Depends on whether you count all the hydrogen atoms and other random bits that actually fill up space. You wonder why they were comparing Mach 5 to Warp 5? There's a significant speed difference, but that's offset by the relative density of the surrounding matter.
Don't be a troll unless you have your information straight.
What about random world deformations? That was another big plus of Diablo/DiabloII. I'm sure that with a lot of the new gaming technologies coming up, it would be easier for companies to implement things like a truly dynamic world, say, have castles fall, earthquakes open caves or release hordes of monsters, things like that. An MMORPG is much more a model of real life than a FPS is, no matter how involved. Why not make it subject to the same randomness that defines life? I mean, living, though difficult and sometimes not fair, still remains popular.
Ummm... the new 49gx+ is probably closest to the TI-89 from what the article said. HP calculators use RPN though, so if you couldn't figure out how to RTFA and derive an answer for yourself, maybe you should stick with the TI's.
PS, I pity your math department. And your english department. Should be "we math majors"
No. It's not an unstable version. The major version number is the first one, the minor version number is the second one, and then you have incremental releases. The stability classification of the release depends on the minor version number, and being as 2 is even, you are indeed using a stable release of the Gimp.
"As a heavy but non-technical computer user it has been extremely frustrating for me to encounter 404 errors. Naturally, they happen at the busiest times,"
He's claiming to be non-technical, but he knows what a 404 error is and what it means... something smells fishy if'n you ask me. Seems more like a ploy to drum up "grassroots" support, or at least less media opposition.
I hope they destroy IP in general. It's a pox on innovation. We wouldn't have had the internal combustion engine without the steam engine, both using expanding gases as a means of energy generation... someone must have stolen some intellectual property!
How about the whole "We don't believe that SGI has taken all of the steps necessary to cure all of the breaches, and in fact in our letter to them, we state 'SGI's breaches of these agreements cannot be cured.'" bit? They asked them to fix something, they did, and now they say it's not enough, and it never could have been enough. That's pretty much the definition of doing something under bad faith.
Seriously, the whole US patent system is f*cked up. Cases like this only serve to highlight the shortcomings of being able to patent so-called "intellectual property". They didn't even have intellectual property style patents until the last 20 years or so. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
The stuff you download is crap. The networks are full of bad rips, bad quality, misnamed files, porn and such being disguised as something else. It's a lot to wade through, yet people do it. Why? Because that hassle is a better value to them than the $20 it takes to buy a CD, 90% of which they won't listen to ($20 for a song... yeah, like I'm going to pay that).
What the industry needs to do is just get a sane pricing plan. Consumers as a whole don't care about the politics, about who gets what portion of the buck. They care about their access to the materials, and it's value to them. I'd start buying CD's again if they were in the $7-$10(US) range. Something that I think they're worth, and I think would be a fair price point.
All the industry needs to do is study basic economics, realize that they just got out-supplied by a cheaper and inferior product. They need to lower their price because they no longer have a "monopoly", to something where the increased quality of their product is valued by the consumer.
Yes, but the point is that there are legal hurdles to go over to do this. At least there used to be. You had to get search warrants and the like, and go through an actual judge. Now things like the DMCA exist and give private entities subpoena and search/seizure powers, as well as things like the Patriot (gotta love naming things to get them through... patriot my ass. Should've been called the 1984 act...) lowering the barrier for law enforcement to do these things. It's a new development for the most part. These abilities exist, and always have, but the ability to use them indiscriminately is the new bit.
I think the security concern is quite valid. As another poster here mentioned, there are plenty of crashed ticket machines around here... do you really want something that has cash in it as reliable as they are? I've seen them dead quite often, or able to do things on the desktop with them. That's great security... get all the info on the machine with a camera, go home and figure out how to break it.
Even then, I'm sure that people will be as understanding about not being able to get to their money when they want to because the machine has crashed as they are about when they can't get into their computer because Windows has thrown up all over itself. People for the most part hate Windows because it's unreliable and buggy, but ask me (they think rhetorically) "What else is there?"
I've never used ATM's yet though, and this just cements the decision in my mind.
You know, I seem to remember there was this old trick of setting the shell=sol.exe to annoy the piss out of someone... wouldn't it seem logical that they'd use something like that, instead of running exploder? Just use the Windows kernel/GUI stuff and not even start the program that causes most of the crashes (that I've seen)?
Mostly because "hacker" has a negative connotation purely from the media nowdays. Hackers used to be looked on with respect, because they were the people who did interesting things with the technology they had access to.
See this for more information.
Specially crafted email sent. I just made a false account to send from (the address of someone who spams me regularly, actually. It's amazing how easy it is to pose as someone else on email;)). I'm gonna forget to check my logs on this, but if someone emails me at pkopp at mines edu I'll do it, see if someone has gotten my one pixel image;)
Ehhh. Boredom and late nights make you do interesting things.
The problem with your comment is that that is the business model that both Sony and Nintendo follow. It's a successful model. It's just that you can't buy loyalty from gamers. They've had what, Halo? That's the only game I can think of for the XBox that wasn't multiplatform that I even remotely wanted to play.
MS is trying to make the console more like it's PC's, with DirectX and all kinds of computer hardware. So it's virtually a PC. I don't want to play games on something I can do that much with. I will play games on a gaming machine, and do work on my PC. MS has failed to realize that this is what a lot of people want.
Since this is going nowhere in many directions all at once, I figure that now would be a safe jumping off point...
What usually works for me, especially with things I don't like, is to schedule breaks more than scheduling work. You can't work a whole day on something that you don't enjoy, not easily. Force yourself to work for an hour, for a half hour, then get up and walk around. Another thing I've done is just unplug the computer from the internet. Or do my homework without using the computer, if you can do that. Shut down your IM programs, IRC, email. Check them in an hour. Part of it's willpower, but another part of it is giving yourself a situation where you can succeed. Know thyself;)
How can it be a failure if it's a job that no one thought they'd need to do? Why should you politicize if you're a Linux hacker? You're more interested in making things work. Hell, even Linus has been thrust unwillingly into the limelight, and he's the one who started Linux. It's the system's job to protect EVERYONE, not just the large corporations who can buy publicity and scare tactics. At least I think that's the kind of principle that this country was founded on. I agree that life will be a living hell, but not because of our failure, but a failure of the system and the corporations to have some common sense and decency.
If you don't know what you're doing, why are you in the consulting field? You shouldn't recommend anything unless you're sure of it, but not knowing anything and claiming to be a consultant is why people get upset at technicial people.
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Depends on whether you count all the hydrogen atoms and other random bits that actually fill up space. You wonder why they were comparing Mach 5 to Warp 5? There's a significant speed difference, but that's offset by the relative density of the surrounding matter.
Don't be a troll unless you have your information straight.
What about random world deformations? That was another big plus of Diablo/DiabloII. I'm sure that with a lot of the new gaming technologies coming up, it would be easier for companies to implement things like a truly dynamic world, say, have castles fall, earthquakes open caves or release hordes of monsters, things like that. An MMORPG is much more a model of real life than a FPS is, no matter how involved. Why not make it subject to the same randomness that defines life? I mean, living, though difficult and sometimes not fair, still remains popular.
Ummm... the new 49gx+ is probably closest to the TI-89 from what the article said. HP calculators use RPN though, so if you couldn't figure out how to RTFA and derive an answer for yourself, maybe you should stick with the TI's.
PS, I pity your math department. And your english department. Should be "we math majors"
No. It's not an unstable version. The major version number is the first one, the minor version number is the second one, and then you have incremental releases. The stability classification of the release depends on the minor version number, and being as 2 is even, you are indeed using a stable release of the Gimp.
"As a heavy but non-technical computer user it has been extremely frustrating for me to encounter 404 errors. Naturally, they happen at the busiest times," He's claiming to be non-technical, but he knows what a 404 error is and what it means... something smells fishy if'n you ask me. Seems more like a ploy to drum up "grassroots" support, or at least less media opposition.
But MacOSX IS *nix...
I hope they destroy IP in general. It's a pox on innovation. We wouldn't have had the internal combustion engine without the steam engine, both using expanding gases as a means of energy generation... someone must have stolen some intellectual property!
How about the whole "We don't believe that SGI has taken all of the steps necessary to cure all of the breaches, and in fact in our letter to them, we state 'SGI's breaches of these agreements cannot be cured.'" bit? They asked them to fix something, they did, and now they say it's not enough, and it never could have been enough. That's pretty much the definition of doing something under bad faith. Seriously, the whole US patent system is f*cked up. Cases like this only serve to highlight the shortcomings of being able to patent so-called "intellectual property". They didn't even have intellectual property style patents until the last 20 years or so. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
The stuff you download is crap. The networks are full of bad rips, bad quality, misnamed files, porn and such being disguised as something else. It's a lot to wade through, yet people do it. Why? Because that hassle is a better value to them than the $20 it takes to buy a CD, 90% of which they won't listen to ($20 for a song... yeah, like I'm going to pay that). What the industry needs to do is just get a sane pricing plan. Consumers as a whole don't care about the politics, about who gets what portion of the buck. They care about their access to the materials, and it's value to them. I'd start buying CD's again if they were in the $7-$10(US) range. Something that I think they're worth, and I think would be a fair price point. All the industry needs to do is study basic economics, realize that they just got out-supplied by a cheaper and inferior product. They need to lower their price because they no longer have a "monopoly", to something where the increased quality of their product is valued by the consumer.
The key word is "dialogue" Someone has to be reasonable before you can reason with them.
Yes, but the point is that there are legal hurdles to go over to do this. At least there used to be. You had to get search warrants and the like, and go through an actual judge. Now things like the DMCA exist and give private entities subpoena and search/seizure powers, as well as things like the Patriot (gotta love naming things to get them through... patriot my ass. Should've been called the 1984 act...) lowering the barrier for law enforcement to do these things. It's a new development for the most part. These abilities exist, and always have, but the ability to use them indiscriminately is the new bit.
I think the security concern is quite valid. As another poster here mentioned, there are plenty of crashed ticket machines around here... do you really want something that has cash in it as reliable as they are? I've seen them dead quite often, or able to do things on the desktop with them. That's great security... get all the info on the machine with a camera, go home and figure out how to break it. Even then, I'm sure that people will be as understanding about not being able to get to their money when they want to because the machine has crashed as they are about when they can't get into their computer because Windows has thrown up all over itself. People for the most part hate Windows because it's unreliable and buggy, but ask me (they think rhetorically) "What else is there?" I've never used ATM's yet though, and this just cements the decision in my mind.
You know, I seem to remember there was this old trick of setting the shell=sol.exe to annoy the piss out of someone... wouldn't it seem logical that they'd use something like that, instead of running exploder? Just use the Windows kernel/GUI stuff and not even start the program that causes most of the crashes (that I've seen)?
Mostly because "hacker" has a negative connotation purely from the media nowdays. Hackers used to be looked on with respect, because they were the people who did interesting things with the technology they had access to. See this for more information.
I'm just wondering when our country became one in which the onus of proof resides with the accused, not the accuser.
Specially crafted email sent. I just made a false account to send from (the address of someone who spams me regularly, actually. It's amazing how easy it is to pose as someone else on email ;)). I'm gonna forget to check my logs on this, but if someone emails me at pkopp at mines edu I'll do it, see if someone has gotten my one pixel image ;)
Ehhh. Boredom and late nights make you do interesting things.
The problem with your comment is that that is the business model that both Sony and Nintendo follow. It's a successful model. It's just that you can't buy loyalty from gamers. They've had what, Halo? That's the only game I can think of for the XBox that wasn't multiplatform that I even remotely wanted to play. MS is trying to make the console more like it's PC's, with DirectX and all kinds of computer hardware. So it's virtually a PC. I don't want to play games on something I can do that much with. I will play games on a gaming machine, and do work on my PC. MS has failed to realize that this is what a lot of people want. Since this is going nowhere in many directions all at once, I figure that now would be a safe jumping off point...
What usually works for me, especially with things I don't like, is to schedule breaks more than scheduling work. You can't work a whole day on something that you don't enjoy, not easily. Force yourself to work for an hour, for a half hour, then get up and walk around. ;)
Another thing I've done is just unplug the computer from the internet. Or do my homework without using the computer, if you can do that. Shut down your IM programs, IRC, email. Check them in an hour. Part of it's willpower, but another part of it is giving yourself a situation where you can succeed.
Know thyself
How can it be a failure if it's a job that no one thought they'd need to do? Why should you politicize if you're a Linux hacker? You're more interested in making things work. Hell, even Linus has been thrust unwillingly into the limelight, and he's the one who started Linux. It's the system's job to protect EVERYONE, not just the large corporations who can buy publicity and scare tactics. At least I think that's the kind of principle that this country was founded on. I agree that life will be a living hell, but not because of our failure, but a failure of the system and the corporations to have some common sense and decency.
I thought that it was code in the kernel that was in question. After all, the rest (according to RMS) is the GNU OS.
If you don't know what you're doing, why are you in the consulting field? You shouldn't recommend anything unless you're sure of it, but not knowing anything and claiming to be a consultant is why people get upset at technicial people.