The correct solution is to leave it alone. Correct me if I'm wrong, but 911 is NOT a universal emergency number, especially worldwide. There are a lot of things that shouldn't be possible, but they are anyways. Something funny comes to mind, where a modem could be DOSed by a virus that tells the OS that ALL numbers are emergency.
Funny is all relative. I'm sure many people throughout history have found the wonton murder of people quite halarious. It's quite funny if you're able to disconnect yourself from the actual act and convince yourself that no real people are being hurt - something too easily done, sadly, by many people.
I agree completly. It's always bothered me how people take so much perverse pleasure from causing others pain. Perhaps, by writing a virus like this, he feels he can be more accepted by the group of people he would call his 'friends'. Perhaps it's revenge on society for what he feels are it's wrongs. The great problem with stupid and mean people like this, is that they do not think into the future at all. Probably because they don't have a future, but that's my opinion.
I suppose, but what I was referring to there was things like windows taking 3 seconds to swish and swirl their way out - that's just too much, in my opinion. To each his own, i suppose.
Exactly. There's something to be said for more Visual Feedback as opposed to just eye candy/bloat. Visual Feedback lets you know something has happened and actually lets you work more intuitively with your computer. Eye candy is there for nothing more than the purpose of looking cool - and usually takes away from productivity. There is sometimes a fine line between the two, however.
Of course, another problem is frame rate or rendering speed. Many effects of this nature are sure to be graphics card/processer intensive, and many linux graphics drivers are not up to par, like ATI. I have an ATI card, and I wish I had an NVidia again for using Linux. I know that, no matter how cool something looks, or how much better it may be, if it slows down my computing because I can't render it Quite fast enough, it gets turned off.
Of course not. Even though they are both unicies, Linux and *BSD/Darwin/OSX are very different things. More similar than XP and Linux, but still different enough that this deserves mentioning.
Of course, XP and OSX are NOT free.
Precisely. However, I do remember computer face recognition software taking off not that long ago. It's entirely in the realm of possibility for a computer algorithm to understand things like movies, it's just going to be perpetually 15 years down the road, if you catch my meaning.
Exactly. However, this means a huge load of work for SOMEBODY or the entire community to watch every video and categorise it. Also, you'll need to make sure people read over submissions - it would be very easy (in a wikipedia sense) to simply put bogus information in.
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The correct solution is to leave it alone. Correct me if I'm wrong, but 911 is NOT a universal emergency number, especially worldwide. There are a lot of things that shouldn't be possible, but they are anyways. Something funny comes to mind, where a modem could be DOSed by a virus that tells the OS that ALL numbers are emergency.
So is Pol Pot.
Funny is all relative. I'm sure many people throughout history have found the wonton murder of people quite halarious. It's quite funny if you're able to disconnect yourself from the actual act and convince yourself that no real people are being hurt - something too easily done, sadly, by many people.
If people just like causing destruction, why don't they go do something constructive, like, go into the military. Or demolitions.
I agree completly. It's always bothered me how people take so much perverse pleasure from causing others pain. Perhaps, by writing a virus like this, he feels he can be more accepted by the group of people he would call his 'friends'. Perhaps it's revenge on society for what he feels are it's wrongs. The great problem with stupid and mean people like this, is that they do not think into the future at all. Probably because they don't have a future, but that's my opinion.
Doesn't matter wether he actually caused a death or not. Firing a gun into a crowd is still a crime, wether or not it hits anyone, right?
"But think of how much safer our children will be. Think of the children!" Quoth the conservative mother, nevermore.
That, and I hear Starcraft Ghost is coming out sometime this century. You know, before that game that kept getting delayed, Half-Life 2. Oh wait...
Right, 'college roommate', right. Suuure, and one of my friends also has a drinking problem. Johnny... table.
Do you ever get the feeling a lot of jobs are created for the sole reason of being filled by prepicked people?
or This Damn, that red BURNS my eyes.
I suppose, but what I was referring to there was things like windows taking 3 seconds to swish and swirl their way out - that's just too much, in my opinion. To each his own, i suppose.
Exactly. There's something to be said for more Visual Feedback as opposed to just eye candy/bloat. Visual Feedback lets you know something has happened and actually lets you work more intuitively with your computer. Eye candy is there for nothing more than the purpose of looking cool - and usually takes away from productivity. There is sometimes a fine line between the two, however. Of course, another problem is frame rate or rendering speed. Many effects of this nature are sure to be graphics card/processer intensive, and many linux graphics drivers are not up to par, like ATI. I have an ATI card, and I wish I had an NVidia again for using Linux. I know that, no matter how cool something looks, or how much better it may be, if it slows down my computing because I can't render it Quite fast enough, it gets turned off.
And a million geeks just creamed their pants thinking of that.
Of course not. Even though they are both unicies, Linux and *BSD/Darwin/OSX are very different things. More similar than XP and Linux, but still different enough that this deserves mentioning. Of course, XP and OSX are NOT free.
You would think. However, remember - you need to get a profit-motivated corporation to spend money on something with no forseeable returns.
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And judging by your first post, there's no bandwidth now either. ;)
Precisely. However, I do remember computer face recognition software taking off not that long ago. It's entirely in the realm of possibility for a computer algorithm to understand things like movies, it's just going to be perpetually 15 years down the road, if you catch my meaning.
I bet back when you were Soviet Russia, the bandwidth consumed YOU.
Exactly. However, this means a huge load of work for SOMEBODY or the entire community to watch every video and categorise it. Also, you'll need to make sure people read over submissions - it would be very easy (in a wikipedia sense) to simply put bogus information in.
Good point, I forgot for a moment we were talking about a corporation.
To answer your question, yes. I'm suprised that you're suprised.
Heh, yes. It also says they were 'featured' in the Washington Post not long ago. Seems they're going to get 'featured' again!
Correct. However, there's no justice in this world. You're an individual - you hold FAR less power and influence than even a small corporation.