Well, first off i prefer the term "geek" as it lends itself more toward my computing abilities...but anyway...I think that sometimes the popular consensous about nerds being beaten up and tortured is a little off. Sure if I ever tried to hang out with the "cool" or "popular" kids I would be rejected, but i surely wouldn't be beat up. I am actually proud of the fact that I'm a geek, and so are my friends. Maybe its the fact that I have a close group of "geeky" friends to hand out with...as I'm sure life would be a lot different if I was the only smart kid. But in general, I would think that geeks or nerds or whatever you want to call them, don't get beat up as often as you would think...at least that's what it seems like to me as a nerd currently in high school.
Hardware is holding them back...
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As far as I can tell, it seems like the hardware is holding Sun back. Just look at
recentheadlines, where RISC / expensive unix systems are being replaced with Linux/x86 ones. However, I think that Java is something of the future. If you look at colleges and how they are structuring their computer science programs, you will see that many of them have just recently switched over to Java. I know that most colleges try to stay ahead of the curve and use technologies that will become mainstay in the future. I think that if Sun could find a way to convince people that they need their servers over the cheaper Linux/x86 combination, then they will not fail.
If every router picks the "fastest" route based on ping, then shouldn't the internet be operating at the fastest speed possible? If the "fastest" routes are already being used by the routers, then, technically, there will be nothing faster. The way I see it, its not like the routers all choose the same router just because it is "better" (like a driver might choose a highway), but which ever route gets the packet there the fastest. I would think it would automatically choose some routes with less traffic, not just the high-bandwidth/high-traffic ones. Besides, when I boot up CounterStrike, I would be pretty upset if some random internet router decided to send my packets around the world 3 times before they get to their destination just because it would be "better for the internet as a whole".:-P
The hate for Microsoft seems a little unfounded. You act like MS burnt your villages and stole your wives. Sure I run Linux, but I also run Windows, and I feel that open source could learn a few things from MS. Sure MS has a different philosophy when it comes to business and what they do with their source, but they have a right to structure their company the way they want. Don't get me wrong, I think open source is great and should be supported over other models. However, I don't think that MS is evil or should be shunned when they have something to say.
Logic alone would tell us that if its possible to be unencrypted with the proper keys, then it is also possible for others to access the data without the proper keys. Granted it might take 2 years with the current state of processors or whatnot, but it still would be possible.
Written instructions given to the searchers in Bronson showed a picture of a faceplate from the device, which in white letters on a black background spelled out "Secret Government Property."
I love how they just stamp "Secret Government Property" on this box and expect it to be left alone if it was ever found somewhere just lying around. Come on, if you really wanted to keep something safe, would you just stamp that on it? Thats like leaving a sack of money in the street with a giant "$$" on it. Who wouldn't take it? Wouldn't it just have been easier to leave it a plain black box, that wouldn't draw too much attention?
I know that this won't affect NT based versions or ME cause they implemented some "stability" features, but this will definetly work on 98. I have done it. Perhaps not 98 SE but at least 98. Find an old 98 box (like the ones in our school) and try that code.
I can write a C program that uses all of Windows system memory and crashes the box, in only 3 lines.
char far *kill = 0;
while(1)
{
*(kill++)=0;
}
:-P
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As far as electronics getting wet, I once read a test about a GameBoy Advance where it was flushed down a toilet and then allowed to dry out. It still worked after a thorough drying, so (this along with other posts that talk about electronics getting wet) makes it seems like most electronic devices still work after you let them dry.
Why would they want to chuch the Win98-ish crap or try for something totally unique when what they have now works just fine? I think that if you look at the current situation of the GUI as a whole, most GUIs will have many similarities. Things turned out like this for a reason. If people find a Win-98ish GUI to be the easiest or most efficient, then why try for something else?
If the routers that connected your linux boxes and your MS boxes crashed due to the huge amounts of traffic (which did happen to some Cisco routers) then your entire network would be affected regardles of the os.
America's Army makes you want to be in the army until you realize that in real life you dont' get to respawn after you die. If I was ever in the actual army I would last for about 5 minutes then be dead. Plus the designers of the game didn't take into consideration that if everyone who played the game suddenly decided to join the army they would probably get a bunch of over-weight geeks who would pass out after the first minute of basic training.
I ask this because I once got in trouble for accessing a webserver 60,000 times over night. This was over a considerable amount of time (about 13 hours) yet it was called a DoS attack. I simply called for a web page using PHP's fopen and a while loop. Unless this really wasn't a DoS, I don't see how you could prevent something like that.
I looked at the screens and I can't help but notice that the standard icon/widget themes just seem a little gaudy to me. Besides, I enjoy using Gnome too much to switch to KDE.
They should just change all the references to the term PCI on the site to "that port that is smaller than ISA" or TPTISTISA. This way everyone will know what they are talking about and copyrighted terms don't have to be used.
I would like to note to all the Mac users who claim that PCs crash too much, my Windows XP notebook was running for a solid month without a reboot. The only reason it gets shut down is to install software that needs a reboot.
Light, like most other waves that get propigated throught space and times, probably needs a medium to be propigated in. Perhaps the gravitational field produced by an object is light's medium. This might also explain why something cannot travel faster than the speed of light. Much like the sonic boom associated with traveling past the speed of sound, something similar might occur with traveling past the speed of light. Since all objects have some gravitational force (albiet a small one), a particle moving at the speed of light would probably develope a large gravitational wall in front of it. Tidal forces, much like those associated with a black hole, could strecth the object, most likely destroying it. Or, perhaps, the surge of gravity in front of the object would create some kind of black hole or worm hole entrance, allowing an object to warp through space and time.
I watched the keynote excerpts that cnet published on their news.com site. Perhaps that part was not included in what I view. Guess I am mistaken then.
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Well, first off i prefer the term "geek" as it lends itself more toward my computing abilities...but anyway...I think that sometimes the popular consensous about nerds being beaten up and tortured is a little off. Sure if I ever tried to hang out with the "cool" or "popular" kids I would be rejected, but i surely wouldn't be beat up. I am actually proud of the fact that I'm a geek, and so are my friends. Maybe its the fact that I have a close group of "geeky" friends to hand out with...as I'm sure life would be a lot different if I was the only smart kid. But in general, I would think that geeks or nerds or whatever you want to call them, don't get beat up as often as you would think...at least that's what it seems like to me as a nerd currently in high school.
As far as I can tell, it seems like the hardware is holding Sun back. Just look at recent headlines, where RISC / expensive unix systems are being replaced with Linux/x86 ones. However, I think that Java is something of the future. If you look at colleges and how they are structuring their computer science programs, you will see that many of them have just recently switched over to Java. I know that most colleges try to stay ahead of the curve and use technologies that will become mainstay in the future. I think that if Sun could find a way to convince people that they need their servers over the cheaper Linux/x86 combination, then they will not fail.
If every router picks the "fastest" route based on ping, then shouldn't the internet be operating at the fastest speed possible? If the "fastest" routes are already being used by the routers, then, technically, there will be nothing faster. The way I see it, its not like the routers all choose the same router just because it is "better" (like a driver might choose a highway), but which ever route gets the packet there the fastest. I would think it would automatically choose some routes with less traffic, not just the high-bandwidth/high-traffic ones. Besides, when I boot up CounterStrike, I would be pretty upset if some random internet router decided to send my packets around the world 3 times before they get to their destination just because it would be "better for the internet as a whole". :-P
The hate for Microsoft seems a little unfounded. You act like MS burnt your villages and stole your wives. Sure I run Linux, but I also run Windows, and I feel that open source could learn a few things from MS. Sure MS has a different philosophy when it comes to business and what they do with their source, but they have a right to structure their company the way they want. Don't get me wrong, I think open source is great and should be supported over other models. However, I don't think that MS is evil or should be shunned when they have something to say.
Logic alone would tell us that if its possible to be unencrypted with the proper keys, then it is also possible for others to access the data without the proper keys. Granted it might take 2 years with the current state of processors or whatnot, but it still would be possible.
Written instructions given to the searchers in Bronson showed a picture of a faceplate from the device, which in white letters on a black background spelled out "Secret Government Property."
I love how they just stamp "Secret Government Property" on this box and expect it to be left alone if it was ever found somewhere just lying around. Come on, if you really wanted to keep something safe, would you just stamp that on it? Thats like leaving a sack of money in the street with a giant "$$" on it. Who wouldn't take it? Wouldn't it just have been easier to leave it a plain black box, that wouldn't draw too much attention?
I know that this won't affect NT based versions or ME cause they implemented some "stability" features, but this will definetly work on 98. I have done it. Perhaps not 98 SE but at least 98. Find an old 98 box (like the ones in our school) and try that code.
run this on a windows 9x system (perferibly 98 or 95) and see what it does... 9 times out of 10 it will lock up.
that if you want to get serious work done, you must use x86 systems and Linux and not a Mac w/ OSX. :-P
I can write a C program that uses all of Windows system memory and crashes the box, in only 3 lines.
:-P
char far *kill = 0;
while(1)
{
*(kill++)=0;
}
As far as electronics getting wet, I once read a test about a GameBoy Advance where it was flushed down a toilet and then allowed to dry out. It still worked after a thorough drying, so (this along with other posts that talk about electronics getting wet) makes it seems like most electronic devices still work after you let them dry.
I don't care how fake and imposed it is...if its cool i'll watch it.
Why would they want to chuch the Win98-ish crap or try for something totally unique when what they have now works just fine? I think that if you look at the current situation of the GUI as a whole, most GUIs will have many similarities. Things turned out like this for a reason. If people find a Win-98ish GUI to be the easiest or most efficient, then why try for something else?
If the routers that connected your linux boxes and your MS boxes crashed due to the huge amounts of traffic (which did happen to some Cisco routers) then your entire network would be affected regardles of the os.
What, 911 calls don't happen on a Saturday?
I don't ask for sympathy because I'm ok now...I've "learned my lesson". (The lesson I have learned is that next time don't get caught...j/k)
America's Army makes you want to be in the army until you realize that in real life you dont' get to respawn after you die. If I was ever in the actual army I would last for about 5 minutes then be dead. Plus the designers of the game didn't take into consideration that if everyone who played the game suddenly decided to join the army they would probably get a bunch of over-weight geeks who would pass out after the first minute of basic training.
I ask this because I once got in trouble for accessing a webserver 60,000 times over night. This was over a considerable amount of time (about 13 hours) yet it was called a DoS attack. I simply called for a web page using PHP's fopen and a while loop. Unless this really wasn't a DoS, I don't see how you could prevent something like that.
I looked at the screens and I can't help but notice that the standard icon/widget themes just seem a little gaudy to me. Besides, I enjoy using Gnome too much to switch to KDE.
that the article mentioned that we could use these weapons in the war on Iraq...I didn't realize that we are at war with Iraq yet...
They should just change all the references to the term PCI on the site to "that port that is smaller than ISA" or TPTISTISA. This way everyone will know what they are talking about and copyrighted terms don't have to be used.
I would like to note to all the Mac users who claim that PCs crash too much, my Windows XP notebook was running for a solid month without a reboot. The only reason it gets shut down is to install software that needs a reboot.
Light, like most other waves that get propigated throught space and times, probably needs a medium to be propigated in. Perhaps the gravitational field produced by an object is light's medium. This might also explain why something cannot travel faster than the speed of light. Much like the sonic boom associated with traveling past the speed of sound, something similar might occur with traveling past the speed of light. Since all objects have some gravitational force (albiet a small one), a particle moving at the speed of light would probably develope a large gravitational wall in front of it. Tidal forces, much like those associated with a black hole, could strecth the object, most likely destroying it. Or, perhaps, the surge of gravity in front of the object would create some kind of black hole or worm hole entrance, allowing an object to warp through space and time.
I watched the keynote excerpts that cnet published on their news.com site. Perhaps that part was not included in what I view. Guess I am mistaken then.