Multi-processor systems, which includes multi-core, and AFAIK, hyper-threading, need an OS which will reasonably distribute tasks across computing resources. Under DOS...er, Windows, this seems to be the app's responsibilty, since the article refered to "threaded applications, such as 3D Studio Max, Photoshop, and Premiere.". I know that Perl (ActiveState) doesn't have thread support under Windows. I haven't tried it under Linux.
That's a phrase a co-worker once tossed out to differentiate regex wranglers from lowly code cowboys. The implication being that real programmers use REs. At that time in my life I knew a dozen or so programming languages, but had avoided learning REs. That little quip prompted me to start learning, first in AWK, then via Perl. Today, I'm proud to say that I can fumble my way around a regex pretty good. I'm still a little fuzzy when it comes to concepts like "negative look-ahead" and "positive look-behind", which sounds like what I'd be doing at the beach. And please don't ask me to do an improv. on the finer points of DFA vs. NFA, or php vs. python vs. vi.
I would like to share my regex religion with the other programmers where I work, but can't get our training department psyched-up enough to find someone to teach a class.
Well my Windows system is frequently in a BSOD, or rebooting after installing this mornings/afternoons/evenings patches, so it spends a lot of it's life in the POR cycle.
It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I'm wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was right did not make him right...Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?
Reporter:
This is a personal thing, I think that if you wanted to make top ten hits and sell millions of records, you could.
Frank Zappa: Yeah, but who wants to go through life with a tiny nose and one glove on?
Agreed. There's not much beyond the typical Spielburg shot of people looking awestruck into lights.
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I like watching Tom Cruise movies, but (this will probably get me burned at the stake) I also have a real problem with the whole scientology cult/thing.
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I'm not Catholic, and I'm not up on their rules, but isn't anything that prevents or inhibits those little spermies from reaching the egg Frowned Upon by the Catholic church as "birth control"? Wouldn't a Pentium-powered testacle-toaster qualify?
What happens to a rocket launcher if I sneak up and stuff a potato (rock, piece of wood, BOFH, etc) in the front (or back?) end of it, then the operator fires it? I'm guessing there would be a more interesting effect if it was down the front.
The significance of this case is that it applies a fairly harsh penalty for spamming.
I disagree. The penalty was not harsh. The guy is still alive, with all his body appendages intact. His family is still alive and unharmed. A harsh penalty would involve a lot of pain and suffering for this guy, his family, his dog, his cat, his stockbroker, his lawyer, his friends, his parents, their friends, and anyone even remotely connected by blood or marriage. The moral limits of a polite, tolerant, and forgiving society (the kind of limits which this guy marginalizes) don't permit harsh penalties, so there's really nothing to disuade this kind of person (and others) from employing technology to expropriate capital from the more gullible members of society.
He said the soldiers got the message and most of them went home.
Bad news Dickie: they're back, and blowing things up all over the place. The interesting part is, and I'm sure you brainy intelligence-types knew this was going to happen, now that they're dressed like civilians, it's real hard to distinguish the good guys from the bad guys. So it must have been your plan to start an intractable multi-year urban conflict. Personally, I can't see the logic behind that, but then I'm just a dumb civilian.
I tried to follow the story line "ten days in the wild" on the Konfabulator web site. It started off interesting, but after "day 4" I really wanted to get to the point. Then I saw the "whatever you want it to be" tag at the bottom. Oh, great. Another widget-wanker that promises everything but does nothing. Sorry folks, but having just survived a presidential election, I've had enough of that for a while. Hmmm. Maybe I'll click on that "Information" link...
Primatologist Shelly Williams is thought to be the only scientist to have seen the apes.
Personally, I would like to see some independent confirmation before we start declaring a new species found. I'll wait for the extended study.
In describing her experience being "charged" by these animals in the wild, Shelly Williams said, and I found this quote interesting:
These guys were quiet. And they were huge. They were coming in for the kill. I was directly in front of them, and
as soon as they saw my face, they stopped and disappeared.
I'd hate to say that says a lot, but that says a lot.
Maybe I've just become immune to caffeine, but I do drink a lot of caffeine-containing drinks throughout the day,
This sounds familiar to me, having some personal experience with other, more widely-acknowledged addictive substances.
I've never really noticed anyone else becoming hyper from caffeine either.
You should see my mom after a mug of regular coffee. She's normally pretty active, but after a dose of caff, she's trying to be in 3 places at once. For myself, I've been told I'm relatively slug-like on those mornings when I can't get to my french press.
So I've been wondering if this is more a cultural expectation thing. In Britain it just doesn't seem to be discussed in the same way -- I've known people (including myself) complain of caffeine withdrawal symptoms -- evil headaches and suchlike
The standard indicators of an addictive substance (or behavior) are:
Compulsive use, even when knowing such behavior is known by the user to be detremental
Psycho-active effects. A measurable chemical change is made in the brain. With some substances the levels of dopamine can be regulated, which leads to.....
Reinforcement. The substance or behavior signals the user "man, that felt good. Do it again".
Withdrawal symptoms if the substance or behavior is not re-introduced periodically.
I've known for many years that coffee met all the hallmarks of addictive substances, and just figured I'd end up in Yet Another Twelve-step Group when I got around to acknowledging my own situation. But I also figured that the coffee/tea/soft-drink lobby was powerful enough to quash any research findings that showed that (just guessing here) 75% of all Americans are addicts. That's not the kind of research we want to read about! Tell us about solving erectile dysfuction, or instant fat-melter pills!
Yet often American sitcoms will refer to coffee in reference to making people hyper
Again, I agree. Sitcoms, and many people I know, make similiar "observations" (mostly incorrect from what I've read) about kids becoming "hyper" after consuming sugar, particularly around Halloween.
Can I create a small circle that will confuse Photoshop or a copier? For example, add a small red or green circle near the pattern using a colored pencil?
If I were a bad guy, intent on committing something evil, here's what I'ld do:
Setup several email accounts. Most are reserved for sending bogus traffic (trolling for ye olde jack-booted thugs). One or two will be reserved for actual correspondence.
When zero-hour approaches, send messages indicating "something will happen in (some place) on (some date)" using the trolling accounts. The message is intended to draw attention and resources away from the actual target and attack methodology. These would be encoded using a method with known problems. The encoding method used should be crackable, but not easily - We can't appear to be too st00pid.
Send all "real" correspondence via high security encryption. To make it more interesting, I would pre-arrange with my cohorts that only messages sent at certain times of day, even using the "real" accounts, would be considered valid. All other messages would be "bait".
As it was in making of the Dwarrowdelf, the ancient city known to outsiders as "Moria" or as Khazad-dum, the mention of which turns our fiercest warriors pale, and so it is now -- to create an underground empire, an expanse so vast that it defies description, with riches beyond dreams, and terrors beyond nightmares, to create all this and more, call upon the dwarves.
Anybody that makes films knows the film is never finished. It's abandoned or it's ripped out of your hands, and it's thrown into the marketplace, never finished. It's a very rare experience where you find a filmmaker who says, "That's exactly what I wanted.
This sounds like what happens with my software, which (to me) just highlights the creative, artistic aspects of writing good code.
Another possible parallel, the "quickie" program that's written to fill a short-term need ends up hanging out for years, taken over by someone else, getting patched, modified, and expanded way beyond it's original design objective, then coming back to haunt me 20 years from now. Hence my motivation to put more thought and planning into the "quickies" -- they're gonna be my tombstones.
That title "Your Car Is Reading Your Email" has a vaguely Tom-Waits-ish feel to it, and reminded me of his song "The Piano Has been drinking". (Lyrics at bottom) so I was inspired to cobble together this little diddy:
My Car Is Reading My Email pm thompson
My car is reading my email, my washer is off sending spam. My VCR knows the washer and car, it's erasing the audit trail. My iPod is copying DVDs, and ignoring those digital rights. My toilet is tanking my bank account at on-line gambling sites.
My cell phone plays Doom till the sun comes up, then dials 911. My blender's a poster of pix of the toaster doin' the freezer goats.ex.
The heater's been hacked, (those Russians can't be tracked) The stove is blue screen (you know what I mean) The dryer is stuck playing Solitare. It won't get hot. It won't blow air.
And my wristwatch? Well, it's downloading porn.
Lyrics from http://www.lyricsfreak.com/t/tom-waits/138944.html ),
The piano has been drinking, my necktie is asleep And the combo went back to new york, the jukebox has to take a leak And the carpet needs a haircut, and the spotlight looks like a prison break And the telephone's out of cigarettes, and the balcony is on the make And the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking...
And the menus are all freezing, and the light man's blind in one eye And he can't see out of the other And the piano-tuner's got a hearing aid, and he showed up with his mother And the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking As the bouncer is a sumo wrestler cream-puff casper milktoast And the owner is a mental midget with the i.q. of a fence post 'cause the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking...
And you can't find your waitress with a geiger counter And she hates you and your friends and you just can't get served without her And the box-office is drooling, and the bar stools are on fire And the newspapers were fooling, and the ash-trays have retired 'cause the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking The piano has been drinking, not me, not me, not me, not me, not me
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<MODERATE LEVEL="-99"> Guy walks up to a the ticket vendor in a train station. Says "Gimme a picket to Titsburgh". Right away he realizes his mistake: "Jeez I'm sorry, I meant to say a ticket to Pittsburgh". The guy in the ticket window says "That's all right sir, just a slip of the tongue. It happens to me all the time. Just yesterday I was sitting at breakfast with my wife and I said 'Honey, please pass the butter' and what I really meant to say was 'you miserable fucking bitch, you've destroyed up my entire life'".
I work for a rotating magnetic media (i.e. disk drive) company, and our I.T. folks say almost the same thing - SP2 will break internal apps & settings, and we should all wait until the I.T. department can do a customized S.P.
Personally, I doubt if I'll install it. I installed SP1 on 3 machines, and it made all of them noticibly slower. In addition, it made my home machine disable the kbd & mouse during (I think) the shutdown cycle, requiring a hard reset every other time I restart it. I'm also pretty sure I don't need DRM rammed down my throat.
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Multi-processor systems, which includes multi-core, and AFAIK, hyper-threading, need an OS which will reasonably distribute tasks across computing resources. Under DOS...er, Windows, this seems to be the app's responsibilty, since the article refered to "threaded applications, such as 3D Studio Max, Photoshop, and Premiere.". I know that Perl (ActiveState) doesn't have thread support under Windows. I haven't tried it under Linux.
Here's the official page that requires that pesky Flash-plugin/ad-force-feed-tube.
I would like to share my regex religion with the other programmers where I work, but can't get our training department psyched-up enough to find someone to teach a class.
Well my Windows system is frequently in a BSOD, or rebooting after installing this mornings/afternoons/evenings patches, so it spends a lot of it's life in the POR cycle.
Frank Zappa: Yeah, but who wants to go through life with a tiny nose and one glove on?
What's their (ESA's) deal with not posting raw pix?
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I like watching Tom Cruise movies, but (this will probably get me burned at the stake) I also have a real problem with the whole scientology cult/thing.
I'm not Catholic, and I'm not up on their rules, but isn't anything that prevents or inhibits those little spermies from reaching the egg Frowned Upon by the Catholic church as "birth control"? Wouldn't a Pentium-powered testacle-toaster qualify?
What happens to a rocket launcher if I sneak up and stuff a potato (rock, piece of wood, BOFH, etc) in the front (or back?) end of it, then the operator fires it? I'm guessing there would be a more interesting effect if it was down the front.
You wanna stop spam? Get harsh.
I tried to follow the story line "ten days in the wild" on the Konfabulator web site. It started off interesting, but after "day 4" I really wanted to get to the point. Then I saw the "whatever you want it to be" tag at the bottom. Oh, great. Another widget-wanker that promises everything but does nothing. Sorry folks, but having just survived a presidential election, I've had enough of that for a while. Hmmm. Maybe I'll click on that "Information" link ...
In describing her experience being "charged" by these animals in the wild, Shelly Williams said, and I found this quote interesting:
I'd hate to say that says a lot, but that says a lot.Jeez, I didn't know that! How about some proof (in the form of lots of JPGs that will make it through my company's web "protection"). TIA.
The standard indicators of an addictive substance (or behavior) are:
- Compulsive use, even when knowing such behavior is known by the user to be detremental
- Psycho-active effects. A measurable chemical change is made in the brain. With some substances the levels of dopamine can be regulated, which leads to.....
- Reinforcement. The substance or behavior signals the user "man, that felt good. Do it again".
- Withdrawal symptoms if the substance or behavior is not re-introduced periodically.
I've known for many years that coffee met all the hallmarks of addictive substances, and just figured I'd end up in Yet Another Twelve-step Group when I got around to acknowledging my own situation. But I also figured that the coffee/tea/soft-drink lobby was powerful enough to quash any research findings that showed that (just guessing here) 75% of all Americans are addicts. That's not the kind of research we want to read about! Tell us about solving erectile dysfuction, or instant fat-melter pills! Again, I agree. Sitcoms, and many people I know, make similiar "observations" (mostly incorrect from what I've read) about kids becoming "hyper" after consuming sugar, particularly around Halloween.Can I create a small circle that will confuse Photoshop or a copier? For example, add a small red or green circle near the pattern using a colored pencil?
- Setup several email accounts. Most are reserved for sending bogus traffic (trolling for ye olde jack-booted thugs). One or two will be reserved for actual correspondence.
- When zero-hour approaches, send messages indicating "something will happen in (some place) on (some date)" using the trolling accounts. The message is intended to draw attention and resources away from the actual target and attack methodology. These would be encoded using a method with known problems. The encoding method used should be crackable, but not easily - We can't appear to be too st00pid.
- Send all "real" correspondence via high security encryption. To make it more interesting, I would pre-arrange with my cohorts that only messages sent at certain times of day, even using the "real" accounts, would be considered valid. All other messages would be "bait".
I'm sure I'm not the first to come up with something like this. I'm pretty sure the Allies sent many bogus messages prior to the Normandy invasion.Another possible parallel, the "quickie" program that's written to fill a short-term need ends up hanging out for years, taken over by someone else, getting patched, modified, and expanded way beyond it's original design objective, then coming back to haunt me 20 years from now. Hence my motivation to put more thought and planning into the "quickies" -- they're gonna be my tombstones.
That can't be righ*##?#.* ... carrier lost
My Car Is Reading My Email
Lyrics from http://www.lyricsfreak.com/t/tom-waits/138944.htmpm thompson
Please, help me! No! Go away!
Personally, I doubt if I'll install it. I installed SP1 on 3 machines, and it made all of them noticibly slower. In addition, it made my home machine disable the kbd & mouse during (I think) the shutdown cycle, requiring a hard reset every other time I restart it. I'm also pretty sure I don't need DRM rammed down my throat.