I'd be interested to know just what you were doing when it crashed. My system tends to be stable unless I'm farting around with low-level stuff or drivers..
My XP box is pretty stable, but I have had it blue-screen (although it is a nice shade of blue in XP), a few times, doing fairly normal things..
I update regularly, and would say that XP seems more stable that any version of windows I've used. But I don't really use it that often, only the odd time when I must use windows and wine does not suffice.
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The most amazing one I've seen was linked to by Nat Friedman in his weblog.. it's by sony, and called QRIO meaning curiosity.
This thing looks like a small child and seems pretty inteligent.. My wife said she wan't to take one home and love it to bits (she's a bit broody at present), me.. I'd love to teach it to fetch my beer..
I think that people here seem to forget that for many people Science is their religion, if we understand that religion proper is a set of beliefs not the flawed structures that often encompass it (I am a christian, but would dislike being thought of as religious - Christ Died One For All - that's all there is too it for me. Sadly people are flawed and put these human systems in place, which aren't right a lot of the time)... Wow I even managed to get off-topic in my own post...
So my point was, that a lot of scientists seems to disregard the "rules" of science anyway - like not dismissing a thoery without evidence, and not accepting a theory as face (i.e. evolution - taught as fact in schools).
You claim the bible is inconsistent with itself, yet provide no reliable evidence to back this up.
I believe that many things which science would claim as proving the bible wrong are by no means difinitive.
Walk with me a while:
God creates the heavens and the earth, and the garden of eden, with loads of nice big trees. Adam cuts down one of these trees with his scientific mind, to count the rings and see how old the tree is.. he gets 150 rings, so the tree is 150 years old.. only God made it the day before. God could make a tree fullgrown on the day he made it, and it would be "150 years old" but he still made it that day..
adam for example was probably a 30 year old male when he was made, not an embrio, so if you could meet him, you'd assume the world had to be around a long time before him for him to be his age.. but he wasn't.
God isn't limited by our physical boundaries, but he does work within them, if you see what I mean, the tree with no rings would not work.. a new born baby for adam would not work..
In other words, there is no reason I see why God couldn't make the world millions of years old on day one.. otherwise it might not have worked anyway..
So you see, there's nothing that science will show me that will remove my faith in God, because I know he's real.. I do know he, being God, knows a little bit more about how things work than we do.. so I'll trust him first.
LFS really does teach an awful lot about the structure and composition of a Linux box.. it's not just compiler output. (Gentoo I give you is very like a regular distro with slow install time and loads of compiler output)...
LFS is a real education.. maybe that you wouldn't want to build 100 systems that way, but once and you've learned a whole load about how a Linux system works.
Ok, so you don't learn about the construction of Unix based systems, files, sockets, signals etc.. but still more that a modern distro.
The thing I like about LFS, from a geek point of view, is knowing what's been installed and where (and why even), something you can lose in Gentoo, becuase it pulls stuff in, which you may not understand why.. the benefit is that maybe they know better.. but why not use a binary distro and trust they know better.
The idea that a user based compromise is worse because your data is more important and an o/s which can be re-installed is a valid one.
However.. The problem with the exploit having more universal access is not necessarily that your data is wacked, but that your nice compromised o/s is now a zombie machine spreading spam and worms across the internet so your granny gets busted by the feds.
The damage to your data is pretty bad for you... the damage of all your data, and everyone in your address book's data, plus everyone in their address book's data.... that's bad for everyone.
Not to mention the fact (oh, I am mentioning it now) that in a true multi-user environment, you'd be really pissed if your data was iced because of someone else's poor security, like opening unsolicited attachments. I wouldn't care if someone else's data got wrecked, but I'd care if they knacked mine.. selfish of a sort, but that's the good of the many..
Although people are not complaining about the wind running out with farms, they do complain that they have a bad ecological effect.
The farms supposedly cause problems with natural habitat and birds flying into them and stuff. So all the environmentalists say too many farms cause damage.
You look for a more green solution, and the green's bash it.. Guess power co.s will just keep burning coal until they shut up and realise a small improvement is better than nothing.
I think that tempting adam & eve to their destruction (and all mankind from then), requiring the death of Jesus to fix, kind of makes Naught an understatement.
I considered this too.. the article does address this however.
Small low-power units are useful for say a soldier's helmet, or in a PDA.
I'd also say, that the same thing happened with 3D cards, and they keep making them faster/more features, but you could play half-life with software 3D on a 2.x Ghz PC looking pretty much the same as it did on a Voodoo card back in the day.
The question is rather, would there be much future speed advances in hardware, or once it's built, would later software recognition do as well - a little like DVD hardware cards. I have an encore card, but software decoding beats it now, and my DVD decoding doesn't need to be any faster.
I think the thing they're looking for is building some cheap (as) chips for embedded systems, like mobile phones and PDA's.
the important thing is the adoption of Jabber. We (FLOSS peeps) want nice open protocols that don't change every five minutes and require a new (updated) client.
The problem is that you need people to have Jabber accounts, this iChat stuff could mean a better up-take. I use gaim because I need to chat to MSN peeps, and convincing others to use a better (open) protocol is hard because all their friends use it.
What would be really cool would be a multi-protocol client which allowed a Jabber user to be seen in MSN, and to communicate inter-protocol.
Roll on when people use the best product rather than the default installed one... Until then, we'll have to be happy with some of the default stuff supporting decent standards.
you can set to open links by default in new windows or tabs (i think). but as you say, tabs are hidden, except for the "Open Bookmarks in Tabs".. which is one of the cool features, enabling a whole collection of bookmarks to be loaded in one.
There's a flaw in your argument. If they'd heard that Gore had won, and still that all their lovely republican votes, then they'd be rushing out there to try and change it.. not simply giving up because the TV said they'd lost.
How could they, knowing they still had their vote and time to place it, believe that the voting was over?
It's the same as an initial poll coming in earlier in the day saying the guy I don't want to win has the lead, or is a shoe in, I'd be straight out with my vote against them..
The one possible argument you could make is that the votes were swung Gore's way, so people who would have voted Gore went apathetic and figured they needn't bother voting.
This isn't really *that* clever. The Amiga used to have several CPU's independant, much like the GPU, for all sorts, sound, blitting etc.. So, all they're doing is using the GPU for this. Better to build sound-cards capable of doing this.. Afterall, that was why we have GPU's to do graphics in the first place... something designed for a specific task, to take away from the generic CPU, build an APU for sound, a DPU for disks, a NPU for networking ad nausium...
Too true, but the most laughable bit about the security of 95/98 was the ability to "Cancel" in the login prompt for users and have direct access to the PC. Sometime things like networking wasn't accessable, but seriously, what does that matter when you could create an account and then login as that user for net access.
Got to give it to microsoft, their GUI's provide access to even the unusual activities like "hacking into a machine";)
The idea of an army of clones is interesting. Explains why all stormtroopers wear masks (so you don't have to see the same face everyplace).
Surly if they all wear the same mask you do see the same face everyplace?
I agree that SW2 was pretty decent.. there was some poor love scene dialog and stuff, but it's needed if Anakin & Padame are gunna make our good buddy luke..
But "God" as in the Christian God, was still around before Christ (AD 0 let's say), as Yahweh, God of Israel, the one true god, the GREAT I AM.
This was several thousand years BC.. So Yes, He was around before the Olympics..
Having said that, he was around before everything, as one of his names is "The Alpha and The Omega" - the begining and the end.. ie. there throughout, before and after ALL time.
Yep, surly Clive sinclair can sue nintendo if he patented the speccy, which you hooked up to your tv, and probably had games which did most of this.. not online or voice communications obviously, but score etc.. although because it used tapes i think some voice sounds could be done (not via net/null modem) though..
Console is just a name for the same old things.. little black box you hook up to the tv and play games on, etc...
Ah.. good old rubber keys:') brings a tear to the eyes.
Surely it's all a bit crap if you use the name in the first place. I mean if they're using an alias, then what stops them travelling under different names each time.
If we're talking about ID, say a passport, which would need replacing for each identity, then maybe that's less feasble to change names each time. But then why not use that (i.e. passport number/id identifier) as the identifier?
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I'd be interested to know just what you were doing when it crashed. My system tends to be stable unless I'm farting around with low-level stuff or drivers..
My XP box is pretty stable, but I have had it blue-screen (although it is a nice shade of blue in XP), a few times, doing fairly normal things..
I update regularly, and would say that XP seems more stable that any version of windows I've used. But I don't really use it that often, only the odd time when I must use windows and wine does not suffice.
The most amazing one I've seen was linked to by Nat Friedman in his weblog.. it's by sony, and called QRIO meaning curiosity.
This thing looks like a small child and seems pretty inteligent.. My wife said she wan't to take one home and love it to bits (she's a bit broody at present), me.. I'd love to teach it to fetch my beer..
So my point was, that a lot of scientists seems to disregard the "rules" of science anyway - like not dismissing a thoery without evidence, and not accepting a theory as face (i.e. evolution - taught as fact in schools).
You claim the bible is inconsistent with itself, yet provide no reliable evidence to back this up.
I believe that many things which science would claim as proving the bible wrong are by no means difinitive.
Walk with me a while:
So you see, there's nothing that science will show me that will remove my faith in God, because I know he's real.. I do know he, being God, knows a little bit more about how things work than we do.. so I'll trust him first.
LFS really does teach an awful lot about the structure and composition of a Linux box.. it's not just compiler output. (Gentoo I give you is very like a regular distro with slow install time and loads of compiler output)...
LFS is a real education.. maybe that you wouldn't want to build 100 systems that way, but once and you've learned a whole load about how a Linux system works.
Ok, so you don't learn about the construction of Unix based systems, files, sockets, signals etc.. but still more that a modern distro.
The thing I like about LFS, from a geek point of view, is knowing what's been installed and where (and why even), something you can lose in Gentoo, becuase it pulls stuff in, which you may not understand why.. the benefit is that maybe they know better.. but why not use a binary distro and trust they know better.
The idea that a user based compromise is worse because your data is more important and an o/s which can be re-installed is a valid one.
However.. The problem with the exploit having more universal access is not necessarily that your data is wacked, but that your nice compromised o/s is now a zombie machine spreading spam and worms across the internet so your granny gets busted by the feds.
The damage to your data is pretty bad for you... the damage of all your data, and everyone in your address book's data, plus everyone in their address book's data.... that's bad for everyone.
Not to mention the fact (oh, I am mentioning it now) that in a true multi-user environment, you'd be really pissed if your data was iced because of someone else's poor security, like opening unsolicited attachments. I wouldn't care if someone else's data got wrecked, but I'd care if they knacked mine.. selfish of a sort, but that's the good of the many..
Most of the money will go on the Windows licenses, so Microsoft will get the money back soon enough.
;).
This sort of circular stuff could be a good way to launder money
Although people are not complaining about the wind running out with farms, they do complain that they have a bad ecological effect.
The farms supposedly cause problems with natural habitat and birds flying into them and stuff. So all the environmentalists say too many farms cause damage.
You look for a more green solution, and the green's bash it.. Guess power co.s will just keep burning coal until they shut up and realise a small improvement is better than nothing.
I think that tempting adam & eve to their destruction (and all mankind from then), requiring the death of Jesus to fix, kind of makes Naught an understatement.
I considered this too.. the article does address this however.
Small low-power units are useful for say a soldier's helmet, or in a PDA.
I'd also say, that the same thing happened with 3D cards, and they keep making them faster/more features, but you could play half-life with software 3D on a 2.x Ghz PC looking pretty much the same as it did on a Voodoo card back in the day.
The question is rather, would there be much future speed advances in hardware, or once it's built, would later software recognition do as well - a little like DVD hardware cards. I have an encore card, but software decoding beats it now, and my DVD decoding doesn't need to be any faster.
I think the thing they're looking for is building some cheap (as) chips for embedded systems, like mobile phones and PDA's.
the important thing is the adoption of Jabber. We (FLOSS peeps) want nice open protocols that don't change every five minutes and require a new (updated) client.
The problem is that you need people to have Jabber accounts, this iChat stuff could mean a better up-take. I use gaim because I need to chat to MSN peeps, and convincing others to use a better (open) protocol is hard because all their friends use it.
What would be really cool would be a multi-protocol client which allowed a Jabber user to be seen in MSN, and to communicate inter-protocol.
Roll on when people use the best product rather than the default installed one... Until then, we'll have to be happy with some of the default stuff supporting decent standards.
you can set to open links by default in new windows or tabs (i think). but as you say, tabs are hidden, except for the "Open Bookmarks in Tabs".. which is one of the cool features, enabling a whole collection of bookmarks to be loaded in one.
seriously can we not get shot of these GNAA asshole posts?
About a minute out by my reconing.
The company prove how in a growing world this doesn't cut the mustard. E-mail is needed to comunicate world-wide, and they show it:
Why not check out their sites method of contacts, either email or callback both of which actually require you to have an email address.
There's a flaw in your argument. If they'd heard that Gore had won, and still that all their lovely republican votes, then they'd be rushing out there to try and change it.. not simply giving up because the TV said they'd lost.
How could they, knowing they still had their vote and time to place it, believe that the voting was over?
It's the same as an initial poll coming in earlier in the day saying the guy I don't want to win has the lead, or is a shoe in, I'd be straight out with my vote against them..
The one possible argument you could make is that the votes were swung Gore's way, so people who would have voted Gore went apathetic and figured they needn't bother voting.
As I've said before, America are the only "Land Of The Free" - they're the only country not under the military dictatorship of America..
This isn't really *that* clever. The Amiga used to have several CPU's independant, much like the GPU, for all sorts, sound, blitting etc.. So, all they're doing is using the GPU for this. Better to build sound-cards capable of doing this.. Afterall, that was why we have GPU's to do graphics in the first place... something designed for a specific task, to take away from the generic CPU, build an APU for sound, a DPU for disks, a NPU for networking ad nausium...
Too true, but the most laughable bit about the security of 95/98 was the ability to "Cancel" in the login prompt for users and have direct access to the PC. Sometime things like networking wasn't accessable, but seriously, what does that matter when you could create an account and then login as that user for net access.
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Got to give it to microsoft, their GUI's provide access to even the unusual activities like "hacking into a machine"
I agree that SW2 was pretty decent.. there was some poor love scene dialog and stuff, but it's needed if Anakin & Padame are gunna make our good buddy luke..
But "God" as in the Christian God, was still around before Christ (AD 0 let's say), as Yahweh, God of Israel, the one true god, the GREAT I AM.
This was several thousand years BC.. So Yes, He was around before the Olympics..
Having said that, he was around before everything, as one of his names is "The Alpha and The Omega" - the begining and the end.. ie. there throughout, before and after ALL time.
Are you american?... only you seem to lack a sense of humour.
Yep, surly Clive sinclair can sue nintendo if he patented the speccy, which you hooked up to your tv, and probably had games which did most of this.. not online or voice communications obviously, but score etc.. although because it used tapes i think some voice sounds could be done (not via net/null modem) though..
:') brings a tear to the eyes.
Console is just a name for the same old things.. little black box you hook up to the tv and play games on, etc...
Ah.. good old rubber keys
Surely it's all a bit crap if you use the name in the first place. I mean if they're using an alias, then what stops them travelling under different names each time.
If we're talking about ID, say a passport, which would need replacing for each identity, then maybe that's less feasble to change names each time. But then why not use that (i.e. passport number/id identifier) as the identifier?
D'oh