1) Such capability already exists in most of notebook hard drives. Since noone uses it I cannot recall how it was called on the spot, but I am pretty sure that it was included in first UDMA ATA specs
2) Again, why bother with backdoors if you can reintroduce an old feature with a new name (SALES SALES SALES) while all those who really need it already have it done properly ages ago. I have seen nice machine with USB key for key storage that had nice 12V car battery attached to it thru remote-controlled relay (+ GSM call-in). With this one all you get (here in uk) is a nice jail term if you do not disclose your password, THAT approach actually managed to get the issues fixed on the spot. While police are storming room's door.
Niiice idea, niiiice... The only problem I see is that little tiny bit that this is done by motorola. So far the only mobile phones company that has consistently failed to deliver at least ONE GOOD HANDSET. Slow menus, bugs and crashes, idiotic features and unusable functionality. Strangely most popular in the good ol' USA.
Guys, please be so kind, go and get a GOOD phone. Samsung? Sony Ericsson? Nokia? Just whatever. Kill Motorola, please.
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The funny thing is that the page has this as DTD: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//SoftQuad//DTD HoTMetaL PRO 4.0::19971010::extensions to HTML 4.0//EN" "hmpro4.dtd"
Why not? Unless the requester can clearly identify the offending material (and we should define identifying - supplying exact content and sequence of visual material found liable or questionable) in the request, there is no basis for action (why would you risk with a legal action about illegal removal unless you are clearly and beyond any doubt convicted that the (rights to) material in question really belongs to the entity requesting the removal).
And once you have a legal request, it is, by definition, publishable for public knowledge. Unless DOD steps in. But then, of course, it would be an absolutely different level of entertainment.;)
If I were a smart CTO, when signing a deal with Google about seach query redirection to them I would definetely include a requirement to see how much of my users are actually doing that.
Hmm, your last paragraph illumiates a problem that is of quite a big interest for me. I have a lot of resources I would give no shit to be accessed by other people, but - if my credidentals are compromised, my first (and only) priority would be to identify which ones and thru what channel - maybe not even bothering to change passwords afterwards.
Your SLVR is an abolute piece of CRAP. Motorola execs would be executed, hanged by their testicles and teared apart by horses if I were in charge.
1) They are SLOOOOOOW. There is no reason why opening a SMS directory or contacts should take upwards from 5 seconds. 2) They are buggy. Really really buggy. Far exceeding industry averages. 3) I've yet to see a motorola phone with decent battery life. 4) While the rest of the industry goes forward, Motorola actually goes backward. They just released their new and super-duper phone K1. Know what? Think Razor V3 was slow, buggy and hassle to work with? This piece of shit beats it in every category. Being even worse. So now the market is segmented with 60% of devices on market being modern, capable, with good screens, with good networking stacks and actually some QA touch being present on the devices AND we have yet another 15%-50% (depending on market) of devices that are 10x slower (manifacturing cost increase to put in a more capable hardware is ~1USD), have screens that are what, 3 generations old? (i'm surprised someone actually still manifactures first gen tft's) and are getting worse with every new release. Single exception being V980 - a marvelous device - so they ARE capable of doing something right! Bastards!
As for the end-users that actually find anything even remotely attractive in those pieces of excrement - boiling oil would be more apropriate.
Ok, what the fuck. Do yourself, the civilisation and mobile industry a favor - THROW THAT SHITBOX OUT OF THE WINDOW NOW and get an actual mobile phone. Examples:
- SonyEricsson - Nokia - Samsung - Oh, what the heck. Even LG's are better than Motorola.
(Sorry. I'm currently in the porting cycle for quite an interesting project. And management insists that we have to support those... . Single problem being that it is not possible to get out something usable on them. So the end user will probably think that I, as a developer, am an idiot.)
DIE! Do you know how annoying that (PAUSE prompt appears. PLAY prompt appears. 4:3 content in the middle of the screen) fucking running commercials and Please Don't Smoke. Please Turn Off Your Cellphone. Thanks For Visiting Us, BUY MALBORO shit is?
DIE! DIE!
Or you could at least have made it to crash if it overruns 30 seconds of bullshit before even previews.
Rock Solid PSU. Nuff said. Fuckin Rock Solid MB. Cheap mobo costs 1/3 of a good one. Fuckin Rock Solid memory. Price premium is less, but still 2G are not cheap. Fuckin Rock Solid CPU. Best bet usually is to look at average clocked premium model from previous generation - by the time it usually has had at least 2-3 revisions to iron out largest bugs (HW has bugs too.). Hard disk - price differences is negible, but pick carefuly. Videocard - anything, just not go for the stuff released yesterday. The longer it's around, the better the drivers are.
Monitor. Previously I was living on two 19" LCD's. Now I have returned a bit to the earth and have dell somethibg2004somethingwithwatendifiremembercorrect ly 24"er.
Mind you, this is what I call an absolute minimum.
The truth is that with windows 2000 / XP (Ok, NT 4sp6a was quite good too) OS induced crashes are pretty much a thing of the past. And even once crash per month is way too much for me (of course I am developer) now. Now if only Microsoft could sort out those fuckin tiny details and I could run two bluetooth stacks on xp at the same time (don't ask. Nokia's developer tools sucks.) And if you use linux, even better.
Now, there is a perfect rule of thumb for hardware purchases. Take a monthly paycheck of an employee and write an equal one to be spent on his pc before any specialized software is factored in. +/- 25% should be spot on as regards to what exactly employees time spent fucking around with crashes, slow software, lost files or just investigating other job oppurtunities looking for a company where he wouldn't be used to test CRT flickering induced eyesight decay, would cost to the company over expected lifetime of machine.
Now with gold there is that little issue that there is no alchemists working for the US government. With money, on the other hand... Let's just say that the government went to iraq what in itself is insane act from a sanity perspective. And now try to guess where the financial backing for that came from? You can look up the national debt amount per citizen in the internet. It will take a year or two for all of this money to come back into circulation, but when it will the terrorists will be the least worry an average family will be forced to thing of (not quite like now where media still manages to scare joe sixpacks with boogieman-tali-paki-terrorist).
btw - did you knew that recycling is bullshit? Really.
One: You nicely recycle your "paper". Singe newspaper or cereal box in that transparent bag will void it. Whole bag is automatically forwared to usual landfill - no recycling. I still haven't figured what do they expect to see there.
Two: cost of recycling. If overall cost and pollution to produce soft-drinks can is set at 100%, same can from recycled materials will cost 125% (or thereabouts, forgot the exact details). Same for glass. Really. Take a look at how "recycling" works.
Hmm, I am not surprized at all. If we think about it w2000 essentially was NT4SP6a with USB support and new explorer interface (and a few nifty networking additions that essentially were rewrites from broken implementations in NT4).
And NT4 was - well, respectable. Despite being Microsoft'e and of course nothing is perfect, but I still consider it to be most successfull workstations OS for the masses of the last few decades:)
Nooooot quite;) GSM spec actually means that even 900/1800 switch happens transparently (like they do between base stations of the same frequency, when neccessary). Also the switch process isn't quite so transparent as you describe (you described chanel hooping, but station switch is quite common as well), but the delays and hiccups during the process is neglible to the user. Also there is the point that "A phone connected to a base station will always us one or the other band" implies that there are dual-band base stations - not the case. Any base station uses only one band (they can, of course, be located at the same location and maybe even use the same antennas, but for network infrastructure they will be two distinct logical blocks (forgot how they were called properly), two distinct network ID's and two distinct radio blocks), and subscriber handover happens without taking band into consideration - it depends if the phone can communicate over two bands at the same time (to perform lookup for new base stations - happens all the time in background) - most modern ones can.
As for specific UK case, each country can choose whatever they want to fuck up with specs (like charging for incoming calls and installing fucking restricted wap gateways for example).
Hmmm... Windows app that polls/intercepts all windows on the desktop, checks their type and strings on any buttons + adds hidden window over button area that intercepts the click, passes it to underlying window and at the same time presents user with top-desktop picture of goatse for 500ms?
Granted I haven't done any windows programming for 4 years now, but it certainly sounds possible, or so I remember...
Heh. Believe me - this is normal and happens everywhere. The only difference that may be introduced is the level on which the bribing happens and how it is called.
Let's compare typical ex-ussr country and USA: Ex-USSR country: You rape an underage girl, you get caught, you are arrested. Your friends make a call to lead investigator in the case, offers a precise amount, you get released due to lack of crime in your case. The girl has to repeatedly repeat her statements until he gets so confused and nervous that she introduces inconsistencies in her story. Case dropped.
USA: You rape an underage girl, you get caught, you are arrested. Your grandpa makes a call to local senator, he makes a call to police dep'ts head, he drops the case due to lack of crime.
And amounts of money transferred are different. But if adjusted against average wage they are similar.
And that from a vendor who currently has the worst java implementation (slowest, buggiest, generally sluggish interfaces and long time until events are delivered where apropriate) on the market...
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1) Such capability already exists in most of notebook hard drives. Since noone uses it I cannot recall how it was called on the spot, but I am pretty sure that it was included in first UDMA ATA specs
2) Again, why bother with backdoors if you can reintroduce an old feature with a new name (SALES SALES SALES) while all those who really need it already have it done properly ages ago. I have seen nice machine with USB key for key storage that had nice 12V car battery attached to it thru remote-controlled relay (+ GSM call-in). With this one all you get (here in uk) is a nice jail term if you do not disclose your password, THAT approach actually managed to get the issues fixed on the spot. While police are storming room's door.
Niiice idea, niiiice... The only problem I see is that little tiny bit that this is done by motorola. So far the only mobile phones company that has consistently failed to deliver at least ONE GOOD HANDSET. Slow menus, bugs and crashes, idiotic features and unusable functionality. Strangely most popular in the good ol' USA.
Guys, please be so kind, go and get a GOOD phone. Samsung? Sony Ericsson? Nokia? Just whatever. Kill Motorola, please.
The funny thing is that the page has this as DTD:
!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//SoftQuad//DTD HoTMetaL PRO 4.0::19971010::extensions to HTML 4.0//EN" "hmpro4.dtd"
Why not? Unless the requester can clearly identify the offending material (and we should define identifying - supplying exact content and sequence of visual material found liable or questionable) in the request, there is no basis for action (why would you risk with a legal action about illegal removal unless you are clearly and beyond any doubt convicted that the (rights to) material in question really belongs to the entity requesting the removal).
;)
And once you have a legal request, it is, by definition, publishable for public knowledge. Unless DOD steps in. But then, of course, it would be an absolutely different level of entertainment.
If I were a smart CTO, when signing a deal with Google about seach query redirection to them I would definetely include a requirement to see how much of my users are actually doing that.
Hmm, your last paragraph illumiates a problem that is of quite a big interest for me. I have a lot of resources I would give no shit to be accessed by other people, but - if my credidentals are compromised, my first (and only) priority would be to identify which ones and thru what channel - maybe not even bothering to change passwords afterwards.
Any ideas, suggestions?
Your SLVR is an abolute piece of CRAP. Motorola execs would be executed, hanged by their testicles and teared apart by horses if I were in charge.
... . Single problem being that it is not possible to get out something usable on them. So the end user will probably think that I, as a developer, am an idiot.)
1) They are SLOOOOOOW. There is no reason why opening a SMS directory or contacts should take upwards from 5 seconds.
2) They are buggy. Really really buggy. Far exceeding industry averages.
3) I've yet to see a motorola phone with decent battery life.
4) While the rest of the industry goes forward, Motorola actually goes backward. They just released their new and super-duper phone K1. Know what? Think Razor V3 was slow, buggy and hassle to work with? This piece of shit beats it in every category. Being even worse. So now the market is segmented with 60% of devices on market being modern, capable, with good screens, with good networking stacks and actually some QA touch being present on the devices AND we have yet another 15%-50% (depending on market) of devices that are 10x slower (manifacturing cost increase to put in a more capable hardware is ~1USD), have screens that are what, 3 generations old? (i'm surprised someone actually still manifactures first gen tft's) and are getting worse with every new release. Single exception being V980 - a marvelous device - so they ARE capable of doing something right! Bastards!
As for the end-users that actually find anything even remotely attractive in those pieces of excrement - boiling oil would be more apropriate.
Ok, what the fuck. Do yourself, the civilisation and mobile industry a favor - THROW THAT SHITBOX OUT OF THE WINDOW NOW and get an actual mobile phone. Examples:
- SonyEricsson
- Nokia
- Samsung
- Oh, what the heck. Even LG's are better than Motorola.
(Sorry. I'm currently in the porting cycle for quite an interesting project. And management insists that we have to support those
Ehm... Get a mac?
Really. The list is surprisingly apropriate. Now that late-binding thingy would be nice, but textpad or notepad usually works for me.
Yes, it has. It has the best windows installer (don't laught. This is THE reason.)
Also - been to computer book store recently?
Just wait for the cleanup phase - darl in jail, etc.
This will be bigger than sarbes&oxley
DIE! Do you know how annoying that (PAUSE prompt appears. PLAY prompt appears. 4:3 content in the middle of the screen) fucking running commercials and Please Don't Smoke. Please Turn Off Your Cellphone. Thanks For Visiting Us, BUY MALBORO shit is?
DIE! DIE!
Or you could at least have made it to crash if it overruns 30 seconds of bullshit before even previews.
easy.
t ly 24"er.
Rock Solid PSU. Nuff said.
Fuckin Rock Solid MB. Cheap mobo costs 1/3 of a good one.
Fuckin Rock Solid memory. Price premium is less, but still 2G are not cheap.
Fuckin Rock Solid CPU. Best bet usually is to look at average clocked premium model from previous generation - by the time it usually has had at least 2-3 revisions to iron out largest bugs (HW has bugs too.).
Hard disk - price differences is negible, but pick carefuly.
Videocard - anything, just not go for the stuff released yesterday. The longer it's around, the better the drivers are.
Monitor. Previously I was living on two 19" LCD's. Now I have returned a bit to the earth and have dell somethibg2004somethingwithwatendifiremembercorrec
Mind you, this is what I call an absolute minimum.
The truth is that with windows 2000 / XP (Ok, NT 4sp6a was quite good too) OS induced crashes are pretty much a thing of the past. And even once crash per month is way too much for me (of course I am developer) now. Now if only Microsoft could sort out those fuckin tiny details and I could run two bluetooth stacks on xp at the same time (don't ask. Nokia's developer tools sucks.) And if you use linux, even better.
Now, there is a perfect rule of thumb for hardware purchases. Take a monthly paycheck of an employee and write an equal one to be spent on his pc before any specialized software is factored in. +/- 25% should be spot on as regards to what exactly employees time spent fucking around with crashes, slow software, lost files or just investigating other job oppurtunities looking for a company where he wouldn't be used to test CRT flickering induced eyesight decay, would cost to the company over expected lifetime of machine.
IF managed properly.
Now with gold there is that little issue that there is no alchemists working for the US government. With money, on the other hand... Let's just say that the government went to iraq what in itself is insane act from a sanity perspective. And now try to guess where the financial backing for that came from? You can look up the national debt amount per citizen in the internet. It will take a year or two for all of this money to come back into circulation, but when it will the terrorists will be the least worry an average family will be forced to thing of (not quite like now where media still manages to scare joe sixpacks with boogieman-tali-paki-terrorist).
You realise that internet outage that would force common //homo nerdus// to shut off would make any e-mail notifications futile.
Idiotic government contractors.
FYI: We cannot (track, find and/or freeze terrorist accounts).
Windows 35.05 anyone?
btw - did you knew that recycling is bullshit? Really.
One: You nicely recycle your "paper". Singe newspaper or cereal box in that transparent bag will void it. Whole bag is automatically forwared to usual landfill - no recycling. I still haven't figured what do they expect to see there.
Two: cost of recycling. If overall cost and pollution to produce soft-drinks can is set at 100%, same can from recycled materials will cost 125% (or thereabouts, forgot the exact details). Same for glass. Really. Take a look at how "recycling" works.
Hmm, I am not surprized at all. If we think about it w2000 essentially was NT4SP6a with USB support and new explorer interface (and a few nifty networking additions that essentially were rewrites from broken implementations in NT4).
:)
And NT4 was - well, respectable. Despite being Microsoft'e and of course nothing is perfect, but I still consider it to be most successfull workstations OS for the masses of the last few decades
Press both mouse buttons at the same time? Any modelling software? And this is, btw, one of the direct markets of the apple (or was?)
Ever heard about validators? http://validator.w3.org/
Nooooot quite ;) GSM spec actually means that even 900/1800 switch happens transparently (like they do between base stations of the same frequency, when neccessary). Also the switch process isn't quite so transparent as you describe (you described chanel hooping, but station switch is quite common as well), but the delays and hiccups during the process is neglible to the user. Also there is the point that "A phone connected to a base station will always us one or the other band" implies that there are dual-band base stations - not the case. Any base station uses only one band (they can, of course, be located at the same location and maybe even use the same antennas, but for network infrastructure they will be two distinct logical blocks (forgot how they were called properly), two distinct network ID's and two distinct radio blocks), and subscriber handover happens without taking band into consideration - it depends if the phone can communicate over two bands at the same time (to perform lookup for new base stations - happens all the time in background) - most modern ones can.
As for specific UK case, each country can choose whatever they want to fuck up with specs (like charging for incoming calls and installing fucking restricted wap gateways for example).
Hmmm... Windows app that polls/intercepts all windows on the desktop, checks their type and strings on any buttons + adds hidden window over button area that intercepts the click, passes it to underlying window and at the same time presents user with top-desktop picture of goatse for 500ms?
Granted I haven't done any windows programming for 4 years now, but it certainly sounds possible, or so I remember...
Heh. Believe me - this is normal and happens everywhere. The only difference that may be introduced is the level on which the bribing happens and how it is called.
Let's compare typical ex-ussr country and USA:
Ex-USSR country:
You rape an underage girl, you get caught, you are arrested. Your friends make a call to lead investigator in the case, offers a precise amount, you get released due to lack of crime in your case. The girl has to repeatedly repeat her statements until he gets so confused and nervous that she introduces inconsistencies in her story. Case dropped.
USA:
You rape an underage girl, you get caught, you are arrested. Your grandpa makes a call to local senator, he makes a call to police dep'ts head, he drops the case due to lack of crime.
And amounts of money transferred are different. But if adjusted against average wage they are similar.
Solitaire. Calculator. Clock!
And that from a vendor who currently has the worst java implementation (slowest, buggiest, generally sluggish interfaces and long time until events are delivered where apropriate) on the market...