A cynic is somebody who knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing. See: Dvorak.
It was a crappy year for the industry because of Viiv?! If, like Dvorak, you are so totally uninformed that you don't know about core2, the 45nm advances, the x38 chipset, Intel's steady stock price in a failing economy, AMD/ATI's competitive next gen cards, the growth of the video game industry, the iPhone, & etc, then I suppose that Viiv might stand out, provided that you are an idiot.
I am confident that the alleged losses on "sub prime" mortgages could never have happened if all concerned had secure key fobs. Did identity theft cause the sub prime crisis?
The feds could initiate a program under which all citizens are issued key fobs similar to RSA Secure IDs with verification similar to that required for a passport. Without this fob, one could not open any sort of bank account or acquire a credit card or loan... The program could allow one to specify various levels of rigor beyond this basic minimum, such as pin+fob key verification to complete any sort of electronic monetary transaction.
It works for managing access to top secret material, hundreds of billions in monetary instruments and the most vital systems of companies in every industry worldwide... I suppose that on an individual basis, any person's assets, credit and livelihood just aren't as important. Or, perhaps the very industries that protect themselves with this system just don't give a fuck about their consumers.
If these folks were landlords, they'd tell every criminal they could find who you are and were you live, and they'd refuse to install a lock on your door.
Selling stuff which is not worth hacking.
Would you care to elaborate on that? That it just works aside, how is Apple's Intel based hardware any less worth hacking than the HPs and emachines sold at big box stores?
Anyway if a real apple store opens here in Melbourne I might take a look but I can't see myself buying anything there. It sounds like your mind is made up, so you should be able to explain why. Is it that Apple's hardware costs more? Don't like Unix? Desire a warrantee that covers incidental damage? Dislike Apple's arrogant attitude? There are good reasons to chose other vendors... do you have any? If not, I'm glad to be of service!
(I very much hope that Apple will improve and invalidate these reasons)
Whereas the JTF-GTMO gang didn't even bother to check out their captives' easily verifiable alibis. Very informative, thank you. I'm not saying that the Federal government is perfect, nor that we should do away with it entirely. Instead, I'd like to see them obey the rule of law and I'd like to see Congress pass constitutional laws and actually do their job as a co-equal branch of the government.
Sound reasonable? I like having paved roads and safe food - I don't like fascist bullshit. One is legal, one is not. If the Feds obeyed the laws, the things you are objecting to would not be occurring. Can we focus on that part? Does calling the Feds a bunch off worthless asshats do _anything_ useful? Does it deny that they do useful things, too? Do we want them to stop doing the bad shit and do more good shit?
While I would agree that our government could be doing a better job, it is doing quite a bit for us. A middle ground exists between "the Federal government provides no service, save for making us miserable," and, "it is all things to all people, and a burden for none." In fact, reality lies somewhere in the middle.
Follow the above link if you want to learn about unregulated food processing. You seem to think things couldn't be worse; they were and they could be again. Why aren't they? What changed?
Unsafe at any speed provides another example of muckraking that induces the political will to institute effective, life saving regulation. Again, do you think collusive industries spontaneously reform themselves, particularly when they so easily get away with blaming the consumer for death and disease so easily attributable to shoddy products?
Just as Federal regulation makes your car safer, the FDA makes your food and drugs safer. You're welcome to compose a coherent argument, but realize that industry spends billions doing the same, and yet has a long, proven track record of making many life-saving changes only when coerced by the rule of law.
I would not be so quick to jump to that argument. Please. Try making an argument before telling someone that they're wrong.
The government isn't responsible for the safety of food supply, they can't check even 1% I suppose that you haven't heard of the FDA or statistical sampling.
Have you meet many people in our government ? Competence would be great. But it's not there. As a citizen and employee of a government contractor, yes. While some of our public servants leave much to be desired, most are no different from employees in any other industry. Take NASA, for example: while Bush did appoint an unqualified PR officer, the agency nonetheless puts robots on Mars, telescopes into orbit, astronauts onto the ISS, scramjets to mach 15, etc, etc, etc, etc and etc. Tell me again how incompetence has anything to do with these achievements.
Who puts murders behind bars ? I hate to burst your bubble, but over half of all crime in the US isn't solved at all, and the average murderer is out in less than 10 years. Do you even watch TV? Check out the shows about cold case murder investigations - the methods, the technology, the dedication and the awesome impact made by tracking down some smug murderer 15 years after the crime might make you think, if even just for a moment.
I realize that you don't think much of our government, but without it, you wouldn't have roads to drive on, food to eat, schools to attend, a house to live in or a life to live. It's easy to malign something that you clearly do not understand; it's easy to be cynical when you don't know the value of anything.
The incompetence of government is our only real chance at safe[t]y. The cost of safety is incompetent government? Come again?
Who puts the murderers behind bars? Who mends our bridges? Who rests their finger on the big red button, watches over us while we sleep & ensures the safety of our drugs and food?
I rather think that the cost of freedom is eternal vigilance. As we require competent government to keep us safe, we require competent citizens to keep us free.
Orange promises to sell unlocked iPhones in France, as per black letter law. Unlocked Orange iPhones come with all sorts of restrictions - provided that you remain on their network. In other words, they want the power users to go chew up somebody else's bandwidth.
I wonder, though. How unlocked is unlocked? Will I be able to use this in the US? (I'm glad I kept all my surplus Euros from my trip to Germany in '05. Yay for currency speculation! Thanks, Bernanke, and thanks Ali Greenspan for setting this shittrain in motion!)
o wait, this is t3h int3rtub35 wh4t wuz i thinkin.... logic is t3h 5ux0r5. Mr. Leet, the submitter did not say that we ought to be skeptical of the distinguished Nigerian gentleman because he smells bad and his mother eats beef jerky. No. In fact, the submitter included a directly relevant assertion: this gentleman, who asks us to take him at his word, was convicted of fraud in a trial by his peers. He spent a year in jail. For lying to people so that he could take their money. His new outlandish claims to own the world and all the money in it, therefore, ever so legitimate though they may be, are to be viewed with caution.
I hope I've been able to put the concept of "ad hominem attacks" in better context for you, Mr. Elite.
it would take decades to replace a seasoned JPL engineer with a new comer. I'm sure NASA knows this and isn't about to fire a bunch right out. Considering the caliber of the administrators and higher-ups appointed to NASA under the current administration, I am less sure of NASA's intentions. I expect that this move is intended to further sabotage NASA so that after some more accidents and lethargy, the administration has an excuse to "fix" the agency by defunding it some more and further packing it with 24 year old Bushies.
A quick rule of thumb: in any case where the government does anything that appears to be directed by the W administration, you may divine an approximation of their real objectives if you remember that their intentions are always the opposite of what they say. Then allow for incompetency, ass covering and capricious political maneuvering as they work towards their objectives. Although the actual outcome will surprise you in its undesirability, it will at least surprise you less if you consider this simple razor...
Now the site is Wordpressed When slashdot brings down a site running Apache, we call it slashdotting, not Apache-ing. When slashdot brings down a site running wordpress, we call it slashdotting, not wordpressing.
the original doesn't have any of the code in question Are the other games mentioned also trainered?
"X-Men - Wolverine's Rage" (MD5: b1729716baaea01d4baa795db31800b0), which contains Windows 9x registry keys and INF files, "Mortal Kombat 4 (MD5: 7311f937a542baadf113e9115158cde3), in which you can find some small source fragments, "Gift" (MD5: e6a51088c8fea7980649064bd3a9f9ff), which will tell you that the developers had some Game Boy emulators installed on their system, or the "BIT-MANAGERS" games "Spirou" (MD5:5aa012cf540a5267d6adea6659764441, Turbo C, MAP file, source) and "TinTin in Tibet" (Game Boy Color version, MD5: 8150a3978211939d367f48ffcd49f979), which, amongst other things, contains references to Nintendo's Game Boy Advance (!) SDK ("C:\Cygnus\thumbelf-000512\H-i686-cygwin32\lib\gcc-lib\thumb-elf\2.9-arm-000512, "/tantor/build/nintendo/arm-000512/i686-cygwin32/src/newlib/libc/stdio/stdio.c").
I actually like being able to read the entire subject in gmail. Subjects are often 25 words. Why should I have to open a new window just to read the subject?
It's not about PC-vs-Mac. You're too much of a fanboy to remember, but at the time there was the Amiga, and it was hell of a machine... So, take your attitude and shove it, pal. It wasn't my intention to troll you. It shouldn't bother you that I know how to hold my side of an argument - I'm not going to concede anything just to please you.
So don't go around talking like that, you know? You don't have a crystal ball, you can't speculate like that. If the IBM PC didn't exist, another machine would have taken its place. I don't know about parallel universes, but in this one, there's obviously a strong argument to be made that competition between PCs and Macs prevents Apple from charging monopoly rents. In other sections of the industry where competition is lacking, eg office productivity software, monopoly rents are indeed charged.
On a different note, you should try to master your emotions. Notice how your anger caused you to lose karma - why is it that some random slashdot poster baited you (unintentionally, fwiw) into doing something so obviously disadvantageous to you? That negative moderation is trying to tell you something: mold your anger into actions or thoughts that actually benefit you. There are already enough assholes out there with negative social expectations. Be nice; it'll make you happier.
So you're saying, Macs are cheap? That's a nice little sophistry. It fails to change the fact that, while Macs are more expensive than they would be if Mac clones were still in production, they remain cheaper than they would be if PCs didn't exist.
Once more: you can be glad to have a competitor even if you dislike that competitor. I hope I've helped you comprehend that market utility is sometimes counter-intuitive - particularly if you value price and quality over brand loyalty.
Is this a failure? They've slashed prices countless times to claim 12% of the market in a year, right? Considering that their goal is to lose money on this thing until they've thoroughly Netscaped Apple, I'd say things that certain aspects of their plan are definitely coming to fruition.
The other aspects, namely Apple dying, would be more likely to occur if Apple would follow netscape's lead and quit investing in new technology. Can you really see the Zune matching the Ipod touch in the next few years?
So, Microsoft, and everyone else: please, stop trying. Apple has the only music player worth anything. You have no chance. Just as some are glad that AMD is around to keep Intel's prices down, I'm glad that Microsoft is around to keep iPods affordable.
(If you don't see the sarcasm tags, then you're probably on a Mac) We like things that are both cheap and good. If you don't understand this, you are probably like Microsoft products.
It's a flaky piece of shit with no style from a company with a horrid reputation that is up against the biggest phenomenon in the music industry since CDs?
It's the only way to stop this disturbing trend where a whole generation is growing up believing that the only things with value are physical items. Scarcity is a necessary economic principle even for intellectual items, and without it, you won't see anyone interested in producing intellectual works. Indeed. It is for this reason that Linux does not exist, that Rembrandt died a rich man, that artists are not generally starving, that musicians make money from CDs, that the novels displaying virtuosity are best sellers and pulp drivel is not, that art house cinema attracts the massive profits and attention that it does and that poets continue to write.
Without money, there is no inspiration. Of this, above all else, there can be absolutely no doubt.
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A cynic is somebody who knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing. See: Dvorak.
It was a crappy year for the industry because of Viiv?! If, like Dvorak, you are so totally uninformed that you don't know about core2, the 45nm advances, the x38 chipset, Intel's steady stock price in a failing economy, AMD/ATI's competitive next gen cards, the growth of the video game industry, the iPhone, & etc, then I suppose that Viiv might stand out, provided that you are an idiot.
What _ the _ fuck.
It adds another factor. Unless you also give the thief the pin associated with the fob, the fob is utterly useless.
The feds could initiate a program under which all citizens are issued key fobs similar to RSA Secure IDs with verification similar to that required for a passport. Without this fob, one could not open any sort of bank account or acquire a credit card or loan... The program could allow one to specify various levels of rigor beyond this basic minimum, such as pin+fob key verification to complete any sort of electronic monetary transaction.
It works for managing access to top secret material, hundreds of billions in monetary instruments and the most vital systems of companies in every industry worldwide... I suppose that on an individual basis, any person's assets, credit and livelihood just aren't as important. Or, perhaps the very industries that protect themselves with this system just don't give a fuck about their consumers.
If these folks were landlords, they'd tell every criminal they could find who you are and were you live, and they'd refuse to install a lock on your door.
(I very much hope that Apple will improve and invalidate these reasons)
Sound reasonable? I like having paved roads and safe food - I don't like fascist bullshit. One is legal, one is not. If the Feds obeyed the laws, the things you are objecting to would not be occurring. Can we focus on that part? Does calling the Feds a bunch off worthless asshats do _anything_ useful? Does it deny that they do useful things, too? Do we want them to stop doing the bad shit and do more good shit?
Jesus Tittyfucking Christ.
While I would agree that our government could be doing a better job, it is doing quite a bit for us. A middle ground exists between "the Federal government provides no service, save for making us miserable," and, "it is all things to all people, and a burden for none." In fact, reality lies somewhere in the middle.
Follow the above link if you want to learn about unregulated food processing. You seem to think things couldn't be worse; they were and they could be again. Why aren't they? What changed?
Unsafe at any speed provides another example of muckraking that induces the political will to institute effective, life saving regulation. Again, do you think collusive industries spontaneously reform themselves, particularly when they so easily get away with blaming the consumer for death and disease so easily attributable to shoddy products?
Just as Federal regulation makes your car safer, the FDA makes your food and drugs safer. You're welcome to compose a coherent argument, but realize that industry spends billions doing the same, and yet has a long, proven track record of making many life-saving changes only when coerced by the rule of law. I would not be so quick to jump to that argument. Please. Try making an argument before telling someone that they're wrong.
I realize that you don't think much of our government, but without it, you wouldn't have roads to drive on, food to eat, schools to attend, a house to live in or a life to live. It's easy to malign something that you clearly do not understand; it's easy to be cynical when you don't know the value of anything.
Who puts the murderers behind bars? Who mends our bridges? Who rests their finger on the big red button, watches over us while we sleep & ensures the safety of our drugs and food?
I rather think that the cost of freedom is eternal vigilance. As we require competent government to keep us safe, we require competent citizens to keep us free.
Imagine, if you will, that Vista were released on October 25, 2001 and XP arrived on November 8, 2006. Would you consider XP to be an improvement?
UNLESS YOU LIKE INCONCEIVABLY OS SUCKAGE, YES!
It's easy for the next shift to take over the UAV terminal.
It's not so easy for the next shift to take over the f16 cockpit.
Also, UAVs are more expendable than ugly bags of mostly water, and ugly bags of mostly water tend to burst when they pull 25g turns...
Orange promises to sell unlocked iPhones in France, as per black letter law. Unlocked Orange iPhones come with all sorts of restrictions - provided that you remain on their network. In other words, they want the power users to go chew up somebody else's bandwidth.
I wonder, though. How unlocked is unlocked? Will I be able to use this in the US? (I'm glad I kept all my surplus Euros from my trip to Germany in '05. Yay for currency speculation! Thanks, Bernanke, and thanks Ali Greenspan for setting this shittrain in motion!)
I hope I've been able to put the concept of "ad hominem attacks" in better context for you, Mr. Elite.
A quick rule of thumb: in any case where the government does anything that appears to be directed by the W administration, you may divine an approximation of their real objectives if you remember that their intentions are always the opposite of what they say. Then allow for incompetency, ass covering and capricious political maneuvering as they work towards their objectives. Although the actual outcome will surprise you in its undesirability, it will at least surprise you less if you consider this simple razor...
"X-Men - Wolverine's Rage" (MD5: b1729716baaea01d4baa795db31800b0), which contains Windows 9x registry keys and INF files, "Mortal Kombat 4 (MD5: 7311f937a542baadf113e9115158cde3), in which you can find some small source fragments, "Gift" (MD5: e6a51088c8fea7980649064bd3a9f9ff), which will tell you that the developers had some Game Boy emulators installed on their system, or the "BIT-MANAGERS" games "Spirou" (MD5:5aa012cf540a5267d6adea6659764441, Turbo C, MAP file, source) and "TinTin in Tibet" (Game Boy Color version, MD5: 8150a3978211939d367f48ffcd49f979), which, amongst other things, contains references to Nintendo's Game Boy Advance (!) SDK ("C:\Cygnus\thumbelf-000512\H-i686-cygwin32\lib\gcc-lib\thumb-elf\2.9-arm-000512, "/tantor/build/nintendo/arm-000512/i686-cygwin32/src/newlib/libc/stdio/stdio.c").
I actually like being able to read the entire subject in gmail. Subjects are often 25 words. Why should I have to open a new window just to read the subject?
On a different note, you should try to master your emotions. Notice how your anger caused you to lose karma - why is it that some random slashdot poster baited you (unintentionally, fwiw) into doing something so obviously disadvantageous to you? That negative moderation is trying to tell you something: mold your anger into actions or thoughts that actually benefit you. There are already enough assholes out there with negative social expectations. Be nice; it'll make you happier.
Once more: you can be glad to have a competitor even if you dislike that competitor. I hope I've helped you comprehend that market utility is sometimes counter-intuitive - particularly if you value price and quality over brand loyalty.
The other aspects, namely Apple dying, would be more likely to occur if Apple would follow netscape's lead and quit investing in new technology. Can you really see the Zune matching the Ipod touch in the next few years?
It's a flaky piece of shit with no style from a company with a horrid reputation that is up against the biggest phenomenon in the music industry since CDs?
Without money, there is no inspiration. Of this, above all else, there can be absolutely no doubt.