Microsoft wanted to kill java back in the 90's and the only way they could do it was with FUD. This is the biggest reason Java got such a bad rap. Looks like most of you were too young to remember though.
" Sun said Microsoft was trying to undermine the credibility of the Java language by presenting a crippled brand of Java applications that run only on the Windows platform. "
So.... a compromised rack of servers in Michigan will get you a nice missle strike? No thanks. IPs can be spoofed, connection logs tampered with and tracks covered up. It sounds like another "Gee we didn't check our data close enough" scenarios waiting to happen.
It would take the likes of a forensic expert who is a cross between Columbo, Chuck Norris and Bruce Schneier in order to have any credibility to base an act of war on and that person would not be working at SAIC, NSA or the Pentagon. That person is the one who pwned you.
What you end up with is the mess that Iran is in right now. They want to be plenty pissed at Israel and the US, so it's very easy for someone to put whatever they want in their server logs and point a finger. You want to go to war with that info?
WIth Linux and Unix variants (Apple, Android, Ubuntu) spreading out into the desktop space Microsoft's #1 main market share tool is gone. Lock-in.
Tool #2 is to buy-up the competition and kill it (Skype for Asterisk) thereby eliminating the possibility of any alternatives disrupting the Microsoft market space. This doesn't work so well with Open Source software. But that hasn't stopped M$ from trying.
Tool #3 is to FUD,FUD,FUD the bejeezes out of the competition until a false sense of reality is created/believed. This works well with FOSS and is the tack M$ has taken with regards to FOSS but they have not succesfully killed it off yet.
Microsoft has been an empire built on what ought to be illegal business tactics and it's *FINALLY* folding in on itself. Gates will not be back, at least publicly. He won't want to be at the helm when the place finally goes under in the next 5 years.
Let's do some research to develop an resistent strain of . It will be a boon for food crop......20 years later farmers are getting sued* by Monsanto because the bees decided to pollenate non-Monsanto crops with Monsanto pollen.
Maybe the people trashing the field were protecting their future food supply from a corrupt legal system.
Too bad, but they've jumped the shark. I used to spend more time in RS than I did in school, but they turned into a cell phone and overpriced-computer-component shop. Don't know how they are going to pull anything together out of that to ressurect what they once were.
No matter how many people speak out the "truth", there have been so many wildly different stories and claims that everything automatically gets tagged as bullshit in everyone's mind.
Cool thing is, you can refer to everything on the internet with your own naming convention.
for foo in `seq 0 255`; do for bar in `seq 0 255`; do for bin in `seq 0 255`; do for baz in `seq 0 255`; do echo "$foo.$bar.$bin.$baz www${RANDOM}"; >>/etc/hosts done done done done
Seriously. The android SDK is free, Eclipse is free. There's no monetary risk involved to experiement and see if you like doing it.
I screwed around with it for a month off-and-on doing all the tutorial programs on developer.android.com and by the time I was done, it made a lot more sense. I made extensive use of stackoverflow.com too. Good resource there.
If developing isn't for you, there are indeed open source style apps out there. A little bit of googling can find out if they are legit, or if the source is indeed available.
Sounds to me like TI is run by a bunch of ego-maniacal Texan control-freaks with typical ego-maniacal control freak personalities. I mean it's not like a pocket calculator is even that *relevant* anymore. Christ, bc on the unix command line can practically do everything your basic TI can do. For everything else there's your basic run-of-the-mill desktop calculator. Seems like TI should be focusing on how to stay alive, rather than frustrate it's users. I don't understand how they are even in business.
I like the simplicity of Xterm. It works well with SSH, can talk to endless serial devices (like console terminal login on headless stuff) and can run over a modem. All I need is twm and Xterm and I have a nice lightweight X desktop on a server for installing Oracle. There aren't a lot of dependencies so I can keep the software footprint small. Updates are faster and few.
Now in KDE on a desktop, something like Termkit might be more practical. Don't forget though, eye-candy comes at the expense of resources. You can't have all that bling without giving up cpu or ram. In the end, is the payoff worth it to be able to run a screensaver in your terminal?
All the work that went into the Compiz bling; it's cool but I just don't use it. The exploding windows are neat, I just don't see the point in having a desktop that contributes to my distractions.
So... not a big deal. you can always build it yourself (if you have the skills). I would bet a third party would come along and pick up the task of porting if there is enough interest.
Although I would rather leave the room than listen to fanbois, I would imagine this area of the brain is stimulated in the same way for a lot of things, not just Apple. When people get personally and fundamentally attached to a product/idea/belief they will kill for it.
But it's not in the form of iChat, MSN Messenger, or other proprietary protocols which have muddied the waters of collaboration in order to control a niche of the market.
Look up XMPP. It's an open standard. It's open source. Google talk uses it. I can chat in windows linux or mac with it. People on other platforms can chat with people on other platforms. It supports group chat. There are open source clients and server software available. It works great. Why use anything else?
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Microsoft wanted to kill java back in the 90's and the only way they could do it was with FUD. This is the biggest reason Java got such a bad rap. Looks like most of you were too young to remember though.
" Sun said Microsoft was trying to undermine the credibility of the
Java language by presenting a crippled brand of Java applications that
run only on the Windows platform. "
http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/jomc191-97/talk/msg00064.html
assuming they have backups.
both places offer online courses. perhaps your mom can glean some direction from them.
http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/
So.... a compromised rack of servers in Michigan will get you a nice missle strike? No thanks. IPs can be spoofed, connection logs tampered with and tracks covered up. It sounds like another "Gee we didn't check our data close enough" scenarios waiting to happen.
It would take the likes of a forensic expert who is a cross between Columbo, Chuck Norris and Bruce Schneier in order to have any credibility to base an act of war on and that person would not be working at SAIC, NSA or the Pentagon. That person is the one who pwned you.
What you end up with is the mess that Iran is in right now. They want to be plenty pissed at Israel and the US, so it's very easy for someone to put whatever they want in their server logs and point a finger. You want to go to war with that info?
WIth Linux and Unix variants (Apple, Android, Ubuntu) spreading out into the desktop space Microsoft's #1 main market share tool is gone. Lock-in.
Tool #2 is to buy-up the competition and kill it (Skype for Asterisk) thereby eliminating the possibility of any alternatives disrupting the Microsoft market space. This doesn't work so well with Open Source software. But that hasn't stopped M$ from trying.
Tool #3 is to FUD,FUD,FUD the bejeezes out of the competition until a false sense of reality is created/believed. This works well with FOSS and is the tack M$ has taken with regards to FOSS but they have not succesfully killed it off yet.
Microsoft has been an empire built on what ought to be illegal business tactics and it's *FINALLY* folding in on itself. Gates will not be back, at least publicly. He won't want to be at the helm when the place finally goes under in the next 5 years.
Let's do some research to develop an resistent strain of . It will be a boon for food crop. .....20 years later farmers are getting sued* by Monsanto because the bees decided to pollenate non-Monsanto crops with Monsanto pollen.
Maybe the people trashing the field were protecting their future food supply from a corrupt legal system.
[*] - http://foodchronicles.blogspot.com/2007/01/monsanto-problem.html
Initially, yes. But it used the LAN to replicate.
"Stuxnet would first try to spread to other computers on the LAN through a zero-day vulnerability"
http://cert.sharif.edu/en/StuxnetGeneral.aspx
Too bad, but they've jumped the shark. I used to spend more time in RS than I did in school, but they turned into a cell phone and overpriced-computer-component shop. Don't know how they are going to pull anything together out of that to ressurect what they once were.
No matter how many people speak out the "truth", there have been so many wildly different stories and claims that everything automatically gets tagged as bullshit in everyone's mind.
Cool thing is, you can refer to everything on the internet with your own naming convention.
/etc/hosts
for foo in `seq 0 255`; do
for bar in `seq 0 255`; do
for bin in `seq 0 255`; do
for baz in `seq 0 255`; do
echo "$foo.$bar.$bin.$baz www${RANDOM}"; >>
done
done
done
done
They still have to answer to Apple when China's projects are not being completed with slave labor.
This would be a first for Microsoft. Anyway, some alternatives to Skype.
http://www.pamil-visions.net/skype-down/221825/
I wonder how many people that bitch about the tea party campaign supporters will actually switch away from AT&T in protest.
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/09/koch-wikipedia-sock-puppet/
I find that 600 grit carbide emery cloth works great to reduce the glare. -BOFH
> nor are they used as training tools for actual soldiers.
Not quite. Watch the movie in TFA.
Personally, I don't care who's shooting who in the game. The intent behind the creation of the game would be more of a concern.
too bad tomorrow is the end.
Seriously. The android SDK is free, Eclipse is free. There's no monetary risk involved to experiement and see if you like doing it.
I screwed around with it for a month off-and-on doing all the tutorial programs on developer.android.com and by the time I was done, it made a lot more sense. I made extensive use of stackoverflow.com too. Good resource there.
If developing isn't for you, there are indeed open source style apps out there. A little bit of googling can find out if they are legit, or if the source is indeed available.
Sounds to me like TI is run by a bunch of ego-maniacal Texan control-freaks with typical ego-maniacal control freak personalities. I mean it's not like a pocket calculator is even that *relevant* anymore. Christ, bc on the unix command line can practically do everything your basic TI can do. For everything else there's your basic run-of-the-mill desktop calculator. Seems like TI should be focusing on how to stay alive, rather than frustrate it's users. I don't understand how they are even in business.
The people you don't want to know about this stuff, already know. The only reason Siemens or others don't want the info made public is to save face.
A tweet is one thing. An entire blog seems a bit over-the-top for dicking-off. Especially in these times.
I like the simplicity of Xterm. It works well with SSH, can talk to endless serial devices (like console terminal login on headless stuff) and can run over a modem. All I need is twm and Xterm and I have a nice lightweight X desktop on a server for installing Oracle. There aren't a lot of dependencies so I can keep the software footprint small. Updates are faster and few.
Now in KDE on a desktop, something like Termkit might be more practical. Don't forget though, eye-candy comes at the expense of resources. You can't have all that bling without giving up cpu or ram. In the end, is the payoff worth it to be able to run a screensaver in your terminal?
All the work that went into the Compiz bling; it's cool but I just don't use it. The exploding windows are neat, I just don't see the point in having a desktop that contributes to my distractions.
So... not a big deal. you can always build it yourself (if you have the skills). I would bet a third party would come along and pick up the task of porting if there is enough interest.
Although I would rather leave the room than listen to fanbois, I would imagine this area of the brain is stimulated in the same way for a lot of things, not just Apple. When people get personally and fundamentally attached to a product/idea/belief they will kill for it.
But it's not in the form of iChat, MSN Messenger, or other proprietary protocols which have muddied the waters of collaboration in order to control a niche of the market.
Look up XMPP. It's an open standard. It's open source. Google talk uses it. I can chat in windows linux or mac with it. People on other platforms can chat with people on other platforms. It supports group chat. There are open source clients and server software available. It works great. Why use anything else?
Read it out-loud in your UT announcer voice and it's even more awesome...