This pic shows the inside of the NV45. Look at the paths on the circuit. Instead of going straight from one chip to another they form different loops, turn around etc. Are they trying to make them longer, or equal distance or introduce picosecond delays or what?
Ever got an SMS to your phone from the restricted "emergency" account and been fumbling for 2 hours to find an internet cafe in a strange city to troubleshoot the unknown problem while it just appeared that the spammer launched a "dictionary attack" against your server? Sometimes it's "mark, delete" and 500 spams gone in matter of 10 seconds. Sometimes it's 2 hours of stress, fear, wasting a lot of money and nerves because of one spam.
Thanks to lovely spammers I can't leave my box for a month unattended. With 5 emails my mailbox would fill in half a year. With 100 spams daily this drops to weeks.
How humans can tell what will be in a few years if they can't tell what will be tomorrow? I'd completely agree if the claim wasn't "that next-generation programming systems will combine compilers"... but "should combine...". Right, the idea is nice. But where will the market go, how will big corporations guide the development, what will become the new fancy or if there will be a new development that will render XML completely obsolete and feeling ugly comparing to that "new thing" - we don't know.
"Net is broken on my box, could you help me?" Sure. A bit of fiddling around, ping 127.0.0.1. works. ping gateway - doesn't. Ping several hosts around - one responds. "Your box is working okay, that's the ISP's server broken, call them and they will come and fix it". 0.5l decent quality vodka.
My usual fee for burning CDs was 1 blank. So you show up with the source and two blanks and leave with source and copy. That was kinda insurance too: If I burn OK, I keep the blank for myself. If I screw up, I burn again on that blank, no reward for me:) Exception: Linux. Burning Linux was for free:)
Usual fee for "friendly services" is 1-3 beers. Like, "how to remove compromiting wallpaper" troubleshoot through the phone:)
Note that while FSF, IBM, Torvalds and all the attacked side's defense is relatively inexpensive, SCO spends a fortune on their lawyers every day. Just watch the stock quotes and delight on SCO running out of money and out of time:)
First off, if I plan on such a company, and such load, I don't gripe about a mainstream sound card that won't work in Linux on my server. I just make perfectly sure that the hardware I'm going to use can perfectly well support the dedicated software of my service. It's not a desktop: First buy a computer, then install OS, then pick a handful of programs to install and use. It's a big business: First I have a businessplan which exactly states what services I provide, then I look how I can provide those services, that includes particular software which can do it. And finally, as the last, I pick hardware my software will run on. So - it's not whether "linux can support my hardware". It's about "what hardware to pick to run Linux?"
And about overpriced - if I undertake something of this scale, I might just as well instead of paying the Linux support companies, just buy one and use it as "internal support division" or employ a bunch of skilled hackers to do the job. Above some threshold difference between "free" and "$1000/hour" vanishes. Difference between "working" and "broken" - never.
Okay, let me see... If I have an IT company that needs to provide services to, say, 100 customers a second. Say, a big database or such. I can pick Windows servers for moderate price. They will crash under the load about once a day. Because of being unreliable my company goes bankrupt. Now if I use "overpriced" Linux services, I keep my company running smoothly. It brings profit, it exists. Uptime nearly 100%, with downtimes for upgrades etc announced a month ahead.
How to distinguish a system that is protected against viruses from one that is virus-proof? Some people (especially in the management) don't quite tackle the difference.
It's pity to watch all those protests against violating your privacy. And no, I don't disagree about them, they are perfectly valid and right. It's just sad that they are.
Think of this utopia: The government is honest, never abuses info collected about the people, allows you to do mostly anything that doesn't mean serious harm to others, doesn't steal from you, that respects you and provides you with all basic necessities a good government should. Now would you really mind having a lot of data about yourself collected, then analysed for potential abuses of the system, then discarded when none, or some not important enough are found? While knowing that whoever actually tries to ruin your life will be caught and stopped just the same you would be if you actually meant some serious harm? Collecting personal data by itself is harmless. It's how it may be abused is bad. And it's sad people have strong reasons not to trust the government enough to willingly provide it with their personal data....or, maybe, are there so many wannabe criminals?;)
I think it's time to uncomment that long-dormant "#alias mkae make" from my.cshrc
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Yes, for quite a while.
Quite a bit of modern worms in this or that way provide just a generic backdoor to the infected machine without performing any extra malice. Some of them just open oprts, some trick firewalls and actively "call home", which usually happens to be some random IRC server on some compromised machine (IRC seems to be preferred method for the virii writers for controlling worms, which just act as bots on the channel). Then the virii can upload a spamming software, a DDoS attack plugin, a keystroke logger, a file transfer thing, a tunneling/relay program to mask an attack, or whatever the twisted minds come up with.
err, that's 1l, that is two standard 0.5l mugs or cans. Of course there are people who won't feel a thing after as much, but for me it's perfectly enough. 1.5l is rather "on the heavy side", 2l with empty stomach make me plain drunk, after about 3l drank over short period of time, I'm getting sick. 5l and wash my vomit.
Well, if you lived in Europe you'd very well know 88km/h is enough that the police will detect you're speeding but won't bother to stop you because you're low enough above the margin, plus in case of accident you stand quite a decent chance of survival, so it is a very reasonable speed to travel:) For me, 60mph is rather meaningless, 5ft7in tall is completely meaningless. 150cm is a shortie, 200 is a big badass, 175 is just average.
Eh, 1mm is very useful when it comes to small things - it's damn hard to measure more precisely with just a ruler. 1cm is very handy for writing, 0.5 between baseline and top, 0.5 for all the tall and short characters. 10cm^3 of beer is just enough to get in quite good mood without risk of breaking anything important 1m is about the safe parking distance, good height for tabletops, stands and anything you pick up things from. 2m is about the upper limit for that. 10x10m is a reasonable, comfortable apartment size. 100m is a good distance to place poles by the road, so the next one is visible from the position of the previous even in fog. 100x100m known as 1 hectar is about the smallest reasonable farming field size which pays to use tractors instead of horses. 1000m or 1km is just the right distance to walk without getting a car. 3km is the usual distance of horizon in reasonably varied terrain. 10km is about the least distance you should definitely take a car for unless you have a good reason (i.e. you're hiking.) If you plan a long walk, it's the reasonable distance too. 100km is between most major towns, so you don't have to travel very far if you want to buy some more exotic stuff or do some other business. 1000km is a good diameter for a reasonable country with below-average population of megalomaniacs. 10000km is 1/4 way around the earth, which is pretty useful if you travel that far.
1g, if it's meant to be really light, it shouldn't be more. 10g, just enough to get a taste, 100 g, about as much sweets as it's healthy to eat a time. 1 kg... see 10cm^3. 10kg, about as much as you can carry around without cursing, 100kg, if you weight more, start worrying, 1 ton, reasonable amount of cargo to transport, also enough coal for one house for a mild winter, 10 ton, about the most an average road is meant to withstand, 100 ton an amount of stuff worth making a big deal about, 1KT of TNT, a pretty neat unit of measurement for nukes.
A6 is for postcards and other smallish leaflets, A5 is good for school kids, A4 for normal use (FYI, it's bigger than Letter), A3 if you're doing excessive stuff (great most of heavyweight equations fit on A3 along), A2 if you're doing really big project, A1 for posters and wallpapers, and A0 by width is just the reasonable width to be produced in factory, rolled into a bale and loaded on a truck, across.
IMHO a minute is too long, units of 10, 100, 1000 s would be more handy. Conversion between inches, yards and feet is hopeless.
Either this, or use other methods: - Using behind-the-scenes agreements with your customers that they won't pass over/resell your software, or ask them nicely to do so. (SuSE) - Use "pay-for-work", not "pay-for-product" model, so you create custom free apps and release them free of charge, but exactly with features the commissioning customer wants, and they pay you for writing it. (and since you're the author, you're the best suited person for that) (ReiserFS) - Make money on support, extras, etc. (RedHat) - Don't sell the GNU-derived software, just services it provides. (Google)
Well, practically, GPL -grants- you right to sell -one- copy of GPL'd software. That is, you are free to charge $1000 for your program plus complete sources. You sell your newly written program to your customer. You provide them with the source code. They introduce a tiny, non-essential modification to the sources, recompile them, repack and start redistributing for free or for $10 a piece. It's their right, though they should know that their first customer may do the same and so the investment in the $10/piece trade won't pay back, and nobody's going to pay you that $1000 again, they are free to use the free copies that completely legally "leaked out"... unless of course they want a new feature only YOU can implement.
Sorry, not. M remains 10^6, like Megaton, Megawatt etc. There's too many other places where it's used. The "i" is to signify "binary". B is byte. b is bit.
Finally you can spit into face of markedroid and say "Yes, this drive is 120 megabytes. But it will fit only 100 gibibits of raw data. After formatting it leaves less than 80. So go screw yourself with your 200 CDs you claim it would fit!"
If there's a law that is in order, is restrictive, but anyone can go and read it and just don't do the prohibited thing, or do the forced thing, it is some kind of freedom restrictions, but may be within reasonable limits. If there is one law which forbids something and another which makes publishing the first one secret and learning WHAT exactly is forbidden, so you just know there are certain things you're not allowed to do, but you won't learn what those things are, until you face the court for violating them... That's a state of terror.
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This pic shows the inside of the NV45. Look at the paths on the circuit. Instead of going straight from one chip to another they form different loops, turn around etc. Are they trying to make them longer, or equal distance or introduce picosecond delays or what?
Ever got an SMS to your phone from the restricted "emergency" account and been fumbling for 2 hours to find an internet cafe in a strange city to troubleshoot the unknown problem while it just appeared that the spammer launched a "dictionary attack" against your server? Sometimes it's "mark, delete" and 500 spams gone in matter of 10 seconds. Sometimes it's 2 hours of stress, fear, wasting a lot of money and nerves because of one spam.
Thanks to lovely spammers I can't leave my box for a month unattended. With 5 emails my mailbox would fill in half a year. With 100 spams daily this drops to weeks.
A bullet in the back of the spammer's head.
No, I know this won't happen. But the mental image is pleasant anyway.
How humans can tell what will be in a few years if they can't tell what will be tomorrow?
I'd completely agree if the claim wasn't "that next-generation programming systems will combine compilers"... but "should combine...".
Right, the idea is nice. But where will the market go, how will big corporations guide the development, what will become the new fancy or if there will be a new development that will render XML completely obsolete and feeling ugly comparing to that "new thing" - we don't know.
Just look at that guy's statistics page
What hit him so hard on 12th?
"Net is broken on my box, could you help me?"
:) Exception: Linux. Burning Linux was for free :)
:)
Sure. A bit of fiddling around, ping 127.0.0.1. works. ping gateway - doesn't.
Ping several hosts around - one responds. "Your box is working okay, that's the ISP's server broken, call them and they will come and fix it".
0.5l decent quality vodka.
My usual fee for burning CDs was 1 blank. So you show up with the source and two blanks and leave with source and copy. That was kinda insurance too: If I burn OK, I keep the blank for myself. If I screw up, I burn again on that blank, no reward for me
Usual fee for "friendly services" is 1-3 beers. Like, "how to remove compromiting wallpaper" troubleshoot through the phone
Yeah, I guess it's the typical help forum approach.
SCO: PLEEZ SenD MEE a11 1Nf0 YOU HAvE ON C I waNT to HAXXOR
FSF: RTFM, STFW, FU, HAND.
Note that while FSF, IBM, Torvalds and all the attacked side's defense is relatively inexpensive, SCO spends a fortune on their lawyers every day. Just watch the stock quotes and delight on SCO running out of money and out of time :)
New Gameboy Adult-themed GB games! The Frenchman! The Cunning Lingus!
Opinion from customers: My ex-boyfriend bought the new gameboy. Now we are together again! Thank you Nintendo!
First off, if I plan on such a company, and such load, I don't gripe about a mainstream sound card that won't work in Linux on my server. I just make perfectly sure that the hardware I'm going to use can perfectly well support the dedicated software of my service. It's not a desktop: First buy a computer, then install OS, then pick a handful of programs to install and use. It's a big business: First I have a businessplan which exactly states what services I provide, then I look how I can provide those services, that includes particular software which can do it. And finally, as the last, I pick hardware my software will run on. So - it's not whether "linux can support my hardware". It's about "what hardware to pick to run Linux?"
And about overpriced - if I undertake something of this scale, I might just as well instead of paying the Linux support companies, just buy one and use it as "internal support division" or employ a bunch of skilled hackers to do the job. Above some threshold difference between "free" and "$1000/hour" vanishes. Difference between "working" and "broken" - never.
Okay, let me see...
If I have an IT company that needs to provide services to, say, 100 customers a second. Say, a big database or such. I can pick Windows servers for moderate price. They will crash under the load about once a day. Because of being unreliable my company goes bankrupt.
Now if I use "overpriced" Linux services, I keep my company running smoothly. It brings profit, it exists. Uptime nearly 100%, with downtimes for upgrades etc announced a month ahead.
I pay what it's worth.
How to distinguish a system that is protected against viruses from one that is virus-proof?
Some people (especially in the management) don't quite tackle the difference.
It's pity to watch all those protests against violating your privacy. And no, I don't disagree about them, they are perfectly valid and right. It's just sad that they are.
...or, maybe, are there so many wannabe criminals? ;)
Think of this utopia: The government is honest, never abuses info collected about the people, allows you to do mostly anything that doesn't mean serious harm to others, doesn't steal from you, that respects you and provides you with all basic necessities a good government should.
Now would you really mind having a lot of data about yourself collected, then analysed for potential abuses of the system, then discarded when none, or some not important enough are found? While knowing that whoever actually tries to ruin your life will be caught and stopped just the same you would be if you actually meant some serious harm?
Collecting personal data by itself is harmless. It's how it may be abused is bad. And it's sad people have strong reasons not to trust the government enough to willingly provide it with their personal data.
Gosh, you'd think it's the EASY part!
If their MONEY calculations are in such condition, how do their spaceships even rise off the ground?
thar's the basic l33tsp33ch for plural of virus.
you know, mp3z, warez, isoz, moviez, crackz, pazzwordz, virii, XXX. Found on every 1337 site.
I think it's time to uncomment that long-dormant "#alias mkae make" from my .cshrc
Yes, for quite a while.
Quite a bit of modern worms in this or that way provide just a generic backdoor to the infected machine without performing any extra malice. Some of them just open oprts, some trick firewalls and actively "call home", which usually happens to be some random IRC server on some compromised machine (IRC seems to be preferred method for the virii writers for controlling worms, which just act as bots on the channel). Then the virii can upload a spamming software, a DDoS attack plugin, a keystroke logger, a file transfer thing, a tunneling/relay program to mask an attack, or whatever the twisted minds come up with.
err, that's 1l, that is two standard 0.5l mugs or cans. Of course there are people who won't feel a thing after as much, but for me it's perfectly enough. 1.5l is rather "on the heavy side", 2l with empty stomach make me plain drunk, after about 3l drank over short period of time, I'm getting sick. 5l and wash my vomit.
Okay, so why do Americans still use Base10 maths? Go switch to base 12 in schools, 8+5=11 :)
Well, if you lived in Europe you'd very well know 88km/h is enough that the police will detect you're speeding but won't bother to stop you because you're low enough above the margin, plus in case of accident you stand quite a decent chance of survival, so it is a very reasonable speed to travel :) For me, 60mph is rather meaningless, 5ft7in tall is completely meaningless. 150cm is a shortie, 200 is a big badass, 175 is just average.
Eh, 1mm is very useful when it comes to small things - it's damn hard to measure more precisely with just a ruler. 1cm is very handy for writing, 0.5 between baseline and top, 0.5 for all the tall and short characters. 10cm^3 of beer is just enough to get in quite good mood without risk of breaking anything important 1m is about the safe parking distance, good height for tabletops, stands and anything you pick up things from. 2m is about the upper limit for that. 10x10m is a reasonable, comfortable apartment size. 100m is a good distance to place poles by the road, so the next one is visible from the position of the previous even in fog. 100x100m known as 1 hectar is about the smallest reasonable farming field size which pays to use tractors instead of horses. 1000m or 1km is just the right distance to walk without getting a car. 3km is the usual distance of horizon in reasonably varied terrain. 10km is about the least distance you should definitely take a car for unless you have a good reason (i.e. you're hiking.) If you plan a long walk, it's the reasonable distance too. 100km is between most major towns, so you don't have to travel very far if you want to buy some more exotic stuff or do some other business. 1000km is a good diameter for a reasonable country with below-average population of megalomaniacs. 10000km is 1/4 way around the earth, which is pretty useful if you travel that far.
1g, if it's meant to be really light, it shouldn't be more. 10g, just enough to get a taste, 100 g, about as much sweets as it's healthy to eat a time. 1 kg... see 10cm^3. 10kg, about as much as you can carry around without cursing, 100kg, if you weight more, start worrying, 1 ton, reasonable amount of cargo to transport, also enough coal for one house for a mild winter, 10 ton, about the most an average road is meant to withstand, 100 ton an amount of stuff worth making a big deal about, 1KT of TNT, a pretty neat unit of measurement for nukes.
A6 is for postcards and other smallish leaflets, A5 is good for school kids, A4 for normal use (FYI, it's bigger than Letter), A3 if you're doing excessive stuff (great most of heavyweight equations fit on A3 along), A2 if you're doing really big project, A1 for posters and wallpapers, and A0 by width is just the reasonable width to be produced in factory, rolled into a bale and loaded on a truck, across.
IMHO a minute is too long, units of 10, 100, 1000 s would be more handy.
Conversion between inches, yards and feet is hopeless.
Either this, or use other methods:
- Using behind-the-scenes agreements with your customers that they won't pass over/resell your software, or ask them nicely to do so. (SuSE)
- Use "pay-for-work", not "pay-for-product" model, so you create custom free apps and release them free of charge, but exactly with features the commissioning customer wants, and they pay you for writing it. (and since you're the author, you're the best suited person for that) (ReiserFS)
- Make money on support, extras, etc. (RedHat)
- Don't sell the GNU-derived software, just services it provides. (Google)
Well, practically, GPL -grants- you right to sell -one- copy of GPL'd software.
That is, you are free to charge $1000 for your program plus complete sources.
You sell your newly written program to your customer. You provide them with the source code. They introduce a tiny, non-essential modification to the sources, recompile them, repack and start redistributing for free or for $10 a piece. It's their right, though they should know that their first customer may do the same and so the investment in the $10/piece trade won't pay back, and nobody's going to pay you that $1000 again, they are free to use the free copies that completely legally "leaked out"... unless of course they want a new feature only YOU can implement.
Sorry, not. M remains 10^6, like Megaton, Megawatt etc. There's too many other places where it's used. The "i" is to signify "binary". B is byte. b is bit.
1KB=1000 bytes.
1KiB=1024 bytes.
1Kb=125 bytes.
1KiB=128 bytes.
Finally you can spit into face of markedroid and say "Yes, this drive is 120 megabytes. But it will fit only 100 gibibits of raw data. After formatting it leaves less than 80. So go screw yourself with your 200 CDs you claim it would fit!"
If there's a law that is in order, is restrictive, but anyone can go and read it and just don't do the prohibited thing, or do the forced thing, it is some kind of freedom restrictions, but may be within reasonable limits.
If there is one law which forbids something and another which makes publishing the first one secret and learning WHAT exactly is forbidden, so you just know there are certain things you're not allowed to do, but you won't learn what those things are, until you face the court for violating them... That's a state of terror.