehow they always know to grab their phones just a moment before the first ring!
But what might be cheaper is to simply talk to the neighbors. More likely than not it's a simple matter of them telling their kid to knock it off, and quit assuming nobody has noticed what he's doing.
Allofmp3.com is on the very close fringes of illegality and isn't something I'm willing to touch.
Legal or not, what allofmp3.com proves is what the cost of running a profitable digital music service is - about $0.01 per megabyte, plus any royalties. In other words, there's no real reason not to offer lossless files because the bandwidth and storage are super cheap.
Don't get to used to buying your CDs on half.com anymore. After this next school year starts (so everyone can buy their textbooks on half.com), eBay is shutting down half.com so they can auction off books, CDs, etc. A thoroughly stupid idea IMO, but hey, what can I do?
Got a link for that? I've been able to find most CDs I wanted on half.com for around $5-$7 shipped. ITunes can't compare, which I suppose is sort of what the RIAA wants.
You mean that you can say with a straight face that you thought E-Mail was a private medium to begin with? Its sent plain text, through who knows how many intermediaries, then stored on a system you don't have control over.
That's all irrelevant. Tapping somebody's phone is illegal, even though it is easy to do and not encrypted at all.
Why? Because it's better that way. The technicalities are irrelevant.
I doubt even NVidia expects to sell any of these. It's just the cheapest way to get the name "NVidia" to the top of the hardware review sites' benchmark bar charts.
Does anyone feel that this is just publicizing what every GOOD developer has been saying for the last 10-15 years?
That still doesn't make it true.
The fact is that ALL developers make mistakes - even really fabulous ones like me and you. In an unsafe language, those mistakes are less likely to be detected, and the consequences are higher. It's that simple.
As for ActiveX, it's a poster-boy for safe languages.
just give the artists enough places to paint and the problem will reduce if not disappear. What's the problem with that?
Some are artists, some are just vandals - the same kids who slash tires and shoot out windows with pellet guns, simply because they are irresponsible. Imposing themselves where they're not wanted gives them a rush.
I suppose so. But the value of my cable subscription has gone way up since recording onto a computer became feasible. I don't think my viewing time has risen, but I only watch the cream of the crop.
The tie-in with cable Internet is also a factor. But there again is another non-tangible service people buy.
Well, here's my prediction: 802.11b is so entrenched that everything wireless for at least the next 10 years will be compatible with it. In other words products labelled "802.11i" will have 80211.b fallback mode.
You naturally won't get the added security or speed of subsequent standards if you stick with a "b" access point, but it will still work.
You took the words out of my mouth. My 80211.b equipment never breaks about 4 Mbit in practice. For that matter, I'd happily accept 1 Mbit throughput in exchange for real security on legacy cards. 1 Mbit is enough to do most everything except stream video. (And of course for copying large files you can never have enough).
My home server is (among other things) a wireless access point. The card I have is a few years old and doesn't support WEP at all, but thanks to this driver it does! In fact it also supports a bunch of other security features for encryption and authentication, which I have not delved into.
That said, it sounds like this new encryption may be at a lower level, which for all I know may necessitate new firmware.
Forget batteries!! I just found out my car has a big sloshing 20 gallon tank of liquid GASOLINE! This stuff is murderous - highly volatile, and just spark will touch off the invisible fumes. It's not even sold in sealed containers like batteries. And unlike laptops and other applications for tiny fuel cells, cars tend to smack into each other at high speed. I can't imagine the government is going along with this.
Let's see if we can get the electricity working first.
You know, it's one thing to criticize bumbling do-gooders from rich countries when they try to misapply advanced technology. But this effort is home grown, and they're not doing it just to please us.
You are judging the facts (the existence of an Iraqi Linux users' group) based on your opinion (Iraq is a hellhole). When you instead form your opinion from the facts, you see what this story is telling us - not everybody in Iraq is barefoot and dodging bullets.
I disagree, so far as I can tell ID has only ever done one genre - the first person shooter. Whether something is a "sequel" based just on the plot and characters is silly, since there's hardly any plot nor characterization in ID games (which is fine).
Mean, median, and mode are all types of
averages, although the mean is the most common type of average and
usually refers to the _arithmetic mean_ (There are other kinds of means
that are more difficult).
I'm pretty amazed he recovered from a sudden 90 degree lurch!
This also says a lot about Rutan and his team. They came right out with the problems. Most companies aren't like that, just imagine Ford discussing problems with an Explorer prototype.
I think these guys really are headed for the history books.
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The question is, do we care?
But what might be cheaper is to simply talk to the neighbors. More likely than not it's a simple matter of them telling their kid to knock it off, and quit assuming nobody has noticed what he's doing.
Why? Because it's better that way. The technicalities are irrelevant.
I doubt even NVidia expects to sell any of these. It's just the cheapest way to get the name "NVidia" to the top of the hardware review sites' benchmark bar charts.
The fact is that ALL developers make mistakes - even really fabulous ones like me and you. In an unsafe language, those mistakes are less likely to be detected, and the consequences are higher. It's that simple.
As for ActiveX, it's a poster-boy for safe languages.
The tie-in with cable Internet is also a factor. But there again is another non-tangible service people buy.
...What if they cross the streams?
You naturally won't get the added security or speed of subsequent standards if you stick with a "b" access point, but it will still work.
You took the words out of my mouth. My 80211.b equipment never breaks about 4 Mbit in practice. For that matter, I'd happily accept 1 Mbit throughput in exchange for real security on legacy cards. 1 Mbit is enough to do most everything except stream video. (And of course for copying large files you can never have enough).
The HostAP driver does encryption in software.
My home server is (among other things) a wireless access point. The card I have is a few years old and doesn't support WEP at all, but thanks to this driver it does! In fact it also supports a bunch of other security features for encryption and authentication, which I have not delved into.
That said, it sounds like this new encryption may be at a lower level, which for all I know may necessitate new firmware.
Forget batteries!! I just found out my car has a big sloshing 20 gallon tank of liquid GASOLINE! This stuff is murderous - highly volatile, and just spark will touch off the invisible fumes. It's not even sold in sealed containers like batteries. And unlike laptops and other applications for tiny fuel cells, cars tend to smack into each other at high speed. I can't imagine the government is going along with this.
You are judging the facts (the existence of an Iraqi Linux users' group) based on your opinion (Iraq is a hellhole). When you instead form your opinion from the facts, you see what this story is telling us - not everybody in Iraq is barefoot and dodging bullets.
I disagree, so far as I can tell ID has only ever done one genre - the first person shooter. Whether something is a "sequel" based just on the plot and characters is silly, since there's hardly any plot nor characterization in ID games (which is fine).
Yup, I can easily reduce spams to fewer than 2 per day. Just redirect all mail to /dev/null.
This also says a lot about Rutan and his team. They came right out with the problems. Most companies aren't like that, just imagine Ford discussing problems with an Explorer prototype.
I think these guys really are headed for the history books.