Great, so they can't get them locally... what'll they do, hack a ton of Windows machines that have fast processors that are almost totally unused by the thumbless muppets that own them (done) and then upload some programs to do the processing remotely? Welcome to the WWW and the Internet, senator.
I know it's familiar for many people, and they don't want to change their habits, and I have but one response to that:
"good enough" IE is anything but, and I don't trust it with my personal info. I'm a computer professional, and if you don't listen to me, well, tough luck. I'll laugh when you get ripped off.
stepping the V from thousands of volts to something that won't kill little Johnny when he sticks his scissors in the socket.
You do realize that it's current, not voltage that kills? Higher voltage merely makes it easier to deliver the current. Scissors in the socket are very low resistance, so the voltage doesn't matter. There's a reason many outlets have GFCI protectors on them.
About stockholders expecting Disney to be like every other company out there and trying to make a bundle on patents?
This isn't Disney's core business, and it helps everyone by not encumbering the technology unreasonably. I don't like much of what Disney does, but I applaud them for this.
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Why the hell does everything have to be modelled from some sort of real-world counterpart anymore? People seem to think this is some sort of panacea... I frankly think it's the furthest thing from it. I mean, how do you resolve symlinks in the "real" world? Or these fancy new filesystems like WinFS that categorize things in multiple ways simultaneously? Oh, wait, you CAN'T. People get attached to this desktop 'metaphor' and don't seem to realize that it's not easy to work with. It's easy to catch onto and figure out, but it's a royal pain in the arse to work with
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On the other hand, the screenshots do look pretty. Maybe they'll distract everyone else while the rest of us get some work done...
Re:Fingers crossed....
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Hell, if this crap passes, I say we sue Apple, C|Net and all these 'enablers', so that when we lose the suits, the law will be more or less invalidated by the courts.
Yeah, well, at least the infection would go away on it's own after a while. Computers keep caughing forever until they're explicitly stopped.
It'd be nice to have some real behavior recognition software developed
Porn is not the only source of spam. If you have a domain name for an appreciable period of time, it gets out there. So then you get dictionary attacks, all kinds of random things. Sometimes you get customers that are compromised, and they have you in their address books. All kinds of things can happen. We get a ton of connections, probably on the range of this company's, though we don't see much at the end. We have some very good mail filtering rules, a few semi-draconian actions like checking to see if we can connect back to an email server if it's in a DSL/Cable IP block, but I've seen the connection logs. In short, you know nothing about which you speak, sir.
This sounds like a troll, but you sir, are a moron.
It's because slackware CAN USE rpm (it actually comes with rpm in the install... didn't know that, did ya?). It's because slackware knowledge lets you know what's going on behind the scenes on all other distro's. It gives you the experience to be able to figure things out. I've walked in and adminned Redhat boxes from never working on anything other than slackware, and it was a piece of cake. Not that RPM is anything but another executable, same with.deb, apt-get and all those other fancy things that you all seem to hold so dear, in some kind of esteem not regarded to other programs. It's a philosophy thing. Some people are simply users, others know what the hell is REALLY going on. You sir, are a user.
Good points for the most part, though I think you have a rather narrow view of "true hackers". You can thank ESR for that. Some of us enjoy teamwork, because we realize that the manipulation of other people is a wonderful game in and of itself;)
P.S. - If you mod this up, it means I win
Speed of light: 186,000 miles per second
Speed of railgun: 6km/second, or 3.73 miles per second
3.37/186,000 = 0.00002
Which, as anyone can see, is nowhere near 1/4th, or.25 It's over 10,000 times less, as a matter of fact.
Please, use some math and common sense next time. Better yet, do more than just skim when reading... actually understand what you're looking at.
I'd think that this is the only market these batteries would have though. The emergency recharge market. Even in our current disposable society, it's still cheaper and easier to use LiIon batteries... $100 every few years for a new battery? $150? At only 2.5 times the charge a pop, and as much as I use my laptop, these better come in packs of 200 for a dollar. Otherwise, they're a money drain, not to mention a time drain... I don't want to shut down, change the battery, and then resume computing. I want to just plug it in and keep using it.
All that being said, I can see the use in the military, and for emergency power, when I need to use my lappy and there just aren't any outlets around, or outlets that are compatible with my power supply, these would be a godsend.
Re:Is the Copy/Paste bug fixed?
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I've noticed it in some older releases, too. Normally switching to another window and doing some typing or something would clear it up for me, IIRC. It hasn't happened for a while. It actually seemed to just lose focusing abilities, not just copy and paste.
I thought that too, but I went to Merriam Webster's online dictionary and apparently verge is just the edge of something, doesn't matter whether it's fore or aft. It does sound funny using it like that in the article though.
Please no more remarks about 'gaddam hippies'. Hippies are smarter than you. This is website that respects intelligence and creativity: Hippies are respected around here.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Sorry. 'hippies' are NOT smarter than I am. Just because you think you care about things more than I do does not mean that you're smarter than I am. If anything, hippies are idealists, who don't understand the intricacies of a real system, governmental, fiscal, legal or otherwise.
But if you notice, IE6 and the Netscape/Mozilla lines are the only ones climbing. Mozilla must be doing something right to have an increasing market share.
I think part of your problem is you're expecting everything to be "like I can in Windows".
I remember when we got our first Windows computer. You wouldn't believe how many times we had to get it repaired because someone did funny things with it. Eventually, we learned what not to do with it, and it worked better. It's the same thing with Linux. People are just so opposed to change, that they can't see that switching to Linux will take the same kind of "sacrifice" that initially using Windows took. Windows is NOT intuitive, nor is it easier to configure. Just look at the new XP control panel... the damn thing makes absolutely no sense. I wanted to set up a remote desktop sharing on a computer... you know where the checkbox is for that? Nope, not under networking options at all. Because that would make sense. It's under the System options, a little checkbox hidden on some obscure tab. I had to Google for almost an hour to find it. I just glanced through the ssh config and figured out why I couldn't start X apps remotely, fixed it, and was going in less than 15 minutes. Windows isn't easier, it's just what you're used to.
X is a different beast than the Windows GUI. You can't change resolutions on the fly and have your desktop resize to it like in Windows. That, and it's damn hard to get reliable specs for video cards, so that they can be told to behave like they're supposed to. But I haven't been able to run Windows apps remotely without having to use a remote desktop of some sort. Tradeoffs. I know people hate being told to edit the config file, but it's really not that difficult... you ought to browse through your/etc/X11/XF86Config file, and see what's in there.
As for the Windows file sharing, yeah, it should be easy, BUT (big but), MS won't release specs on how SMB works. So it's all reverse engineered, trying to work with the brain damage and intentional protocal incompatibilities that are entailed.
I know that the 2004 LeMans edition Corvette has an HUD like this, you can adjust the brightness, and it'll display many different instrument readings more or less hanging on the windshield (as we call it here in the US;) ) Pretty spiffy. I'd like to pop a small LCD on my dash and see what kind of resolutions I can get, and how it'd reflect... the only thing that you need to realize is that it would take either a pretty complex projection system or a really big flat display to do a full overlay.
How about they do release the modifications (which they have), and keep their software secret, as they're allowed to? This is PRECISELY what the GPL is for. It helps companies create good products while building off the common knowledge, without diluting it, and probably helping it.
Or perhaps they just use the heat differential to make the fluid flow, you know, when something is warmer, it's less dense, so it goes up, and the cooler liquid sinks... sets up a dynamic system, the hotter the processor gets, the more fluid flows, etc. It's better than trying to passively radiate the heat through solid metal.
So block all ports unless the user specifically requests them to be unblocked, and takes responsibility for the security of the system. Most users won't even notice the difference, and those of us that do will have to jump through a small hoop in order to keep them from getting tons of spam. I'd be willing to do that.
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Great, so they can't get them locally... what'll they do, hack a ton of Windows machines that have fast processors that are almost totally unused by the thumbless muppets that own them (done) and then upload some programs to do the processing remotely? Welcome to the WWW and the Internet, senator.
I think your math is wrong, sir... because if the new 30" displays are $300 each, sign me up for 5 right now.
Linux support may take a bit of work to get going for multiple monitors, but X applications handle multiple displays much better than Windows apps.
This is why I contribute to open source. Get over yourself. Apple tries to make money too, and I've encountered many bugs in their products.
I know it's familiar for many people, and they don't want to change their habits, and I have but one response to that:
"good enough" IE is anything but, and I don't trust it with my personal info. I'm a computer professional, and if you don't listen to me, well, tough luck. I'll laugh when you get ripped off.
You do realize that it's current, not voltage that kills? Higher voltage merely makes it easier to deliver the current. Scissors in the socket are very low resistance, so the voltage doesn't matter. There's a reason many outlets have GFCI protectors on them.
About stockholders expecting Disney to be like every other company out there and trying to make a bundle on patents?
This isn't Disney's core business, and it helps everyone by not encumbering the technology unreasonably. I don't like much of what Disney does, but I applaud them for this.
[rant]
Why the hell does everything have to be modelled from some sort of real-world counterpart anymore? People seem to think this is some sort of panacea... I frankly think it's the furthest thing from it. I mean, how do you resolve symlinks in the "real" world? Or these fancy new filesystems like WinFS that categorize things in multiple ways simultaneously? Oh, wait, you CAN'T. People get attached to this desktop 'metaphor' and don't seem to realize that it's not easy to work with. It's easy to catch onto and figure out, but it's a royal pain in the arse to work with
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On the other hand, the screenshots do look pretty. Maybe they'll distract everyone else while the rest of us get some work done...
Hell, if this crap passes, I say we sue Apple, C|Net and all these 'enablers', so that when we lose the suits, the law will be more or less invalidated by the courts.
Yeah, well, at least the infection would go away on it's own after a while. Computers keep caughing forever until they're explicitly stopped.
It'd be nice to have some real behavior recognition software developed
Porn is not the only source of spam. If you have a domain name for an appreciable period of time, it gets out there. So then you get dictionary attacks, all kinds of random things. Sometimes you get customers that are compromised, and they have you in their address books. All kinds of things can happen. We get a ton of connections, probably on the range of this company's, though we don't see much at the end. We have some very good mail filtering rules, a few semi-draconian actions like checking to see if we can connect back to an email server if it's in a DSL/Cable IP block, but I've seen the connection logs. In short, you know nothing about which you speak, sir.
Why not just type "google what you're searching for" in the address bar? That takes me to a google search...
This sounds like a troll, but you sir, are a moron. .deb, apt-get and all those other fancy things that you all seem to hold so dear, in some kind of esteem not regarded to other programs. It's a philosophy thing. Some people are simply users, others know what the hell is REALLY going on. You sir, are a user.
It's because slackware CAN USE rpm (it actually comes with rpm in the install... didn't know that, did ya?). It's because slackware knowledge lets you know what's going on behind the scenes on all other distro's. It gives you the experience to be able to figure things out. I've walked in and adminned Redhat boxes from never working on anything other than slackware, and it was a piece of cake. Not that RPM is anything but another executable, same with
Good points for the most part, though I think you have a rather narrow view of "true hackers". You can thank ESR for that. Some of us enjoy teamwork, because we realize that the manipulation of other people is a wonderful game in and of itself ;)
P.S. - If you mod this up, it means I win
Speed of light: 186,000 miles per second .25 It's over 10,000 times less, as a matter of fact.
Speed of railgun: 6km/second, or 3.73 miles per second
3.37/186,000 = 0.00002
Which, as anyone can see, is nowhere near 1/4th, or
Please, use some math and common sense next time. Better yet, do more than just skim when reading... actually understand what you're looking at.
I'd think that this is the only market these batteries would have though. The emergency recharge market. Even in our current disposable society, it's still cheaper and easier to use LiIon batteries... $100 every few years for a new battery? $150? At only 2.5 times the charge a pop, and as much as I use my laptop, these better come in packs of 200 for a dollar. Otherwise, they're a money drain, not to mention a time drain... I don't want to shut down, change the battery, and then resume computing. I want to just plug it in and keep using it.
All that being said, I can see the use in the military, and for emergency power, when I need to use my lappy and there just aren't any outlets around, or outlets that are compatible with my power supply, these would be a godsend.
I've noticed it in some older releases, too. Normally switching to another window and doing some typing or something would clear it up for me, IIRC. It hasn't happened for a while. It actually seemed to just lose focusing abilities, not just copy and paste.
I thought that too, but I went to Merriam Webster's online dictionary and apparently verge is just the edge of something, doesn't matter whether it's fore or aft. It does sound funny using it like that in the article though.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Sorry. 'hippies' are NOT smarter than I am. Just because you think you care about things more than I do does not mean that you're smarter than I am. If anything, hippies are idealists, who don't understand the intricacies of a real system, governmental, fiscal, legal or otherwise.
But if you notice, IE6 and the Netscape/Mozilla lines are the only ones climbing. Mozilla must be doing something right to have an increasing market share.
I think part of your problem is you're expecting everything to be "like I can in Windows". /etc/X11/XF86Config file, and see what's in there.
I remember when we got our first Windows computer. You wouldn't believe how many times we had to get it repaired because someone did funny things with it. Eventually, we learned what not to do with it, and it worked better. It's the same thing with Linux. People are just so opposed to change, that they can't see that switching to Linux will take the same kind of "sacrifice" that initially using Windows took. Windows is NOT intuitive, nor is it easier to configure. Just look at the new XP control panel... the damn thing makes absolutely no sense. I wanted to set up a remote desktop sharing on a computer... you know where the checkbox is for that? Nope, not under networking options at all. Because that would make sense. It's under the System options, a little checkbox hidden on some obscure tab. I had to Google for almost an hour to find it. I just glanced through the ssh config and figured out why I couldn't start X apps remotely, fixed it, and was going in less than 15 minutes. Windows isn't easier, it's just what you're used to.
X is a different beast than the Windows GUI. You can't change resolutions on the fly and have your desktop resize to it like in Windows. That, and it's damn hard to get reliable specs for video cards, so that they can be told to behave like they're supposed to. But I haven't been able to run Windows apps remotely without having to use a remote desktop of some sort. Tradeoffs. I know people hate being told to edit the config file, but it's really not that difficult... you ought to browse through your
As for the Windows file sharing, yeah, it should be easy, BUT (big but), MS won't release specs on how SMB works. So it's all reverse engineered, trying to work with the brain damage and intentional protocal incompatibilities that are entailed.
I know that the 2004 LeMans edition Corvette has an HUD like this, you can adjust the brightness, and it'll display many different instrument readings more or less hanging on the windshield (as we call it here in the US ;) ) Pretty spiffy. I'd like to pop a small LCD on my dash and see what kind of resolutions I can get, and how it'd reflect... the only thing that you need to realize is that it would take either a pretty complex projection system or a really big flat display to do a full overlay.
How about they do release the modifications (which they have), and keep their software secret, as they're allowed to? This is PRECISELY what the GPL is for. It helps companies create good products while building off the common knowledge, without diluting it, and probably helping it.
Or perhaps they just use the heat differential to make the fluid flow, you know, when something is warmer, it's less dense, so it goes up, and the cooler liquid sinks... sets up a dynamic system, the hotter the processor gets, the more fluid flows, etc. It's better than trying to passively radiate the heat through solid metal.
So block all ports unless the user specifically requests them to be unblocked, and takes responsibility for the security of the system. Most users won't even notice the difference, and those of us that do will have to jump through a small hoop in order to keep them from getting tons of spam. I'd be willing to do that.