This article brings joy to me. It's great to see serious hardcore development like this, on a shoestring. 21st century Thomas Alva Edisons and Alexander Graham Bells.
A cross between my phone and a PC.....
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The Future of the P.C.
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My notebook is a little too bulky and slow to start and my phone is a little too limited in input and display. My PDA attempted to cross that bridge but failed, although if I got a new high end it would come very close.
I think the best device would have a keyboard/trackball and a screen that flips up and a docking slot that the PDA plugs into. Wireless built in to the PDA for local LAN, with a slot for WAN broadband. Standard phone rechargers, docking bay has its own powersupply.
There are two reasons why spaceflight computers are relatively underpowered:
Reliability under conditions your PC would fail, like radiation, shock, vibration, acceleration, heat and cold.
Built to solve unique specialized problems for people who are not entirely computer expert.
Navigation computers have to solve complex solid analytic geometry problems for people who are experts in solid analytic geometry but aren't experts in computers and don't have the luxury to spend lots of time to do that.
So who has more free time on their hands - the people who play online games on their phones or the people who write viruses for people who play online games on their phones.
I swear it's slackers like you that will lead to more ridiculous regulations.
It's kind of amusing though. All this rah rah volunteer stealth fight the man-ism winds up just another line item on someone's 10-K. Basically they reaped the benefits of ripping off a company that didn't see the value in punishing them for that.
It's ironic that when you download the free viewer from Pacific Tech you get a popup with a very cagey licence and disclaimer. After all that, if you copy or misuse their free skunkcode they will narc you.
I'm sick to death of these register for 3 hrs and proceed to logon a bunch of times to 'protect' me services. If I don't want a password or if I want someone else to access it that's my fucking problem not yours.
Here's your fix: include two a radio buttons, and over them one sentence - "Do you want to email this password to anyone else?"
yes no
There that wasn't too hard, was it?
Shit at least it's not the WWE website which makes you register for about 20 minutes, mails you your verification, forces you to verify your verification, then makes you logon whereby you proceed to spend your own money. And in 3 months when you revisit the site they've trashed all the registrations 'for your saftey and protection sir' and force you to go through the whole thing again.
So fuck Yahoo, fuck them all and their 'security' which isn't and if I want to give my passwords to the entire staff of the Bunny Ranch then that's my deal.
The crappy autocratic do nothing customer service and utterly confusing billing system of the phone company combined with the shitty content of reality TV and their 10 million intellectual property lawyers.
What exactly does this bring to the table? Anything? Nothing?
Yeah if I'm short on time I just put some instant coffee in my eyes. That's about as enjoyable as drinking reheated bad coffee.
IE only enterprise app. that is a black box - why?
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How Can I Trust Firefox?
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While it is somewhat problematic for individual users to perform certainly corporate users could download and verify their own distro copy and distribute to their own users from that. It's more important to understand what the application does and that can only be achieved by examining or at least verifying the code and all of it's APIs.
Why is this important? Because the browser, any browser, is really an enterprise application as pervasive and critical as SAP, PeopleSoft, Websphere, Tivoli or any of the other so called enterprise application suites.
Yet IE is the only one that's not a toolkit, can't be verified internally or altered or tuned or customized in any meaningful way. It's as if you installed an Oracle DB and Oracle told you how many tables you could have, what they can look like and hid all the background processes from the developers, and didn't even publish the full API.
It's a fucking joke what you've been lead to accept. IE is the only enterprise app that's a black box and none of you, NONE of you should accept that.
Microsoft's criticism of how Firefox is distributed is pure smoke screen. They would have you believe you can't trust an app because you can't be sure where it came from whereas you're supposed to trust an app you can't verify, examine or debug on your own.
The MPAA announced today that because fewer and fewer people actually watch their shitty movies, they've decided to sue people for doing anything else.
Let's charge people oh, about a dollar a minute to watch tv on the plane because making them line up like it's the last plane out of Saigon, treating them like they're criminals and pretty much pulling their on time schedule out of their ass and charging more to go to Memphis TN than to go to Moscow really isn't enough.
Get a surplus notebook with a broken or removed display, plug in your own keyboard, trackball, monitor and off you go. You don't even need a working battery.
Only for a week or two. Seriously, hijack Bittorrent and redirect everything to every publically observable server belonging to the MPAA. It's only fair we should all return all of our ill gotten booty to them.
If they want to sue their own customers then we should be free to kill all our suppliers. Its axiomatic.
It is we who pay in money, in obsolescence, in broken things, in frustration. We are the collateral damage in the battle between who is a bigger asshole in the music sharing industry.
Here's what I recommend Apple, Real, MPAA, RIAA: Go fuck yourselves, but first go to Home Depot get some sharp tools and fucking kill each other with them. Then, when one of you is standing proud and aroused amidst the gore on pile of children's skulls, we'll talk to you, whoeverthefuck you are. Until then PGFY (please go fuck yourselves)
Thank god we have lots of sheeple like you who blindly steer their companies down one dead end after another. They love you, they really do. And they will treat you well forever in a warm embrace. Trust them when they tell you that. Senior executives are your friends and the Gartners of the world really have your interest first in foremost in their minds' eye.
You are the reason failure is endemic; no one has the balls to call it as it is.
Firms are populated by some of the dumbest blindest self serving retards on the planet. There is no shortage of labot. Let me repeat that - THERE IS NO shortage of labor.
What there is a shortage of is 45 year olds with 20 years of experience in a 5 year old technology and willing to relocate halfway across the country for a 50% pay cut on a contract basis for six months.
The COBOL jocks who are still around are not in it for altruistic purposes. They are in it to make a killing. Don't think so? Ok - more than half of the country's COBOL, etc. hands were fired in the mid 90's with 'consolidation' and 'modernization'. Then those same idiots who fired everyone freaked out when they simply couldn't answer their own auditors questions about Y2K.
It was magic. All the middle aged guys who got fired coming back to work and literally pulling a rate number out of their ass. $100/hr sound ok to you? $125? Good cause that's what it's to cost you.
Well here we are 4 years into a capital investment recession in IT and guess what? Those same old Mainframes are still around and COBOL and CICS and JCL are still running on them. Because that work NEVER got done ten years ago. It was too expensive and was crowded out by Y2K.
So second generation executards call in the oldtimers again, this time to 'fix' the mainframe problem because the leases are coming due and the CFO is absofuckinglutely convinced that and ICC capital lease iis more expensive than junking everything and starting over.
Hey I've heard this Opera before. It was called "Client Server Computer".
But make no mistake about it my fellow greyheads. They have about as much respect for you and your skills as they have for the beaker that collects bull semen. What you have to do is rape them on the contract.
And in 3 or 4 years and the progress is excruciatingly slow and they suddenly come back from Gartner executive retreats with the new found knowledge that mainframe is new paradigm they must strategize, optimize and leveragize they'll drop all the migration efforts and put their money back into mainframe system development.
Trust me, IBM would not continue to invest all that money in MVS and z/OS Large Systems if they thought there was a limited future in it.
Every couple of years there is the same old new revolution in commercial IT. It's part of the scenery like starving African children with automatic weapons. Sell them more weapons.
Counting an unknowable number of bugs in code is meaningless compared to what is exploited, in the case of security, or just plain breaks alot in the case of applications.
I suspect this metric does not take into consideration the fact that most business apps run fairly well on Windows whatever the relative number of bugs otherwise. So given that, you may have fewer bugs and less ultity in the Linux world.
On the other hand bugs are only useful as the ease of exploitation whatever the number of occurences you see. It really doesn't matter that Windows has lots of bugs, what's important is that a relatively small number of them are easy to exploit in disasterous ways. By comparison Linux and company have relatively fewer bugs, it's possible, but what's important is that they are comparatively more complex to exploit and generally wreak less havoc if they are exploited.
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This article brings joy to me. It's great to see serious hardcore development like this, on a shoestring. 21st century Thomas Alva Edisons and Alexander Graham Bells.
Dis car aint shit wifout 6ft wing, 9 inch fart pipes, neon underneaf.
Brought on by acute No Girlfrienditis.
My notebook is a little too bulky and slow to start and my phone is a little too limited in input and display. My PDA attempted to cross that bridge but failed, although if I got a new high end it would come very close.
I think the best device would have a keyboard/trackball and a screen that flips up and a docking slot that the PDA plugs into. Wireless built in to the PDA for local LAN, with a slot for WAN broadband. Standard phone rechargers, docking bay has its own powersupply.
Max weight 2.5lbs.
Performance roughly equal to a low end PC.
There are two reasons why spaceflight computers are relatively underpowered:
Reliability under conditions your PC would fail, like radiation, shock, vibration, acceleration, heat and cold.
Built to solve unique specialized problems for people who are not entirely computer expert.
Navigation computers have to solve complex solid analytic geometry problems for people who are experts in solid analytic geometry but aren't experts in computers and don't have the luxury to spend lots of time to do that.
And blame it on videogames.
So who has more free time on their hands - the people who play online games on their phones or the people who write viruses for people who play online games on their phones.
I swear it's slackers like you that will lead to more ridiculous regulations.
It's kind of amusing though. All this rah rah volunteer stealth fight the man-ism winds up just another line item on someone's 10-K. Basically they reaped the benefits of ripping off a company that didn't see the value in punishing them for that.
It's ironic that when you download the free viewer from Pacific Tech you get a popup with a very cagey licence and disclaimer. After all that, if you copy or misuse their free skunkcode they will narc you.
I'm sick to death of these register for 3 hrs and proceed to logon a bunch of times to 'protect' me services. If I don't want a password or if I want someone else to access it that's my fucking problem not yours.
Here's your fix: include two a radio buttons, and over them one sentence - "Do you want to email this password to anyone else?"
yes
no
There that wasn't too hard, was it?
Shit at least it's not the WWE website which makes you register for about 20 minutes, mails you your verification, forces you to verify your verification, then makes you logon whereby you proceed to spend your own money. And in 3 months when you revisit the site they've trashed all the registrations 'for your saftey and protection sir' and force you to go through the whole thing again.
So fuck Yahoo, fuck them all and their 'security' which isn't and if I want to give my passwords to the entire staff of the Bunny Ranch then that's my deal.
The crappy autocratic do nothing customer service and utterly confusing billing system of the phone company combined with the shitty content of reality TV and their 10 million intellectual property lawyers.
What exactly does this bring to the table? Anything? Nothing?
Yeah if I'm short on time I just put some instant coffee in my eyes. That's about as enjoyable as drinking reheated bad coffee.
While it is somewhat problematic for individual users to perform certainly corporate users could download and verify their own distro copy and distribute to their own users from that. It's more important to understand what the application does and that can only be achieved by examining or at least verifying the code and all of it's APIs.
Why is this important? Because the browser, any browser, is really an enterprise application as pervasive and critical as SAP, PeopleSoft, Websphere, Tivoli or any of the other so called enterprise application suites.
Yet IE is the only one that's not a toolkit, can't be verified internally or altered or tuned or customized in any meaningful way. It's as if you installed an Oracle DB and Oracle told you how many tables you could have, what they can look like and hid all the background processes from the developers, and didn't even publish the full API.
It's a fucking joke what you've been lead to accept. IE is the only enterprise app that's a black box and none of you, NONE of you should accept that.
Microsoft's criticism of how Firefox is distributed is pure smoke screen. They would have you believe you can't trust an app because you can't be sure where it came from whereas you're supposed to trust an app you can't verify, examine or debug on your own.
Followed closely by XP SP2
The MPAA announced today that because fewer and fewer people actually watch their shitty movies, they've decided to sue people for doing anything else.
Let's charge people oh, about a dollar a minute to watch tv on the plane because making them line up like it's the last plane out of Saigon, treating them like they're criminals and pretty much pulling their on time schedule out of their ass and charging more to go to Memphis TN than to go to Moscow really isn't enough.
I hope every airline goes broke in 05.
Get a surplus notebook with a broken or removed display, plug in your own keyboard, trackball, monitor and off you go. You don't even need a working battery.
Anyone as irony challenged as you is probably a Libertarian, or retarded.
Maybe we could send George Bush there and let him fight the turrists in cyberyon.
Only for a week or two. Seriously, hijack Bittorrent and redirect everything to every publically observable server belonging to the MPAA. It's only fair we should all return all of our ill gotten booty to them.
If they want to sue their own customers then we should be free to kill all our suppliers. Its axiomatic.
It is we who pay in money, in obsolescence, in broken things, in frustration. We are the collateral damage in the battle between who is a bigger asshole in the music sharing industry.
Here's what I recommend Apple, Real, MPAA, RIAA: Go fuck yourselves, but first go to Home Depot get some sharp tools and fucking kill each other with them. Then, when one of you is standing proud and aroused amidst the gore on pile of children's skulls, we'll talk to you, whoeverthefuck you are. Until then PGFY (please go fuck yourselves)
Where all the men are strong, all the women are good looking and all the children are above average.
Thank god we have lots of sheeple like you who blindly steer their companies down one dead end after another. They love you, they really do. And they will treat you well forever in a warm embrace. Trust them when they tell you that. Senior executives are your friends and the Gartners of the world really have your interest first in foremost in their minds' eye.
You are the reason failure is endemic; no one has the balls to call it as it is.
Firms are populated by some of the dumbest blindest self serving retards on the planet. There is no shortage of labot. Let me repeat that - THERE IS NO shortage of labor.
What there is a shortage of is 45 year olds with 20 years of experience in a 5 year old technology and willing to relocate halfway across the country for a 50% pay cut on a contract basis for six months.
The COBOL jocks who are still around are not in it for altruistic purposes. They are in it to make a killing. Don't think so? Ok - more than half of the country's COBOL, etc. hands were fired in the mid 90's with 'consolidation' and 'modernization'. Then those same idiots who fired everyone freaked out when they simply couldn't answer their own auditors questions about Y2K.
It was magic. All the middle aged guys who got fired coming back to work and literally pulling a rate number out of their ass. $100/hr sound ok to you? $125? Good cause that's what it's to cost you.
Well here we are 4 years into a capital investment recession in IT and guess what? Those same old Mainframes are still around and COBOL and CICS and JCL are still running on them. Because that work NEVER got done ten years ago. It was too expensive and was crowded out by Y2K.
So second generation executards call in the oldtimers again, this time to 'fix' the mainframe problem because the leases are coming due and the CFO is absofuckinglutely convinced that and ICC capital lease iis more expensive than junking everything and starting over.
Hey I've heard this Opera before. It was called "Client Server Computer".
But make no mistake about it my fellow greyheads. They have about as much respect for you and your skills as they have for the beaker that collects bull semen. What you have to do is rape them on the contract.
And in 3 or 4 years and the progress is excruciatingly slow and they suddenly come back from Gartner executive retreats with the new found knowledge that mainframe is new paradigm they must strategize, optimize and leveragize they'll drop all the migration efforts and put their money back into mainframe system development.
Trust me, IBM would not continue to invest all that money in MVS and z/OS Large Systems if they thought there was a limited future in it.
Every couple of years there is the same old new revolution in commercial IT. It's part of the scenery like starving African children with automatic weapons. Sell them more weapons.
Counting an unknowable number of bugs in code is meaningless compared to what is exploited, in the case of security, or just plain breaks alot in the case of applications.
I suspect this metric does not take into consideration the fact that most business apps run fairly well on Windows whatever the relative number of bugs otherwise. So given that, you may have fewer bugs and less ultity in the Linux world.
On the other hand bugs are only useful as the ease of exploitation whatever the number of occurences you see. It really doesn't matter that Windows has lots of bugs, what's important is that a relatively small number of them are easy to exploit in disasterous ways. By comparison Linux and company have relatively fewer bugs, it's possible, but what's important is that they are comparatively more complex to exploit and generally wreak less havoc if they are exploited.