Well they did invent XML so I dont see what the problem is?
In a cute sort of twist, they 'invented' xml so that they could produce documents in excel, word etc... that were compatible with other platforms yet did not open their own file format. I guess they thought that being giving was fine when they didn't believe anyone could receive.
But I hate how you refer to this as 'open source'.
You are right. I thought of that midway through my post, if you look at my last sentence I refer to it as "community development". What I was praising was the involvement of peers and others in review not the actual use of contributing authors. So yes, you make a good point and I stand corrected (actually slouched, but hey).
Interesting note (IMHO) If you look at his website, he is currently writing volume IV of the art of programming. He has posted drafts of chapters up and actively elicits feedback from readers. He goes as far as offering money for bugs found. Another one he adds is in his citations he wants full names...he will pay readers $2.56 per full name discovered on his list of incomplete names. This is a guy who understands the value of community development even when referring to the work of someone head and shoulders above the community.
So the article details a cool hack, props. What I want to know is.....why was I able to download the 6.9 MB AVI file at the end. Isn't his server supposed to die or something? I can never download the files referenced by a/. link. Is something wrong?
We need it as much as another Police Academy movie.
I didn't know this was coming out! When? Will Steve Guttenberg be in it? I am going to post this everywhere, it will be more anticipated than that "part III of trilogy I which was filmed after trilogy II" thing that Lucas did.
Where precisely does something like "The Bush administration has no right to detain American Citizens as enemy combatants" fit into your projects. I guess it is better (IMHO) than commenting conservatively.
I thought it was a nice touch that they give directions on how to stop network services for someone who gets root. Most people who root linux boxes have trouble with those advanced administrative functions
So, someone makes a tcp/ip patch that applies a random shift to the timestamp which could be created for each session. No two sessions would have the same time stamp - but all packets in a single session would. Then you have to analyze multiple sessions to try to find your random number seed. This would vary for stronger random number generators.
For a new user this is doing the same action 3 times (ie draging and droping a file/folder)
I see. Unpredictable because someone else would not predict it, not unpredictable by behaving differently between repetitions. OK, in that you actually have a good example... my mistake.
drag n drop a file between 2 folders on the same disk: it moves the file, do the same between 2 disks: it copys the file, do the same to the desktop: it links the file. This is unpredictable in the extreem.
?!?!? DO the above three times, same results? How is that an example of unpredictability?
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It is just a rule of business that if you don't listen to your customers they will leave you.
What they are failing to state is that they knew that. They did not take into account the fact that the "open source model" got them to the point that they could adopt their "business model". Their business model said that just because some pimple faced kid helped them be able resume operation after a PCIx pc went into suspend mode, doesn't make that kid important. After all, he downloaded a free product. So, they were willing to dismiss all these "customers" and then found their "innovation base" was lost. IMHO, if you use a free product and contribute to that products growth and stability you are a damned good customer. But still, corporations pay thousands a year for entitlements....they must be more important.
That is very negative. Remember your superior attitude at the end, when the last thing you hear is: "Your' planet has been scheduled for demolition to make way for a galactic..." etc....
I don't know what detecting gravity in space will tell us that we don't know.
Detecting gravitational waves is one of the easiest ways to detect cloked startships. "Einstein @ home" is a clever cover for "the US Department of Homeland Security: Romulan Invasion Alert System"
I would like detailed instructions on how to construct a stream of random numbers with behaviors that correlate to outside events as they describe, so that I can repeat their experiments myself and see if I can reproduce the same effect.
If you read (as in internalized and put meaning to) the article. A) the machines were not "built with behaviors that correlate" it was a noticed phenomena of the device.
B) Many scientists have made the boxes and are getting similar results. Thus the phenomenon is readily reproduced. C) the scientists are hard at work to produce other hypotheses or at least disprove the current one (pretty much the definition of the scientific method)
Nostradamus did nothing involoving random numbers and his predictions were far easier to apply to events than these.
They've got enough cash in the bank to run the business for decades if they never made another cent...
And they have enough sense not to. Businesses (even very wealthy ones) do business to make money. If Microsoft were to stop making money it would cease to be (as we currently know it). That money would not be used to sustain a failing business model, instead it would remind the world that Microsoft is in a position of true business agility. They could sell all their software business and reinvest and reposition themselves as a very powerful manufacturer of goods, law firm... anything Bill and Steve et al... decided to do. But they would not make software if it did not pay.
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Well they did invent XML so I dont see what the problem is?
In a cute sort of twist, they 'invented' xml so that they could produce documents in excel, word etc... that were compatible with other platforms yet did not open their own file format. I guess they thought that being giving was fine when they didn't believe anyone could receive.
But I hate how you refer to this as 'open source'.
You are right. I thought of that midway through my post, if you look at my last sentence I refer to it as "community development". What I was praising was the involvement of peers and others in review not the actual use of contributing authors. So yes, you make a good point and I stand corrected (actually slouched, but hey).
Interesting note (IMHO) If you look at his website, he is currently writing volume IV of the art of programming. He has posted drafts of chapters up and actively elicits feedback from readers. He goes as far as offering money for bugs found. Another one he adds is in his citations he wants full names...he will pay readers $2.56 per full name discovered on his list of incomplete names. This is a guy who understands the value of community development even when referring to the work of someone head and shoulders above the community.
So the article details a cool hack, props. What I want to know is.....why was I able to download the 6.9 MB AVI file at the end. Isn't his server supposed to die or something? I can never download the files referenced by a /. link. Is something wrong?
We need it as much as another Police Academy movie.
I didn't know this was coming out! When? Will Steve Guttenberg be in it? I am going to post this everywhere, it will be more anticipated than that "part III of trilogy I which was filmed after trilogy II" thing that Lucas did.
I use liberal comments in most of my projects
Where precisely does something like "The Bush administration has no right to detain American Citizens as enemy combatants" fit into your projects. I guess it is better (IMHO) than commenting conservatively.
Some of my previous employers think of Linux (unfairly) as nothing more than a DOS knock-off.
Have they ever used Dos?!?!
but if they are getting kiddies comming in using off-the-shelf exploits, they have a bigger problem!
Touche!
I thought it was a nice touch that they give directions on how to stop network services for someone who gets root. Most people who root linux boxes have trouble with those advanced administrative functions
So, someone makes a tcp/ip patch that applies a random shift to the timestamp which could be created for each session. No two sessions would have the same time stamp - but all packets in a single session would. Then you have to analyze multiple sessions to try to find your random number seed. This would vary for stronger random number generators.
" Due to high traffic, etc etc and so forth"
A very professional 404. Much better than the standard one which causes noobs to question if "the internet is down"
For a new user this is doing the same action 3 times (ie draging and droping a file/folder)
I see. Unpredictable because someone else would not predict it, not unpredictable by behaving differently between repetitions. OK, in that you actually have a good example... my mistake.
drag n drop a file between 2 folders on the same disk: it moves the file, do the same between 2 disks: it copys the file, do the same to the desktop: it links the file. This is unpredictable in the extreem.
?!?!? DO the above three times, same results? How is that an example of unpredictability?
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What about active stealth? Isn't there a European plane that already does this?
Yes, they are called the "French" and those planes are rarely seen in a combat zone.
I hope this doesn't mean it will be based entirely on the user interface of vi.
Why not? I for one, find a blank page with a cursor to be very inVIting.
It is just a rule of business that if you don't listen to your customers they will leave you.
What they are failing to state is that they knew that. They did not take into account the fact that the "open source model" got them to the point that they could adopt their "business model". Their business model said that just because some pimple faced kid helped them be able resume operation after a PCIx pc went into suspend mode, doesn't make that kid important. After all, he downloaded a free product. So, they were willing to dismiss all these "customers" and then found their "innovation base" was lost. IMHO, if you use a free product and contribute to that products growth and stability you are a damned good customer. But still, corporations pay thousands a year for entitlements....they must be more important.
Right. At least with the war in Iraq/Afghanistan I got a t-shirt.....Wait a minute, all I got from those was terrible fucking images also.
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That is very negative. Remember your superior attitude at the end, when the last thing you hear is: "Your' planet has been scheduled for demolition to make way for a galactic..." etc....
No thanks. I don't donate to people who claim to own data.
Definitely not, Data has shown time and again that his 'quest' for humanity as much as makes him human. Data wants to be free
I don't know what detecting gravity in space will tell us that we don't know.
Detecting gravitational waves is one of the easiest ways to detect cloked startships. "Einstein @ home" is a clever cover for "the US Department of Homeland Security: Romulan Invasion Alert System"
I would like detailed instructions on how to construct a stream of random numbers with behaviors that correlate to outside events as they describe, so that I can repeat their experiments myself and see if I can reproduce the same effect.
If you read (as in internalized and put meaning to) the article.
A) the machines were not "built with behaviors that correlate" it was a noticed phenomena of the device.
B) Many scientists have made the boxes and are getting similar results. Thus the phenomenon is readily reproduced.
C) the scientists are hard at work to produce other hypotheses or at least disprove the current one (pretty much the definition of the scientific method)
Nostradamus did nothing involoving random numbers and his predictions were far easier to apply to events than these.
They've got enough cash in the bank to run the business for decades if they never made another cent ...
... anything Bill and Steve et al... decided to do. But they would not make software if it did not pay.
And they have enough sense not to. Businesses (even very wealthy ones) do business to make money. If Microsoft were to stop making money it would cease to be (as we currently know it). That money would not be used to sustain a failing business model, instead it would remind the world that Microsoft is in a position of true business agility. They could sell all their software business and reinvest and reposition themselves as a very powerful manufacturer of goods, law firm
Warp speeds are created by sucessive warp shells like those nesting dolls
That is true. I bow to your knowledge my pointy eared friend.