Right, you've got a mobile telephone. That's right, a telephone that you can carry around with you, and speak to other people wherever they may be.
So what do you do with this wonderful invention? Well, a system called SMS is bolted on for unreliably sending very short messages that take an age to type in. For the luxury of sending (or not; who knows?) this uselessly small piece of information, you are prepared to pay the same price as a about a minute's worth of full voice communication. That's roughly the same amount of time it took to type in your four-word question in the first place.
Oh, and everybody that sends these messages uses a basterdised version of 1337 speak, which is actually considered to be quite cool.
Man, I hate mobile phones.
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Dammit, I was halfway through writing my own review for this book! Anyway, on with my post:
You wrote: "However, I'm not so sure his tactics will work as well as they did a few years ago"
That's because we're so much smarter about security now, right?
Well, we are smarter now. We are the people who have been around computers for a few years now (enough to be intersted in/. reviews of security books). However, every single day there's a new sucker using a computer for the very first time.
I'm absolutely certain that I could sucessfully use all of those tricks against the company I currently work for.
"On the other hand, this is just a few megabits! My server can transmit data at gigabit speeds! What? Different technologies? Different media? Different circumstances? What do you mean? =)"
That's kind of my point; it's a tradeoff between bandwidth, distance and (inverse of...)cost. If you increase one, the other two go down.
Whatever distance you can transmit data across, I can do it further (at lower bandwidth for more money). Likewise for high bandwidth and low cost.
Forgive me if I'm being stupid here; but given that medium wave radio signals easily carry over such distances with enough clarity to enjoy music, why is sending a digital signal such a big deal?
I doubt the bandwidth would be all that high, but if I can get 33kbit/s down a crappy telephone line then I expect to get a lot more across a nice powerful radio signal.
... in my experience, good use of forward declarations (to avoid unrequired chains of #include), combined with simply putting less in each.c file is a lot more effective than adding the complication of precompiled headers into your build process.
I found when I was at uni that it tended to be an all or nothing affair with girls and coding. They either computely sucked at it, or they really were good.
I have absolutely no clue as to why that was the case, but it was!
Interesting comparison. I shall assume you're American (forgive me if you're not!;). Your cars are huge and amazingly inefficient compared to what's on the market in Europe.
The reason? petrol costs you guys a lot less than us (it's taxed beyond belief over here). I pay £0.79/litre ~ $4.78/gallon in the UK.
"At Nestle, for example, many people could make more money elsewhere. But employees in the bucolic Swiss town of Vevey like being with a company whose mission is to feed people around the world"
I laugh at Microsoft's server-grade operating systems and programs compared to unix, but I think they produce a fine gaming platform.
Similarly, I laugh at how far away unix desktops are for beginners. As for games, well, I just know that it will be practically impossible for me (and I consider myself to be pretty unix-literate) to set up all the shit that will be required. It will probably involved being flamed in a 'help' forum for daring to ask such a non-1337 question.
What I'm saying is that different operating systems have different strengths. So long as windows provides a gaming environment which I feel is good value for money, I'll keep spending.
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So what do you do with this wonderful invention? Well, a system called SMS is bolted on for unreliably sending very short messages that take an age to type in. For the luxury of sending (or not; who knows?) this uselessly small piece of information, you are prepared to pay the same price as a about a minute's worth of full voice communication. That's roughly the same amount of time it took to type in your four-word question in the first place.
Oh, and everybody that sends these messages uses a basterdised version of 1337 speak, which is actually considered to be quite cool.
Man, I hate mobile phones.
You wrote: "However, I'm not so sure his tactics will work as well as they did a few years ago"
That's because we're so much smarter about security now, right?
Well, we are smarter now. We are the people who have been around computers for a few years now (enough to be intersted in /. reviews of security books). However, every single day there's a new sucker using a computer for the very first time.
I'm absolutely certain that I could sucessfully use all of those tricks against the company I currently work for.
That's kind of my point; it's a tradeoff between bandwidth, distance and (inverse of...)cost. If you increase one, the other two go down.
Whatever distance you can transmit data across, I can do it further (at lower bandwidth for more money). Likewise for high bandwidth and low cost.
I doubt the bandwidth would be all that high, but if I can get 33kbit/s down a crappy telephone line then I expect to get a lot more across a nice powerful radio signal.
... in my experience, good use of forward declarations (to avoid unrequired chains of #include), combined with simply putting less in each .c file is a lot more effective than adding the complication of precompiled headers into your build process.
Good God, he could make a fortune if he's on the internet! Genius.
I found when I was at uni that it tended to be an all or nothing affair with girls and coding. They either computely sucked at it, or they really were good.
I have absolutely no clue as to why that was the case, but it was!
Your handle starts with S.
The word "Microsoft" has an S in it.
Trust me, that's enough
The reason? petrol costs you guys a lot less than us (it's taxed beyond belief over here). I pay £0.79/litre ~ $4.78/gallon in the UK.
So, you should be worried.
But you didn't want to hear that.
Because it plays music.
No.
It won't.
Feed this, muther fucker
It was the clueless enthusiasm of Peter Snow that made me turn off.
Man, you're karma whoring!
Actually, thinking about it, I wouldn't give a crap, cause I'd be dead.
Similarly, I laugh at how far away unix desktops are for beginners. As for games, well, I just know that it will be practically impossible for me (and I consider myself to be pretty unix-literate) to set up all the shit that will be required. It will probably involved being flamed in a 'help' forum for daring to ask such a non-1337 question.
What I'm saying is that different operating systems have different strengths. So long as windows provides a gaming environment which I feel is good value for money, I'll keep spending.
I can't believe anybody still listens to MP3; it's such a lame format.
Soya meat is getting better; I know plenty of carnis who buy these over real meat.
I wonder if artificial meat will be just as heart-stoppingly unhealthy at the real stuff.
I've read the article, but didn't pick up any information about what is 'fed' to the growing meat. Is it merely other animal products?
They tell you what the fuck RBLs actually are before moving beyond them.
The New York Times has to register with YOU!
I peed over the water?
Shouldn't the title be IP/H20 ?