There's a great book about trusting intuition called Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. In a nutshell, it goes over reasons why your first impression is often the most honest one, no matter how we later try to justify it with rational thought later. Some fun topics are covered.
Pedantic summary of the book: We're taught from an early age to "look before we leap," to think about things before making a decision, to carefully weight all options based on logic and reasoning. But it seems that the opposite is true: our unconcious, gut reaction is often right, and our concious minds are correct less frequently.
Really good open-source games do exist. Take the Star Control series, for example. Gamespot calls Star Control 2 one of the best games of all time, and lo and behold, it's available as open source as The Ur-Quan Masters.
While we're here and on-topic, have a look at Star Control: Timewarp. Also open source and in the Star Control universe, it's got some cool new ships and innovative features.
Several components of C# are integrated right into the operating system so naturally it's going to run faster on a windows machine
You may be right... how about running these tests on Windows 98 then? Presumably, the OS won't be tampered with to run CLR. Instead the application will use DLLs only, so there's no native OS advantages.
Actually, you can compare non-Windows applications with Windows applications. The benchmarks were for the number of seconds to get a task done, and "seconds" are compatible across architectures.
Do each test in it's best case setting and compare the seconds to complete the test.
Have you tried Star Control: Timewarp yet?
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At the risk of shameless promotion, check out Star Control: Timewarp, downloads are here. It runs on Windows and Linux, and can support up to 8 people at a time in hot-seat multiplayer (on the same computer with keyboard and joysticks). You can also play with two computers on the internet or LAN. There's a lot of cool ships and game modes, similar to the fun and excitement of melee fights from Star Control 1, 2 and 3.
This game is a lot of fun, it's open source, it's Linux friendly, and it's Star Control, baby! Check it out!
I'd have to say that getting the results you actually want is still a skill, one that most people don't quite have right. It usually takes 3 or 4 searches to get a listing that's actually useful. The problem is that there's no semantics involved on Google's end, so it doesn't know that you're looking for step-by-step instructions.
Incidently, try: +how +to fix leaky faucet but not: "how to fix leaky faucet"
Sure, you can get around it: read what the document says.:P Although that can't be used as evidence in court, someone with a photographic memory could do some real damage.
dumb question: what if the machine you want protected actually makes use of RPC or RMI or whatever, locally or otherwise? Blocking the port won't do the job, since you need it open.
Bottom line, these security updates should be so simple to keep track of and install that literally "the secretary can be the network admin", which I believe was a catchphrase coming from Microsoft for a time.
Effectively, this is somewhat Microsoft's fault for these machine not being patched. Do people have to die for someone will realize that this is criminally negligant behaviour? Yes, the auto-update feature should have worked, but it did not.
What about a dedicated maintenance server, which can access the internet specifically to get the latest patches, and can update machines over the intranet? It could download patterns which indicate unusual virus-like activity (such as spikes in port 144 traffic), and monitor traffic for such patterns all day long.
The problem I have with the recording industry as a whole is that there's no synergy between owning the same music on different media. So if you bought the vinyl, and the 8-track, and the casette, you're still not entitled to any kind of discount on the CD. Even though the artist technically has already made money off your appreciation of their music, and producing the physical CDs costs very little, you'd still have to cough up money to get the CD.
The other beef I have is current music is crap. And the latest cookie-cutter band's CD will cost signifigantly more than an import worth listening to, or an album that's been out for more than a year or two. Not to mention that Wallmart etc don't seem to carry local or indie band's work. The only method the RIAA seems to understand is folks impulse-buying someting they play on the radio. Someone should tell them I haven't needed or wanted to listen to the radio except to listen to jazz or classical (which doesn't really fit into their purchasing model) for quite some time.
Let me get this straight: the author of the article says he installed software that blocks communication with RIAA servers, then claims that the site couldn't be reached.
About Zion being rebuilt many times without evidence: boy there sure are a lot of tunnels underground, and the machines did of course have to tunnel their way through to zion. The architect mentioned that zion had been destroyed multiple times, and each time this had been done more efficiently. Thus many tunnels would have been created.
If you watch carefully, as the sentinels are flying around, they are flying through a large empty cylindrical cavern with the same crossing walkways as zion had. If that's not the ruins of a previous zion, I dunno what is.
Er, the movie doesn't specifically state that the sentinels are not attacking zion itself when they fly through the "ruins" of another zion. But it also doesn't explicitly state that zion is under attack, something I'm sure they would have mentioned.
Anyhow, yes I think zion has been destroyed and rebuilt 5 times before.. unless of course the "real" world is also an illusion.
Oh one more thing about the reviews: Neo is not a Christ-like figure. He's a Buddha-like figure. The whole point is that Neo should come to understand "why" things happen, that he uses the meta-knowledge from past matrices to reach enlightenment. The children that make offerings to him dress awfully similar to Buddhist monks, although that made things a little to obvious to me.
About 12 people reproducing into 250,000 people so quickly: yes this is possible. if each woman produced as many children as could be done healthily, say 10, you could do it in 4 new generations:
7 women * 10 children = 70 new ppl.
70 * 0.5 (50% girls) * 10 children = 350 new ppl.
350 *0.5 *10 = +1750 ppl.
8750 *0.5*10 = +43750 ppl.
218750 *0.5*10 = +218750 ppl.
no no no, a priest can't bless anything. Drop a bottle of water on a co-aligned altar, pray to your god, if you're in good favour with him/her/it/they, and the water will become blessed. *Then* dip your precious electronic equipment in the blessed water.
The current buzzword is similar to communist witch hunts in the 1950s. Which is why calling something anti-american, as open-source has been called, has a certain emotional effect on the older crowd. Use the word "communist" around a baby boomer, and watch their reaction. It's autonomous: they're trained to be paranoid of that concept.
These mass-media propoganda techniques linger. Hopefully, when the US moves on from this someday, using the phrase "____ supports terrorists" might seem as outlandish and incorrect as it does to some open-minded people today.
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If it helps, Floyd is a pretty fun guy! Smart, capable, super nice, what women wouldn't want in on that!
I knew Floyd in high school, we ran the computer club and wrote programming contests together (and did quite well IIRC).
There's a great book about trusting intuition called Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. In a nutshell, it goes over reasons why your first impression is often the most honest one, no matter how we later try to justify it with rational thought later. Some fun topics are covered.
Pedantic summary of the book: We're taught from an early age to "look before we leap," to think about things before making a decision, to carefully weight all options based on logic and reasoning. But it seems that the opposite is true: our unconcious, gut reaction is often right, and our concious minds are correct less frequently.
Sometime's there's ammo inside the boxes. :)
(ba dum-dum tish!)
Absolutely, in fact, TW-Light not only runs on Windows and Linux, it's also Open-Source. It's a lot of fun, you should check it out! :-)
TW-Light's Homepage: http://tw-light.berlios.de/
(Disclaimer: I'm a developer on the TW-Light project)
Actually, at least three of the entries have Linux versions available: the two you mentioned, and TW-Light.
In fact, TW-Light is also Open-Source, and it runs on Windows, Linux, and historically, Mac and BeOS. It's a lot of fun, you should check it out! :-)
TW-Light's Homepage: http://tw-light.berlios.de/
(Disclaimer: I'm a developer on the TW-Light project)
Really good open-source games do exist. Take the Star Control series, for example. Gamespot calls Star Control 2 one of the best games of all time, and lo and behold, it's available as open source as The Ur-Quan Masters.
While we're here and on-topic, have a look at Star Control: Timewarp. Also open source and in the Star Control universe, it's got some cool new ships and innovative features.
See www.spamgourmet.com for an easier, entirely free, and more reliable system to solve this problem.
Actually, you can compare non-Windows applications with Windows applications. The benchmarks were for the number of seconds to get a task done, and "seconds" are compatible across architectures.
Do each test in it's best case setting and compare the seconds to complete the test.
At the risk of shameless promotion, check out Star Control: Timewarp, downloads are here. It runs on Windows and Linux, and can support up to 8 people at a time in hot-seat multiplayer (on the same computer with keyboard and joysticks). You can also play with two computers on the internet or LAN. There's a lot of cool ships and game modes, similar to the fun and excitement of melee fights from Star Control 1, 2 and 3.
This game is a lot of fun, it's open source, it's Linux friendly, and it's Star Control, baby! Check it out!
I'd have to say that getting the results you actually want is still a skill, one that most people don't quite have right. It usually takes 3 or 4 searches to get a listing that's actually useful. The problem is that there's no semantics involved on Google's end, so it doesn't know that you're looking for step-by-step instructions.
Incidently, try:
+how +to fix leaky faucet
but not:
"how to fix leaky faucet"
You really mean: uuuuuugggghhhhhhhhhhhh!
As in, the castle of.
Sure, you can get around it: read what the document says. :P Although that can't be used as evidence in court, someone with a photographic memory could do some real damage.
dumb question: what if the machine you want protected actually makes use of RPC or RMI or whatever, locally or otherwise? Blocking the port won't do the job, since you need it open.
Bottom line, these security updates should be so simple to keep track of and install that literally "the secretary can be the network admin", which I believe was a catchphrase coming from Microsoft for a time.
Effectively, this is somewhat Microsoft's fault for these machine not being patched. Do people have to die for someone will realize that this is criminally negligant behaviour? Yes, the auto-update feature should have worked, but it did not.
What about a dedicated maintenance server, which can access the internet specifically to get the latest patches, and can update machines over the intranet? It could download patterns which indicate unusual virus-like activity (such as spikes in port 144 traffic), and monitor traffic for such patterns all day long.
(I think I'm the first person to use this phrase, which is of course released for any free use, as long as it retains its distain for the Evil Empire)
(rant about RIAA etc on)
The problem I have with the recording industry as a whole is that there's no synergy between owning the same music on different media. So if you bought the vinyl, and the 8-track, and the casette, you're still not entitled to any kind of discount on the CD. Even though the artist technically has already made money off your appreciation of their music, and producing the physical CDs costs very little, you'd still have to cough up money to get the CD.
The other beef I have is current music is crap. And the latest cookie-cutter band's CD will cost signifigantly more than an import worth listening to, or an album that's been out for more than a year or two. Not to mention that Wallmart etc don't seem to carry local or indie band's work. The only method the RIAA seems to understand is folks impulse-buying someting they play on the radio. Someone should tell them I haven't needed or wanted to listen to the radio except to listen to jazz or classical (which doesn't really fit into their purchasing model) for quite some time.
(rant off)
Let me get this straight: the author of the article says he installed software that blocks communication with RIAA servers, then claims that the site couldn't be reached.
Umm...
Make sure the handles are going at the same speed as the track, though.
"This is the longest jump ever! Weeee!"
Doesn't doubleclick.net already do this? :)
About Zion being rebuilt many times without evidence: boy there sure are a lot of tunnels underground, and the machines did of course have to tunnel their way through to zion. The architect mentioned that zion had been destroyed multiple times, and each time this had been done more efficiently. Thus many tunnels would have been created.
If you watch carefully, as the sentinels are flying around, they are flying through a large empty cylindrical cavern with the same crossing walkways as zion had. If that's not the ruins of a previous zion, I dunno what is.
Er, the movie doesn't specifically state that the sentinels are not attacking zion itself when they fly through the "ruins" of another zion. But it also doesn't explicitly state that zion is under attack, something I'm sure they would have mentioned.
Anyhow, yes I think zion has been destroyed and rebuilt 5 times before.. unless of course the "real" world is also an illusion.
Oh one more thing about the reviews: Neo is not a Christ-like figure. He's a Buddha-like figure. The whole point is that Neo should come to understand "why" things happen, that he uses the meta-knowledge from past matrices to reach enlightenment. The children that make offerings to him dress awfully similar to Buddhist monks, although that made things a little to obvious to me.
About 12 people reproducing into 250,000 people so quickly: yes this is possible. if each woman produced as many children as could be done healthily, say 10, you could do it in 4 new generations:
7 women * 10 children = 70 new ppl.
70 * 0.5 (50% girls) * 10 children = 350 new ppl.
350 *0.5 *10 = +1750 ppl.
8750 *0.5*10 = +43750 ppl.
218750 *0.5*10 = +218750 ppl.
12 + 70 + 350 + 1750 + 43750 + 218750
= 273,420 ppl.
Figure the early generation eventually dies off, and some other die off as well, you could get close to 250k easily in 100 years.
Assuming the first 12 are near child-bearing age when they start, and the bulk of the ppl get the reproducing done around age 25, 25*4 = 100 years.
The gratuitous orgy scene was put in there on purpose. They're reproducing as if their survival of the species depended on it.
no no no, a priest can't bless anything. Drop a bottle of water on a co-aligned altar, pray to your god, if you're in good favour with him/her/it/they, and the water will become blessed. *Then* dip your precious electronic equipment in the blessed water.
Jeez, some people are just strange...
A friend has a quote:
Bugs are not an option, it comes bundled with the software.
My favorite quote:
No one ever got fired for blaming Microsoft.
The current buzzword is similar to communist witch hunts in the 1950s. Which is why calling something anti-american, as open-source has been called, has a certain emotional effect on the older crowd. Use the word "communist" around a baby boomer, and watch their reaction. It's autonomous: they're trained to be paranoid of that concept.
These mass-media propoganda techniques linger. Hopefully, when the US moves on from this someday, using the phrase "____ supports terrorists" might seem as outlandish and incorrect as it does to some open-minded people today.
Expect a high sausage-to-bun ratio.