> 'm pretty skeptical, it says he's been doing this since he was four and has some funny stories of such but do we have any actual proof that this is true?
Um, you DO know about Delta, Theta, Alpha, and Beta brain waves right?
Hacking is like mountain climbing -- you do it because you can, not because you can't.
While I don't care for mountain climbing t all, removing (copy) protection is a fun puzzle to work out. Before "kracking" became hijacked with "hacking", learning for the sake of learning was "The [Moral] Code."
Einstein used "thought experiments" for two main purposes.
One was to *explain* the consequences of a proposed tenet, postulate, or model. The consequences then are presumably testable. - The other was to show how an imagined outcome is consistent with known laws of physics or are consistent with other statements in the theory.
> I mean, I can see how you prefer M+K, but it's not really that hard to play with a controller, once you get used to it.
It's not about difficulty, it's about precision, or precisely the LACK of it. Gamepads SUCK for aiming compared to M+K. I currently have over a 50% headshot accuracy on L4D with the AR. There is no way I could even come close to that with a gamepad.
Gamepads are great at some things. But other things, like sniping, they suck ass.
> Security is a cost, both in terms of convenience as well as financial... > However the paybacks from security are not obvious,
Agreed. That's because security prevents _future_ expenses. i.e. Without security you WILL pay for the consequences down the road. With some security you are just delaying the inevitable which may be "good enough."
Interesting to note that both long-term and short term apply: Benefits, Expenses, Convenience, and Costs. Balancing all 4 is not easy.
> but I'll argue that Slashdot did for social media what Jobs did for Apple.
I'll second that !/. made usenet-style forum posting/browsing usable. The ability for mods to tag a post informative / insightful / etc. gave readers the ability to filter out s/n which
I call Reddit the dig of/., because it seems like every other site is dominated by group think -- at least on/. you can have a different opinion, and depending on your debating / arguing skills, at least get acknowledged.
> Finally now I'm an adult and have heard both sides on all of these topics, That's your problem right there -- you're listening to other people, instead of...
> have lived enough to have experience to throw into the mix... coming to conclusions based on experience. Which experiences??
The only way to truely know god is to experience her/him. How can you even begin to understand god while you are still ignorant of your Higher Self ??
> I personally didn't care about the standard location for / being close to the pinky, but more about the non-standard '\' location on various keyboards, even MS branded ones IIRC.
Yes, exactly, this is why I mentioned the standard location of the / in the first place. Because most people would be able to understand that I meant "Conversely, the \ is in a non-standard location.";-)
Although it looks like the location of \ is slowly choosing the defacto location of being above Enter/Return.
> our definition of 'real faith' sounds more like 'expectation' to me.
No, faith requires action. Passively expecting something to happen without doing anything is not faith, just a belief, or maybe even hope.
> With regards to your comment that scientists have *faith* that the Scientific process leads us to a better understanding of the universe - the very fact that you are using a computer to send this message is clearly evidence that it does.
Well, you and I can clearly see that but there are those that faith has no place in Science -- which is poppycock. Science has as much faith as any religion.
> When you can spend cash you will have tomorrow, you are much more flexible and liquid. I know it's a hard concept for people who never use credit to understand, but credit is a valuable tool.
And if a real emergency comes up, you're FUCKED.
> Let's say today is the 1st of the month, you want to buy something that costs $4,000, and you have $4,000 in the bank, and you earn $4,000 per month. You can afford the purchase if you pay either way -- but if you pay cash, you start the month with a balance of $4,000 and for the rest of the month you have a balance of $0 until you get paid again.
Translation: "I'm too closed-minded to actually view the _entire_ evidence and THEN make up my mind; instead I'll toss the baby out with the bathwater."
> You have a bunch of commands that use / as the symbol indicating a flag. You want to add directories to your file system. Are you going to change all the commands and thus make any scripts no longer work, use the / for both a directory separator and a flag, thus giving ambiguous commands or use a different separator?
Why does config.sys have the SWITCHAR= command then??
DOS 2+ - SWITCHAR - SET SWITCH CHARACTER AX = 3701h DL = new switch character
Return: AL = status 00h successful FFh unsupported subfunction
Notes: Documented in some OEM versions of some releases of DOS; DOS 2.x had a SWITCHAR=c setting in CONFIG.SYS. Supported by OS/2 compatibility box and Novell DOS 7. Ignored by MS-DOS 5+ and DR DOS 3.41-6.0; DR DOS 6.0 and Novell DOS 7 leave AX unchanged
/ is easier to read / is closer to the pinky, in a standard location / doesn't interfere with C's escape char '\' "C:\\this\\requires\\double\\backslashes\\sucks"
> Have you ever tried telling a user to use a button to accomplish something?
The grand-parent is right. The way to do it is called a ToolTip or HoverBar over the Yes, or No button. (Of course, there needs to be an option in the Control Panel / System Preferences, to disable "UI Help".)
It's not rocket science, just computer science. This is why computers -- namely the UI -- still suck ass. Because almost no one gives a shit about making the interface _friendly_ to people. The way we use computers is completely ass backwards. We make people adapt to computers, instead of the other way around.
> There is no standard directory separator:
"The great thing about standards, is that there are so many to pick from."
-- Unknown Yeah, because everybody was too fucking lazy to see what everyone else was doing, so everyone invented their own way.
> \ is DOS and Windows, from the 1980s True, but DOS got the brain-dead drive letters and 8.3 filenames from that idiot CP/M inventor Gary Kildall. My Apple ][ had 30 character filenames (spaces were allowed.) MSDOS has set the world of computing back by 20 years.
> (Were there others?) Yes, Apple ProDOS, October 1983, had 15 character filenames, and used the forward slash.
Slashdot Mirror
Mod parent up.
Everything is a great windows app. Been using it for almost a year.
Closed source, but it is FAST!
> 'm pretty skeptical, it says he's been doing this since he was four and has some funny stories of such but do we have any actual proof that this is true?
Um, you DO know about Delta, Theta, Alpha, and Beta brain waves right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_waves#Comparison_table
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trance#Brainwaves_and_brain_rhythms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_eye_movement_sleep
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Censorship is idiotic 20th century thinking
Heck, anything is better then cardboard! /ducks
Exactly!
Hacking is like mountain climbing -- you do it because you can, not because you can't.
While I don't care for mountain climbing t all, removing (copy) protection is a fun puzzle to work out. Before "kracking" became hijacked with "hacking", learning for the sake of learning was "The [Moral] Code."
IMHO "Puzzles for Hackers" is what every computer scientist should have read, (along GEB)
http://www.amazon.com/Puzzles-Hackers-Ivan-Sklyarov/dp/1931769451/
FTR, agree with most of your post.
> Yes, he has no public record of philanthropy.
Philanthropy is not a black or white issue. His salary at Apple was $1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-dollar_salary
> Who's to say he doesn't do it privately or hasn't set up his will for postmortem charitable contributions?
Exactly.
Seriously, how does SCO _still_ have any money left to pursue legal costs??
> First of all, Einstein was famous for doing very clever thought experiments.
Thought experiment = oxymoron. You can't use that to PROVE anything about how the Real World functions.
http://www.adras.com/WHY-SCIENCE-IS-NOT-PART-OF-CULTURE.t20933-91-2.html
stress causes you to age...
Go figure!
Nice! Others heard ...
British Pollution
Big Problem
Bogus Petroleum
Bad Politics
Microsoft tried Xbox Live cros platform play with Windows Live ...
* http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/21/did-microsoft-kill-xbox-livewindows-live-cross-platform-play-because-console-gamers-were-too-bad/
* http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/numb-thumbs-blog/1724432/console-gamers-pwned-pc-peers
Gaming on a laptop with a "mobile" GPU sucks compared to the discrete GPU, unless there are some FutureMark 3DMark numbers that show otherwise ...
> I mean, I can see how you prefer M+K, but it's not really that hard to play with a controller, once you get used to it.
It's not about difficulty, it's about precision, or precisely the LACK of it. Gamepads SUCK for aiming compared to M+K. I currently have over a 50% headshot accuracy on L4D with the AR. There is no way I could even come close to that with a gamepad.
Gamepads are great at some things. But other things, like sniping, they suck ass.
> Security is a cost, both in terms of convenience as well as financial...
> However the paybacks from security are not obvious,
Agreed. That's because security prevents _future_ expenses. i.e. Without security you WILL pay for the consequences down the road. With some security you are just delaying the inevitable which may be "good enough."
Interesting to note that both long-term and short term apply: Benefits, Expenses, Convenience, and Costs. Balancing all 4 is not easy.
Because most people don't realize there are options compared to Worst Buy such as NewEgg, bluejeanscable, visualapex, bhphotovideo, etc.
> but I'll argue that Slashdot did for social media what Jobs did for Apple.
I'll second that ! /. made usenet-style forum posting/browsing usable. The ability for mods to tag a post informative / insightful / etc. gave readers the ability to filter out s/n which
I call Reddit the dig of /., because it seems like every other site is dominated by group think -- at least on /. you can have a different opinion, and depending on your debating / arguing skills, at least get acknowledged.
Thanks for all the stories /.
> Finally now I'm an adult and have heard both sides on all of these topics, ...
That's your problem right there -- you're listening to other people, instead of
> have lived enough to have experience to throw into the mix ... coming to conclusions based on experience. Which experiences??
The only way to truely know god is to experience her/him. How can you even begin to understand god while you are still ignorant of your Higher Self ??
> I personally didn't care about the standard location for / being close to the pinky, but more about the non-standard '\' location on various keyboards, even MS branded ones IIRC.
Yes, exactly, this is why I mentioned the standard location of the / in the first place. Because most people would be able to understand that I meant "Conversely, the \ is in a non-standard location." ;-)
Although it looks like the location of \ is slowly choosing the defacto location of being above Enter/Return.
> our definition of 'real faith' sounds more like 'expectation' to me.
No, faith requires action. Passively expecting something to happen without doing anything is not faith, just a belief, or maybe even hope.
> With regards to your comment that scientists have *faith* that the Scientific process leads us to a better understanding of the universe - the very fact that you are using a computer to send this message is clearly evidence that it does.
Well, you and I can clearly see that but there are those that faith has no place in Science -- which is poppycock. Science has as much faith as any religion.
> When you can spend cash you will have tomorrow, you are much more flexible and liquid. I know it's a hard concept for people who never use credit to understand, but credit is a valuable tool.
And if a real emergency comes up, you're FUCKED.
> Let's say today is the 1st of the month, you want to buy something that costs $4,000, and you have $4,000 in the bank, and you earn $4,000 per month. You can afford the purchase if you pay either way -- but if you pay cash, you start the month with a balance of $4,000 and for the rest of the month you have a balance of $0 until you get paid again.
It's a simple concept: You _wait_ 1 more month.
Translation: "I'm too closed-minded to actually view the _entire_ evidence and THEN make up my mind; instead I'll toss the baby out with the bathwater."
> You have a bunch of commands that use / as the symbol indicating a flag. You want to add directories to your file system. Are you going to change all the commands and thus make any scripts no longer work, use the / for both a directory separator and a flag, thus giving ambiguous commands or use a different separator?
Why does config.sys have the SWITCHAR= command then??
DOS 2+ - SWITCHAR - SET SWITCH CHARACTER
AX = 3701h
DL = new switch character
Return:
AL = status 00h successful FFh unsupported subfunction
Notes: Documented in some OEM versions of some releases of DOS; DOS 2.x had a SWITCHAR=c setting in CONFIG.SYS. Supported by OS/2 compatibility box and Novell DOS 7. Ignored by MS-DOS 5+ and DR DOS 3.41-6.0; DR DOS 6.0 and Novell DOS 7 leave AX unchanged
http://www.ctyme.com/intr/rb-2753.htm
> and why is / better than \?
/ is easier to read
/ is closer to the pinky, in a standard location
/ doesn't interfere with C's escape char '\'
"C:\\this\\requires\\double\\backslashes\\sucks"
* Can I rename a file so it starts with a period or space?
Oh that's right -- Explorer is brain dead.
Good to see Microsoft is leading innovation! /sarcasm
> Have you ever tried telling a user to use a button to accomplish something?
The grand-parent is right. The way to do it is called a ToolTip or HoverBar over the Yes, or No button. (Of course, there needs to be an option in the Control Panel / System Preferences, to disable "UI Help".)
It's not rocket science, just computer science. This is why computers -- namely the UI -- still suck ass. Because almost no one gives a shit about making the interface _friendly_ to people. The way we use computers is completely ass backwards. We make people adapt to computers, instead of the other way around.
> There is no standard directory separator:
"The great thing about standards, is that there are so many to pick from."
-- Unknown
Yeah, because everybody was too fucking lazy to see what everyone else was doing, so everyone invented their own way.
> \ is DOS and Windows, from the 1980s
True, but DOS got the brain-dead drive letters and 8.3 filenames from that idiot CP/M inventor Gary Kildall. My Apple ][ had 30 character filenames (spaces were allowed.) MSDOS has set the world of computing back by 20 years.
> (Were there others?)
Yes, Apple ProDOS, October 1983, had 15 character filenames, and used the forward slash.
For once, Wikipedia isn't crap ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Limits