The scary thing is, I am only 18 years old. Of course, the school district I grew up in was having fundraisers to replace their globes because the current ones showed Alaska and Hawaii as territories. The really scary thing is that I'm not kidding. I used to fix the atari and apple games when the tape drives (not the big ones, the cassette drives) screwed up. As long as the game didn't have a weird "PEEK/POKE" instruction, I was fine.
286? I still have my vintage 8086 lying around. I especially like it's dos 2.11 disk, with a music-playing virtual keyboard written in Basic, using Ascii art, and of course it's "Revolutionary turbo-mode: Switch between 2, 5, and TURBO 8 MHZ with a simple hotkey!":)
Those were the days. Boot up 2400ad in 2mhz mode, then let it go wild in 8.
Perhaps HP feels that, since they are now a very large corporation (they were a large corporation before, so I guess they are now a HUGE corporation), they can afford to engage in practices designed to hurt their competetors bottom line, even if it hurts them in doing so. Bonus points for making yourself look good in the process.
> It's pretty well known video games cause violence among kids.. I think there should be a restriction on selling games to kids until they have enough common sense to know wrong from right.
Ok, this is another one of those "obvious" things like year round school helping test scores. The data simply isn't there. (And, in year round schools, the data says it hurtsexcept in districts with a large number of ESL students). Anyhow, I (being a gamer) have been around large numbers of "kids", and from experience that this is _not_ the case.
What happens all to often is that people confuse _cause_ and _effect_. Just because violent people play violent video games does NOT mean that violent video games. People who have natural tendancies towards violence will naturally be drawn to violent, agressive games. However, in my experience, the _vast_ number of people who play violent video games are not violent themselves. I play some of the most gruesome games out there, yet I wrote a 6 page report instead of dissecting a frog. The sight of real blood pains me. I will risk being bitten by a farrel cat (and have been in the past), just to help it out. Clearly, people are paying attention to the exceptions, not the rule.
I'm male. Lots of males like sports. Does that mean I like sports? If someone likes sports, does it mean they're male? Judging by the WNBA's salary (they get paid so little, they must like the game), that is clearly not the case.
Personally, I don't like it when things intended to shock, gross out, or disturb people are posted. Why not some _useful_ sites such as GrSecurity, useful for hardening linux kernels (the ACL system is nice). Incidentally, they just released a new version.
How about APC, a nice open-source free PHP cache. The CVS version is more and more stable each day.
Slashdot is "News For Nerds", not "News for the mentally disturbed". Let's try to keep it to useful/funny topics that are relevant to nerds, geeks, and the like.
Perhaps someone should start SlashWTF.org for news like this.
This is largely due to the fact that Windows is the incumbant, the one in power. When windows 2000 lands a big customer, it is more of the same. When Linux gets trusted in a mission-critical situation, it's news.
Personally, I look forward to the day when Windows 2000 getting a customer is news, and Linux isn't.
I do not react with bitterness at all, in fact I applaud them. I tried to remain as objective. Microsoft applications do have many strong points; however, few of them matter as much to a bank as they do to an enduser.
In systems such as those used by most modern banks, they are interested in one thing. Money. Since accounting doesn't fundamentally change very much, the most important things are:
1) Reliability. The system should be rock stable. Upgrades are not a concern very often (mainly for security), and should involve as little downtime as possible. In this case, time quite literally is money. Well, I had a slackware 3 box that ran 3 years. Few people will argue windows is more stable. In addition, the ease with *nix services can be replaced, upgraded, restarted, and restored is unparalleled in the Windows world.
2) Interoperability. Unlike most places where it is important to be able to support a broad range of different applications (a Windows strongpoint, due to the size of the Windows market), most bank applications are very specialized, in-house or contract work. As such, they simply get applications for their OS of choice.
3) Security. Unlike many places that want a working, secure system right out of the box, banks and other financial institutions are willing to invest the time (and money) into securing any box. As such, linux does not have as big a impact on the overall security here. However, it should be noted that it is _far_ easier to remove unnecessary and/or unusued services, and as such it is easier and less time-consuming to do, and more likely to be done in a secure manner, if the person securing the network is lazy (highly unlikely).
In a system such as this, Windows loses many of it's benefits such as a well-known GUI, and ease-of-use for the enduser. Because all operators _must_ be trained in the operation of the bank's systems, this is not such a big factor. Also, the convenience of Windows Update is also irrelevant, as the operators should not have the priveleges to install updates anyway.
Cost:
Because banks tend not to update their software unless absolutly necessary, the Linux cost advantage is not so great here; however, it should not be overlooked that Linux tends to be easier to remotly administer and repair, allowing for less use of expensive on-site service. Furthermore, the open-source nature of Linux allows banks to customize their OS to their Software, instead of the other way around.
(to the tune of "Hark, the Herald Angles Sing!")
Hark! The herold packets Ring!
Let's debug the stupid thing
Packet Loss and Latency
Assault your being acoustically.
Calmly, softly as the Styx
Lets you know the network's fixed.
Net collisions are no more,
Duplicate posts are such a bore.
Net collisions are no more,
That's all there is, there ain't no more.
> (Unfortunately it is free-beer, as the source is not available. Hmmmm, I guess rms should target God as the largest producer of closed-source software in the Universe?)
If the source _were_ opened, what would you use to compile it? I'd also really like to look at the INSTALL file:)
If such a thing is possible, one way optical communication could easily be sufficient, with radio being used for receiving. Simply have a parallel processor designed to generate one 512-bit RSA key pair every second. Send the new public key along with the sent data. For the next however long, received data is decrypted with that key.
512-bit RSA is hard enough to crack, spending that long for 1 second of data is implausable.
> Screw that...I can do all that with a labtop!
I have a labtop chemistry set. Perhaps you mean "laptop".
Seriously, tbough, you can smoke with your laptop? While driving?
Your laptop has a built in cellular phone?
While the majority of internet users may not care, this article clear left out the people who become all-conumed by broadband (such as myself). Once exposed to a high-speed internet connection, being connected to the internet consumes their life. Rather than the normal Wake-Work-Eat schedule, life becomes more of a Download-Work-Download-Eat-Download cycle. The more you have, the more you want. The more you want, the more you get. The more you get, the more you want, a vivcious cycle that only ends when you can't afford an internet connection, and resort to writing XHTML-CSS on the walls of your cardboard box home.
Things like that are crude, and uncalled for.
Besides, everyone here has probably already seen it.
And, to remain on-topic (so don't mod me), the drive is too expensive for my tastes:)
There are two things I can think of now I hate more than MicroSoft (Apple, and Java). I would take a MicroSoft-Enabled MonopoPhone over a Java-Powered CRAPhone. I prefer real machines over "virtual" ones any day.
"There's just no way the average guy is going to geek all day on the phone, for one thing."
You've obviously never been to korea:). As far as I can tell, oretty much nearly everyone there has a cellphone, and they spend all day walking around it. Geeks and non-geeks alike.
In the united states, we have not reached nearly that level of saturation, but it is definatly on the rise. Just wait a few years.
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> SWEET! Now according to the "expert" here [connectedhomemag.com] I'll have enough HD space on my Mac for a whole 50 minutes of video!
...Except at the speed of the interface, (hey, if I screw up my math, it's because I'm tired, and making this up as I go.
500GB * 1000MB = 5,000,000 MB
5,000,000 MB @ 50 MB/S = 100,000 seconds
100,000 seconds = 1666+(2/3) hours
1666+(2/3) hours = 69.444 days.
So, it would take you 70 days to watch those 50 minutes. I hope you have a really long attention span.
The scary thing is, I am only 18 years old. Of course, the school district I grew up in was having fundraisers to replace their globes because the current ones showed Alaska and Hawaii as territories. The really scary thing is that I'm not kidding. I used to fix the atari and apple games when the tape drives (not the big ones, the cassette drives) screwed up. As long as the game didn't have a weird "PEEK/POKE" instruction, I was fine.
286? I still have my vintage 8086 lying around. I especially like it's dos 2.11 disk, with a music-playing virtual keyboard written in Basic, using Ascii art, and of course it's "Revolutionary turbo-mode: Switch between 2, 5, and TURBO 8 MHZ with a simple hotkey!" :)
Those were the days. Boot up 2400ad in 2mhz mode, then let it go wild in 8.
Perhaps HP feels that, since they are now a very large corporation (they were a large corporation before, so I guess they are now a HUGE corporation), they can afford to engage in practices designed to hurt their competetors bottom line, even if it hurts them in doing so. Bonus points for making yourself look good in the process.
> It's pretty well known video games cause violence among kids.. I think there should be a restriction on selling games to kids until they have enough common sense to know wrong from right. Ok, this is another one of those "obvious" things like year round school helping test scores. The data simply isn't there. (And, in year round schools, the data says it hurts except in districts with a large number of ESL students). Anyhow, I (being a gamer) have been around large numbers of "kids", and from experience that this is _not_ the case.
What happens all to often is that people confuse _cause_ and _effect_. Just because violent people play violent video games does NOT mean that violent video games. People who have natural tendancies towards violence will naturally be drawn to violent, agressive games. However, in my experience, the _vast_ number of people who play violent video games are not violent themselves. I play some of the most gruesome games out there, yet I wrote a 6 page report instead of dissecting a frog. The sight of real blood pains me. I will risk being bitten by a farrel cat (and have been in the past), just to help it out. Clearly, people are paying attention to the exceptions, not the rule.
I'm male. Lots of males like sports. Does that mean I like sports? If someone likes sports, does it mean they're male? Judging by the WNBA's salary (they get paid so little, they must like the game), that is clearly not the case.
So rosanne developed her appearance as a Defense mechanism!
1) Get dual P4-3.06GHZ proc system w/ heat pumps.
2) Get radeon 9700
3) Get really large RAID-0 array.
4) Get linux
Personally, I don't like it when things intended to shock, gross out, or disturb people are posted. Why not some _useful_ sites such as GrSecurity, useful for hardening linux kernels (the ACL system is nice). Incidentally, they just released a new version.
How about APC, a nice open-source free PHP cache. The CVS version is more and more stable each day.
Slashdot is "News For Nerds", not "News for the mentally disturbed". Let's try to keep it to useful/funny topics that are relevant to nerds, geeks, and the like.
Perhaps someone should start SlashWTF.org for news like this.
This is largely due to the fact that Windows is the incumbant, the one in power. When windows 2000 lands a big customer, it is more of the same. When Linux gets trusted in a mission-critical situation, it's news.
Personally, I look forward to the day when Windows 2000 getting a customer is news, and Linux isn't.
I do not react with bitterness at all, in fact I applaud them. I tried to remain as objective. Microsoft applications do have many strong points; however, few of them matter as much to a bank as they do to an enduser.
In systems such as those used by most modern banks, they are interested in one thing. Money. Since accounting doesn't fundamentally change very much, the most important things are:
1) Reliability. The system should be rock stable. Upgrades are not a concern very often (mainly for security), and should involve as little downtime as possible. In this case, time quite literally is money. Well, I had a slackware 3 box that ran 3 years. Few people will argue windows is more stable. In addition, the ease with *nix services can be replaced, upgraded, restarted, and restored is unparalleled in the Windows world.
2) Interoperability. Unlike most places where it is important to be able to support a broad range of different applications (a Windows strongpoint, due to the size of the Windows market), most bank applications are very specialized, in-house or contract work. As such, they simply get applications for their OS of choice. 3) Security. Unlike many places that want a working, secure system right out of the box, banks and other financial institutions are willing to invest the time (and money) into securing any box. As such, linux does not have as big a impact on the overall security here. However, it should be noted that it is _far_ easier to remove unnecessary and/or unusued services, and as such it is easier and less time-consuming to do, and more likely to be done in a secure manner, if the person securing the network is lazy (highly unlikely).
In a system such as this, Windows loses many of it's benefits such as a well-known GUI, and ease-of-use for the enduser. Because all operators _must_ be trained in the operation of the bank's systems, this is not such a big factor. Also, the convenience of Windows Update is also irrelevant, as the operators should not have the priveleges to install updates anyway.
Cost:
Because banks tend not to update their software unless absolutly necessary, the Linux cost advantage is not so great here; however, it should not be overlooked that Linux tends to be easier to remotly administer and repair, allowing for less use of expensive on-site service. Furthermore, the open-source nature of Linux allows banks to customize their OS to their Software, instead of the other way around.
First Post?
(to the tune of "Hark, the Herald Angles Sing!")
Hark! The herold packets Ring!
Let's debug the stupid thing
Packet Loss and Latency
Assault your being acoustically.
Calmly, softly as the Styx
Lets you know the network's fixed.
Net collisions are no more,
Duplicate posts are such a bore.
Net collisions are no more,
That's all there is, there ain't no more.
> (Unfortunately it is free-beer, as the source is not available. Hmmmm, I guess rms should target God as the largest producer of closed-source software in the Universe?)
:)
If the source _were_ opened, what would you use to compile it? I'd also really like to look at the INSTALL file
I personally like /dev/blanket, and /dev/pillow from ThinkGeek.
...for giving the mozilla authors (and myself) a good reason to add per-remote-site iframe, script, and object filtering.
Will this firefly glow green when squished?
If such a thing is possible, one way optical communication could easily be sufficient, with radio being used for receiving. Simply have a parallel processor designed to generate one 512-bit RSA key pair every second. Send the new public key along with the sent data. For the next however long, received data is decrypted with that key.
512-bit RSA is hard enough to crack, spending that long for 1 second of data is implausable.
> Screw that...I can do all that with a labtop!
I have a labtop chemistry set. Perhaps you mean "laptop".
Seriously, tbough, you can smoke with your laptop? While driving?
Your laptop has a built in cellular phone?
While the majority of internet users may not care, this article clear left out the people who become all-conumed by broadband (such as myself). Once exposed to a high-speed internet connection, being connected to the internet consumes their life. Rather than the normal Wake-Work-Eat schedule, life becomes more of a Download-Work-Download-Eat-Download cycle. The more you have, the more you want. The more you want, the more you get. The more you get, the more you want, a vivcious cycle that only ends when you can't afford an internet connection, and resort to writing XHTML-CSS on the walls of your cardboard box home.
Things like that are crude, and uncalled for. :)
Besides, everyone here has probably already seen it.
And, to remain on-topic (so don't mod me), the drive is too expensive for my tastes
Forget that, I want a CD/LP-RW)
How about an external 8-Track reader/8 inch floppy drive (with USB support)?
I don't know - the SideKick looks pretty good. Saw an ad for here it on SlashDot.
There are two things I can think of now I hate more than MicroSoft (Apple, and Java). I would take a MicroSoft-Enabled MonopoPhone over a Java-Powered CRAPhone. I prefer real machines over "virtual" ones any day.
"There's just no way the average guy is going to geek all day on the phone, for one thing."
:). As far as I can tell, oretty much nearly everyone there has a cellphone, and they spend all day walking around it. Geeks and non-geeks alike.
You've obviously never been to korea
In the united states, we have not reached nearly that level of saturation, but it is definatly on the rise. Just wait a few years.