1 - i don't own a car , i ride a bike
2 - well, bio diesel is not such a good idea
3 - that's a point, but you do have to realize that low mechanised farm still DO exist
4 - it's not only the shop that is independent but the productor as well. independant clothing, independant records, independant food at the open air market. Firms that produce these range from 1 to say, 50 workers.
5 - sure, but at least it runs linux ! computers are one of these interesting subject where the weapon turns against the maker .
6 - enough or not it's the only way.
It's not that we need ZERO progress, it is that we need LESS destruction. You'd think the human being could find a way to achieve that... Enacting a cleaner world is one of the ways, among other forms of resistance .
Now, i'll leave you with your infected fried industrial chicken and you corporate war TV show... The end is near !!
by just what, not shopping at Wal-Mart?! Give me a break. You are delusional.
I think you are wrong, and if you shop at walmart, you should stop NOW.
There are only ways two to change things:
1) Get a clue NOW and try to enact an alternative world. Buy fruits and vegetables only from local productors. Eat less meat. Do not shop at malls were the workers are slaved Avoid corporate style shops like starbucks in favor of independantly owned shops. Buy Bio stuff and fairtrade goods. Stop driving your useless SUV. etc etc...
I, we do that : it's more fun, it's morally satisfying and it has an impact on health. It's not a radical change to the society but it's a step and believe it, the corporate minions do take notice that the world is changing (and they are wetting their pants from fear ! ) . Of course if you live in the great United States of Amerikkka it maybe already too late to live this way. Maybe there is nothing left independant in the US...
2) Do nothing. Sooner or later, but sooner than you think, everything will colapse , no more oil, nuclear nightmare, back to the jungle.
Considering they go obsolete in 3 years anyway the market for pc repair is going to dry up quickly.
There is a market in service though. Helping people *use* computers will always have a demand.
Yeah, and also people want some functionalities that are not trivial for them. They want to share printers, they want to share data, they want to access wirelessly, they want a secure backup plan... These kind of things can make a few bucks, althought maybe not ennough to make a living...
Obviously, it impossible to lock things down far enough to give real security
To end terrorism, we should heal the root causes rather that fight the final consequences. Or maybe we don't really want to end terrorism ? Maybe we're better off living in a world at war, making hudge profits selling weapons, stealing and wasting all of the planet's natural ressources ?
The door that has the best lock is the one that can safely remain open .
AFAIK not - fingerprint is just "convert black&white image to curves, find markers (like end of "line", join of 2 lines etc.) and save relative position of these markers. In fact fingerprint "image" is usually a few 10s of bytes!
Yes this true. It depends on the system used but the one i know works like this. Once aquired as a real image, a complex algorithm is invoked to convert the image into a set of coordinates, that represent different interesting points in the fingerprint.
A match is a % of same coordinates between the stored and the scanned print. Interesting to note is that this % is fixed by law and depends on which country you are !
Here in my underdevelopped european city, right down my door i've got thee oldskool game shop with a SEGA neon... I can rent all the games i want (including dreamcast), buy them and trade them back for other ones, test them inside the shop, which is family owned and includes a LAN room for the youngsters to play...
It also sells manga videos ( great deals on VHS nown a chance to see all these bad mangas you never got to buy and that are waaay too expensive in DVD) .
I pray it wont get replaced by one of those megachains, operated by burnt out teens on smacks with only the newest games and with bad techno music blasting from morning to night.
Long Live the Independants !
Managing a 30 PC lan won't be too much of a hard thing to do, even if, of course, it will take way much than 1% . It's another responsability, with a lot of things to do : hardware problems (the network is always to blame) , software and security , dealing with third parties (bandwith provider) etc etc...
It depends on the nature of the network to admin but if it's not too hudge, it won't be to difficult. But if you do it you should really reall get a good raise for it . Everything has a price, and this is fairly expensive!
Hmm, and if you try enough times you might even give them valid series of number/date/names ! John Smith will be soooo happy to he finds his account zeroed by your script !!
I think we should remember that most of IBM's buisness is to provide competitive edge and buisness automation to OTHER companies, who produce, offer services and in turn will lay off all low profile workers.
In the USA it seems that profit thru buisness is in itself a goal . But what will happen next, when there's no oil anymore (pretty soon) , when everybody is working 2 low pay jobs, et al ?
I strongly doubt that the benefit of shareholders has a good impact on something else than their own private wallets. As before in history except for some profiting elite it will bring WAR and MISERY to the rest of the world.
so long as there is nothing in them that could potentially be harmful
IIRC there are already many case of GM plants withdrawn from market after it was found out that the agro tech company lied about the genetic mods and was actually spreading antibiotic resistance that was meant to only select the gm modified breed.
More over, simple resistance against a round up like chemical product, which is already common practice and selled as "weed/chemical" bundle, is obviously a very risky behaviour in the light of cross pollination.
Now, i don't know where the marketing droids in these bio tech come from but they obviously are not up to date with the modern tech naming conventions. It should obviously be i-RNA
I agree with Debian. I see what happens in the big phat corp i work at. The linux systems are a teritory for numerous corp wars with mainly three gangs:
"home distributions" are a bunch of hardcore linux fans , for some reason they choose to make their own custom kernel , supposedly tuned to the corp's specific needs. It's never up to date, there is not enough people on the team to make this a reality. Sad.
"Red hatter" are the marketing linux kind with "enterprise class support" and "certified hardware". They are pathetic for two reason : 1) if we want certified hardware we go for solaris, ibm or hp. 2) The european representation of red hat is wayyyy behind any other unix vendor and their offers make them look like clowns.
Debian : no non-sense, real open source, well defined option.
Now if the "home distribution" staff would just admit that they cannot keep on with their ego driven distribution and accept plain debian... To be honest I have to say that higher management is quite opposed to debian ( no one owns it, no one in charge...) and that maybe the real reason for this "home distribution" (it's debian based).
In the end it doesn't really matter since for important projects the ppl in charge always end up with important kernel patching & linux tuning anyway...
You seem to say that the decline of the dollar is something bad for the US ?
What we ear here in Europe is that the "political economics" of the US are acting to create a low US dollar . That is beacause a high euro makes exports not competitive from the Euro Zone. Politics here frequently use the "low dollar" argument as an excuse for "bad growth prevision" .
I understand this is very important news and that not a second should be wasted before disclosing to the world, but still you need to use the verb website correctly and say :
O'Reilly's XML.com websites the inside scoop on the language in the article titled Introducing C-Omega written by Dare Obasanjo.
In the comics the kingpin is not black, he is white (actually I think he is a quarter asian - someone with a better memory can correct me on that)
Catwoman is also white not black, thank you Ms. Berry.
Is it wrong that I want comic characters to be played by people who ACTUALLY look like the characters they are portraying?
Well, yes : It's wrong. If you want something that is exactly the same, why not stick with the comics ? That's what I do, since all these comic adaptions suck anyway.
Now if you're willing to go with the movies, there's gonna be a lot of differences anyway, and bringing up some white/black/half asian issue here seems really pointless . The way they look is more defined by acting, attitude, some special words they say et al
More like: you win the contest, they recruit you, you spend the rest of your life in a computer lab staring at code segments and being ignored by the guys drinking vodka martinis...
Yeah, then you fall madly in love with a russian blonde, so you start trading secret information to get into her pants and then you're stuck in that bad karma weasel role ! The blonde always end up with the martini drinking kind anyway.
The USA, and other countries with labor protection need to stop doing business with companies who take advantage of countries without proper protection.
What if these companies are from the USA ? What if they were all striving for profit without any consideration for their workforce ? What if they would destroy our ecosystem just for a hudge amount of cashflow ?
Moreover it has a very unusual twist to it, with the USA being wrong and the US citizen behaving like wetbacks and all! Wow ! Now, this is an interesting point of view !
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2 - well, bio diesel is not such a good idea
3 - that's a point, but you do have to realize that low mechanised farm still DO exist
4 - it's not only the shop that is independent but the productor as well. independant clothing, independant records, independant food at the open air market. Firms that produce these range from 1 to say, 50 workers.
5 - sure, but at least it runs linux ! computers are one of these interesting subject where the weapon turns against the maker .
6 - enough or not it's the only way.
It's not that we need ZERO progress, it is that we need LESS destruction. You'd think the human being could find a way to achieve that... Enacting a cleaner world is one of the ways, among other forms of resistance .
Now, i'll leave you with your infected fried industrial chicken and you corporate war TV show ... The end is near !!
by just what, not shopping at Wal-Mart?! Give me a break. You are delusional.
I think you are wrong, and if you shop at walmart, you should stop NOW.
There are only ways two to change things :
1) Get a clue NOW and try to enact an alternative world. ...
Buy fruits and vegetables only from local productors.
Eat less meat.
Do not shop at malls were the workers are slaved
Avoid corporate style shops like starbucks in favor of independantly owned shops.
Buy Bio stuff and fairtrade goods.
Stop driving your useless SUV. etc etc
I, we do that : it's more fun, it's morally satisfying and it has an impact on health. It's not a radical change to the society but it's a step and believe it, the corporate minions do take notice that the world is changing (and they are wetting their pants from fear ! ) . Of course if you live in the great United States of Amerikkka it maybe already too late to live this way. Maybe there is nothing left independant in the US ...
2) Do nothing. Sooner or later, but sooner than you think, everything will colapse , no more oil, nuclear nightmare, back to the jungle.
EAT THE RICH !
Considering they go obsolete in 3 years anyway the market for pc repair is going to dry up quickly.
Yeah, and also people want some functionalities that are not trivial for themThere is a market in service though. Helping people *use* computers will always have a demand.
They want to share printers, they want to share data, they want to access wirelessly, they want a secure backup plan
These kind of things can make a few bucks, althought maybe not ennough to make a living
Obviously, it impossible to lock things down far enough to give real security
To end terrorism, we should heal the root causes rather that fight the final consequences.
Or maybe we don't really want to end terrorism ?
Maybe we're better off living in a world at war, making hudge profits selling weapons, stealing and wasting all of the planet's natural ressources ?
The door that has the best lock is the one that can safely remain open .
perl for windows accepts path with "/" ias wall as "\" . Also use File::Copy and don't shell out to copy a file .
Most painful of all for any geek, make him use Windows 95 for the rest of his life.
Nah this ain't funny and it proves he isn't a geek at all. Like everybody here knows Win95 was not that bad, what's really the pain is Windows ME .
AFAIK not - fingerprint is just "convert black&white image to curves, find markers (like end of "line", join of 2 lines etc.) and save relative position of these markers. In fact fingerprint "image" is usually a few 10s of bytes!
Yes this true. It depends on the system used but the one i know works like this. Once aquired as a real image, a complex algorithm is invoked to convert the image into a set of coordinates, that represent different interesting points in the fingerprint.
A match is a % of same coordinates between the stored and the scanned print. Interesting to note is that this % is fixed by law and depends on which country you are !
hmm , then guillaume.telwould be fun .
Here in my underdevelopped european city, right down my door i've got thee oldskool game shop with a SEGA neon ... I can rent all the games i want (including dreamcast), buy them and trade them back for other ones, test them inside the shop, which is family owned and includes a LAN room for the youngsters to play ...
It also sells manga videos ( great deals on VHS nown a chance to see all these bad mangas you never got to buy and that are waaay too expensive in DVD) .
I pray it wont get replaced by one of those megachains, operated by burnt out teens on smacks with only the newest games and with bad techno music blasting from morning to night. Long Live the Independants !
Managing a 30 PC lan won't be too much of a hard thing to do, even if, of course, it will take way much than 1% . It's another responsability, with a lot of things to do : hardware problems (the network is always to blame) , software and security , dealing with third parties (bandwith provider) etc etc ...
It depends on the nature of the network to admin but if it's not too hudge, it won't be to difficult. But if you do it you should really reall get a good raise for it . Everything has a price, and this is fairly expensive!
Hmm, and if you try enough times you might even give them valid series of number/date/names ! John Smith will be soooo happy to he finds his account zeroed by your script !!
In the USA it seems that profit thru buisness is in itself a goal . But what will happen next, when there's no oil anymore (pretty soon) , when everybody is working 2 low pay jobs, et al ?
I strongly doubt that the benefit of shareholders has a good impact on something else than their own private wallets. As before in history except for some profiting elite it will bring WAR and MISERY to the rest of the world .
ain't it easy this day to change or mascarade a MAC address ?
so long as there is nothing in them that could potentially be harmful
IIRC there are already many case of GM plants withdrawn from market after it was found out that the agro tech company lied about the genetic mods and was actually spreading antibiotic resistance that was meant to only select the gm modified breed.More over, simple resistance against a round up like chemical product, which is already common practice and selled as "weed/chemical" bundle, is obviously a very risky behaviour in the light of cross pollination.
where are my mod points ? this should be modded up +5 "we are sick of cheap remakes we want the original stuff" ;)
Now, i don't know where the marketing droids in these bio tech come from but they obviously are not up to date with the modern tech naming conventions. It should obviously be i-RNA
"home distributions" are a bunch of hardcore linux fans , for some reason they choose to make their own custom kernel , supposedly tuned to the corp's specific needs. It's never up to date, there is not enough people on the team to make this a reality. Sad.
"Red hatter" are the marketing linux kind with "enterprise class support" and "certified hardware". They are pathetic for two reason :
1) if we want certified hardware we go for solaris, ibm or hp.
2) The european representation of red hat is wayyyy behind any other unix vendor and their offers make them look like clowns.
Debian : no non-sense, real open source, well defined option.
Now if the "home distribution" staff would just admit that they cannot keep on with their ego driven distribution and accept plain debian... To be honest I have to say that higher management is quite opposed to debian ( no one owns it, no one in charge ...) and that maybe the real reason for this "home distribution" (it's debian based) .
In the end it doesn't really matter since for important projects the ppl in charge always end up with important kernel patching & linux tuning anyway ...
What we ear here in Europe is that the "political economics" of the US are acting to create a low US dollar . That is beacause a high euro makes exports not competitive from the Euro Zone. Politics here frequently use the "low dollar" argument as an excuse for "bad growth prevision" .
O'Reilly's XML.com websites the inside scoop on the language in the article titled Introducing C-Omega written by Dare Obasanjo.
In the comics the kingpin is not black, he is white (actually I think he is a quarter asian - someone with a better memory can correct me on that) Catwoman is also white not black, thank you Ms. Berry. Is it wrong that I want comic characters to be played by people who ACTUALLY look like the characters they are portraying?
Well, yes : It's wrong. If you want something that is exactly the same, why not stick with the comics ?
That's what I do, since all these comic adaptions suck anyway.
Now if you're willing to go with the movies, there's gonna be a lot of differences anyway, and bringing up some white/black/half asian issue here seems really pointless . The way they look is more defined by acting, attitude, some special words they say et al
(it's a joke,damnit !)
... And moreover since he could do it in Aspect Oriented PHP !! Onward to mayhem !
Yeah, then you fall madly in love with a russian blonde, so you start trading secret information to get into her pants and then you're stuck in that bad karma weasel role ! The blonde always end up with the martini drinking kind anyway.
The USA, and other countries with labor protection need to stop doing business with companies who take advantage of countries without proper protection.
What if these companies are from the USA ? What if they were all striving for profit without any consideration for their workforce ? What if they would destroy our ecosystem just for a hudge amount of cashflow ?
Oh, no .. Of course not. This would be insane
Yeah, it's a very good B type movie .
Moreover it has a very unusual twist to it, with the USA being wrong and the US citizen behaving like wetbacks and all! Wow ! Now, this is an interesting point of view !