Yes, and it's one of the few things that irritates me most about e.g. ISO. Look at the implications:
- no digital format (so no copying of example code, or even test vectors) - no way of knowing what is exactly in the standard beforehand (yes, there are excerpts, but they are not always that usefull) - difficult and expensive to obtain, so for the DIY people, like open source developers, it's a pain in the butt - it takes time to even get the standards, lovely if you need them asap - thank you for even more administration - noboy to convert them to a more easily viewable format
The list goes on and on. Most of the time the companies or institutions that set up the standard get an advantage by knowing what's going to happen in advance. Lets try to keep standards as easily available as possible, somebody might actually use them!
And since I can receive the BBC for free over in the Netherlands, I can enjoy the shows as well. Unfortunately for many people over here, the BBC did away with the 888 teletext services (subtitling for the blind). You have no idea how many people here used those services, not everybody understands all the dialects. And in a busy room even I have trouble understanding everything right.
To make the final point, the BBC does not just cater only for the UK. A lot of people in Europe and in the rest of the world rely upon it, if only because of the world service they offer. The Dutch are now debating to go to 2 channel television and do away with commercials as well. They get the money from both advertising and public licenses. Which breaks down to commercials every half an hour, on three channels (and uninterupted sporting events).
I've just counted the number of logo's on a Dell power supply; there are 20 logo's of testing organizatons for as many countries.
What exactly do these organizations do? Not one of them took a look at the power supply design and said something in the line of: "you probably shouldn't do it like that"?
Or is this one of those "lets switch components in the middle of production" stories?
Java does use quite a lot of memory, but so does.NET, and - pardon me - mozilla as well. Actually, I was looking for a Java browser just now, but the only hits I get are for HotJava, which is *completely* deprecated, and ICE, which is commercial.
I've seen an implementation of Mozilla in Java, but I could not get it to run. Still I hope that somebody will find the time to create an open source Java browser. The HTTP part is already there (Apache Jakarta project).
Currently I am busy with a USENET client in Java, after that I might switch to the web browser part. Let's create something that is safe, rather fast, ultra portable and looks like a native application (e.g. the SWT of IBM might do just that).
Java has quite a lot of security features including certificate support, classloaders etc. etc. so that would certainly not be the problem. For speed try the new 1.5 version of Java, its quite a starter, since a lot is cached in advance.
Whatever happened to optimalization? It was replaced by better, more sturdy protocols that are more dynamic and - sometimes - easier to understand.
You do have a point however, but not about the bandwidth. More importantly the network appliance now has to do HTTP and XML processing, something that takes a lot of memory (especially if implemented incorrectly).
I expect that most appliances won't have a problem with this, but it is something to think about. Especially for small, cheap devices. These can keep using SNMP for the time being, and wait for their turn.
A work allowing card? That would probably mean that you would have to apply for a job at NASA or the russian counterpart to work in the ISS. That would be a bit prohibitive...
Not only that, but an attacker would probably only find out after taking the laptop. And trust me, they normally won't bring them back after finding out. And you can always get the drive, DVD, battery and harddisk out after trashing the case.
Yup, and don't forget to rerun the thing after updating your kernel. That screwed up my installation, and the xorg.conf file was silently using the nv driver again.
I could have noticed that the picture was a bit to the right since it was using another refresh rate on my CRT, but you know how it goes. If your 3D screensaver crashes because of missing GLX stuff, you know you just had a kernel update. Something to keep in mind though.
Lots of the time it is not the media player that goes wrong but the web-site itself. This is an issue with bad configured web servers, and Internet Explorer which does not follow HTTP standards.
The problem is when a server sends data to the browser it will tell the (MIME) type of the data in the HTTP response. Browsers SHOULD handle the data according to this type according to the HTTP specification. Mozilla does this, and is probably not willing to use the Microsoft way specified below.
As usual, Microsoft doesn't keep to the specifications and just looks at the file-type according to the header of the file (and maybe the extension of the filename). Then it takes an educated guess. So a site which returns a movie with the MIME type set to TEXT/HTML (the default in those badly configured webservers) will render OK in internet explorer, but will show garbage (a bit like as in the Matrix, Neo will probably be able to watch the movie) in Mozilla, and any other browser.
The Launchy plugin (for Mozilla) makes you make the educated guess yourself, and save and play also works. Unless the site works with a stupid JavaScript referer in which case you are in trouble. I usually get to the HTML source and figure it out, but for most people that would not really be an option.
You have to use Javascript? Please get yourself a site that does Java or PHP. Or even a Redmond alternative if you like to keep *that* computer updated all the time (which you will have to do anyway).
*If* I use JavaScript it's for simple input checking (forms) and maybe a menu chooser once in a while. One that has been tested by others that is.
Do not use it for your own dynamic HTML stuff. Do that in flash or in Java (flash is probably less a hassle on the client side) if at all.
I never said that they aren't important in massive combat.
If the USA goes to war with a country that is able to launch satelites into orbit all by itself, than the chances are they will have long distance nukes.
So even if they can be helpfull in massive combat, there would be other things to worry about first. The chances of getting a nuclear missile down before it hits are still pretty small.
So what's the point of those anti satelite satelites?
Hey, you forgot to include the current prime-minister of the Netherlands, Peter Jan Balkenende. This guy is head of a party that simply exists to kiss other parties asses. Like the parties they rule the Netherlands with, or the NATO, where the biggest kiss-ass (Jaap de Hoop-Scheffer) has been elected NATO Secretary General, mostly by the USA. He's perfect for the job, creativity==0 and he's more loyal to his big masters than Smithers is to Burns.
Ask our prime minister the reason to go to war with Irak and he will answer "to remove a dictator" without blushing because he's probably the only head of state to actually *believe* that lie.
War planning? That would be something new. In all the last wars the USA had superior weapons, superior numbers and maybe even superior soldiers and ( propably most important) superior infrastructure.
Superior planning on the other hand does not seem to be included. Most plans of war seem to be outdated exactly at the point the war starts anyway. Wars tend to do that with plans - they are the first targets being hit.
Everybody is doing it, so why would it be stupid? One word: sheep. If the USA goes to war with Russia or China, there are bigger things to worry about than freakin satalites. Actually, there might be very little to worry about.
Yeah, just use credit cards, then we never would have to worry about copying anymore. You just need to be able to read the number to abuse those things. I've been ripped of already (about 200 euro's, which I got back) and if there is something I do not trust, it's a credit card.
On the internet you seem to need them to get around though. But currently any means of payment is more safe than credit cards.
It's easy not to let it colapse anyway. I presume that a few fiber constructs would do the trick. There is no gravity to let it colapse, let alone presure from outside. And a few bars might be a necesity, otherwise the structure would be lost due to the air currents when a leak presents itself.
The trick is not to let it leak too much air. The bigger the better I presume.
From the developers perspective starting with Linux makes lots of sense. The tools available to create open source software tend to be open source themselves. Not only open source, but freely available as well (just to make the distinction).
Currently it would be very difficult to develop for the.NET platform using any reasonably priced packages. Reasonably priced compared to the amount of money you would like to make, that is.
Currently I am using Java/Eclipse and I'm looking at SWT/HTML for my GUI needs. Since Eclipse is open source and free as well, it will be easy to run the software on any platform running Java and SWT. That means at least macosX, linux, solaris, Win32 and a few others. Without using *any* pirated software, which Windows (exclusive) programmers tend to use.
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Yes, and it's one of the few things that irritates me most about e.g. ISO. Look at the implications:
- no digital format (so no copying of example code, or even test vectors)
- no way of knowing what is exactly in the standard beforehand (yes, there are excerpts, but they are not always that usefull)
- difficult and expensive to obtain, so for the DIY people, like open source developers, it's a pain in the butt
- it takes time to even get the standards, lovely if you need them asap
- thank you for even more administration
- noboy to convert them to a more easily viewable format
The list goes on and on. Most of the time the companies or institutions that set up the standard get an advantage by knowing what's going to happen in advance. Lets try to keep standards as easily available as possible, somebody might actually use them!
And since I can receive the BBC for free over in the Netherlands, I can enjoy the shows as well. Unfortunately for many people over here, the BBC did away with the 888 teletext services (subtitling for the blind). You have no idea how many people here used those services, not everybody understands all the dialects. And in a busy room even I have trouble understanding everything right.
To make the final point, the BBC does not just cater only for the UK. A lot of people in Europe and in the rest of the world rely upon it, if only because of the world service they offer. The Dutch are now debating to go to 2 channel television and do away with commercials as well. They get the money from both advertising and public licenses. Which breaks down to commercials every half an hour, on three channels (and uninterupted sporting events).
I've just counted the number of logo's on a Dell power supply; there are 20 logo's of testing organizatons for as many countries.
What exactly do these organizations do? Not one of them took a look at the power supply design and said something in the line of: "you probably shouldn't do it like that"?
Or is this one of those "lets switch components in the middle of production" stories?
In case you don't geddit, this is probably a quote from the movie fight club.
Java does use quite a lot of memory, but so does .NET, and - pardon me - mozilla as well. Actually, I was looking for a Java browser just now, but the only hits I get are for HotJava, which is *completely* deprecated, and ICE, which is commercial.
I've seen an implementation of Mozilla in Java, but I could not get it to run. Still I hope that somebody will find the time to create an open source Java browser. The HTTP part is already there (Apache Jakarta project).
Currently I am busy with a USENET client in Java, after that I might switch to the web browser part. Let's create something that is safe, rather fast, ultra portable and looks like a native application (e.g. the SWT of IBM might do just that).
Java has quite a lot of security features including certificate support, classloaders etc. etc. so that would certainly not be the problem. For speed try the new 1.5 version of Java, its quite a starter, since a lot is cached in advance.
Whatever happened to optimalization? It was replaced by better, more sturdy protocols that are more dynamic and - sometimes - easier to understand.
You do have a point however, but not about the bandwidth. More importantly the network appliance now has to do HTTP and XML processing, something that takes a lot of memory (especially if implemented incorrectly).
I expect that most appliances won't have a problem with this, but it is something to think about. Especially for small, cheap devices. These can keep using SNMP for the time being, and wait for their turn.
What? They compress African peasants to make diamonds? The bastards!
A work allowing card? That would probably mean that you would have to apply for a job at NASA or the russian counterpart to work in the ISS. That would be a bit prohibitive ...
What happens, though, when mirrordot gets slashdotted?
Simple, somebody launches mirrormirrordot...
Everything will become a "personal computer"? Somehow I doubt that, unless you put a really weird meaning to the PC acronym.
Here in Europe, we've got runaway lanes where-ever there are hills big enough to make them necessary and big enough to support them.
As I am living in the Netherlands, where the biggest hill is probably a man made hill for skiing, I don't run into runaway lanes a lot.
Except on holiday to certain parts in France, then there are quite a few.
Correct. It's normally called a template of a finger in the computer security field.
Not only that, but an attacker would probably only find out after taking the laptop. And trust me, they normally won't bring them back after finding out. And you can always get the drive, DVD, battery and harddisk out after trashing the case.
Yup, and don't forget to rerun the thing after updating your kernel. That screwed up my installation, and the xorg.conf file was silently using the nv driver again.
I could have noticed that the picture was a bit to the right since it was using another refresh rate on my CRT, but you know how it goes. If your 3D screensaver crashes because of missing GLX stuff, you know you just had a kernel update. Something to keep in mind though.
Lots of the time it is not the media player that goes wrong but the web-site itself. This is an issue with bad configured web servers, and Internet Explorer which does not follow HTTP standards.
The problem is when a server sends data to the browser it will tell the (MIME) type of the data in the HTTP response. Browsers SHOULD handle the data according to this type according to the HTTP specification. Mozilla does this, and is probably not willing to use the Microsoft way specified below.
As usual, Microsoft doesn't keep to the specifications and just looks at the file-type according to the header of the file (and maybe the extension of the filename). Then it takes an educated guess. So a site which returns a movie with the MIME type set to TEXT/HTML (the default in those badly configured webservers) will render OK in internet explorer, but will show garbage (a bit like as in the Matrix, Neo will probably be able to watch the movie) in Mozilla, and any other browser.
The Launchy plugin (for Mozilla) makes you make the educated guess yourself, and save and play also works. Unless the site works with a stupid JavaScript referer in which case you are in trouble. I usually get to the HTML source and figure it out, but for most people that would not really be an option.
Phew. Glad I got to the end of that.
You have to use Javascript? Please get yourself a site that does Java or PHP. Or even a Redmond alternative if you like to keep *that* computer updated all the time (which you will have to do anyway).
*If* I use JavaScript it's for simple input checking (forms) and maybe a menu chooser once in a while. One that has been tested by others that is.
Do not use it for your own dynamic HTML stuff. Do that in flash or in Java (flash is probably less a hassle on the client side) if at all.
I never said that they aren't important in massive combat.
If the USA goes to war with a country that is able to launch satelites into orbit all by itself, than the chances are they will have long distance nukes.
So even if they can be helpfull in massive combat, there would be other things to worry about first. The chances of getting a nuclear missile down before it hits are still pretty small.
So what's the point of those anti satelite satelites?
Hey, you forgot to include the current prime-minister of the Netherlands, Peter Jan Balkenende. This guy is head of a party that simply exists to kiss other parties asses. Like the parties they rule the Netherlands with, or the NATO, where the biggest kiss-ass (Jaap de Hoop-Scheffer) has been elected NATO Secretary General, mostly by the USA. He's perfect for the job, creativity==0 and he's more loyal to his big masters than Smithers is to Burns.
Ask our prime minister the reason to go to war with Irak and he will answer "to remove a dictator" without blushing because he's probably the only head of state to actually *believe* that lie.
War planning? That would be something new. In all the last wars the USA had superior weapons, superior numbers and maybe even superior soldiers and ( propably most important) superior infrastructure.
Superior planning on the other hand does not seem to be included. Most plans of war seem to be outdated exactly at the point the war starts anyway. Wars tend to do that with plans - they are the first targets being hit.
Everybody is doing it, so why would it be stupid? One word: sheep. If the USA goes to war with Russia or China, there are bigger things to worry about than freakin satalites. Actually, there might be very little to worry about.
Yeah, just use credit cards, then we never would have to worry about copying anymore. You just need to be able to read the number to abuse those things. I've been ripped of already (about 200 euro's, which I got back) and if there is something I do not trust, it's a credit card.
On the internet you seem to need them to get around though. But currently any means of payment is more safe than credit cards.
It's easy not to let it colapse anyway. I presume that a few fiber constructs would do the trick. There is no gravity to let it colapse, let alone presure from outside. And a few bars might be a necesity, otherwise the structure would be lost due to the air currents when a leak presents itself.
The trick is not to let it leak too much air. The bigger the better I presume.
From the developers perspective starting with Linux makes lots of sense. The tools available to create open source software tend to be open source themselves. Not only open source, but freely available as well (just to make the distinction).
.NET platform using any reasonably priced packages. Reasonably priced compared to the amount of money you would like to make, that is.
Currently it would be very difficult to develop for the
Currently I am using Java/Eclipse and I'm looking at SWT/HTML for my GUI needs. Since Eclipse is open source and free as well, it will be easy to run the software on any platform running Java and SWT. That means at least macosX, linux, solaris, Win32 and a few others. Without using *any* pirated software, which Windows (exclusive) programmers tend to use.
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Try findory.com though, your luck might improve.
Dunno, but they might present a buffer overflow all by themselves...