I guess no one needs to know what a rootkit is." No, no non-techies should have to know about this. They ought to live in a world where it is ok to listen to a CD you bought legally in a normal shop.
Made by a handfull of priests. You can only buy it at the back door of the cloister, easily located in the middle of f*cking nowhere. The bottles don't have labels, you can recognise them by the capsule. They only allow you to buy one (wooden) crate at a time. You have to promess not to resell it. If you taste it, you will realise God does love you. http://www.sintsixtus.be/eng/index2.html
Euuhhh.... I have ONE tank, fed by the mains, and heated by a separate circuit on our central heating system. It is good enough to fill a bathtub. Do I get a nobel prize now?
I saw on TV a bank with a huge cubicle farm. The roof contained a large number of speakers which constantly spread white noise (think radio in between channels). Because your brain can't "lock in" on pure noise, you end up not noticing it anymore. In the mean time it still "overrides" other peoples sounds, and the end impression is a quieter background.
Not that I would have a clue or anything, but if Oracles distributed filesystem hits the next Linux kernel, will MySQL and Postgress be able to profit from that?
When students go to translator school, they have to do a test. They get a text through headphones in their native language and have to repeat it "live" in a microphone while new text keeps on comming. Very few pass this test. They become interpreters, the others become translators. I speak five languages myself, of which 4 reasonably fluent. I will rarely make mistakes while talking to one person, but put me in a multi-language group where I have to keep on switching every other sentence and in the end I will simply adress someone in the wrong language.
Here in Denmark we start switching next summer. It doesn't matter all that much because most "serious" viewers are on cable or satelite. In Belgium cable has a penetration of over 98%. This thing is mostly going to affect caravan owners I think. The decoders will probably drop in price so fast you won't believe it. Think about it: no single company to sit on the market and a device which is 100% electronic and has no moving parts. I think I will shell out a few extra and get one with a harddisk.
I got presented with salary numbers yesterday from a director in my company. Even though chinese wages raise much faster, because they start so low, we actually will be widening the wage-gap until 2020 and we will only meet again in 2040. So the challenge is there, no doubt. But whassup with the France cryptic stuff?? Ok, so quite a few people around Paris are reading car-brochures right now. But if you go on holliday in RURAL France, you will soon see that "Living like God in France" is still quite close to reality.
An OS written in C#? Could be good. Not for a gaming machine, but what about an ATM? A controller in an industrial environment? Imagine a PC with no memory leaks,like ever. No buffer overflows. No monthly patching hell. Would make one tough SOB as a firewall.
Actually their new plug in for Visual Studio is not bad at all. Personally I think it is better then JDevelloper, provided you don't code Java, of course. The main thing I have against Oracle is that I can't make e.g. an Access file which works out of the box on every computer. You always need to get the drivers set up properly first, and you can't do that without (local) administrator rights. That is where MS (obviously) can shamelessly profit from their monopoly.
What distro? The one you can get best LOCAL support for. Why send off tax dollars to some MegaCorp in the US if you can create LOCAL jobs and support LOCAL companies?
The market share of Win98 is bigger then Apple + Linux. That is a ten year old OS pretending to be a seven year old OS. And they say Windows is not stable?
any patent should be open for review to the public before being approved. If Apple had the opportunity to file examples of prior art before Microsofts patents were approved/rejected, and vice versa, there would be an awefull less bullshit flying around. By the way, as it comes from the latin "fenestra", it is spelled defenestrated...
It is often said he was using this to encrypt his writings, but this is BS. Da Vinci was left-handed and in order not to wipe out his own writing he just wrote right to left. When he had to write to others, he simply switched back to normal.
Every wifi access point has its unique code. When you browse, you get a commercial for the shop lying just around the corner. They don't need to inspect your traffic, they know (+/-) where you are. Smart, damn smart...
I read that the improved accuracy from Gallileo will be because, apart from the low-orbit sats, there will also be geostationary ones helping the low-orbit ones to determine their own position. If this is correct, just a technology upgrade should not improve accuracy that much. Anybody any numbers?
Default install has only the "preferred" apps. But you are right, If you think that Win98 would allow different apps to make sounds at the same time, sound under linux sucks. If I use Amarok, I need to start and stop RealPlayer before sound works in flash. And I can't find out where I am supposed to copy these WMP dll's to get better support for *.WMV . It is way cool there are so many possibilities for system folders to be placed. This is very usefull if you are a big company playing with roaming profiles etc. But on a default 1-desktop install, folder locations should be STANDARD, whatever the distro.
Well it was a Dutch guy who invented Big Brother (the TV-show). But seriously. I don't think the problem is criminal abuse. The problem is people who "know better" and use the system for things it was not intended for, "for the best of the child". Say somebody raises a "Flag" because your kid is very silent and in some cases this can point to child abuse. How long does this flag remain? If your kid wants to get into a university with a restricted number of places 15 years later, will this flag be held against him?
imagine combining a flash-based harddisk with a big RAM buffer for speeding up reads and a separate one for writes, the second one protected by a small rechargable battery or super-capacitor. The disk only commits to flash if it feels it is running out of power. This should easily outlive the 4-year lifespan of an average corporate laptop.
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I guess no one needs to know what a rootkit is."
No, no non-techies should have to know about this. They ought to live in a world where it is ok to listen to a CD you bought legally in a normal shop.
Can the US, as it is now, stop French surfers from reaching a .FR domain? Can they stop them from reaching a .EU domain?
Made by a handfull of priests. You can only buy it at the back door of the cloister, easily located in the middle of f*cking nowhere. The bottles don't have labels, you can recognise them by the capsule. They only allow you to buy one (wooden) crate at a time. You have to promess not to resell it. If you taste it, you will realise God does love you. http://www.sintsixtus.be/eng/index2.html
If it has a phone line plug, maybe we can use it for calling tech support?
Euuhhh.... I have ONE tank, fed by the mains, and heated by a separate circuit on our central heating system. It is good enough to fill a bathtub. Do I get a nobel prize now?
I saw on TV a bank with a huge cubicle farm. The roof contained a large number of speakers which constantly spread white noise (think radio in between channels). Because your brain can't "lock in" on pure noise, you end up not noticing it anymore. In the mean time it still "overrides" other peoples sounds, and the end impression is a quieter background.
Not that I would have a clue or anything, but if Oracles distributed filesystem hits the next Linux kernel, will MySQL and Postgress be able to profit from that?
When students go to translator school, they have to do a test. They get a text through headphones in their native language and have to repeat it "live" in a microphone while new text keeps on comming. Very few pass this test. They become interpreters, the others become translators. I speak five languages myself, of which 4 reasonably fluent. I will rarely make mistakes while talking to one person, but put me in a multi-language group where I have to keep on switching every other sentence and in the end I will simply adress someone in the wrong language.
Here in Denmark we start switching next summer. It doesn't matter all that much because most "serious" viewers are on cable or satelite. In Belgium cable has a penetration of over 98%. This thing is mostly going to affect caravan owners I think. The decoders will probably drop in price so fast you won't believe it. Think about it: no single company to sit on the market and a device which is 100% electronic and has no moving parts. I think I will shell out a few extra and get one with a harddisk.
I got presented with salary numbers yesterday from a director in my company. Even though chinese wages raise much faster, because they start so low, we actually will be widening the wage-gap until 2020 and we will only meet again in 2040. So the challenge is there, no doubt. But whassup with the France cryptic stuff?? Ok, so quite a few people around Paris are reading car-brochures right now. But if you go on holliday in RURAL France, you will soon see that "Living like God in France" is still quite close to reality.
An OS written in C#? Could be good. Not for a gaming machine, but what about an ATM? A controller in an industrial environment? Imagine a PC with no memory leaks,like ever. No buffer overflows. No monthly patching hell. Would make one tough SOB as a firewall.
they are not finished yet photoshopping the phoney lander in!
Actually their new plug in for Visual Studio is not bad at all. Personally I think it is better then JDevelloper, provided you don't code Java, of course. The main thing I have against Oracle is that I can't make e.g. an Access file which works out of the box on every computer. You always need to get the drivers set up properly first, and you can't do that without (local) administrator rights. That is where MS (obviously) can shamelessly profit from their monopoly.
As it will be used for pron mostly, maybe we should have a unit like FFPS (full facials per second) or CSPS (C** shots per second)
What distro? The one you can get best LOCAL support for. Why send off tax dollars to some MegaCorp in the US if you can create LOCAL jobs and support LOCAL companies?
The market share of Win98 is bigger then Apple + Linux. That is a ten year old OS pretending to be a seven year old OS. And they say Windows is not stable?
any patent should be open for review to the public before being approved. If Apple had the opportunity to file examples of prior art before Microsofts patents were approved/rejected, and vice versa, there would be an awefull less bullshit flying around. By the way, as it comes from the latin "fenestra", it is spelled defenestrated...
It is often said he was using this to encrypt his writings, but this is BS. Da Vinci was left-handed and in order not to wipe out his own writing he just wrote right to left. When he had to write to others, he simply switched back to normal.
In Belgium BBC1/2 and ITV have been on cable for years.
Every wifi access point has its unique code. When you browse, you get a commercial for the shop lying just around the corner. They don't need to inspect your traffic, they know (+/-) where you are. Smart, damn smart...
I read that the improved accuracy from Gallileo will be because, apart from the low-orbit sats, there will also be geostationary ones helping the low-orbit ones to determine their own position. If this is correct, just a technology upgrade should not improve accuracy that much. Anybody any numbers?
Default install has only the "preferred" apps. But you are right, If you think that Win98 would allow different apps to make sounds at the same time, sound under linux sucks. If I use Amarok, I need to start and stop RealPlayer before sound works in flash. And I can't find out where I am supposed to copy these WMP dll's to get better support for *.WMV . It is way cool there are so many possibilities for system folders to be placed. This is very usefull if you are a big company playing with roaming profiles etc. But on a default 1-desktop install, folder locations should be STANDARD, whatever the distro.
Well it was a Dutch guy who invented Big Brother (the TV-show). But seriously. I don't think the problem is criminal abuse. The problem is people who "know better" and use the system for things it was not intended for, "for the best of the child". Say somebody raises a "Flag" because your kid is very silent and in some cases this can point to child abuse. How long does this flag remain? If your kid wants to get into a university with a restricted number of places 15 years later, will this flag be held against him?
on the company's post-Intel future...
You mean they are already moving away from Intel again? Help, I can't keep up anymore!
imagine combining a flash-based harddisk with a big RAM buffer for speeding up reads and a separate one for writes, the second one protected by a small rechargable battery or super-capacitor. The disk only commits to flash if it feels it is running out of power. This should easily outlive the 4-year lifespan of an average corporate laptop.