I primarily use Linux. But with XP Pro on the more stable side of Windows I use it more and more. Windows works and has the software I need to get the big stuff done. Linux lets me get the small stuff done quickly and painlessly. The ideal would be to combine both and I can to some degree... but Windows still has an edge.
WINE can hardly do all the things I need in Windows, but CygWin can do most of the things I would use Linux for. I haven't been able to find any free (as in pocket lint) options to get things working in Linux.
It's really about what OS has the software I need. Security, stability, and ease of use just sway the needle past the center mark. But that doesn't keep me from dreaming Open Source dreams.
I knew a blind guy in college. During the pre-drinking ATM trip he used the terminal out of the back seat without having to tell us his PIN.
Since the blind probably (!) don't drive themselves, the brail makes sense in a number of different scenarios. And a few plastic bumps are hardly ridiculous for some increased indepedence.
It is a private company and if they choose to ingnore potential customers than let the market sort it out.
Surely most businesses could ignore the disabled without any major hit in their bottom line. These people are in such a minority that they would be ignored by the market without enforced accessibility guidelines.
How much impact do you think a phone call or an email would make on a multi-[b|m]illion dollar corporation? Lawsuits are just one way to be heard and sometimes intervention by law is the only chance these people can get.
All of the posts here talk about the exorbitant prices required to see a movie in a theater and a comparably high price at places like Blockbuster Video. I'd reccommend that you just shop around a bit.
I've never lived in a city where there wasn't a $1.50 / $2.00 theater. And if you just go across the street to the 'discount video dealer' (you know... the one with the saloon doors), you can get rentals for around 2 bucks. Heck, my library has an impressive selection of DVD rentals for free.
Of course, this behavior only lends credence to the article's argument of Hollywood bankruptcy. However, it's the dumb shmucks out there that pay $30 bucks for a movie outing that let Hollywood get so greedy.
Consumers need to show that they demand value from the things they pay for.
It is indeed sad when a video game company sticks a bunch of video of strippers in a BMX game to sell more titles. I'm sure the audience for this game consists of the same people that watch Strip Poker on USA at 3am. Sad.
If you want to see naked women, go buy some porn or get an internet connection. Games like this inevitably suck because developer time and financial resources were wasted in the making. Or maybe they're just covering up the fowl smell of an already horrible game. It's chicken and egg really.
I'd just like to open up the shrink wrap of a game knowing that some quality effort went into it. Some adult content is fine as long as it is in context: (i.e. GTA 3) These publicity stunts and marketing hype are getting old.
Get one of those large filter flasks with the side spout that is below the top of the glass. Attach some tubing to the spout and let it hang down. Fill the flask almost all the way up with water.
Then stick a funnel into the top and cover it all with a box. Pour a small bit of water into the top to brim up the water level and a siphon effect will drain the whole flask.
Little input, large output. Not as good as boiling lead, but easy to do with common lab-gear. You could involve the kids too. Have them draw what they think is in the box, etc.
This should only be used to bolster existing security systems. Perhaps it could be used to correlate data gleaned from an IDS (Intrusion Detection System) to reduce the excessive noise that they usually generate.
A company would be foolish to put *any* single system like this as their only line of defense no matter what % success rate it has. Such systems are brittle and "when they fail, they fail badly."
Living in America, life requires buying things. I'm with you in the sense that opportunities and happiness shouldn't be fueled by materialism, but when your head is halfway underwater it is hard to stay afloat, let alone go anywhere.
And that's what I think the focus of the article was. With a shrinking economy and so much current outstanding debt, the hill in front of Generation X has risen steeply these past few years.
It would be best to sign the MD5 with a PGP signature. They key they use may have also been compromised, but at least that adds another layer to security.
Difficult? With GnuPG you can just do a gpg --verify and md5 is just md5sum filename
You mentioned the real issue: key management. If files from ftp.sendmail.org get infected, then people could probably get a bogus key as well. (Although the sendmail folks verified that the files didn't have an updated signature and wouldn't have validated).
I'm not the least bit surprised to see a human beating a computer in a complex activity like chess, and that's with lots of handicaps in Fritz' favor (it doesn't have to analyze an image of the board in order to determine where the pieces are, for instance).
I wouldn't call them handicaps. The way computers play chess and humans play chess is apples and oranges. Looking at the board and analyzing the picture is part of the cognitive process, while Fritz just needs to feed data to an algorithm. One true handicap is fatigue. This was something Kasparov faced against Deep Blue a few years ago.
But it certainly is amazing that we can do things computers find impossible, while computers can do things that would take us until the sun burnt out. Personally I think that makes contests like this far more interesting.
Yeah... what do you call those things? Screens? Besides, that would remove the ability to walk through the image.
On another note. There has been some crazy case mods on/. before, but has anyone seen someone mod a case of bannanas before? A flavored fog-screen perhaps? I can only imagine the names: "tropical mist" or "mountain dew".
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Sure, but what the rep from Google said about power consumption having priority over speed makes sense. Cost of hardware has always generally moved one way which prescribes a business model of clustering inexpensive components.
Energy costs fluctuate and with the uncertainty in the Middle East (oil, etc.), I'm sure operators of data centers around the country would have to hold similar views.
The ability to arrive at a sound moral decision plays on a delicate balance of faith and reason. Some people only know how to do one or the other and thus arrive on one side of the fence without understanding how other people can disagree.
The majority of the Slashdot community includes people who are able to think objectively and logically. So it's not surprising to see most of these arguments here. Perhaps we could apply that same reason and thought to the opposing view? There must be some reason why a mass of people would oppose stem cell research...
But I'm not the guy to answer that.
I still don't get it when people explain the existence of God with "just because."
Uh huh. Personally I don't think this is a great combination. It is in the interest of cable companies to allow for things like DRM and the like.
Don't give them more control. Please.
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I primarily use Linux. But with XP Pro on the more stable side of Windows I use it more and more. Windows works and has the software I need to get the big stuff done. Linux lets me get the small stuff done quickly and painlessly. The ideal would be to combine both and I can to some degree... but Windows still has an edge.
WINE can hardly do all the things I need in Windows, but CygWin can do most of the things I would use Linux for. I haven't been able to find any free (as in pocket lint) options to get things working in Linux.
It's really about what OS has the software I need. Security, stability, and ease of use just sway the needle past the center mark. But that doesn't keep me from dreaming Open Source dreams.
Those poor people that live in the mountains. It must take forever for those electrons to make it up to them from near sea-level.
Aw, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14 percent of all people know that.
I knew a blind guy in college. During the pre-drinking ATM trip he used the terminal out of the back seat without having to tell us his PIN.
Since the blind probably (!) don't drive themselves, the brail makes sense in a number of different scenarios. And a few plastic bumps are hardly ridiculous for some increased indepedence.
Surely most businesses could ignore the disabled without any major hit in their bottom line. These people are in such a minority that they would be ignored by the market without enforced accessibility guidelines.
How much impact do you think a phone call or an email would make on a multi-[b|m]illion dollar corporation? Lawsuits are just one way to be heard and sometimes intervention by law is the only chance these people can get.
He didn't. It's just an example of how old laws were defined in new terms (however inappropriately).
Accessibility on the web deserves a similarly fresh look. Not just a reinterpretation of the existing ADA.
I'd probably attach a sturdy magnet to get paperclips or pins to it. I'd reccommend this with any vacuum.
Just a tip from an old janitors job.
All of the posts here talk about the exorbitant prices required to see a movie in a theater and a comparably high price at places like Blockbuster Video. I'd reccommend that you just shop around a bit.
I've never lived in a city where there wasn't a $1.50 / $2.00 theater. And if you just go across the street to the 'discount video dealer' (you know... the one with the saloon doors), you can get rentals for around 2 bucks. Heck, my library has an impressive selection of DVD rentals for free.
Of course, this behavior only lends credence to the article's argument of Hollywood bankruptcy. However, it's the dumb shmucks out there that pay $30 bucks for a movie outing that let Hollywood get so greedy.
Consumers need to show that they demand value from the things they pay for.
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It is indeed sad when a video game company sticks a bunch of video of strippers in a BMX game to sell more titles. I'm sure the audience for this game consists of the same people that watch Strip Poker on USA at 3am. Sad.
If you want to see naked women, go buy some porn or get an internet connection. Games like this inevitably suck because developer time and financial resources were wasted in the making. Or maybe they're just covering up the fowl smell of an already horrible game. It's chicken and egg really.
I'd just like to open up the shrink wrap of a game knowing that some quality effort went into it. Some adult content is fine as long as it is in context: (i.e. GTA 3) These publicity stunts and marketing hype are getting old.
Any opportunity for public comment is a good thing. This is the way democracy gets its voice.
Draft up your opinons intelligently and give them to everyone who is willing to accept. The drops in the bucket are supposed to mount up to something.
It's best to set this one up beforehand.
Get one of those large filter flasks with the side spout that is below the top of the glass. Attach some tubing to the spout and let it hang down. Fill the flask almost all the way up with water.
Then stick a funnel into the top and cover it all with a box. Pour a small bit of water into the top to brim up the water level and a siphon effect will drain the whole flask.
Little input, large output. Not as good as boiling lead, but easy to do with common lab-gear. You could involve the kids too. Have them draw what they think is in the box, etc.
This should only be used to bolster existing security systems. Perhaps it could be used to correlate data gleaned from an IDS (Intrusion Detection System) to reduce the excessive noise that they usually generate.
A company would be foolish to put *any* single system like this as their only line of defense no matter what % success rate it has. Such systems are brittle and "when they fail, they fail badly."
Living in America, life requires buying things. I'm with you in the sense that opportunities and happiness shouldn't be fueled by materialism, but when your head is halfway underwater it is hard to stay afloat, let alone go anywhere.
And that's what I think the focus of the article was. With a shrinking economy and so much current outstanding debt, the hill in front of Generation X has risen steeply these past few years.
It would be best to sign the MD5 with a PGP signature. They key they use may have also been compromised, but at least that adds another layer to security.
Difficult? With GnuPG you can just do a gpg --verify and md5 is just md5sum filename
You mentioned the real issue: key management. If files from ftp.sendmail.org get infected, then people could probably get a bogus key as well. (Although the sendmail folks verified that the files didn't have an updated signature and wouldn't have validated).
I'm not the least bit surprised to see a human beating a computer in a complex activity like chess, and that's with lots of handicaps in Fritz' favor (it doesn't have to analyze an image of the board in order to determine where the pieces are, for instance).
I wouldn't call them handicaps. The way computers play chess and humans play chess is apples and oranges. Looking at the board and analyzing the picture is part of the cognitive process, while Fritz just needs to feed data to an algorithm. One true handicap is fatigue. This was something Kasparov faced against Deep Blue a few years ago.
But it certainly is amazing that we can do things computers find impossible, while computers can do things that would take us until the sun burnt out. Personally I think that makes contests like this far more interesting.
Yeah... what do you call those things? Screens? Besides, that would remove the ability to walk through the image.
On another note. There has been some crazy case mods on /. before, but has anyone seen someone mod a case of bannanas before? A flavored fog-screen perhaps? I can only imagine the names: "tropical mist" or "mountain dew".
Sure, but what the rep from Google said about power consumption having priority over speed makes sense. Cost of hardware has always generally moved one way which prescribes a business model of clustering inexpensive components.
Energy costs fluctuate and with the uncertainty in the Middle East (oil, etc.), I'm sure operators of data centers around the country would have to hold similar views.
This is nothing new. I once went to a hotel where the bed did the exact same thing.
And it only cost a quarter!
Surround sound could help...
If I could get the MS Paperclip to speak at me from all directions, I think I could be even more productive at work.
The ability to arrive at a sound moral decision plays on a delicate balance of faith and reason. Some people only know how to do one or the other and thus arrive on one side of the fence without understanding how other people can disagree.
The majority of the Slashdot community includes people who are able to think objectively and logically. So it's not surprising to see most of these arguments here. Perhaps we could apply that same reason and thought to the opposing view? There must be some reason why a mass of people would oppose stem cell research...
But I'm not the guy to answer that.
I still don't get it when people explain the existence of God with "just because."
Uh huh. Personally I don't think this is a great combination. It is in the interest of cable companies to allow for things like DRM and the like. Don't give them more control. Please.